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Anatomy

Anatomy of a Play: The Day Bryce Petty Almost Died – The Phinsider

On the 1st play of the 4th quarter in the Week 15 match-up between the Miami Dolphins and New York Jets, Bryce Petty fell victim to a snap count miscommunication and it nearly cost him his life. After Cameron Wake and Ndamukong Suhs impact, I fully expected to see Pettys intestines randomly scattered across the NFL logo on the field.

Winning 34-10, MetLife Stadium had already been taken over by a sea of aqua and orange. This play made me cringe and I was sitting in the nosebleeds. A collective ooh, with accompanying facial twitch, overcame the crowd to empathize with the pain - it must have felt like getting hit by Mike Tyson in Mike Tysons Punch-Out and a Chuck Norris roundhouse kick at the same time.

Ryan Fitzpatrick came out and put up a whopping 17.1 QB rating for the rest of the game and the rest was history. Dolphins win.

But wow, this play was almost as bad as Mark Sanchez using his face to wipe Brandon Moores butt.

Lawyer: Mr. SUTTON, what did you witness Saturday night at MetLife Stadium?

Me: I witnessed Mr. Suh and Mr. Wake kill Mr. Petty. I also saw the Jets sucking and the Dolphins not sucking.

Lawyer: And by what means did they use to (air quote) kill Mr. Petty?

Me: I thought it was a fun formation that created a little confusion: Suh and Wake at DE, Jason Jones (DE) at DT, Andre Branch (DE) at DT standing up, LBs pressing the A gaps. On this play, the Jets offense communicated about as well as Chewbacca enunciates - and it was in between quarters when the Jets conceivably had more time to not have that kind of dumb s*** happen, but, you know, its the Jets, that type of stuff happens all the time. #76, #83, and #67 literally touched nothing but air on the play. The only reason #71 touches someone is because Jason Jones runs right into him.

Lawyer: (snickers fairly loudly, coughs/clears throat, realizes he has to remain composed during the proceedings and not reveal his Dolphins loyalty) How would you describe the cause of death, sir?

Me: It was a collision sandwich. He was smushed to death. Of all the people to not only not block, but have a free sprint at your QB, you let it be Suh and Wake simultaneously?

Lawyer: Thank you, nothing further your Tannehill, I mean, your highness.

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High school students learn about Kinesiology, Integrative Physiology at Michigan Tech – UpperMichigansSource.com

HOUGHTON, Mich. (WLUC) - Science became both interactive and fun for high school students Thursday in Houghton. Nearly 30 Dollar Bay juniors and seniors spent the day at Michigan Technological University for National Biomechanics Day.

Its a national, and even international day, to celebrate the scientific studies of Kinesiology and Integrative Physiology. Thats where physics is applied to understand human and animal movement.

The students, who are taking physics classes now, took part in several hands-on activities in MTUs labs.

Were really giving them experiences where they can understand how humans move and apply that to sports, Integrated Physiology Professor Steven Elmer said. Once they finish up here in this department, they have the choice to go look at applications in physical therapy, mechanical engineering, as well as computer science.

As the Baby Boomers age, Michigan Tech is trying to get local high schools to establish physiology classes with hopes of helping the elderly.

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Medical school lessons go beyond anatomy and physiology – The Seattle Times

The path to becoming a practicing physician requires dedication and a significant investment of time and resources.

I have wanted to be a doctor since I was young, says George Novan M.D., an infectious diseases physician and Associate Dean for Graduate Medical Education at the Elson S. Floyd College of Medicine.

But even long-held aspirations come with surprises, and challenges. In his second year of medical school, Dr. Novan had an experience that surprised him, challenged his expectations, and taught him a lesson thats stayed with him throughout his career.

In my school, we had a course entitled Death and Dying, Dr. Novan says. As part of the course, each student was assigned a patient who was dying and had agreed to discuss what they were going through with a medical student.

I was expecting an elderly patient, and instead, I walked into the room and met a woman in her mid-30s. It was a shock and she saw that in my expression. As she saw my expression, she began to tell me her story. And as her fears, and her emotions came out, she taught me. I had been so focused on all the facts I needed to know in my basic medical science courses yet now I was talking to a young woman dying of her cancer. This courageous woman who took the time and effort to discuss her suffering with me taught me the full responsibility of being a physician.

