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Stephanie Ferguson, PhD, RN, FAAN, the Director of the Harvard Global Nursing Leadership Program and Professor of the Practice of Health Policy and Management at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, will serve as the 2024 Penn Nursing commencement speaker.

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The American Association of Nurse Anesthesiology (AANA) has named John Culbertson, MBA, CPCU, to serve as AANA’s Vice President of Insurance Services. He will report to Chief Executive Officer Bill Bruce, MBA, CAE.

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Professors at The University of Texas at El Paso have launched a new industrial engineering lab focused on supporting human performance and behavior in various application areas. Projects include supportive exoskeletons for high-strain occupations and virtual reality that simulates high-stress environments.

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The American Association of Nurse Anesthesiology (AANA) has named Raheel “Bobby” Saleem to serve as AANA’s Director of Legal Affairs. He will report to Chief Human Resources Officer Ann Bresingham.

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Florida State University has named acclaimed researcher and industry leader Kathleen Amm as the new director of the National High Magnetic Field Laboratory (National MagLab), the largest and highest-powered magnet laboratory in the world and the only facility of its kind in the United States.

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Hackensack Meridian Neuroscience Institute at Jersey Shore University Medical Center successfully performed the first GammaTile® implant in the state. The device was implanted in a patient with recurrent meningioma, a brain tumor, to deliver radiation immediately at the time of surgery, targeting residual cancer cells to help prevent recurrence while minimizing harm to healthy tissue.

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Dr. Alan J. Wein’s long history of mentoring students and fellow faculty has been recognized by the Society of Urodynamics, Female Pelvic Medicine, and Urogenital Reconstruction.

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The American Association of Immunologists (AAI) is proud to announce the outcome of its recent elections, in which voting members of the association selected the officers and committee leaders who will guide the organization in the years ahead.

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Transform Accelerator Announces Data Science and AI Startups Selected for Cohort 3

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The National Center for Disaster Medicine and Public Health (NCDMPH), a center at the Uniformed Services University (USU) in Bethesda, Md., has taken over direction of the long-running international Health Emergencies in Large Populations (HELP) course.

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The American Physiological Society (APS) is pleased to announce the recipients of the Society’s most prestigious and highly competitive awards. Awardees will be recognized for their achievements at the American Physiology Summit, APS’ flagship annual meeting, to be held April 4–7, 2024, in Long Beach, California.

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BOXABL is proud to announce significant progress in our Q1 2024 Update paired with the launch of our latest Factory Update Video #6.

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UT Southwestern Medical Center has joined more than a dozen leading medical centers and Microsoft to form the Trustworthy & Responsible AI Network (TRAIN), a national group designed to set standards and safely explore applications of artificial intelligence (AI) in health care.

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The Shaffer Prize recognizes a researcher whose project best exemplifies the pursuit of innovative ideas in the quest to better understand and cure glaucoma.

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The American Association of Nurse Anesthesiology (AANA) and AANA Insurance Services will host the inaugural Rm8 iNoV8 Pitch Competition on August 5, at the AANA 2024 Annual Congress in San Diego, California.

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Theresa Miskimen, clinical professor of psychiatry at Rutgers Robert Wood Johnson Medical School, has been named president-elect of the American Psychiatric Association.

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‘Nano- and Microplastics from Food Contact Containers: Unveiling the Known and the Unknown’ is the title of a free webinar coming up April 3.

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In 1962, Salisbury University launched its first graduate program, the M.Ed. Since then, SU’s graduate offerings have grown to include 14 master’s and two doctoral programs. More than half a century since that first program was approved, they have a new home at the new Graduate School at SU.

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The collaboration between Philadelphia College of Osteopathic Medicine (PCOM) and The Wistar Institute has resulted in the creation of a PhD program in Cancer Biology, preparing individuals for careers in cancer research and drug development.

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The Megan Schulman Memorial Foundation Pledges Major Support to K. Hovnanian Children’s Hospital to Establish a Pediatric Vascular Anomalies Clinic

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Taneal D. Carter, MS, MPA, Manager of Cancer Care Equity Program for NCCN, has been named one of 2024’s ‘40 Under 40’ by the National Minority Quality Forum (NMQF). Visit NCCN.org/equity for more information.

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The initiative will bring cyber and crisis management researchers from across campus together to support training and simulation exercises for public, private and non-profit sector partners.

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New Trustees Join Hackensack Meridian Health Foundation’s Hospital Foundations

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“Hackensack Meridian Health is committed to transforming the way healthcare is delivered, and our nurses are integral in our mission to deliver compassionate, high-quality care to the communities we serve,” said Robert C. Garrett, FACHE, CEO of Hackensack Meridian Health.

