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Peter L. Elkin, MD, is among the first eight physicians nationwide to pass the certification exam in clinical informatics. |
The chair of UB’s new Department of Biomedical Informatics learned in September that he had passed the subspecialty’s inaugural exam, which was administered by the American Board of Preventive Medicine. |
Because he co-authored the written test, Elkin took a rigorous oral exam. |
Elkin will receive his clinical informatics certification in January, more than a decade and a half after he began advocating for the discipline to be elevated to the rank of subspecialty. |
“This is an incredibly gratifying moment for me, both personally and as a professional in the field of biomedical informatics,” he says. |
In 2011, Elkin co-wrote the American Medical Informatics Association’s white paper defining biomedical informatics and specifying the core competencies for graduate education in the field. |
Elkin launched his career in biomedical informatics in the 1980s, well before electronic health records began phasing out paper charts and physicians made rounds with tablet PCs tucked under their arms. |
Three decades later, he’s widely considered a pioneer in the field for his prolific research on health data representation, his work on fully automated electronic quality monitoring, his efforts to standardize patient safety data and his contributions to the most accurate natural language processing software in health ... |
“In the early days of the specialty, people knew clinical informatics was important for the future of health and health care, but the technology didn’t support all of the important ideas that professionals in biomedical informatics envisioned,” Elkin says. |
Since he joined UB’s faculty in July, Elkin has been harnessing his considerable expertise in biomedical informatics to strengthen health care and biomedical research in Western New York. |
With support from Kaleida Health, he’s co-chairing a committee to use electronic resources to enhance patient care and safety. |
“We will teach best practice in quality and safety and then provide tools to monitor the quality of care provided, making the data available to the physicians who will train residents, fellows and staff,” explains Elkin, who has been integrally involved in the electronic quality monitoring movement since its inception. |
By year’s end, Elkin also plans to install a genomic data analysis pipeline that will facilitate clinical genomic research for UB scientists. |
He developed this toolset while at the Mount Sinai School of Medicine, where he served as professor of medicine and director of its center for biomedical informatics before coming to UB. |
Combining sets of open-source software, the program integrates genomic and phenomic data, allowing researchers to perform translational research and genome-wide association studies more easily, efficiently and inexpensively. |
Alongside Michael E. Cain, MD, vice president for health sciences and dean of the School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences, and Timothy F. Murphy, MD, senior associate dean for clinical and translational research, Elkin also has initiated conversations with stakeholders in UB’s affiliated hospitals and health care sy... |
“This would be a way to facilitate multi-center trials in our region and encourage collaboration and population-based research,” he says. |
Within the biomedical informatics department, Elkin is recruiting five division chiefs and paving the way for its first group of students, whom he hopes will begin their coursework in the fall of 2014. |
With approval from the state, the department will offer both master’s and PhD degree tracks as well as a two-year clinical informatics fellowship for physicians who are board-certified in a primary specialty. |
Given the bright job market for graduates of clinical informatics programs, Elkin expects robust interest in the department. |
Physicians with board certification in clinical informatics may choose careers as chief medical information officers in hospitals, within the CMIO’s office or as academic faculty within their primary clinical department, he says. |
Health IT vendors, academic institutions and the government are all heavily recruiting specialists in the field, he adds. |
While Elkin anticipates that the new department will make the medical school even more attractive to prospective students, his goal is that its work will effect positive change well beyond the school’s walls. |