The path to becoming a practicing physician requires dedication and a significant investment of time and resources. It demands a deep love for learning in general, and intellectual curiosity about medicine in particular. And, as Dr. Novan learned early on, while physicians are trained to treat and cure patients, they also must learn to provide quality comfort and care to patients and families when treatment is no longer working.

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The foundational science phases of medical school provide a solid base and common understanding upon which future classwork and experiental learning will build. Coursework on anatomy, chemistry and math prepares students for the intellectual and emotional rigors to come, and builds a network of bonds as classmates and future colleagues begin to work together.

Intensive orientation courses assist students with assimilation into medical school. Clinical education is integrated into the foundational sciences curriculum, offering future physicians insights into how their coursework translates into real-life situations.

In August, Washington State Universitys Elson S. Floyd College of Medicine will debut its medical education program, which leads to a Doctor of Medicine (M.D.) degree. The program will welcome 60 students to its charter class.

Starting in their first year, medical students will learn in classrooms and labs, as well as hospitals and clinics. In many areas, local hospitals and clinics are understaffed, and the connection between them and the medical college can be a lifeline.

Dr. Radha Nandagopal is a member of the clinical faculty of the Elson S. Floyd College of Medicine. She also chairs the Colleges Admissions Committee.

We are looking for those students who are committed to the state of Washington, committed to the idea of rural and underserved medicine, Dr. Nandagopal says.

By the third and fourth years, medical students are gaining hands-on experience in hospitals and clinics near their campus locations. Students become part of professional teams in community clinics and hospitals. They build relationships with faculty, colleagues, mentors, patients, and communities. Small cohorts encourage team-based learning.

As part of their clinical education, students will learn clinical reasoning how to proceed step by step through a reasoning process to arrive at a diagnosis. By the time students enter their third year of clinical clerkships, students will be able to advance diagnostic ideas and participate in patient care based on the knowledge and experience they have been receiving since their first year, says Dr. Nandagopol.

Dr. Novan recalls the experience that made him feel like a doctor for the first time. In his fourth year of medical school, he was treating a patient suffering from cirrhosis. The patient needed to have fluid buildup siphoned from his abdominal cavity on a regular basis.

He had experienced the drainage so many times that the assumption always had been that the only thing needed was to remove the fluid and not order unnecessary tests, Dr. Novan says. But I had been taught well to be thorough in reviewing a patients medical records. I took my clinical rotations and of course, patient care very seriously as a fourth-year student.

I spent considerable time reading through his records. I was never able to find a time when that fluid had been sent to the microbiology lab for cultures. When I completed the procedure, I included ordering cultures for a variety of organisms. The cultures returned positive revealing that in addition to cirrhosis he had tuberculosis involving the lining of his abdominal cavity. This lead to needed new treatment.

The patient was immensely grateful. He started referring to me as his doctor his guru which made me feel both embarrassed and glad. On the last day of my rotation, I came into his room to say goodbye. In the room was his entire family. They each had a homemade vase, that they had created, in their hands. The patient shared how much my care had meant to him and the family gave me the vases that they had made in honor of the man they loved getting better and in appreciation for my care. That day I learned an invaluable lesson as a medical student.

Students at the Elson S. Floyd College of Medicine take the Art and Practice of Medicine that addresses not only what students know, but what they will do as a medical professional, including helping students build empathy for the patients they will serve.

By integrating clinical, simulation, and case-based learning experiences, the College prepares graduates to lead health care teams, says Dr. Ann Poznanski, pathologist and Associate Dean for Curriculum. They learn to coordinate resources in new ways to improve patient care and the health of their communities.

Many of the communities in which students at schools like the Elson S. Floyd College of Medicine will train are facing critical physician shortages. When the students education is complete, they will be ready to address the needs of these medically underserved communities.

Elson S. Floyd College of Medicine not only trains physicians to meet the needs of todays patients, but to anticipate changes in the delivery of health care that includes wellness, as well as treating diseases. It equips graduates to thrive in a rapidly evolving health care environment and gives them the technical, behavioral and leadership skills necessary to obtain exceptional results in the states most challenging healthcare environments.

We are building a service culture in the college that will result in extraordinary outcomes for our students, says Founding Dean John Tomkowiak. It will also yield tremendous results for our clinical partners and, ultimately, the patients and communities our graduates serve.

