Boston, MA (PRWEB) May 17, 2012

Leading global public health experts and NGO and business leaders will convene for two days in Lexington, Massachusetts to identify innovative solutions for improving the treatment of multi-drug resistant tuberculosis (MDR-TB), which kills more than 150,000 people each year.

The goal of the Innovation Summit, jointly organized by The Lilly MDR-TB Partnership and the Stop TB Partnership, and facilitated by Innosight, is to find solutions for identified barriers to treating the disease.

MDR-TB is a form of tuberculosis that is resistant to the drugs most commonly used to treat the disease. It afflicts more than 500,000 people worldwide with some 80 percent of cases occurring in India, China, Russia, and South Africa.

Due to drug resistance, MDR-TB must be treated with second-line drugs (SLD). Because of a range of challenges, however, fewer than 20,000 patients are treated each year with quality-assured SLD drugs. The summit will use Innosight’s solutions development process to focus on 14 critical SLD supply chain barriers from the viewpoint of different stakeholders.

In attendance will be more than 35 experts from a variety of organizations dedicated to treating and eradicating MDR-TB, including the World Health Organization, the Centers for Disease Control, Partners in Health, the Global Health Delivery Project at Harvard, USAID, Wal-Mart, IDA Foundation, Eli Lilly and Company, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and others.

Said Tracy Sims, Vice President, Lilly Foundation, “high-quality second-line drugs for MDR-TB exist, but a variety of barriers cripple the supply chain and result in an unacceptably high number of patients who go untreated. In bringing some of the most talented and committed experts in MDR-TB together at this summit, we believe we can make great progress in developing actionable solutions to break down these barriers, improve access to treatment, and save lives.”

Following the summit, participants will seek to identify methods to test and implement the identified solutions.

About Innosight

Innosight is an innovation consulting firm with offices in Boston, Singapore, and India. It works with companies to develop growth strategies, discover new, high-growth markets, build innovation capabilities, and create disruptive new products, businesses, and services. Its comprehensive, integrated approach converts the quest for innovation and growth into a predictable and reliable process. For more information, visit http://www.innosight.com.

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Fort Worth, TX (PRWEB) April 25, 2012

Bud Brooks, Karen Dillard, and Vic Panza have all joined HPS as regional Vice Presidents of Business Development.

Todd Doze, President of HPS said “HPS is fortunate to be in a position to attract leadership talent of this caliber and experience. Each new member of our leadership team brings a very skilled and seasoned approach to their craft. All three executives have a strong track record of accomplishment, and will help position HPS for high growth over the next few years”. “As our organization makes the transition from a traditional start-up to a high-growth phase business, with over 500 hospital clients, their experience and focus on enhancing the customer experience will help us achieve our goals.”

Bud Brooks, VP-Business Development – Midwest, West and Northwest Regions:

Bud Brooks has 20 years of experience in the healthcare industry. Much of his work has involved providing outsourced solutions to payers on ways of improving exposure to medical and administrative costs, a significant portion of that with Concentra Network Services. He has experience working with provider groups and hospitals, PPO networks, managed care programs, and workers’ compensation networks. Mr. Brooks was recently involved in a medical device start-up company bringing mobile health technology into the provider setting. He is a member of the American College of Healthcare Executives and the Healthcare Financial Management Association. Mr. Brooks has a BS from Brown University and an MBA from Southern Methodist University, and resides in Dallas, TX.

Karen Dillard, Vice President of Business Development – Southeast Region:

Karen has 25 years of healthcare experience and began her career in Medical Records moving her way into practice management for physician practices. Karen has spent the last 12 years helping hospitals improve revenue cycle processes and identifying efficiency and expertise in reimbursement matters while maintaining customer centricity in all initiatives and interactions, always putting the customer first. Karen has been a member of HFMA for twelve years and currently serves as PFS Program Chair for the Alabama Chapter, Co-Chair for the Georgia Chapter, and serves on the education committee for North and South Carolina Chapters. Karen lives in Alexander City, Alabama.

Victor Panza, Vice President Business Development – Northeast and Great Lakes Regions:

Victor has over 35 years of healthcare experience. This includes extensive experience within the diagnostic radiology sector in both capital equipment sales management, and more significantly in the area of radiology benefit management. Mr. Panza was engaged as a founder and senior manager with National Imaging Associates, Inc., one of the leading radiology benefit management firms in the country, and most recently, lead a new business unit for Nuance Communications which marketed clinical decision support software for management of diagnostic imaging procedures. In these positions, he worked extensively with both healthcare payers and provider organizations. Mr. Panza graduated from Indiana University of Pennsylvania and resides in the Pittsburgh, PA, area.

About Healthcare Payment Specialists

Since 2002, Fort Worth, Texas-based HPS has emerged as a Medicare reimbursement solutions and compliance expert, leveraging distinct advantages in the areas of Bad Debt, Shadow Billing Compliance, DSH, and Post-Acute Care Transfer Services. We exercise proven expertise, cutting-edge automation, and total accountability to improve the operational and financial integrity of our hospital partners.

