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In article <3221EC5C.5E6@eis.comm.mot.com>, Mark Schnepf
<schnepf@eis.comm.mot.com> wrote:

> > My suggestion to you is: "Combine your talents".  Do both medicine and
> > computers.  My first project was a computer system for brain surgery.  It
> > worked great, but it was ahead of its time, and behind the times.  The
> > concept was state of the art.  The hardware was too expensive and dated.
> > 
> 
> This is a good suggestion.  In fact, DePaul University, in Chicago,
Illinois is
> starting a new program within their Computer Science department specifically
> addressing medical information systems.  I think the primary instructor is
> Thomas Muscarello (muscarello@cs.depaul.edu).  Try him or DePaul itself
> for more info.

The field of BioInformatics is just picking up some serious steam too.
Biology is where the money is.

Jer,

-- 
Jerome Jahnke
Biological Sciences Division/ Office of Academic Computing
University of Chicago