The Colleges learning, training, and clinical environments will inspire our students to be leaders in their communities and in the health care field, says Dr. Tomkowiak.

Washington State University has delivered advanced education for more than 125 years. Its new medical school leverages that experience to achieve new milestones in medical research, innovation, interprofessional education and patient-centered care. Find out more at medicine.wsu.edu.

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Physiology

Embry-Riddle to debut program in aerospace physiology | Daytona … – Daytona Times

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This fall, Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University will launch a unique undergraduate aerospace physiology program in collaboration with Florida Hospital for students who want to advance medical research and promote the health and well-being of pilots, astronauts, flight crew members and air or space travelers.

Embry-Riddle has partnered with Florida Hospital to offer the new Bachelor of Science program in aerospace physiology. The program will be one of the first of its kind in the country. (COURTESY OF EMBRY-RIDDLE AERONAUTICAL UNIVERSITY)

The Daytona Beach-based program is believed to be the first undergraduate program of its kind in the nation.

The new Bachelor of Science program, to be housed within Embry-Riddles Department of Human Factors, will offer real-world experience in clinical settings, thanks to a partnership with the six Florida Hospitals located in Volusia and Flagler counties.

Patient-care techniques Florida Hospital will help design the curriculum, exposing students to advanced patient-care techniques and clinical instrumentation. In addition, Florida Hospital will provide a unique clinical experience by supporting two practicum clinical courses.

As a former airline pilot, Florida Hospital Fish Memorial CEO Rob Deininger was an initial proponent of the aerospace physiology program.

Prior to joining Florida Hospital, I spent 13 years as a commercial airline pilot, logging more than 8,500 hours of flight time, Deininger said. We are really excited to have the opportunity to support Embry-Riddle in launching this new undergraduate program, right here in our own backyard.

It is a unique program, and we are proud to play a role in these students one day advancing medical research and caring for the men and women who fly whether it be here on Earth or in space, he added.

Medical, military careers An undergraduate degree in aerospace physiology from Embry-Riddle will put students on track to enter medical school, or to pursue careers in the military and civilian sectors, said Dr. Karen Gaines, dean of the universitys College of Arts and Sciences. Studying cellular function in space can help advance scientific research, human health care and life on Earth. Radiation, G force and other characteristics of extreme environments affect human physiology from the cellular to the whole-body level.

She added, Students who learn more about those mechanisms will be in a position to inform health care, best practices in aerospace and our understanding of how our cells age.

Aerospace physiologists are trained to identify, prevent and manage the impacts that extreme environments can have on human health. The effects of microgravity, cosmic radiation, isolation, rapid as well as sustained acceleration in an aircraft, low barometric pressure and reduced oxygen pressure in the blood can all take a toll on the human body, Gaines explained.

Oxygen deficiency (hypoxia), decompression sickness, artery-blocking clots of blood or air (embolism), damage to the middle ear (barotitis), loss of consciousness, microgravity-induced bone loss and other health problems can result from exposure to hostile aerospace environments.

Twins Experiment Being able to address ailments related to air or space travel is a critical goal for NASA and the U.S. Air Force as well as private aviation and commercial space flight operations.

This is why NASA recently conducted its highly publicized Twins Experiment, by sending NASA astronaut Scott Kelly on a year-long mission to the International Space Station while his identical twin brother, retired astronaut Mark Kelly, remained Earth-bound. NASA wanted to explore how space affects immune-system reactions and DNA aging, among other questions.

As a result of the Twins Experiment, for example, NASA learned that Scott Kellys gene expression, which supports key cellular functions such as the production of insulin, had decreased in space.

Reduced gene expression seemed to result from decreased methylation of Kellys DNA in space.

The process of methylation, which occurs when certain groups of molecules latch onto DNA, can help regulate gene expression, and is a biomarker of aging.

NASA also studied the Kelly brothers telomeres the protective caps at the end of DNA strands that deteriorate as a person ages. After nearly a year in space, NASA reported, Scott Kellys telomeres were longer than those of his twin brother Mark.

Real-world experience Embry-Riddles curriculum will provide graduates with an understanding of the fundamental principles in molecular and cellular biology, behavioral neuroscience, genetics and heredity, anatomy and physiology, and chemistry and biochemistry.