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San Diego, CA (PRWEB) May 16, 2012

Learn HealthSci Inc. announced today that Dental Consultants, Inc., publisher of THE DENTAL ADVISOR and other evidenced-based publications, has selected Viva Learning to be its exclusive online CE partner. Utilizing Viva’s e-learning technology and services, THE DENTAL ADVISOR will offer a series of dental continuing education webinars on a variety of timely and clinically relevant topics. Webinars will be promoted to both Viva Learning and THE DENTAL ADVISOR subscribers, totaling over 75,000 online users.

THE DENTAL ADVISOR webinars and selected product evaluations will be conveniently accessible on the new Viva Learning Portal to be launched in August 2012.

“We are excited to be the exclusive online CE partner of THE DENTAL ADVISOR,” said Dr. Philip Klein, President/CEO of Learn HealthSci. “THE DENTAL ADVISOR is a highly respected publication of evidenced-based and clinically relevant information—and we look forward to enriching our content offerings with this partnership to our fast-growing network of online dental professionals,” said Dr. Klein.

“We are very pleased and enthusiastic to partner with Viva Learning as our exclusive online resource for CE,” said Mary Yakas, Executive Director of THE DENTAL ADVISOR. “We will be working with Viva to deliver a series of live interactive webinars that are highly informative and clinically relevant, presented by world-respected speakers. Our first two webinars will focus on digital dentistry and top-rated products and equipment evaluated by THE DENTAL ADVISOR,” said Ms. Yakas.

The Viva Learning™ package includes all phases of professional online education including content and website management, live online support, speaker training as well as a comprehensive learning management system. Live webinars allow online attendees to interact with the speaker through polling and Q&A. Presentations are highly interactive and include voice-over, slides and streaming video. Viva Learning™ continues to gain popularity among dental professionals worldwide with an online audience of over 37,000, growing at a rate of 2,000 new users each month.

About Learn HealthSci Inc.

Founded in 1999—one of the first Internet-based learning companies—Learn HealthSci Inc. offers a complete outsourced solution for the production of e-learning content and the development, management and hosting of enterprise-level e-learning websites for corporate clients. Our online products offer a myriad of automated tasks that streamline the entire training process, designed to make your online training initiatives cost-effective and easy-to-manage.

Learn HealthSci provides cost-effective e-learning solutions to medium and large size companies, many of which are in the Fortune 500.

About The Dental Advisor

Dental Consultants, Inc. is a science-based company with expertise in publishing, clinical and laboratory evaluation of dental products and equipment, and continuing education and training. Our evaluations can occur at the R&D, pre-market and post-market phases of product development. We publish THE DENTAL ADVISOR, THE DENTAL ADVISOR Research Reports, THE DENTAL ADVISOR Clinical Case Reports, THE DENTAL ADVISOR Clinician Technique Guides, and THE DENTAL ADVISOR Translating the Science.

The mission of THE DENTAL ADVISOR is to provide the dental profession with evidence-based and clinically relevant information on dental restorative products, infection control products and dental equipment. THE DENTAL ADVISOR reports objective clinical evaluations, product comparisons, comprehensive long-term clinical performance studies, and unbiased laboratory test results.

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Bel Marra Health comments on a recent study that shows stress and anxiety can further aggravate cancer

Toronto, ON (PRWEB) May 09, 2012

Bel Marra Health, well known for offering high-quality, specially formulated vitamins and nutritional supplements, is commenting on a recent study that shows stress can further aggravate cancer.

In a recent medical report published in the journal Public Library of Science (PLoS), the influence of stress and anxiety was shown to increase the number of cancer cells, thus inducing cancer progression.

According to the PLoS report, the continuously high levels of anxiety and stress can offset various cellular activities in the body, which are preventative against cancer cells and can potentially decrease cancer risk. Using cancer-induced mouse models that would represent human subjects with skin cancer or melanoma, these scientists subjected these animals to chronic stress and monitored various cellular and molecular events throughout the experimentation.

Spokesman for Bel Marra Health, Dr. Victor Marchione says, “the results of the study showed that the immune system of the chronic stress-exposed mice with skin cancer was at a lower level, thus allowing these animals to develop additional medical conditions aside from melanoma. It has also been earlier reported that cancer cells generally develop when the immune system of a person is incapable of fighting foreign bodies or pathogens that have entered the bodies through infection.”

The study also showed that the lymph nodes of the mice, or the organs that are responsible for producing antibodies against foreign pathogens, were poorly functioning, as compared to cancer-induced mice that were not subjected to chronic stress. All these observations suggested that cancer risk and progression has increased in the presence of chronic stress.

The medical report contributes helpful information on the control of division in cancer cells, decreasing cancer risk, and identifying an additional preventative measure against cancer.

CEO of Bel Marra Health, Jim Chiang says, “this study is interesting because it shows us that stress and anxiety does not only affect the mental health of an individual, but can also increase the number of cancer cells, resulting in further progression of the disease. With stress and anxiety, the quality of life of a cancer patient can also deteriorate at a higher rate, which is very concerning.”

(SOURCE: “PLoS One “, High-Anxious Individuals Show Increased Chronic Stress Burden, Decreased Protective Immunity, and Increased Cancer Progression in a Mouse Model of Squamous Cell Carcinoma”, April 25, 2012)

Bel Marra Health uses only high-quality vitamins and nutritional supplements in formulations designed to address specific health concerns. All ingredients are backed with scientific evidence. Every product is tested for safety, quality, and purity at every stage of the manufacturing process. Furthermore, Bel Marra Health products are produced only in Health Canada approved facilities, going that extra mile to ensure our health conscious customers are getting top quality products. For more information on Bel Marra Health visit http://www.belmarrahealth.com or call 1-866-531-0466.

