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Lookup NU author(s): Professor Alastair BurtORCiD, Professor Pierre Bedossa, Dr Dina Tiniakos
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Professional societies play a major role in medicine and science. The societies tend to be large with well-developed administrativestructures. An additional model, however, is based on small groups of experts who meet regularly in an egalitarian model in orderto discuss disease-specific scientific and medical problems. In order to illustrate the effectiveness of this model, the history andpractices are examined of a long-standing successful example, the International Liver Pathology Group, better known as theGnomes. The history shows that groups such as the Gnomes offer a number of important benefits not available in larger societiesand nurturing such groups advances science and medicine in meaningful ways. The success of the Gnomes’approach provides aroad map for future small scientific groups
Author(s): Torbenson M, Desmet V, Denk H, Callea F, Burt AD, Hübscher SG, Terracciano L, Dienes HP, Goodman ZD, Bedossa P, Wanless IR, Roberts EA, Brunt EM, Clouston AD, Gouw ASH, Kleiner D, Schirmacher P, Tiniakos D
Publication type: Article
Publication status: Published
Journal: Virchows Archiv
Year: 2021
Volume: 478
Pages: 191-200
Print publication date: 01/02/2021
Online publication date: 30/06/2020
Acceptance date: 17/06/2020
Date deposited: 07/08/2020
ISSN (print): 0945-6317
ISSN (electronic): 1432-2307
Publisher: Springer Nature
URL: https://doi.org/10.1007/s00428-020-02879-5
DOI: 10.1007/s00428-020-02879-5
PubMed id: 32607686
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