“The main benefit of having this department in Western New York is that we’re working toward higher quality and safer systems-based health care for everyone in the region,” he says. |
Inflation (Average Consumer Price Change %) for Lebanon in year 2015 is -3.749 %. Data for inflation are averages for the year, not end-of-period data. |
This makes Lebanon No. 188 in world rankings according to Inflation (Average Consumer Price Change %) in year 2015. The world's average Inflation (Average Consumer Price Change %) value is 4.14 %; Lebanon is 7.89 less than the average. |
In the previous year, 2014, Inflation (Average Consumer Price Change %) for Lebanon was 1.85 % Inflation (Average Consumer Price Change %) for Lebanon in 2015 was or will be 302.21% less than it was or will be in 2014. |
In the following or forecasted year, 2016, Inflation (Average Consumer Price Change %) for Lebanon was or will be -0.70 %, which is 81.30% less than the 2015 figure. |
The postings exhibit fixations on grammar, the education system, government and currency, which some friends and acquaintances have described separately in the days since the attack. They are peppered with displays of misogyny. |
One post alluded to the Fifth Amendment, which aims to protect citizens against the government abusing its power in legal proceedings. |
The most important thing in understanding him is mental illness. There is no evidence of any formal political connection to any group or ideology. My reason to pause and leave this question still marginally open is his expression of such intense paranoia, references to government illegitimacy, and suspicion of governme... |
By the way, it appears that he gave up smoking pot a while ago; and it also appears that he lived large swathes of his life as an avatar online. |
Bryce Tierney, a friend of alleged shooter Jared Loughner tells Mother Jones magazine that Loughner had always had a grudge against Rep. Gabrielle Giffords (D-Ariz.), and that it was a missed voice mail message Loughner left on his phone that led him to believe Loughner was involved in the mass shooting. In the message... |
Tierney, described as "an old and close friend with whom he had gone to high school and college" in the Mother Jones report, said that Loughner had repeatedly called Giffords a "fake," and that his hatred of Giffords intensified after he attended a campaign event where he posed a question to the congresswoman. Accordin... |
"He said, 'Can you believe it, they wouldn't answer my question,' and I told him, 'Dude, no one's going to answer that,'" Tierney recalls. "Ever since that, he thought she was fake, he had something against her." |
Right about now, any pots or window boxes that held flowering plants are starting to wind down with the cooler weather. But that's no reason not to get one more hurrah out of the gardening season with a pot that's replanted for a blast of autumnal color. |
"There are four seasons for containers, but fall is one that often gets overlooked, because if your summer containers look good into October, you're hesitant to pull out the plants," says Carol Rice, manager of annual plants at Gethsemane Garden Center in Chicago's Andersonville neighborhood. Rice creates hundreds of c... |
"We're in that in-between time when most perennials are done, but it's too early for a winter container of twigs, berries and evergreen branches. If you want nice colors right now, the only way you'll get it is with (fresh) annuals," Rice says. A bonus with fall container plantings is that you won't need to water as mu... |
Rice creates elegant container designs that typically feature just a few varieties but several of each plant, a minimalist take that displays oomph. But customers can select from a virtual salad bar of plants to create their own color schemes with plenty of individual plants. Gethsemane's custom creations can range fro... |
In the pictured example, hot-colored peppers, celosia, golden creeping Jenny, cabbage, pansies and variegated sweet flag are packed for a vibrant medley. |
One of the most unusual plants in the container is the lemon cypress. "It gives the height in the back, and the chartreuse-lime foliage is always popular," Rice explains. "It looks like an evergreen, and although it's not hardy, you can winter it indoors." |
The lemon color is echoed in the trailing creeping Jenny. And while many of us think golds and reds in autumn, "It's all about the lime-green color at this time of year," Rice says. |