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Southfiled, MI (Vocus/PRWEB) February 14, 2011

For registration information, call (888) 355-2260 or to view additional information and register online, visit http://www.AlternativesforSeniors.com/expos/Senior-Living-Expo .

New this year, there will be an expanded Health Services Area sponsored in part by Henry Ford Health Systems and Beaumont Hospitals. These services will include free health screenings, blood pressure and cholesterol checks to being able to speak with a medical professional specialist one-on-one, on topics ranging from diabetes to women’s urology.

In addition to the exhibitors, preliminary topics of informational seminars and speakers presented throughout the day are Senior Living Overview, Alzheimer’s – Understanding & Responding to People with Dementia, Elder Law Don’t Go Broke in the Aging Process, Medicaid and Medicare Information, Veteran’s Benefits Best Kept Secrets Explained, Home Care and Companion Services Explained and Long Term Care Insurance.

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“The goal of the expo is to provide attendees with the resources and tools they need to make educated, informed decisions and to understand the options available to them,” said Anita Kremer, president of Alternatives for Seniors. “Whether their needs are immediate or in the future, there will be something of interest and value for everyone.”

Sponsors of this year’s SeniorLiving Expo are American House Senior Living Communities, Center for Elder Law, CSI Support & Development Services,Advantage Mobility Outfitters, Presbyterian Villages of Michigan, Henry Ford Health Systems, St. Anne’s Mead, Beaumont Hospitals, Gentiva Home Health, C & G Newspapers, The Oakland Press and a special partnership with the Alzheimer’s Association Greater Michigan Chapter.

The event is provided to seniors, families and healthcare professionals with Free Admission, Free Parking, door prizes and refreshments. The exhibit hall and all areas of the Southfield Pavilion are handicap accessible.

For exhibit information, please contact Denise Mazzetti from Alternatives for Seniors at (800) 350-0770, ext. 205 or at Denise(at)AlternativesForSeniors(dot)com.

For registration information, call (888) 355-2260 or to view additional information and register online, visit http://www.AlternativesforSeniors.com/expos/Senior-Living-Expo .

About Alternatives for Seniors

Since 1992, Alternatives for Seniors has been a preferred, valued and comprehensive resource for information about senior housing and services. The semi-annual print and online senior housing directory includes information about nursing centers, assisted living, retirement communities, home health care and other service agencies. Additional information on topics such as Medicare and Medicaid, Alzheimer’s and Dementia and what to look for when visiting a care facility can also be found in the guidebooks

The directories are distributed free to seniors, caregivers, healthcare centers, libraries, social/governmental organizations, home health care organizations and at other locations where seniors and their families can obtain them at no charge. Currently, there are 9 regional editions of the guidebook extensively distributed throughout their market areas in Michigan, California, Illinois, New Jersey, and Ohio. The Michigan Southeastern Areas guidebook reaches more than 190,000 individuals annually with an estimated readership of 475,000.

Alternatives for Seniors comprehensive online directory recently added nationwide senior housing information: http://www.AlternativesforSeniors.com

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Newcastle entrepreneurs

UK (PRWEB UK) 12 May 2012

Newcastle upon Tyne: Using official data from Companies House, formations agents Duport.co.uk have uncovered figures that show that Newcastle has experienced its best ever April performance for new start-up companies.

191 new companies were formed in Newcastle in April 2012, this is an 18% increase on the previous record of 162, set in April 2010.

“Newcastle upon Tyne is a prime example of the North-East’s commitment to innovation and entrepreneurship,” stated Duport.co.uk Managing Director, Peter Valaitis, “it’s no wonder that the city is breaking records.”

But business owners in Newcastle and across the North-East are still concerned about a fragile economy, according to a recent statement from the region’s Shadow Monetary Policy Committee.

The North-East regional Shadow Monetary Policy Committee is a partnership between local business owners, representatives of industry, unions and business organisations, and meets before the Bank of England makes its monthly announcement regarding interest rate policy.

During their May meeting, the committee discussed the effects of a possible interest rate rise on North-East businesses, with 11 of the 12 members in favour of the rate remaining at 0.5%.

“A couple of sectors – oil and gas and the automotive and offshore renewables manufacturing – are performing steadily in the North-East but there is still great concern in most other sectors as the construction sector is really struggling, retail and hospitality has flat levels of activity and the public sector is experiencing contraction,” said Kevin Rowan, regional secretary of the Trades Union Congress.

With reports of established businesses struggling through the double-dip recession, the news that Newcastle has a new boom in company formations is heartening, as it is these new firms that can boost the economy and vitality of the city.

Duport.co.uk is a leading UK company formation agent, operating in the UK for around 15 years. Duport registers around 10,000 new companies each year using its Companies House approved software. The Company Register which is maintained by Companies House contains public information about Limited companies and directors.

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Alexandria, VA (PRWEB) May 10, 2012

The American Statistical Association (ASA), the nation’s preeminent professional statistical society, today announced that it has elected 48 of its members as Fellows of the Association. The recipients were recognized for their outstanding professional contributions to and leadership in the field of statistical science. The Fellows will receive their certificates at a ceremony on Tuesday evening, July 31, at the annual Joint Statistical Meetings, to be held this year in San Diego, California.