Through the universitys collaboration with Florida Hospital, students further will learn about clinical instrumentation and clinical care, so as to gain real-world experience. The Embry-Riddle program will be the first U.S.-based undergraduate program in aerospace physiology. Gaines noted that there are advanced graduate and clinical degree programs in related fields.

The new aerospace physiology program at Embry-Riddle will prepare students for careers or further study in aerospace medicine as well as any other advanced medical practice, including physical therapy, nursing and pharmacology, Gaines said.

Gender balance The new program should help promote Embry-Riddles long-standing goal to attract more women to the worlds oldest and largest aeronautical university.

Making the traditionally male-dominated field of engineering more inclusive remains a challenge nationwide, but Embry-Riddle has made progress in improving the gender balance on its campus: The number of women enrolled at the Daytona Beach campus is 1,248.

The number of women enrolled at Embry-Riddles Daytona Beach campus has increased from 16.6 percent of the total student population in 2010 to a current level of 20.8 percent and this years entering class of first-time undergraduate students was about 23 percent female.

Biology and minorities Nationally, Gaines noted, women earn less than one-fifth of all bachelors degrees in engineering and computer science, but slightly more than 40 percent of bachelors degrees in the physical sciences and mathematics.

A 2014 student in the Journal of Cell Biology (Eddy et al.) found that women tend to enter life sciences programs at much higher rates than they enter other science, technology, engineering and mathematics disciplines. In fact, women earn nearly 60 percent of all bachelors, masters and doctoral degrees in biology.

The National Science Foundation further reported in 2013 that biology is the fastest growing undergraduate major among minority women.

Because of its 90-year history as a top aerospace engineering university, Embry-Riddle works hard to recruit women students, Gaines said. We hope the new aerospace physiology program will initially draw more women to that program, and over time, draw a broader mix of students to all of our other programs, too.

For more information, visit erau.edu/degrees/bachelor/aerospace-physiology.

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Neuroscience

Tech establishes Neuroscience major – Technique

The best things in life often take time. Thats why Georgia Techs newest major has been in the works for years. The much-anticipated Bachelors of Science in Neuroscience is the latest addition to Georgia Techs offerings.

It is easy to forget how much behind-the-scenes hard work goes into putting something like this together and making it a beneficial and smooth addition to the campus. Many faculty including Dr. Tim Cope have tirelessly worked to create a program that is the most beneficial as possible for students that might be interested in neuroscience.

Dr. Cope is a faculty member in the School of Biological Sciences, a neuroscientist, and the new director of the Neuroscience Undergraduate Curriculum Committee. In collaboration with faculty members and administration from across the schools on campus as well as universities all over the state, Dr. Cope and his colleagues have created a program that is not only meticulously crafted, but promises to offer a student experience that no other school in the state can offer.

Georgia Tech has a long tradition in quantitative science and applied science, so neuroscience here will be more technologically oriented, Cope said. Thats the tradition and the expectation on the part of the students and faculty.

Students in neuroscience will take required classes that will bestow upon them knowledge in three main focus areas: cellular and molecular biology, systems and behavior and cognitive science. After they get the basics down, students from a wide diversity of interests and backgrounds will largely be free to explore what interests them the most about neuroscience.

In an effort to facilitate this exploration, the neuroscience major will include ten Breadth Elective Specializations, which were designed by experts in the field. These specializations are biochemistry, biology, chemistry, computer science, engineering, mathematics, psychology, physics, physiology and pre-med.

Cope says that this is one of the virtues of neuroscience; it is by nature multidisciplinary and multidimensional, and can be investigated by a variety of avenues. Techs program intends to utilize many of these dimensions in a unique way.

In order to understand how brain and nervous systems work, we have to understand psych, cell biology, optics, physics, computer science and mathematics, Cope said. Our students will have all of those things. Look at what a rich intellectual environment that is. We have to bring all the info together, assimilate it and use it to figure out whats going on.

It seems that neuroscience is a rapidly evolving field, and will fit right in with other advancing topics at Tech. The faculty involved are confident that graduates will have no shortage of opportunities when its time to look for a job.

There is no human activity that I can think of that doesnt absolutely include some reliance on neuroscience, said Cope. There are so many exciting technical breakthroughs right now. There is an evidence based expectation that we are beginning to see some really important discoveries.

Neuroscience at Tech has already attracted a respectable amount of attention, with close to 100 students expressing interest in the program.

