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Dr. Liza Solomon, HIV/AIDS Expert, Joins Abt Associates as Principal Associate in Company's Domestic Health Division

CAMBRIDGE, Mass., Aug. 5 /PRNewswire/ -- Liza Solomon, Dr.P.H., a noted HIV/AIDS public policy leader and the former Director of the Maryland State AIDS Administration has joined Abt Associates as a principal associate in its Domestic Health Division. In addition to her public service, Dr. S...

QHR Associate Named Chair of Kentucky Hospital Association Board of Trustees

Terry Peeples, CEO of Jennie Stuart Medical Center in Hopkinsville, Ky. and a 22-year veteran of Quorum Health Resources (QHR), the nation's largest hospital management company, was recently appointed chairman of the Board of Trustees of the Kentucky Hospital Association. ...

WellPoint Captures Gold for Its Associate Wellness Program

National Business Group on Health honors company's Choose Better Health associate wellness program INDIANAPOLIS, June 26 /PRNewswire/ -- WellPoint, Inc. (NYSE: WLP ) announced today that it was been recognized as one of the best employers for healthy lifestyles by the National Business Grou...

Joseph C. Kolars, M.D., to be U-M Medical School's First Senior Associate Dean for Education and Global Initiatives

ANN ARBOR, Mich., May 6 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Joseph C. Kolars, M.D., has been named the University of Michigan Medical School's first Senior Associate Dean for Education and Global Initiatives, effective June 1, pending the approval of the U-M Board of Regents. Kolars will serve as...

MedThink Hires Associate Scientific Director to Support Its Growing Health Care Clientele

RALEIGH, N.C., March 12 /PRNewswire/ -- MedThink Communications, a full-service health care communications agency, has hired a doctorate-level associate scientific director to support its rapidly expanding medical communications services. Todd A. Parker joins two scientific directors at MedT...

University of Michigan's Zell Lurie Institute Welcomes Erik Gordon as Associate Director

ANN ARBOR, Mich., Jan. 26 /PRNewswire/ -- The Samuel Zell & Robert H. Lurie Institute for Entrepreneurial Studies / Center for Venture Capital & Private Equity Finance, today announced the appointment of Erik Gordon as Associate Director of the Institute. In this new role, Gordon will...

N.C. Nursing Scholarship Applications Due February 28 for Bachelor's Degrees, May 3 for Associate and Graduate Degrees

RESEARCH TRIANGLE PARK, N.C., Dec. 2 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Students interested in nursing careers can apply for a scholarship/loan through the N.C. Nurse Scholars Program (NSP) for the 2009-10 academic year at the college information site, CFNC.org. Approximately 400 new awards are available...

Marathon Health Joins Forces with New Balance for Employee Health - Associate Health Services Provided at Three Maine Locations

Marathon Health, a leading provider of onsite health services and technology solutions, has announced that New Balance, the athletic products company, has selected Marathon Health to develop, implement and manage onsite health clinics and to provide health services to workers at New Balance facil...

New Associate Joins Brinks Hofer Gilson & Lione in Salt Lake City

CHICAGO, Sept. 9 /PRNewswire/ -- Brinks Hofer Gilson & Lione, one of the largest intellectual property law firms in the U.S., is pleased to announce that Jacob Cheung-Ka Ong has joined the firm's Salt Lake City, Utah office as a new associate. Jacob Cheung-Ka Ong received a B.S. in neuroscie...

Roskamp Institute's Associate Clinic Director Named Chairperson of the Alzheimer's Disease Initiative Advisory Committee

Committee Assesses and Provides Recommendations to the Department of Elder Affairs MANATEE COUNTY, Fla., Aug. 12 /PRNewswire/ -- The Roskamp Institute's Associate Clinic Director and Neuropsychologist Cheryl Luis, Ph.D., ABPP-CN was recently nominated and appointe...

ADAMS Welcomes Debbie Aiken and Brandon Cannaday to the Firm's Staff as Associate Project Managers

ATLANTA, March 5 /PRNewswire/ -- ADAMS Management Services Corporation (ADAMS), the leading provider of program management and advisory services for the healthcare industry, announces the addition of Deborah (Debbie) J. Aiken and Brandon L. Cannaday to the firm's staff. Ms. Aiken and Mr. Canna...

ADAMS Announces the Addition of Dani Barfield to the Firm's Staff as Associate Project Manager

ATLANTA, March 5 /PRNewswire/ -- ADAMS Management Services Corporation (ADAMS), the leading provider of program management and advisory services for the healthcare industry, announces the addition of Dani Barfield as Associate Project Manager within the Program Management division of the firm....