Customers frequently ask Rice to suggest plants that are going to last the longest in a pot before the winter settles in, and that brings us back to a more typical choice: "Mums are a common fall container plant, along with cabbage, kale and pansies. Even in a light snow, they'll be fine." |
The plants in this pot will handle full sun to part shade. Before freezing weather arrives, put the lemon cypress in a smaller pot and bring it indoors, where it can spend the winter in a sunny window. There it can grow with occasional watering until mid-May, when you can transplant it into a spring container. |
Golden variegated sweet flag (Acorus gramineus 'Ogon'). "It's great for a pop of color and brightness," Rice says. |
Intenz celosia (Celosia caracus 'Intenz'). Spikes of vibrant color add height to the pot. |
Lemon cypress (Cupressus macrocarpa 'Goldcrest'). Adds an outstanding focal point in a fall container with its narrow, upright habit and bright color. |
Chilly Chili hot pepper. (Capsicum annuum 'Chilly Chili'). As they mature, the peppers turn from green-yellow to orange to red. |
Mambo Deep Yellow pepper (Capsicum annuum 'Mambo Deep Yellow'). A compact plant with highly ornamental peppers. |
Black Pearl pepper (Capsicum annuum 'Black Pearl Pepper'). Fantastic dark leaves contrast with the fruits. |
Golden creeping Jenny. (Lysimachia nummularia 'Goldilocks'). "This is a perennial if planted in the ground," Rice says. The trailing lime-colored leaves provide a counterpoint to the lemon cypress. |
Carol Rice shares these tips for fall containers. |
Remove the spent flowers on pansies so they don't form big seed pods. This helps them continue to flower. |
Buy mums just as the flower buds are starting to show color, and they should last six to eight weeks. If we get 80-degree weather, it might not be as long. |
When the temperatures start to drop into the 30s, protect the plants. If it's a container that you can move, put it inside or in a garage or cover it. A sheet works better than a plastic garbage bag. |
By the third week of November, think about planting for winter containers with twigs, berries and evergreen branches. "Get your winter containers done before the soil freezes. Once that happens, you'd have to drill the holes to stick in berry branches and twigs." |
Fresh colors in a fall planter at Gethsemane Garden Center. |
Celosia 'Intentz' from the National Garden Bureau. |
>> Brittany first honed her acting skills in regional theater at the age of 9. By 13, she had signed on with a manager and began appearing in TV ads. |
>> She played the trumpet and piano. She took dance classes six days a week, as a kid. She was also a great singer. She was the lead voice of her band Blessed Soul. |
>> Due to her invariably silly laughs in Math's class, her nickname in school was Crack Baby Brittany. |
>> She was half Italian, a quarter Irish and a quarter Eastern European. |
>> She was the former girlfriend of Ashton Kutcher. |
>> She had a breast cancer scare and got lumps removed from her right breast. |
>> She kept a notebook by her bed and would write poems in the middle of the night. |
>> She sparked rumours of a cosmetic surgery after she was photographed in New York with what an augmented upper lip. |
>> She reportedly left her entire estate to her mom, and nothing to her husband, screenwriter Simon Monjack. |
On Aug. 29, 1997, the Owner-Operator Independent Drivers Association (OOIDA) and member Shawn Lewis filed a lawsuit in the United States District Court for the Northern District of Ohio against Caliber Systems, Inc. and Caliber Logistics, Inc. (collectively "Caliber"). OOIDA and Lewis alleged that Caliber's leasing pra... |
Although styled as a class action, no class was ever certified in this case. Following a period of information gathering and negotiation by all parties, that lawsuit was settled late Oct.1998, on terms agreeable to all parties and without admission of liability by any party. |
Warmer Atlantic weather will end cold spell over the next few days. |
Winter cold came suddenly to Eastern Europe this year. Belarus has been entirely sub-zero by day and at night since November 21. |
This season has not seen the beautiful frosty nights and sunny days of a deep winter, but has been often overcast with occasional snow flurries, although nothing of any significance until this Sunday. |
In Minsk, the capital, an average November would see 3 degrees Celsius by day and -1C by night. For the whole month, the figures come out at nearer 2C by day and -2C by night. A variation from the average by that amount is significant but, since November 21, it has got steadily colder. |