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AACN recognizes 18 exceptional nurses -- each nominated by colleagues -- with the 2024 Circle of Excellence award. They will be honored during AACN's 50th National Teaching Institute, to be held in Denver, May 20-22.

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The ATS 2024 International Conference Program is now live! Get ready for a series of dynamic scientific programming with presentations covering AI in thoracic medicine, the basic sciences, research breakthroughs and clinical treatment, as well as spotlighting the next generation of innovators in pulmonary, critical care and sleep medicine.

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Today, we’re excited to share that we’ve been selected to receive a $2million gift as an awardee of the Yield Giving Open Call. Our project was selected from among 6,353 applications from all 50 states, Washington, D.C., and Puerto Rico after a process of multiple levels of review, feedback, and diligence involving peer applicants and an external Evaluation Panel recruited for experience relevant to this cause. Health People is very grateful and excited to use these funds to develop our Community Training Institute, enabling us to effectively train other community groups across the city to implement peer-based chronic disease self-care and preventive education.

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Moncrief Cancer Institute debuted its new Mobile Screening Clinic prior to the Tarrant County Commissioners Court meeting today. The $1 million, 36-foot cancer screening clinic was funded by Tarrant County through a three-year, $9 million grant awarded to Moncrief Cancer Institute in 2022. Part of the federal funding Tarrant County received through the American Rescue Plan Act (ARPA), the grant enabled Moncrief to expand its comprehensive cancer screening program to more underserved residents in Tarrant County.

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The College of Agricultural, Consumer and Environmental Sciences (ACES) at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign will unveil plans for a global center for food and agricultural communications today at 2 p.m. Central Time on The Cowboy Channel as part of the National Ag Day celebration.

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Steven & Alexandra Cohen Foundation Awards Hackensack Meridian Health Foundation $10 Million Grant to Expand Adolescent Behavioral Health Services in New Jersey

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The new Master of Science in Speech and Language Pathology (MS-SLP) program at Binghamton University’s Decker College of Nursing and Health Sciences has achieved a significant milestone toward accreditation by the Council on Academic Accreditation in Audiology and Speech-Language Pathology (CAA).

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PPPL’s important work seeding the field of plasma physics was evident from the list of first authors in Physics of Plasmas 2023 Early Career Collection, which included four people from the Lab: Ben Isreali, Stephen Majeski, Ian Ochs and Willca Villafana.

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Early on in their training, medical students learn the signs and symptoms of most common medical conditions. For example, they can describe the difference between heart sounds within the first few weeks of training. Except when it comes to psychiatric disorders.

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The free glaucoma audiobook, narrated by Bianca Beach, is available for patients and their families to listen, download, and share.

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University of Utah Provost Mitzi M. Montoya announced that Kurt Dirks has accepted an offer to serve as dean of the David Eccles School of Business. Dirks is the Bank of America Professor of Managerial Leadership and director of the Bauer Leadership Center at Olin Business School at Washington University in St. Louis.

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Marcilynn Burke, the current dean of law and Dave Frohnmayer Chair in Leadership and Law at the University of Oregon and former acting assistant secretary for the U.S. Department of the Interior, has been named dean of Tulane University School of Law, effective August 5.

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The University of California, Irvine has deployed a customized generative artificial intelligence solution called ZotGPT Chat. One of the first of its kind in the UC system, the tool was created to allow UC Irvine affiliates to explore AI in a safer, tailor-made environment.

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Hackensack Meridian Jersey Shore University Medical Center welcomed Lee F. Peng, M.D., PhD, as section chief of gastroenterology, department of medicine.

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A team at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center (MSK) led by thoracic surgeon Prasad Adusumilli, MD, has been awarded a distinguished UG3/UH3 grant from the National Cancer Institute (NCI) to advance research and testing of chimeric antigen receptor (CAR) T cell therapy for solid tumors.

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Stony Brook University School of Communication and Journalism (SoCJ) presents, “Coping with Crisis: Journalists on the Frontline,” which will address the efforts of reporters, mental health and resilience started by the School of Communication and Journalism (SoCJ) over a year ago.

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Student from Ticonderoga Central School is a finalist in the Vermont Pitch Challenge and will be pitching her idea in person on April 4.

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Dana-Farber Cancer Institute launched the Neuro-Inclusive Oncology Care and Empowerment Program, a psychosocial oncology program that is specialized for adults with intellectual and/or developmental disabilities (IDD).

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Hackensack Meridian Health Foundation Awarded “High Performer” Designations by the Association for Healthcare Philanthropy

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When a star goes supernova, a massive burst of neutrinos is the first signal that can escape the density of the collapsing star. Detecting and analyzing this phenomenon in real time would allow us insight into stellar dynamics and, potentially, black hole formation.