Cope says that one of their biggest challenges at this time is the unpredictability of how many students will be interested, but he and his colleagues are definitely optimistic.

One student who jumped at the chance to be one of Techs first neuroscience students was Maria Krakovski, first-year BIOL.

They tailored it super well, so I didnt waste any credits, Krakovski says. I was really happy to switch to it because its basically directed toward my interests more.

Krakovskis breadth elective specialization is pre-med, and she says she is pumped to be able to take classes that help her learn about the processes and systems of the body and how the body and brain communicate.

The major is now accepting current Tech students who wish to change their major, and will soon welcome incoming freshmen.

The enthusiasm is really very strong, Cope said. We are interested in being very creative in our delivery of the courses. We are trying to develop active learning and hands on experiences.

The various faculty members, students and supporters of the neuroscience major are anxious for the upcoming semesters and are excited to see their hard work pay off.

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Friday Opinuendo: On neuroscience, clean-up, property rights and more – TwinCities.com-Pioneer Press

A NEW ASSET

Theres a new jewel on the St. Paul landscape, a facility that helps further develop the health-care corridor north of downtown.

HealthPartners innovative neuroscience center joins its two other facilities on Phalen Boulevard, as well as nearby Regions Hospital.

Monday was opening day for the $75 million facility, believed to be the largest freestanding neuroscience center in the Upper Midwest. Its intended to serve 50,000 patients a year, providing a distinct advantage to St. Paul and the east metro in the face of an aging population and spiraling numbers living with Alzheimers disease and dementia.

It brings neuroscience specialties together in one place, one that includes soothing colors and meaningful artwork in a physical layout intended to make visits easier for patients and their caregivers.

We werepleased to get an earlylook at the 130,000-square-foot building that will serve people with a range of neurological conditions, including stroke, brain tumors, spinal injuries and amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS). Features include a state-of-the-art rehabilitation department and a research laboratory that handles about 40 projects a year, many of them related to Alzheimers.

Among sustainability features at the building site of a community open house from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. on May 13 is one called daylight harvesting, whereby lights automatically adjust depending on the amount of sunshine coming through the windows.

Garbage-gate ruffled feathers in St. Paul this week and made its point.

Erich Mische, a St. Paul resident who workedin previous mayoral administrations, organized cleanup of a trash heap at 10th and Wacouta streets. The downtown site where homeless people had camped is the states responsibility, but the city should have been more assertive in dealing with the situation, Ricardo Cervantes, St. Pauls director of safety and inspections, acknowledged in a Pioneer Press report. The clean-up and protest included delivering garbage bags cleared from the site to City Hall.

On Twitter, Mayor Chris Coleman thanked the vols who spent their Sunday cleaning up the garbage, including Erich Mische and acknowledged that the accumulation of trash was unacceptable.

We can all do better, he said in another tweet, reminding folks about the St. Paul Parks cleanup day on April 22. The event brings people together between 9 and 11:30 a.m. to help beautify the city. Details on eight kick-offsites around townand registration information are at stpaul.gov/news/register-now-citywide-cleanup-april-22.

Weveappreciated over the years the work of the Minnesota office of theInstituteforJustice, dedicated to protecting what it describes as foundational rights of the American Dream: property rights, free speech, educational choice and economic liberty.

It did so this week when Gov. Mark Dayton signed into law a bill that would give a Minnesotan a chance to keep his or her vehicle after someone else is convicted of driving it while intoxicated, according to a Pioneer Press report. It notes that existing law allowed the vehicle to be forfeited even if the owner was not the driver.

Lee McGrath, the institutes senior legislative counsel and managing attorney here, told us this is the fourth reform enacted since the institute began working on the matter in 2009.

Gov. Dayton and the Legislature have taken an important step to address every Minnesotans right to an appropriate legal process, McGrath told us. The next step is to end civil forfeiture and replace it with the appropriate process, which is criminal forfeiture.

We found some numbers worth noting in last weeks State of the City address by St. Paul Mayor Chris Coleman:

Further, swiftly flow the years, Opinuendo sayeth not.

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Neuroscience

Health system, neurologists partner to form Conway Regional Neuroscience Center – Log Cabin Democrat

Neurologists Tim Freyaldenhoven and Keith Schluterman have combined their practices into a partnership with Conway Regional Health System to form the Conway Regional Neuroscience Center.