AMERIGROUP Names Linda Whitley-Taylor as Executive Vice President, Associate Services

Stredler, Mellon Assume Key Management Posts as Senior Vice Presidents VIRGINIA BEACH, Va., Jan. 29 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- AMERIGROUP Corporation (NYSE: AGP ) today announced the hiring of three experienced executives to lead the Company in key management positions: Linda Whitley-Taylor h...

Women's Health Services Announces New Associate

Women's Health Services announces our new associate, Angela Watson, M.D. She joins Joan L. Bergstrom, M.D., and Dawnette Peppler, M.D. in the practice of OB-GYN. Arlington, TX (PRWEB) March 26, 2009 -- Women's Health Services announces our new associate, Angela Watson,...

Drinking Moderately or More Ups Men's Cancer Risk

...d spirits does have some risk attached to it." However, William J. Blot, associate director of research at the Vanderbilt-Ingram Cancer Center in Nashville, T... Health, McGill University, Montreal; William J. Blot, Ph.D., professor and associate director, cancer prevention, control and population-based research, Vanderb...

Yerkes researchers propose ambitious new strategies for AIDS vaccine research

...ical virology at the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine and lead author of the commentary. Silvestri, along with co-author James Else, DVM, associate director for veterinary resources at Yerkes, writes, "Over 25 years after the discovery of HIV as the etiological agent of AIDS, no effective vaccine ...

Price Chopper Supermarkets Deploy Micromedex Solutions From Thomson Reuters as Key Component of Its Patient-Centered Care Initiatives

...e. The family-owned company prides itself on longstanding traditions of innovative food merchandising, leadership in community service and cooperative associate relations. Golub's approximately 25,000 associates collectively own 51% of the company's privately held stock. For additional information, visit www...

Photo: New Survey Results Show Most Moms Are Aware Their Pre-teens and Teens Need Vaccines

...ramming as well as coordinating the medical services for the Child Protection Unit, serving at-risk children and families in Northeast Ohio. She is an associate Professor of Pediatrics at Case Western Reserve University (CWRU). Dr. McDavid serves on the committee of several national organizations includ...

Guided care reduces cost of health care for older persons with chronic conditions

...t all the costs of providing Guided Care," said lead author Bruce Leff, MD, associate professor in the Bloomberg School's Department of Health Policy and Management and associate professor in the Department of Medicine at the Johns Hopkins School of Medi...

Carnegie Mellon develops innovative method to detect genetic causes of complex diseases

...iseases that plague humans are caused not by a single genetic mutation, but by a combination of many genetic and environmental factors," said Xing, an associate professor of machine learning, language technologies and computer science. "Complicating the situation is that most complex diseases have a large numb...

Many Texas Docs Not Pushing HPV Vaccine for Girls

...knowledge about issues of safety and how to address parental concerns. That may be making them reluctant to deliver the vaccine," Dr. Jessica Kahn, an associate professor of pediatrics at Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center, said in a news release from the American Association for Cancer Research. ...

Rapid Swine Flu Test Misses Many Infections

... while the patient is waiting," said Michael Shaw, associate director for laboratory science in CDC's influenza... pandemic strain, he said. Dr. Marc Siegel, an associate professor of medicine at New York University Lango... SOURCES: Michael Shaw, Ph.D., associate director for laboratory science, influenza divisio...

Live recordings of cell communication

... detected by the next neuron in line. However, we still lack a more detailed understanding of how the fusion of vesicles occurs on the nano-scale. associate Professor Dimitrios Stamou, Department of Neuroscience and Pharmacology and Nano-Science Center explains: - "Contact between vesicles and membrane...

UC design research points the way so you won't get lost at the hospital

...n the University of Cincinnati's internationally ranked School of Design began working on signage proposals in January 2009, led by Oscar Fernndez, UC associate professor of design. In the current summer quarter, 16 students are now finishing up their health-care symbols, getting ready for testing of those sym...

Sperm Cell Insights May Aid Stem Cell Research

...lies. "We know now that in the fly testis, interfering with Jak-STAT signaling interferes with the process of dedifferentiation," Erika Matunis, an associate professor of cell biology, said in a university news release. Dedifferentiation is the redirection of stem cells on the way to becoming sperm cells...

ViroPharma Announces Initiation Of Non-Toxigenic Clostridium Difficile Phase 1 Program

...sm biotherapeutic approach to restoring bacterial production against CDI that has been disrupted by antibiotic treatment," stated Dale N. Gerding, MD, associate Chief of Staff for Research at the Hines VA Hospital. "Despite the effectiveness of current acute treatment options, CDI recurrence remains a signifi...

