I can't believe it's been over a year since my last entry! Plenty has transpired, but I have had (I have made) no time to write about it. I will try to do better.
The biggest news right now is that the BTER Foundation has a new web design. This has been a project in the planning for nearly a year, because the vast number of resources grew beyond the ability of the earlier site structure to organize and retrieve them. Take a look at the new www.BTERFoundation.org. Leave a message as to how well the site serves you, or how it could be improved.
Better yet, leave a note as to how YOU can help the website grow, or how YOU can help the BTER Foundation help others.
Also, you can read about some of the other developments this past year in Biotherapy in the BTER Foundation newsletters.
About the Author
- Ronald Sherman
- Dr. Sherman is the Director of the non-profit, BioTherapeutics, Education & Research (BTER) Foundation, whose mission is to support patient care, education, and research in maggot therapy, leech therapy, and the other biotherapeutic modalities. He has been studying the history, biology and clinical applications of maggots and maggot therapy since 1981. Born in Los Angeles, Ronald Sherman earned his BS in Entomology at UC Riverside, his MD at UCLA, and his MSc in Clinical Tropical Medicine at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine. He completed his Internal Medicine Residency at UC Davis in 1987 and his Infectious Diseases Fellowship at UC Irvine in 1991. Dr. Sherman currently works one day/week as an HIV clinic doctor for the county's health department. This allows him the time and financial freedom to spend the rest of the week studying, teaching, administrating and doing research in Biotherapy.
