Joseph F. Clark, Ph.D.

There is an old saying that those who can do; those who can’t teach. While I’m not too sure about that, there is an interesting paradigm in higher education. That is the highest level scientists in the USA tend to be successful scientists and researchers by spending time doing research, writing grants and papers. The [...]

Ever wonder what esoteric erudite academics do to challenge ourselves? No, I guess that is not a burning question on society’s psyche. But, I’ll enlighten you anyway because it is entertaining in a juvenile and jovial way. I was with a group of junior researchers in Oxford England and we were comparing our academic conquests [...]

NBC’s Trauma will have negative ramifications for the EMS world and should be cancelled.

I have the greatest respect and admiration for the NIH but they are missing something.

Everyone has a personality, but what people outside of education may not fully realize is that when you put a group of people together they form their own personality. This personality is clearly seen in classes that meet regularly over the school year. It never takes long for the class’ personality to come through after [...]

I’m currently working on a fairly large grant application for a company. The company wants me to do research on a subject on which I am very comfortable and knowledgeable. The process of writing and securing a research agreement with a company is much different than with the NIH, NSF or most charitable foundations. I [...]

A well trained scientist with a Ph.D. or similar advanced degree and research experience has been trained to identify a problem, formulate a hypothesis, which is an interrogation of said problem, test the hypothesis and learn from the observations. This process requires open minded thought through and around complicated subjects and to understand cause and [...]

In science ideas are like a currency and often better than money. A scientist is only as valuable as their NEXT idea. Yes, I said next idea. Once the idea is made public it is no longer novel and loses value. If the idea is not patented it can be taken by anyone and changed [...]

We are in the midst of a lost generation of graduate students. Grad students take 4-7 years to get a degree, but with 4 years of flat funding and now challenge grants’ funding being 1 in 100 there is a perception of no future in science by those students. No one wants to spend their [...]

Ok, so I had my second book signing and as usual I learned a thing or two. Not a bad thing for a college professor talking about ambulance education. Never too old to learn and continue learning. The book signing was at the Firehouse Exposition in Baltimore Maryland. I was doing the signing at the [...]