Joseph F. Clark, Ph.D.

The 2009 NATA conference for me was a big success and well worth the trip. Unfortunately because of family commitments I needed to miss all of Saturday, but my goals for Thursday and Friday were met and exceeded on all fronts. By way of a background over the past several years I make the conference [...]

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 [...]

The NIH needs to solicit and fund a massive effort to reduce, refine and replace the use of antibiotics. This is desperately needed because of the growing problem of drug resistance. Microbes become resistant to antibiotics via a kind of natural selection when the genes of the bacteria mutate and become resistant to our attempts [...]

Why do most research universities in the USA lose money on research? That is a question that comes up in numerous college, university and teaching hospital conference rooms. Deans, Department Chairs and essentially all administrators are asking that question. It is not because of the economy although the economy contributes to the very bad situation [...]

I have spent innumerable hours in meetings and do what ever I can to avoid talking and leading meetings. People know that the best way to get my opinion is to ask and people tend to listen if I am forced to participate. I tell people I am a voracious note taker and bring my [...]

I was asked an interesting question a while ago that deserved thought before responding. Here is the question and response. It seems that all of our politicians are lawyers. There are a few medical doctors in congresses but why are there no Scientists? Good question. The answer is, “I have no idea why there are [...]