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Panel 8 – medicine | clinical
Doing research in family and community medicine is usually not that
simple. Overall the group has published quite a number of papers, for
a department like this. In this sense the group seems to be productive.
At the same time the wide variety of topics gives the indication that the
group is not very focussed. Focussing on a smaller number of topics
and collaborating on studies on type 2 diabetes with the other group in
Malmö seems advisable.
Overall rating: Good.
3.7 Hand Surgery
The Department of Hand Surgery has 1 professor and 0.5 researchers.
The research group of Göran Lundborg and Lars Dahlin listed 160
citations in various clinical journals, eg. Journal of Bone and Joint Surgery
2007, 2006, Radiology 2007 as well as Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. 2006. The
group acquired an external funding on SEK 3.341.228.
Overall rating: Excellent
3.8 Imaging and Radiation Physics
Overall assessment: Imaging and Radiation Physics concentrates on
methodology and clinical protocol optimization. Additionally there is
an internationally well-known line on development of contrast media. In
collaboration with other clinical departments and research units of the
hospital there is an impressive number of publications in high quality
journals. However, there is no obvious involvement in population based
imaging in collaboration with the strong epidemiology group in Malmö.
The quality can be evaluated as very good to excellent.
Research infrastructure: The unit seems to have access to state-of-the-art
infrastructure. Potential collaboration with Lund and its high field MR
systems, as well as animal imaging facilities is not pursued.
Research quality: The unit relies on mainly faculty budget and some
external funding and it shows an impressive number of excellent publications.
There is however quite a limited number of PhD-students and a
limited focus of research on the main research lines of Malmö hospital.
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