James Walter Fleshman Jr., MD: A Conversation with the Editor
Bibliographic record
Abstract
James Fleshman (Figure 1) came to Baylor University Medical Center at Dallas (BUMC) as chief of surgery and as the Helen Buchanan and Stanley Joseph Seeger Endowed Professor and Chairman in 2012. He was born on August 2, 1954, in New Orleans, Louisiana, and grew up in various southern US cities, in St. Louis, Missouri, and in Northern Ireland, which he loved and allowed him to do a good bit of traveling in continental Europe. He received his bachelor's degree from Washington University in St. Louis, Missouri, summa cum laude, and received his medical degree 4 years later from Washington University School of Medicine. His training in general surgery was at the Jewish Hospital of St. Louis, a part of Washington University School of Medicine. He did a fellowship in colon and rectal surgery at the University of Toronto in Canada. After returning to St. Louis in 1987 as a member of the Section of Colon and Rectal Surgery of Washington University School of Medicine, he rapidly rose through the ranks to become full professor of surgery in 2000. When he came to BUMC in 2012, he was also made professor of surgery at Texas A&M Health Science Center.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame distilled prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one teacher head, not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".