Previously the two physicians operated Arkansas Neurology in Conway.

The Conway Regional Neuroscience Center opened Feb. 20 and is located in suite 305 on the third floor of the Conway Regional Medical Plaza at the same location as the physicians clinics. Current patients should expect few changes.

Our patients will continue to have the same physicians and same excellent staff in place, Dr. Freyaldenhoven said. A major change for us is that we will get to focus more time on clinical care and less on business operations. This partnership secures neurology coverage for Conway Regional and will enable them to recruit additional neurologists to help us accommodate the needs of Faulkner County.

This will also lessen our anxiety regarding insurance coverage and fee schedule changes as well as inflation of practice costs, Dr. Schluterman said. We believe this partnership will improve continuity of care. Medical records will become more integrated and a patients clinical care can be directly carried over to hospital admissions.

Conway Regional President and CEO Matt Troup said, We will manage the business side of the practice so Dr. Freyaldenhoven and Dr. Schluterman can focus on patient care both in the center and in the hospital.

Troup added, The creation of the Conway Regional Neuroscience Center is part of our ongoing efforts to partner with our physicians. The center provides a vehicle for us to expand neurological and sleep services to the community. By aligning with Dr. Freyaldenhoven and Dr. Schluterman, we can grow their practice. It is significant that all the neurologists in Conway are aligned with Conway Regional. This will enable us to recruit to a specialty that is experiencing a national shortage. A study published in the Neurologist, the Journal of the American Academy of Neurology, indicated that the national shortage of neurologists is expected to grow to a 19 percent shortfall by 2025.

We are excited for this partnership with Drs. Schluterman and Freyaldenhoven. Its becoming more common for hospitals outside of major metropolitan areas to struggle with a consistent neurology presence, said Rebekah Fincher, Corporate Director of Physician Relations and Business Development. This partnership ensures neurology care for the community and provides Conway Regional the ability to grow and expand the neuroscience service line.

Drs. Freyaldenhoven and Schluterman have shared the same office space since 2004 and have been friends since medical school.

Both of them received their medical degrees from the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences at Little Rock.

They have provided neurological care to Faulkner and surrounding counties since 2002, when Dr. Freyaldenhoven joined the Conway Regional Medical Staff. Dr. Schluterman followed in 2004. They are both graduates of Hendrix College.

Both physicians are board certified in general neurology and sleep medicine, and the next step will be partnering with Conway Regional to open a sleep disorders center at Conway Regional Medical Center.

Neurologists are physicians who treat illnesses of the brain and neurological system, including multiple sclerosis, epilepsy, migraine headaches, Parkinsons disease, Alzheimers disease, neuropathies, and sleep disorders as well as the effects of strokes.

The Conway Regional Neuroscience Center has seven staff members, all of whom work for Conway Regional. Drs. Freyaldenhoven and Schluterman are not employed by the health system.

A referral from a primary care physician is required to make an appointment with a neurologist. The phone number for the center is the same as the two neurologists offices, 501-932-0352.

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Neuroscience boost for Care Hospitals – The New Indian Express

BHUBANESWAR: Care Hospitals has started a full spectrum of neurology, neurosurgery, neuroanaesthesia and neurorehabilition at its facility here. The new department of neuroscience consists of a team of highly competent neurologists, neurosurgeons and neuroanaesthetists. Speaking to mediapersons, medical director of Care Hospitals Dr Mahendra Tripathy said the department equipped with state-of-the-art technology and equipment will provide world class patient care with a human touch.

It is a centre of excellence for management of neurological disorders offering comprehensive latest care through a dedicated and coordinated approach for both children and adults. The physicians will provide cost-effective treatment under one roof, he said. Apart from medical care, the neuroscience department will actively pursue clinical care and research activities in sub-specialities like epilepsy, stroke, movement disorder, neuroimmunology and neurorehabilitation.

Dr Tripathy said neuroscience will handle both acute and chronic neurological problems. We have experience in treatment of immune medicated diseases of the nervous system and also have facilities of conducting nerve muscle biopsy for accurate diagnosis. Plasma exchange is also being done for patients with guillain barre syndrome, acute disseminated encephalomyelitis and myasthenia gravis, he said. Stating that stroke is a treatable disease, Dr Siddharth Shankar Sahoo said the burden of disease is considerably increasing in the country due to lack of awareness among people. Now, more than 30 million people are affected by the disease in the country. The disease is rapidly rising in India compared to other developing countries. Stroke patients can be fully cured if they report at hospitals within four hours and 30 minutes, he said. Others in the team include Dr Pradyut Ranjan Bhuyan, Dr Subhransu Sekhar Jena, Dr Soubhagya Ranjan Tripathy, Dr Randhir Mitra and Dr Suma Rehab Ahmed.

