Medical Science Partners

MSP —Medical Science Partners program OPE —Office of Planning and Evaluation (FDA)... 

About the Author Dr. Tipton is Associate Professor of Social and Administrative Pharmaceutical Sciences at the Mylan School of Pharmacy at Duquesne University. Dr. Tipton earned an MBA in marketing and a Ph.D. in management from St. Louis University. Prior to obtaining his degree, he practiced pharmacy for 20 years and was an owner/partner in a four-store pharmacy operation. His current research interests focus on customer service, medication errors, and judgment. Dr. Tipton teaches courses at Duquesne University in management, marketing, and customer service. 

Marco F. Ramoni is Assistant Professor of Pediatrics and Medicine at Harvard Medical School, Assistant Professor of Oral Medicine, Infection, and Immunity at Harvard School of Dental Medicine, Assistant Professor of Health Sciences Technology at Harvard University and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and Associate Director of Bioinformatics at the Harvard Partners Center for Genetics and Genomics. His interests are in Bayesian statistics and artificial intelligence, and their applications to functional and population genomics. 

In terms of electronic publishing, the NLM launched PubMed Central this year in an effort to reduce the time from article submission to publication and to increase the dissemination of new information in the life sciences. PubMed Central eventually will contain two types of data depositories The first will be peer-reviewed content from journals that will partner with NLM to make their content available free to the public and the second depository will contain articles submitted directly by authors. Ideally, PubMed Central would increase the options for researchers and academicians to publish their research. This is a very new concept in medical publishing and it will be exciting to watch how it takes shape in terms of the quality of research articles submitted and the way in which the healthcare community embraces this new source of information. 

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