“The 48 individuals honored as 2012 Fellows represent an extraordinary set of accomplishments within the field of statistics,” said Robert N. Rodriguez, ASA president. “Their selection as Fellows signifies that they and their work have earned the admiration of their peers, and I congratulate them on behalf of our association.”

The 2012 Fellows are from 18 states and six countries. A list of the Fellows by state/country, along with the citation for each, follows this release.

The designation of Fellow has been a superlative honor in ASA for nearly 100 years. According to the association by-laws, each year the Committee on Fellows can elect no more than one-third of one percent of the total ASA membership as Fellows. Individuals are nominated for the honor by fellow members and, to be selected, must have an established reputation and made outstanding contributions in some aspect of statistical work.

The Committee on Fellows evaluates candidates’ contributions to the advancement of statistics, giving due weight to publications, the positions held by the candidates in the organizations in which they are employed, activities within the association, membership and accomplishments in other societies, and other professional activities.

About the American Statistical Association

The American Statistical Association (ASA), a scientific and educational society founded in Boston in 1839, is the second oldest continuously operating professional society in the United States. For more than 170 years, ASA has been providing its 18,000 members serving in academia, government, and industry and the public with up-to-date, useful information about statistics. The ASA has a proud tradition of service to statisticians, quantitative scientists, and users of statistics across a wealth of academic areas and applications. For additional information about the American Statistical Association, please visit the association’s web site at http://www.amstat.org or call 703.684.1221.

For more information:

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American Statistical Association 2012 Fellows

Mousumi Banerjee, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan

For outstanding and sustained research, collaboration and mentoring involving statistical methods, theory and design for clinical trials, and for service to the profession.

Sudipto Banerjee, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota

For theoretical, methodological and applied research in spatiotemporal statistical modeling, especially as applied to problems in environmetrics, ecology, occupational health, agriculture and economics, for professional work at the local and national levels and for editorial service to the profession.

Melissa Begg, Columbia University, New York, New York

For excellence in leadership, development and delivery of training and mentoring programs for young clinical investigators, for promotion of statistics in biomedical research, for advancing statistics education and for service to the research community.

F. DuBois Bowman, Emory University, Department of Biostatistics and Bioinformatics, Atlanta, GA

For outstanding statistical research contributing to the advancement of biomedical imaging statistics, for excellence in promoting diversity in the field of statistics, and for extensive service to the profession.

Amy J. Braverman, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, California

For contributions to environmental statistics, particularly in the interface between massive-data reduction and remote sensing; and for service to the statistics community in climate research and policy.

N. Rao Chaganty, Old Dominion University, Norfolk, Virginia

For contributions to the statistical literature in large deviations, generalized estimating equations and qausi least squares methods; for excellent service in promoting the practice and profession of statistics; and for mentoring students at all levels.

Dongseok Choi, Division of Biostatistics, Oregon Health & Science University, Portland, Oregon

For contributions to statistical methods in bioinformatics and spatial modeling, service to the statistical profession and to biostatistics education.

Mark R. Conaway, University of Virginia Health Systems, Department of Public Health Sciences, Charlottesville, Virginia

For excellence in statistical collaboration, for the development of statistical methods in missing data and in designs for early stage clinical trials, and for contributions to teaching statistical methods.

Susmita Datta, University of Louisville, Louisville, Kentucky

For excellence in methodological and collaborative research in bioinformatics and biostatistics, student training and service to the statistics and computational biology communities.

Marc N. Elliott, RAND Corporation, Carmichael, California

For contributions to statistical methods and practice, particularly the measurement of health disparities, and to survey methods research.

Scott R. Evans, Harvard School of Public Health, Wrentham, Massachusetts

For excellence in the design and analysis of clinical trials, consulting and education in clinical research, methodological development, and for outstanding leadership and service to the ASA and the statistics profession.

Debashis Ghosh, Pennsylvania State University, University Park, Pennsylvania

For fundamental contributions to survival analysis, biomarker evaluation, statistical genomics and bioinformatics; for contributions to graduate education; for services to the profession.

Mithat Gönen, Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, New York, New York

For important research on predictive modeling, ROC analysis, and other biostatistical issues, especially related to improving cancer staging systems, for extraordinary collaborative work on the theory and practice of statistics, and for commendable service to the profession.

Robert L. Gould, UCLA, Los Angeles, California

For innovative, wide-reaching, and far-reaching contributions to statistics education at the high school, community college, and undergraduate levels; for excellence in teaching statistics; and for outstanding service to the ASA.

Deborah H. Griffin, US Census Bureau, Alexandria, Virginia

For notable and sustained contributions to statistical user education and the advancement of survey methods through methodological improvements in the collection, dissemination, documentation, and quality of data from the American Community Survey and the decennial census.

Jeffrey H. Hooper, BT Group US&C, Warren, New Jersey

For exemplary service in national and international standards development, and in the practice of statistical methods for improving quality in multiple businesses.

Nicholas J. Horton, Smith College, Northampton, Massachusetts

For outstanding contributions to statistical education; for excellence in the development of applications to medical research; and for exemplary leadership and service to the profession and to ASA.