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ICX Summit: Neuroscience, millennials and measuring customer experience – Retail Customer Experience

April 7, 2017

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The upcoming June ICX Summit boasts top leaders in customer experience speaking on a range of topics from CX strategy to Internet of Things, integration to measuring customer experience and return-on-investment.

That latter focus will be the subject of a panel featuring Albert Vita, director, strategy and insights for The Home Depot. The session, sponsored by Intel and moderated by Raj Maini, worldwide director of marketing for visual retail at Intel, promises insightful real-life information and best practices.

Vita will discuss metrics, benchmarks and tools retailers can use to determine if the retail experience is hitting the mark or falling below the bottom line.

Another session which will surely draw big attendance targets customer-facing robots and how early leaders such as Lowe's and the makers of Pepper, are making robots a real part of today's retail landscape. Sarah Furnari, VP of retail experience for BEHR, will share her insight and view of how such emerging technologies are playing a more valuable role each year.

Also on the agenda for the June 5-7 event, being held in Dallas, highlights on how to design the store with digital in mind. Phillip Raub, founder and CMO at b8ta, will speak on best approaches in integrating digital into the brick-and-mortar environment without overwhelming the store environment. The session, sponsored by NEC Display solutions, will be moderated by Richard Ventura, VP of business development and solutions at NEC Display Solutions of America.

For a deeper look at the agenda, click here and to register for what promises to be a valuable event, click here.

Topics: Associations / Events, Consumer Behavior, Customer Experience, Customer Service, Digital Signage, Display Technology, ICX Summit, In-Store Media, Marketing, Merchandising, Omnichannel / Multichannel, Online Retailing, Retail - Home Center, Store Design & Layout, Technology

Companies: The Home Depot

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Immunology

David Schneider appointed chair of microbiology and immunology – Stanford Medical Center Report

David Schneider, PhD, has been appointed chair of the School of Medicines Department of Microbiology and Immunology. His five-year term began April 1.

This world-class department has seeded a good deal more than its fair share of academic scientists studying microbial pathogenesis and immunology, said Schneider, professor of microbiology and immunology. I hope to nourish this culture and teach it to our students and postdocs so that we can sustain the innovation and leadership our pioneering faculty has demonstrated.

Schneiders current research focuses on quantitative analysis of sickness during infections and, in particular, on determining how we recover from infections. He has spent the last several years investigating the fundamental causes of resilience to infection and developing mathematical models to predict recovery and well-being after infection.

Dr. Schneider is a brilliant innovator and respected educator and mentor, said Lloyd Minor, MD, dean of the School of Medicine. I am thrilled that he will bring his experience and perspective to this role.

Schneider replaces Peter Sarnow, PhD, who has chaired the department since 2010. Dr. Sarnow brought superb scientific and leadership acumen to the department, advancing cutting-edge research, supporting and developing faculty, and assisting postdoctoral scholars in finding success in academia and industry, Minor said.

Schneider received his BS in biochemistry from the University of Toronto in 1986 and earned a PhD in molecular biology at the University of California-Berkeley in 1992. He first came to Stanford as a postdoctoral scholar in 1996, between postdoctoral appointments at UCB and UCSF. Between 1997 and 2001, Schneider was a Whitehead Fellow at the Whitehead Institute in Cambridge, Massachussetts. He returned to Stanford as an assistant professor in 2001, was promoted to associate professor in 2008 and became a full professor this year. He is a member of Stanford Bio-X and the Stanford Child Health Research Institute.

Founded nearly 100 years ago, the Department of Microbiology and Immunology numbers more than 25 faculty, 100 postdoctoral scholars and 50 graduate students in addition to about two dozen research, administrative and support staff.

I see our department, and Stanford in general, as a place where we arent pigeonholed as being certain sorts of scientists, said Schneider. When we come up with new ideas, our colleagues dont say, What do you know about that? Rather, they share your excitement and urge you on.

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