Elsevier Wins Illustrated Book Award and Six First Prizes at 2016 BMA Medical Book Awards

PHILADELPHIA, September 13, 2016 /PRNewswire/ --

Elsevier Congratulates its Medical Authors and Editors for This Industry Recognition and for Consistently Producing High-quality Medical Content  

Elsevier, a world-leading provider of scientific, technical and medical information products and services, today announced that 32 of its professional and scholarly products were honored at the British Medical Association's annual BMA Medical Book Awards ceremony at BMA House in London on September 7, 2016. This year, publishers submitted more than 600 products. Twenty first prizes and numerous Highly Commended prizes were awarded.

The BMA Illustrated Book Award went to Atlas of the Human Brain, 4^th edition, by Drs. Jürgen K. Mai, Milan Majtanik and George Paxinos. The book also received a High Commendation in the Basic and Clinical Sciences category.

Elsevier received first prizes in the following categories:

• Anesthesia - Waldman: Physical Diagnosis of Pain: An Atlas of Signs and Symptoms, 3^rd edition
• Basic & Clinical Sciences - Rosenfeld: The Epigenome and Developmental Origins of Health and Disease
• Cardiology - Mann and Felker: Heart Failure: A Companion to Braunwald's Heart Disease, 3^rd edition
• Pediatrics - Paller and Mancini: Hurwitz Clinical Pediatric Dermatology: A Textbook of Skin Disorders of Childhood and Adolescence, 5^th edition
• Pathology - Colvin and Chang: Diagnostic Pathology: Kidney Diseases, 2^nd edition
• Radiology - Ross and Moore: Diagnostic Imaging: Spine, 3^rd edition

Dr. Robert Colvin, whose book, Diagnostic Pathology: Kidney Disease, 2^nd edition, won First Prize in the Pathology category said, "We are very pleased with the recognition received from the BMA and hope this will promote wide use of the text by pathologists and nephrologists.  The credit for the book's success goes to the expert co-authors who wrote such outstanding chapters and provided exceptionally instructive images."

Dr. Douglas Mann who, along with co-author Dr. Michael Felker received First Prize in the Cardiology category for their book, Heart Failure: A Companion to Braunwald's Heart Disease, 3^rd edition, said, "The third edition of Braunwald's Heart Failure Companion captures all of the important advances and progress of the field in a comprehensive bench-to-bedside textbook.  Every attempt was made to capture what we believe is needed in a "modern" textbook of heart failure, recognizing that the intended readership extends from trainees, to nurses and physicians in practice, to advanced heart failure specialists."

Elsevier also received Highly Commended honors in the following categories:

• Basic & Clinical Sciences - Standring: Gray's Anatomy: The Anatomical Basis of Clinical Practice, 41^st edition
• Basic & Clinical Sciences - Hall: Guyton and Hall Textbook of Medical Physiology, 13^th edition
• Basic & Clinical Sciences - Jorde, Carey and Barnshad: Medical Genetics, 5^th edition
• Digital & Online Resources - Naish, Syndercombe Court and Wood: Elsevier ExamPrep UK Basic Science
• Digital & Online Resources - Pace: Pre-Hospital Emergency Medicine: Prepare for the FRCA - Key Articles from the Anesthesia and Intensive Care Medicine Journal
• Internal Medicine - James, Berger and Elston: Andrews' Diseases of the Skin: Clinical Dermatology, 12^th edition
• Internal Medicine - Melmed, Polonsky, Larsen and Kronenberg: Williams Textbook of Endocrinology, 13^th edition
• Medicine - Innes: Davidson's Essentials of Medicine, 2^nd edition
• Medicine - Dennis, Bowen and Cho: Mechanisms of Clinical Signs, 2^nd edition
• Medicine - Wermuth, Aldous, Raboisson and Rognan: The Practice of Medicinal Chemistry, 4^th edition
• Neurology - Osborn, Salzman, Jhaveri and Barkovich: Diagnostic Imaging: Brain, 3^rd edition
• Neurology - Singer, Mink, Gilbert and Jankovic: Movement Disorders in Childhood, 2^nd edition
• Neurology - Felten, O'Banion and Maida: Netter's Atlas of Neuroscience, 3^rd edition
• Neurology - Laureys, Gosseries and Tononi: The Neurology of Consciousness: Cognitive Neuroscience and Neuropathy, 2^nd edition
• Obstetrics & Gynecology - Baggish and Karram: Atlas of Pelvic Anatomy and Gynecologic Surgery, 4^th edition
• Oncology - Gunderson and Tepper: Clinical Radiation Oncology, 4^th edition
• Pathology - Wenig: Atlas of Head and Neck Pathology, 3^rd edition
• Pathology - Vasef and Auerbach: Diagnostic Pathology: Molecular Oncology
• Public Health - Lappas and Lappas: Forensic Toxicology: Principles and Concepts
• Public Health - Gupta: Handbook of Toxicology of Chemical Warfare Agents, 2^nd edition
• Radiology - Herring: Learning Radiology: Recognizing the Basics, 3^rd edition
• Surgery - Buck II: Review of Plastic Surgery
• Surgical Specialties - Wein, Kavoussi, Partin and Peters: Campbell-Walsh Urology, 11^th edition
• Surgical Specialties - Forrester, Dick, McMenamin, Roberts and Pearlman: The Eye: Basic Sciences in Practice, 4^th edition
• Surgical Specialties - Busuttil and Klintmalm: Transplantation of the Liver, 3^rd edition

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