"He sort of set the model for interviewing politicians," said Robert S. Bennett, the Washington lawyer who represented President Bill Clinton in the Monica Lewinsky scandal and, at times, was heavily involved in his communications strategy.
One of the examples, the groundbreaking discovery by the Zon lab of a new treatment strategy for melanoma, is described by Len Zon in his own words in an exclusive 'Model for Life' interview.
In an 'A Model for Life' interview, Geoffrey Smith Smithh, 2015), current Managing Director of Mars Ventures and past senior member of the DMM editorial team, tells us how he developed his incredibly varied career, from the desk of law school to the leadership of healthcare companies, via several academic positions.
The series, which will be published across several issues of the journal, includes Review articles, A Model for Life interview, a Clinical Puzzle (a review written by a clinician to describe a disease that is relatively understudied) and an At a Glance poster article.
The development of randomized response models for personal interview surveys has attracted much attention since the pioneering work of Warner [1965. Randomized response: a survey technique for eliminating evasive answer bias. J. Amer. Statist. Assoc. 60, 63 69].
This initiative coincided with the development of the InterVA-4 model for interpreting VA interview material, the latest model in the InterVA series (12) which corresponds to the 2012 WHO VA tool (13) and is freely available at www.interva.net.
Herrema became a model for Calvin Klein and interviewed Keith Richards for Raygun; they hung out with Timothy Leary.
As a model for initiating the interviews, the field notes were organised into six themes (see a further explanation in the constitution of vocational competence), each of which characterised something that had been observed, sometimes for several weeks, and that the students had experienced.
Figure 1 illustrates the model of interviewing that was adopted for the initial interviews.
Importantly, established health services utilization models [ 14- 16] were used to guide our selection of nine socio-demographic variables for inclusion in our multivariate models, including language preference for interview.