Xiaoqiong Joan Hu, Simon Fraser University, Department of Statistics & Actuarial Science, Burnaby, British Columbia, Canada

For outstanding contributions to statistical methods for incomplete data analysis, statistical monitoring and the analysis of stochastic process data; for excellence in statistical applications in biomedical research and reliability; and for outstanding service to the profession.

Michael G. Hudgens, University of North Carolina At Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, North Carolina

For excellent and sustained methodological research and collaboration involving the statistical design and analysis of infectious disease studies, particularly related to HIV/AIDS, and for excellent teaching and mentoring of students.

Gareth James, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California

For outstanding, impactful research contributions on contemporary statistical theory, methods and applications in the areas of functional data analysis and high-dimensional variable selection, for excellence in teaching, and for conscientious service to the profession.

Jae-Kwang Kim, Department of Statistics & Center for Survey Statistics and Methodology (CSSM), Iowa State University, Ames, Iowa

For outstanding advances to survey sampling theory and methodology; for pioneering contributions to the development of fractional imputation for missing data analysis; and for service to the profession.

Michael D. Larsen, The George Washington University, Department of Statistics, Rockville, Maryland

For novel contributions to record linkage, disclosure limitation, missing data methods, and statistical modeling; for excellence in statistical education; for outstanding editorial work; and for service to the profession.

Lawrence I-Kuei Lin, Baxter Healthcare Corporation, Riverwoods, Illinois

For steadfast contributions to and broad leadership of the development of statistical tools in pharmaceutical research, particularly for assay measurement agreement, for teaching and research collaborations with academia, and for admirable service to the profession.

Bo Henry Lindqvist, Department of Mathematical Sciences, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Trondheim, Norway

For outstanding contributions to stochastic processes, reliability theory, survival analysis, and high-dimensional data analysis; for exemplary editorial work; and for service to the profession.

Jen-Pei Liu, Division of Biometry, Department of Agronomy, National Taiwan University, Taiwan, Republic of China

For significant contributions of methodological research and applications in Biostatistics, especially in bioequivalence, clinical trial design; for the leadership in statistics education reform and innovative approaches for promoting statistical literacy; and for excellence in consulting to government agencies and industries.

Thomas Lumley, University of Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand

For outstanding contributions to statistical theory and practice; for influential collaborations benefiting many important scientific studies; and for implementation of new methodology through the R system and the development of specialist software packages.

Clyde F. Martin, Texas Tech University, Lubbock, Texas

For his work on the applications and interactions of statistics with multiple fields of science such as medicine, agriculture, engineering, and numerical analysis; for his applied work in public health that resulted in improvements in healthcare practices.

Nancy A. Mathiowetz, University of Wisconsin – Milwaukee, Milwaukee, Wisconsin

For outstanding research focusing on the effects of measurement error; and for dedicated service to the survey research community through her editorial work and mentoring of the next generation of survey methodologists.

Bhramar Mukherjee, University of Michigan, Department of Biostatistics, Ann Arbor, Michigan

For influential research on Bayesian methods for analysis of gene-environment interactions and data generated under case-control and outcome dependent sampling mechanisms, for insightful consulting and collaboration with genetic scientists, for superb teaching and mentoring of both majors and non-majors of biostatistics, and for steadfast service to the profession.

Anna B. Nevius, Food and Drug Administration/CVM, Rockville, Maryland

For innovation and application of new statistical methods to the evaluation of new animal drugs; for excellence in mentoring the next generation of statisticians; and for extraordinary efforts on behalf of the FDA Statistical Association and the ASA.

Thomas E. Nichols, Department of Statistics & Warwick Manufacturing Group, University of Warwick, Coventry, United Kingdom

For outstanding methodological contributions to neuroimaging statistics, and for innovative work in medical imaging.

A. James O’Malley, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts

For novel use of Bayesian statistics, multivariate-hierarchical modeling, causal inference and social network analysis to solve problems in health policy and health services research, for improving evaluation of treatments and quality of health care, and for leadership in health policy statistics.

R. Todd Ogden, Columbia University, New York, New York

For outstanding contributions to wavelet methodology, the teaching of statistics, and functional data analysis in biomedical settings.

Liang Peng, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, Georgia

For significant research in extreme value theory, nonlinear time series and nonparametric statistics, with an emphasis on applications to actuarial science and risk management.

José C. Pinheiro, Janssen R&D, Raritan, New Jersey

For the development of novel methods and software in mixed-effect models and dose finding; for influential efforts in statistical consulting; for important contributions to statistical education through book authorship and training; and for outstanding leadership in service to the profession and the ASA.

Christian P. Robert, Universite Paris Dauphine, Paris, France

For pioneering contributions to both the theory and practice of statistics, and seminal work on hierarchical models and the development of MCMC theory and methods.

Abdul J. Sankoh, Vertex Pharmaceuticals, Department of Biometrics, Cambridge, Massachusetts

For fine research contributions to the field of biostatistics, and the enhancement of clinical trial design and data analysis.

Sanjay Shete, UT M.D. Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, Texas

For outstanding contributions to statistical genetics; for excellence in statistical collaborations in biomedical research; for outstanding mentoring of junior researchers; and for service to the profession.