Living in U.S. May Raise Hispanics' Cancer Risk

...melie G. Ramirez, Dr.P.H., director, Institute for Health Promotion Research, co-associate director, Cancer Prevention and Population Science program, associate director, community outreach, Cancer Therapy & Research Center, University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio; Vilma Cokkinides, Ph.D....

EntreMed Reports Second Quarter 2009 Financial Results

...nding (basic and diluted) Cash and short-term investments $15,154,973 $36,196,345 Contact: Ginny Dunn associate Director Corporate Communications & Investor Relations 240-864-2643 ...

Finding key to cancer drug Gleevec's limitations

...g. "The mouse model we have developed for CML allows us to identify, understand and target the tumorigenic cell," says Theodora Ross, M.D., Ph.D., associate professor of internal medicine at U-M and senior author of the study. Developing a mouse model that closely reproduces the progression of human CML wa...

Dartmouth gets $3 million from the National Science Foundation for IT research in health care

...capable of analysis for constant improvement and research." Anthony is also associate professor and chair of the Department of Sociology. The TISH team bring...mation systems and informatics at Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center and an associate professor of anesthesiology at Dartmouth Medical School. Through the thr...

Immigration Attorneys Make Immigration Law & Employment Visas Easier for Foreign Workers, U.S. Employers, Corporations and Corporate Counsel

...tion Lawyers Association, for which she has been a speaker, publication editor, and liaison with several government agencies. Ms. Jacobson is also an associate Professor of Law and teaches Immigration Law at West Los Angeles College. In addition, Ms. Jacobson is a business/marketing consultant for sole practi...

Novo Nordisk Appoints Per Falk, M.D., Ph.D., as Vice President for Clinical, Medical and Regulatory Affairs for North America

... and Australia. In 2008, Dr. Falk transitioned to the United States as the associate vice president of Clinical Development & Medical Affairs - Diabetes &am...V/GI research unit in Molndal, Sweden. He also has served as a lecturer and associate professor at Karolinska Institute, as well as a post-doctoral fellow and in...

Elder Abuse, Neglect Make Early Death Far More Likely

...onsequences," said study author Dr. XinQi Dong, an associate professor of medicine at Rush University Medical Center in Chicago. Though people often associate dementia or Alzheimer's disease with self-neglect,... SOURCES: XinQi Dong, M.D., associate professor, medicine, Rush University Medical Cente...

PEAK Surgical Introduces PEAK PlasmaBlade(TM) TnA

...issection instrument that was specifically designed with the surgeon who does a lot of tonsillectomy and adenoidectomy in mind," said Kay Chang, M.D., associate professor of otolaryngology at Stanford University School of Medicine. "To date, my patients have experienced excellent post-operative recoveries, whi...

One in 10 High School Seniors Have Used Narcotic Painkillers

...to reduce this behavior," said study author Sean Esteban McCabe, a research associate professor at the Substance Abuse Research Center of the University of Michi...se . SOURCES: Sean Esteban McCabe, Ph.D., research associate professor, Substance Abuse Research Center, University of Michigan, Ann Arb...

Antidepressant Use in U.S. Has Almost Doubled

...rward," said Dr. Kathryn J. Kotrla, chairwoman and associate professor of psychiatry and behavioral science at ...ver the country," added Dr. M. Beatriz Currier, an associate professor of clinical psychiatry at the University...ter, N.Y.; Kathryn J. Kotrla, M.D., chairwoman and associate professor, psychiatry and behavioral science, Texa...

New microchip technology performs 1,000 chemical reactions at once

...ocess for identifying potential drug candidates," said study author Hsian-Rong Tseng, a researcher at UCLA's Crump Institute for Molecular Imaging, an associate professor molecular and medical pharmacology at the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA, and a member of the California NanoSystems Institute at U...

MedThink Hires Joe Conwell as Executive Creative Director

...s and other key audiences." Conwell joins MedThink from Euro RSCG Life/MetaMax in Princeton, New Jersey, where he served as vice president and associate creative director. Prior to his tenure at Euro, Conwell served in creative leadership positions at Lowe Healthcare's Integrated Communications, Common...

TGen-led team is 1 of 7 selected for $1 million skin-cancer grants

...urope and Australia, the research is particularly important to Arizonans who are disproportionately affected,'' Dr. Trent said. Dr. Kevin Brown, an associate Investigator in TGen's Integrated Cancer Genomics Division, also described the TGen-led team as part of an ongoing collaboration with the Internationa...

IDEAL LIFE's Remote Monitoring System Benefits Rural North Carolina Communities

...ardless of the ability to pay - to meet the needs of the rural community, including the uninsured. RCCHC is a Federally Qualified Health Center and an associate member of the NC Community Health Center Association. The Center includes Murfreesboro Primary Care, Roanoke Chowan Community Health Center-Ahoskie an...