Elsevier Wins Nine First Prizes at 2018 BMA Medical Book Awards

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Sep 17, 2018, 08:41 ET

LONDON, September 17, 2018 /PRNewswire/ --

Elsevier congratulates its medical authors and editors for this industry recognition and for consistently producing high-quality medical content

Elsevier, the global information analytics business specializing in science and health, and its authors had a strong showing at the British Medical Association's (BMA) annual BMA Medical Book Awards ceremony, winning nine of the 20 categories.

Out of 670 titles submitted to the BMA from publishers around the globe, a total of 41 Elsevier professional and scholarly products were honored, including nine first prizes and 32 Highly Commended recognitions.

"In Illustrated Textbook of Paediatrics, 5th Edition, often called the 'sunflower book' because of the cover drawing, we try hard to facilitate learning with diagrams and illustrations," said co-author Dr. Tom Lissauer, MB BChir RECPCH, Honorary Consultant Paediatrician, Imperial College Healthcare Trust, London, and Centre for International Child Health, Imperial College, London, UK. "This award (First Place, Pediatrics category) will encourage us to continue to develop this approach. Special thanks to the children of Campie Primary School in Musselburgh for their art-work submissions, and congratulations to Morven Stewart who won the competition and is this edition's cover artist."

Elsevier and its authors received first prizes in the following categories:

Basic and Clinical Sciences - Taylor: The Cervical Spine: An atlas of normal anatomy and the morbid anatomy of ageing and injuries
Cardiology - Kern, Lim and Sorajja: The Interventional Cardiac Catheterization Handbook, 4^th Edition
Internal Medicine - Zammitt and O'Brien: Essentials of Kumar and Clark's Clinical Medicine, 6th Edition
Medicine - Talley and O'Connor: Talley and O'Connor's Clinical Examination, 8th Edition
Pediatrics - Lissauer and Carroll: Illustrated Textbook of Paediatrics, 5th Edition
Pathology - Goldblum, et al: Rosai and Ackerman's Surgical Pathology, 11th Edition
Public Health - Plotkin, et al: Plotkin's Vaccines, 7th Edition
Radiology - Wible: Diagnostic Imaging: Interventional Procedures, 2nd Edition
Surgery - Neligan: Plastic Surgery, 4th Edition

"What an honor to win First Place in the Surgery category for Plastic Surgery, 4th Edition," said Dr. Peter Neligan, Professor of Surgery, Division of Plastic Surgery, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA. "Many thanks to the wonderful teamwork of the Volume Editors - Geoff Gurtner, David Song, Ed Rodriguez, Joe Losee, Peter Rubin, Maurice Nahabedian, Jim Chang and Dan Liu - as well as the Elsevier staff - Belinda Kuhn, Louise Cook, Alex Mortimer and Sam Crowe - and to all who contributed to the 4th Edition."

Dr. Stanley Plotkin, Emeritus Professor of Pediatrics, University of Pennsylvania, and former Chief, Division of Infectious Diseases, The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, PA, whose book Plotkin's Vaccines, 7th Edition won First Prize in the Public Health category, said, "The progress of vaccine development and use has dramatically increased since the first edition of Vaccines in 1988. The 7th Edition reflects this progress, which is providing protection against numerous deadly pathogens. Vaccinology is now a domain of medicine in its own right."

Dr. Nicola Zammitt, MBChB, BSc (Med Sci), MD, FRCP (Edin), Consultant Physician and Honorary Clinical Senior Lecturer, Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh, UK, co-author of Essentials of Kumar and Clark's Clinical Medicine, 6th Edition which received First Prize in the Internal Medicine category, said, "We're delighted to receive this prestigious award and hope that medical students and junior doctors throughout the world have enjoyed and learned from our book. We also acknowledge the work of Anne Ballinger, whose involvement from the first edition to the fifth brought this book into its current form."

Elsevier's and its authors' titles also received Highly Commended honors in the following categories:

Anaesthesia - Fleisher, Roizen and Roizen: Essence of Anesthesia Practice, 4th Edition
Anaesthesia - Hines and Marschall: Stoelting's Anesthesia and Co-Existing Disease, 7th edition
Basic and Clinical Sciences - Smith, et al: Gray's Surface Anatomy and Ultrasound: A Foundation for Clinical Practice
Basic and Clinical Sciences - Marques, et al: Skin Tissue Models, Academic Press
Cardiology - Zipes, Jalife and Stevenson: Cardiac Electrophysiology: From Cell to Bedside, 7th Edition
Cardiology - Miller, Das and Zipes: Case Studies in Clinical Cardiac Electrophysiology
Cardiology - Oxorn and Otto: Intraoperative and Interventional Echocardiography, 2nd Edition
Cardiology - Ragosta: Textbook of Clinical Hemodynamics, 2nd Edition
Internal Medicine - Bologna, Schaffer and Cerroni: Dermatology, 4th Edition
Internal Medicine - Friedman and Martin: Handbook of Liver Disease, 4th Edition
Internal Medicine - Pass, Ball and Scagliotti: IASLC Thoracic Oncology, 2nd Edition
Medicine - Glynn and Drake: Hutchison's Clinical Methods: An Integrated Approach to Clinical Practice, 24th Edition
Medicine - Waller and Sampson: Medical Pharmacology and Therapeutics, 5th Edition
Neurology - Caplan, et al: Primer on Cerebrovascular Diseases, 2nd Edition, Academic Press
Obstetrics and Gynecology - Smith: Netter's Obstetrics and Gynecology, 3rd Edition
Oncology - Sampson: Translational Immunotherapy of Brain Tumors, Academic Press
Paediatrics - Kliegman, et al: Nelson Pediatric Symptom-Based Diagnosis
Paediatrics - Zitelli, McIntire and Nowalk: Zitelli and Davis' Atlas of Pediatric Physical Diagnosis, 7th Edition
Pathology - Hsi: Hematopathology, 3rd Edition
Pathology - Burt, Ferrell and Hubscher: MacSween's Pathology of the Liver, 7th Edition
Psychiatry - Goldberg: Executive Functions in Health and Disease, Academic Press
Radiology - Koenig, et al: Diagnostic Imaging: Oral and Maxillofacial, 2nd Edition
Radiology - Jhaveri, et al: ExpertDDx: Brain and Spine, 2nd Edition
Radiology - Copel: Obstetric Imaging: Fetal Diagnosis and Care, 2nd Edition
Radiology - Beheshti, Langsteger and Rezaee: PET/CT in Cancer: An Interdisciplinary Approach to Individualized Imaging
Radiology - Bennett, et al: Specialty Imaging: PET: Positron Emission Tomography With Correlative CT and MR
Surgery - Ramachandran and Gladman: Clinical Cases and OSCEs in Surgery: The definitive guide to passing examinations, 3rd Edition
Surgical specialties - Ross, Bendock and McLendon: Imaging in Spine Surgery
Surgical specialties - Scott: Insall and Scott Surgery of the Knee, 6th Edition
Surgical specialties - Myers and Snyderman: Operative Otolaryngology, 3rd Edition
Surgical specialties - Schachat, et al: Ryan's Retina, 6th Edition
Surgical specialties - Pane, Miller and Burdon: The Neuro-Ophthalmology Survival Guide, 2nd Edition

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