Judith D. Singer, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts

For substantial contributions to quantitative methods used in social, educational, and behavioral research; for pedagogical innovations and outstanding teaching of generations of students; and for significant leadership and service to the statistics profession, educational statistics research community, and higher education.

Marc A. Suchard, UCLA, Los Angeles, California

For his wide-ranging, insightful and influential contributions to computational statistics, stochastic processes, Bayesian modeling and computing, evolutionary medicine, bioinformatics, and computational biology; for innovative models and contributions to the analysis of phylogeny, alignment, gene transfer and phylogeography.

Thaddeus Tarpey, Wright State University, Dayton, Ohio

For influential contributions to statistical research and applications, particularly in the areas of multivariate analysis and for excellence in teaching and dissemination of statistical knowledge.

Ram C. Tripathi, University of Texas At San Antonio, San Antonio, Texas

For fundamental research contributions in discrete distributions; for novel application and development of statistics in assessing the adverse health effects of dioxin on Vietnam-era veterans; for his long-standing consulting service with the USAF, and for his outstanding service to the profession.

Andrea Troxel, Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

For outstanding contributions to statistical design and analysis in medical research, especially in oncology and behavioral economics, for notable methodological research in longitudinal and incomplete data, and for excellence in teaching and mentoring.

Roshan Joseph Vengazhiyil, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, Georgia

For significant and definitive contributions to engineering statistics, especially in design and modeling of experiments; for dedicate service in the profession; and for excellence in teaching and mentoring.

Colin O. Wu, Office of Biostatistics Research, Division of Cardiovascular Sciences, National Heart, Lung & Blood Institute, Bethesda, Maryland

For innovative and fundamental research in mathematical statistics, especially in methods for longitudinal data analysis; for extensive contributions to innovative design and analysis of clinical studies in cardiovascular disease and hematological disorders and broad impact on aplastic anemia patient care and ethics of clinical trial execution.

Daowen Zhang, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, North Carolina

For fundamental contributions to flexible modeling and analysis of longitudinal data; for excellence and innovation in teaching and mentoring of graduate students; and for outstanding editorial service.

Kelly Hong Zou, Pfizer Inc., New York, New York

For outstanding contributions to receiver-operating characteristic methodology, particularly in the areas of nonparametric and parametric transformation classification methods; for key contributions to diagnostic medicine and medical imaging research; and for innovative designs and analysis of observational and patient-centered outcomes studies.

Rebecca Zwick, Educational Testing Service, Santa Barbara, California

For advancing psychometric methods for the National Assessment of Educational Progress, developing statistical methods for evaluating the validity of admissions tests, research on differential item functioning supporting the creation of fairer tests and service to the government and the profession.

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Alonso Krangle LLP – Fighting for victims of personal injury cases, defective drug and medical device litigation, construction accidents, nursing home abuse, medical malpractice, and whistleblower actions.

Melville, New York (PRWEB) May 10, 2012

Attorneys Andres Alonso and David Krangle, founding partners of Alonso Krangle LLP, a national law firm focused on child safety and child product liability injuries, are today calling for the renewal of legislation to increase pediatric clinical trials and require that child safety information be added to the labels of prescription drugs likely to be used to treat children. According to U.S. Food & Drug Administration (FDA) researchers, a study of over 500 medication labels from 2009 revealed that half lacked information regarding their use in children, including instruction on proper pediatric dosage. The study appears in the May issue of the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA). [abcnews.go.com/blogs/health/2012/05/08/how-do-docs-prescribe-kids-meds-guess/]

Alonso Krangle LLP is offering free lawsuit consultations to families of children injured by defective drugs, or children injured by unsafe products, dangerous toys, and defective medical devices. To discuss a potential lawsuit with one of the experienced and compassionate child safety lawyers at Alonso Krangle LLP, please contact us at 1-800-403-6191 or visit our website, FightForVictims.com.

The authors of the JAMA study said they conducted their analysis to gauge the effectiveness of legislation passed in the last decade to increase pediatric clinical trials and child safety information on drug labels. The Pediatric Research Equity Act allows the FDA to require drug companies conduct pediatric clinical trials if a drug is likely to be used widely in pediatrics. The Best Pharmaceuticals for Children Act gives incentives for drug companies to test their products on children. According to the FDA researchers, these laws have resulted in new pediatric labeling for almost 400 drugs as of March 2011. However, the current legislation is set to expire this year.

The JAMA study looked at 560 medications and found that only 231 included information regarding the drug’s safety and effectiveness in children and teens, including age-specific dosage information. Another 29 had dosing information for at least some younger age groups, but not all.

The remainder – 54 percent – lacked any useful pediatric information. Even after the research team took 100 medications that weren’t relevant for use in children out of the equation, 44 percent still had no child-relevant labeling. What’s more, over half of drugs with new ingredients approved between 2002 and 2008 lacked specific information for safety and dosing in children.

