About

Michael I. Allen is an Associate Professor of Classics at the University of Chicago. He earned his Ph.D. from the University of Toronto in 1994. His research interests include Carolingian literary culture, Latin Palaeography, textual transmission and reception, Tironian Notes (Early Latin Shorthand), and libraries and learning in early medieval France and Germany. Professor Allen is currently studying the writings, library, and circle of Lupus of Ferrières, focusing on a collection of approximately 130 documents in an original manuscript that are key sources for the history of books, libraries, and scholarly movement in the ninth century. He is working on a new edition, commentary, and translation of Lupus’s letters and related documents, relating them to historical events and extant manuscripts. Additionally, he is beginning a project with Professor C. Veyrard-Cosme to re-edit the letters of Einhard from a damaged mid-ninth-century manuscript, utilizing new imaging techniques to recover more of Einhard’s words and meanings.

Research topics

• Art

Selected publications

• Inhibition of Soluble Epoxide Hydrolase Reduces Inflammation and Myocardial Injury in Arrhythmogenic Cardiomyopathy

  bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory) · 2024 · 2 citations

  • Chemistry
  • Medicine
  • Cancer research

  mice. These results suggest that pro-inflammatory eicosanoids contribute to the pathogenesis of ACM and, further, that inhibition of sEH may be an effective, mechanism-based therapy for ACM patients.

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• Adherence by orthopaedic surgeons to AHPRA and Australian Orthopaedic Association advertising guidelines

  The Medical Journal of Australia · 2022 · 4 citations

  • Medicine
  • Family medicine

  OBJECTIVES: To examine adherence to Australian Health Practitioner Regulation Agency (AHPRA) and Australian Orthopaedic Association (AOA) advertising guidelines by AOA members. DESIGN, SETTING: Cross-sectional survey, Australia. PARTICIPANTS: Two samples of AOA member orthopaedic surgeons: 81 randomly selected from a list of AOA members with publicly available contact details (AOA random sample); and a sample obtained by searching with Google for "orthopaedic surgeon" and the name of the major city in each of the eight Australian states and territories in turn; the top eight results for each search were considered for inclusion (AOA Google sample). MAIN OUTCOME MEASURES: Non-compliance of advertising material, by surgeon sample, with the AHPRA and AOA guidelines; associations between non-compliance and sample, state, location (metropolitan, regional), and subspecialty. RESULTS: Of the 81 surgeons in the AOA random sample, 52 (64%) were non-compliant with at least one aspect of the AHPRA guidelines, and 53 (65%) were non-compliant with at least one aspect of the AOA guidelines. Of the 59 surgeons in the AOA Google sample, 48 were non-compliant with the AHPRA guidelines (81%) and 46 with the AOA guidelines (78%). Incidence of non-compliance with the AHPRA guidelines was influenced by sample source (AOA Google v AOA random: incidence rate ratio [IRR], 1.37; 95% CI, 1.01-1.87), but not non-compliance with the AOA guidelines (IRR, 1.09; 95% CI, 0.77-1.55). CONCLUSION: A large proportion of AOA members who advertise online do not comply with AHPRA and AOA advertising guidelines.

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• Que sait-on, à travers les sources écrites, de la cité de Lisieux durant le haut Moyen Âge (VIe-IXe siècle) ?

  2022

  Senior authorCorresponding
  • Art

  International audience

• Global economic burden of unmet surgical need for appendicitis

  British journal of surgery · 2022 · 14 citations

  • Medicine
  • Environmental health
  • Surgery

  BACKGROUND: There is a substantial gap in provision of adequate surgical care in many low- and middle-income countries. This study aimed to identify the economic burden of unmet surgical need for the common condition of appendicitis. METHODS: Data on the incidence of appendicitis from 170 countries and two different approaches were used to estimate numbers of patients who do not receive surgery: as a fixed proportion of the total unmet surgical need per country (approach 1); and based on country income status (approach 2). Indirect costs with current levels of access and local quality, and those if quality were at the standards of high-income countries, were estimated. A human capital approach was applied, focusing on the economic burden resulting from premature death and absenteeism. RESULTS: Excess mortality was 4185 per 100 000 cases of appendicitis using approach 1 and 3448 per 100 000 using approach 2. The economic burden of continuing current levels of access and local quality was US $92 492 million using approach 1 and $73 141 million using approach 2. The economic burden of not providing surgical care to the standards of high-income countries was $95 004 million using approach 1 and $75 666 million using approach 2. The largest share of these costs resulted from premature death (97.7 per cent) and lack of access (97.0 per cent) in contrast to lack of quality. CONCLUSION: For a comparatively non-complex emergency condition such as appendicitis, increasing access to care should be prioritized. Although improving quality of care should not be neglected, increasing provision of care at current standards could reduce societal costs substantially.

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Frequent coauthors

• Willemien Otten

  1 shared

• Christophe Maneuvrier

  Université de Caen Normandie

  1 shared

• Obispo de Lisieux Frechulf

  1 shared

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