According to Alonso Krangle, LLP, a lack of clear child safety information, including proper dosage instructions, on prescription drug labels poses a serious public health threat. In April, Harvard researchers reported that four out of every five children hospitalized in the U.S. are treated with drugs that have never been tested in children and are FDA-approved only for adults. For this reason, the firm is calling on the U.S. Congress to reauthorize both the Pediatric Research Equity Act and Best Pharmaceuticals for Children Act as soon as possible, preferably before this important legislation expires later this year. [pediatrics.aappublications.org/content/129/5/e1291.abstract?sid=ee5636cc-a1a6-459e-879c-5b9cca808829]

Alonso Krangle LLP is committed to protecting the legal rights of children who have been injured by unsafe products, especially dangerous drugs and defective medical devices. If your child sustained a serious injury from a medication, medical device or other defective product, your family may be able to file a lawsuit seeking compensation from the manufacturer, supplier and others who brought the dangerous item to market. To discuss a potential lawsuit with one of the experienced and compassionate child safety lawyers at Alonso Krangle LLP, please contact us at 1-800-403-6191 or visit our website, http://www.FightForVictims.com.

About Alonso Krangle LLP

Andres Alonso and David Krangle, attorneys with almost 40 years of collective legal experience, have focused their law practice on the handling of significant product liability cases, defective drug and medical device litigation, construction site accidents, nursing home abuse, medical negligence, qui tam/whistleblower actions and consumer fraud cases. A national law firm representing injured victims throughout the U.S., Alonso Krangle LLP is headquartered in Long Island, New York, with offices in New York City, and plans to open additional locations in New Jersey.

For more information about Alonso Krangle or to join the fight and be a part of our team, please contact us at 1-800-403-6191 or visit our website, http://www.FightForVictims.com.

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New York, NY (PRWEB) May 04, 2012

Premier Conference & Awards on Business and Global Health

May 14-15, New York City

Top leaders in business and health to address private sector role in improving health in workplace, community and world

Announcements to Be Made Include:

Susan G. Komen for the Cure’s Nancy Brinker on First Breast Cancer Workplace Toolkit for Emerging Markets;

Launch of UN-Backed Business Alliance to Accelerate Global Health Solutions

GBCHealth, a non-profit coalition of more than 230 companies working to improve the health of their workforces and communities around the world, will bring together corporate executives, government leaders, and visionaries from the most influential global institutions at its annual conference. Together, they are partnering to tackle the most urgent global health problems of our times. GBCHealth, formerly known as the “Global Business Coalition on HIV/AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria,” changed its name in 2011 to reflect its expanded mission into other health issues such as diabetes and cancer. Please see information below, including descriptions of highlighted sessions and of how to register for press credentials.

Among the keynote and panel speakers:

Deepak Chopra; Sarah Brown, former UK first lady and maternal health and girls’ education advocate; UNAIDS’ Michel Sidibé; Coca-Cola Company CEO Muhtar Kent; model and activist Christy Turlington Burns; South Africa First Lady Bongi Ngema-Zuma; UN Women’s Michelle Bachelet; Susan G. Komen’s Nancy Brinker; UN Malaria Envoy Ray Chambers; preventive medicine guru Dean Ornish; Global Health Corps CEO Barbara Bush; Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Jonathan Capehart; Save the Children CEO Carolyn Miles; CARE USA CEO Helene Gayle and more.

Leaders from just some of the following companies will be speaking:

Access Bank, Anglo American, BD (Becton, Dickinson and Company), Chevron, Cisco, Dow Chemical, Edelman, Freeport-McMoRan Copper & Gold, HP, Johnson & Johnson, JP Morgan, Medtronic, Merck, Novo Nordisk A/S, Royal Dutch Shell, Teck Resources Limited, Unilever, Volkswagen Group South Africa, Vale.

WHERE: Roosevelt Hotel, New York City

45 East 45th Street (at Madison Avenue)

RSVP: For more information and to register for press credentials, please contact:

Eve Heyn at + 1-212-584-1651 (O); +1-646-358-6237 (M) or eheyn(at)gbchealth(dot)org

Selected Highlights of the GBCHealth Annual Conference and Awards Dinner

Special Session: MDG Health Alliance – A Plan for Driving Progress: This session will launch the MDG Health Alliance. Led by eminent leaders from the private sector, the MDG Health Alliance will bring together companies to focus on specific solutions, with a market-driven focus, to tackle six of the world’s most urgent health problems. Also, Ray Chambers, United Nations Secretary-General’s Special Envoy for Malaria and a leader of the MDG Health Alliance, will highlight the launch at the Awards Dinner.

AIDS@30: Join GBCHealth CEO John Tedstrom in conversation with three of the most passionate and influential leaders in today’s global fight against HIV/AIDS: Michel Sidibé, Executive Director, UNAIDS; Under Secretary-General, United Nations; Ambassador Eric Goosby, United States Global AIDS Coordinator, U.S. Department of State; and Brian A. Brink, Chief Medical Officer, Anglo American plc, a mining company and pathbreaker in corporate HIV programs.

Maternal Health: Milestone Moments on the Path to Healthier Motherhood: Join the United Kingdom’s former first lady, Sarah Brown, and supermodel Christy Turlington Burns, both tireless advocates for maternal health. They will be joined by leaders from BD; Merck, which has a new signature initiative to reduce maternal deaths around the world; and Chevron, a champion in preventing mother-to-child transmission of HIV; as well as the NGO CARE USA.

A New Workplace Breast Cancer Toolkit: Nancy G. Brinker, founder and CEO of Susan G. Komen for the Cure, will unveil the plan for a new workplace breast cancer toolkit that will be developed with companies for emerging markets.

Can Southern Africa Eliminate Malaria?: Leaders in eight southern African countries are spearheading an ambitious commitment to eliminate malaria from their countries by 2020. Can the “Eliminate 8” coalition do it? Government leaders, multilaterals and boots-on-the-ground implementers will discuss how Southern Africa is innovating to defeat this disease, including the use of mobile devices in the field to report on everything from malaria cases to the distribution of bed nets. The six panelists include a health minister whose brother’s death from malaria fuels his fight in Namibia, which has made remarkable strides. Also: the medical director of Freeport-McMoRan Copper & Gold, a mining company that supports indoor spraying, distribution of insecticide-treated bed nets and other measures that have dramatically reduced malaria in the workforce and surrounding communities in the Democratic Republic of the Congo.

Influencing for Change – Tackling South Africa’s Diabetes Epidemic: Having experienced first-hand her own mother’s struggles with diabetes and the devastating impact the disease has in her own country, South Africa’s First Lady Madam Bongi Ngema-Zuma became a woman on a mission. She will speak about South Africa’s efforts to rein in diabetes, which plagues more than 1.9 million people nationally.

Social Health: The Future of Disease Awareness, Prevention and Treatment: A patient with a rare disease reached out with social media to find peer support. The conversation caught the attention of the Mayo Clinic, precipitating a clinical study on the disease. Facebook, Twitter and YouTube –and beyond– are being used for health information and interventions in ways their creators had never imagined.

Health: Business Responsibility or Business Opportunity? Executives from Chevron, Edelman, HP and Medtronic will explore the duality of responsibility vs. opportunity in the pursuit of better health. Learn how the most inventive companies in the world are finding ways to make health a cornerstone of their business and a foundation of their success.

Lost in Translation: Defining and Delivering Wellness in the Global Workplace: Workplace wellness programs are evolving around the world. But they range from wall posters to comprehensive on-site programs that address everything from HIV and TB to obesity and cardiovascular disease. Leaders from companies with best-in-class workplace wellness programs — Dow Chemical, Royal Dutch Shell, Unilever and Volkswagen Group South Africa – will highlight how to translate global health strategy to successful local programs across diverse settings.

Healthy Cities: How Local Governments are Partnering with Business to Improve Urban Health: Urbanization is both positively and negatively shaping the health outcomes of millions of people. Mayors from Johannesburg to Mombasa will address the challenges of improving health in an urban setting and the role of business in this effort.

The Business of Health Diplomacy: Learn how multinational companies and governments engage on health globally and the opportunities and risks companies face when investing in nations with differing views on health policy. Panelists include a parliament member from Botswana, global health leaders from the companies Vale and Novo Nordisk A/S and a senior fellow from the Council on Foreign Relations.

Throughout the Conference and Awards Dinner, GBCHealth will bestow its Business Action on Health Awards that honor the corporate-led successes that fight the greatest health threats of our time.

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Denver, CO (PRWEB) May 03, 2012

Aventura today announced that it will demonstrate its rules-based clinical workflow solution at the Citrix Synergy 2012 Conference in San Francisco May 9-11 using Citrix XenDesktop and XenApp. In today’s virtual hospital environment, Windows roams with the clinician but does not update the static persistent session as the clinician physically moves throughout the building. The Aventura solution leverages the virtualized environment by dynamically applying rules that populate the roaming workstation with the correct patient data and applications based on the clinician location. Aventura integrates patent-pending context-, location-, and printer aware technology with Citrix XenApp and XenDesktop to map the roaming desktop to the clinician workflow. With Aventura, doctors and nurses have instant access to the information and tools they need, when they need it, from any workstation in the hospital.

New technology mandates require doctors and nurses to access computer information dozens of times a day. Computer sharing and long logon processes make it difficult to access the right information at the right time to drive critical care decisions. As a leader in using context- and location-aware computing in healthcare, Aventura uses rules-based computing to present patient information intelligently to the clinician based on location and credentials. Aventura uses the same technology to locate and re-assign the closest online printer as the default, saving the clinician from having to locate a printed document. Aventura’s clinician workflow solution gives clinicians desktop access to whatever information they need at the point of care in seconds rather than minutes.

“We are excited to expand our Citrix XenApp virtualization support to now include Citrix XenDesktop,” said Karyn German, Vice President Product Management at Aventura. “By leveraging the Citrix virtualization solutions with our own context- and location-aware technology, we can improve the way virtualization supports the roaming desktop. We give clinicians near-instant access to patient-relevant data and reduce the risk of medical errors. We also boost clinician satisfaction as frustration about hard-to-access data drops.”

Hospital IT professionals can experience the Aventura rules-based clinical workflow solution in booth #507 at the Citrix Synergy 2012 Conference or they can schedule a personal demonstration by contacting Greta Oberschmidt at greta(dot)oberschmidt(at)aventurahq(dot)com.

About Aventura:

Aventura improves the workflow of doctors and nurses by providing the information they need, when and where they need it. Aventura’s context and location aware computing intelligence orchestrates technologies already in place, making them responsive to the user. Aventura provides tools that help clinicians practice more productively and effectively, allowing them to spend more time with patients. Aventura improves clinician satisfaction, increases EMR use at the point of care, and allows focus on the quality of care. Learn more at http://www.aventurahq.com.

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