The overall average during the last two weeks has been -4.6C. After a top temperature of -7.8C on Saturday, Sunday started even lower, at -11.6C. However, it started snowing on Saturday morning and by dawn on Sunday, 6cm lay on the ground. |
Belarus has not been alone. December started in rural Romania at -19C (11C below average), -18C in western Ukraine (15C below average) and -17C in Tiraspol, Moldova’s second city (16C below average). |
This doesn't look like the start of a long, cold winter - the fierce Atlantic storms have been making recent progress in blowing warmer, wetter weather into and through Western Europe. Temperatures in France, the United Kingdom and the Low Countries are running at about 5C above normal. |
The forecast over the next week for Eastern Europe allows for a considerable warming and thaw, preceded by freezing rain, snow, and fog. |
Maryland! She is not dead, nor deaf, nor dumb- Huzza! She spurns the Northern scum! |
- a line from the current Maryland state song "Maryland, My Maryland" |
Katherine Welles / Shutterstock.com - A welcome sign at the Maryland border. |
Spring is known as a time of change. This year, the state of Maryland may invoke the spirit of the season by throwing out its tired old state song and replacing it with something newer, fresher, and 100 percent less pro-Confederacy. Today, the Maryland State Senate passed a bill that would retire the current song “Mary... |
The state has a huge opportunity here. Aside from sounding like it was written by your college friend’s racist grandpa, including lyrics like “Northern scum” and references to Lincoln as a “tyrant” during the Civil War, the song is not even fun to listen to. It didn’t become the state song until 1939, well after the Ci... |
Famed Maryland musicians include Toni Braxton, Tori Amos, Frank Zappa, Billie Holiday, Philip Glass, David Byrne, Mya, the Madden twins from Good Charlotte, Animal Collective, and, uh, Logic — the list goes on and on. There is a deep well of great music to dip into, and an infinite number of directions to take the stat... |
You could go with the new classic banger, best song of 2017 “Crew” by DMV-area artist GoldLink, which mentions the state in its first lines. |
They could lean fully into the ‘90s nostalgia trend and choose the easy-to-love 1995 hit “Stay” by Maryland-born artist Lisa Loeb. |
Or they could give Baltimore-raised star Billie Holiday her due props and choose pretty much any song she’s ever recorded. |
But the obvious route is choosing a song that is actually about Maryland and, as Sen. Cheryl Kagan wrote in the bill, “honors the past, celebrates the present, and anticipates the bright future of this State and its residents.” In that case, the best choice is “Good Morning, Baltimore” from the 2002 musical Hairspray b... |
Yes, it’s just about Baltimore. But with a refrain like “Good morning, Baltimore / Every day's like an open door / Every night is a fantasy / Every sound's like a symphony” the song is sufficiently celebratory of Maryland’s largest city, honors the past, is unbelievably optimistic for a song about the morning, and, mos... |
If the House passes the bill and the Governor signs it, Maryland lawmakers are going to have a very contentious pop culture decision to make. If there’s anyone we can’t trust to pick a hot song, it’s politicians … but hopefully, they’ll do the right thing and pick a song with style, or else Marylander swill be stuck wi... |
We have great taste in music. |
Undersound is a new way of sharing music via bluetooth through underground train networks. |
The basic and simple premise is that specific areas on tube stations will allow users to download and upload tracks so that other people can do the same (via their mobile phones). Visual displays will also record and display other information regarding the network and increase a sense of belonging and personal interact... |
I think they might be missing a trick though – wouldn’t it be cool if the buskers got in on the act? They could leave their tunes at these ‘stations’ to be picked up by commuters (including contact details or website url’s)? |
Despite all their well-deserved success, the UConn women's basketball team struggles in the shadow of their megalomaniacal coach Geno Auriemma. |
Let’s talk about the power of perfection. The University of Connecticut Huskies just won the NCAA women’s basketball title, capping a season where they went 39-0. No men’s team has finished a season undefeated since the 1976 Indiana Hoosiers. Led by Wooden Award-winner Maya Moore, Final Four Most Outstanding Player Tin... |
It’s real, all right. But now that he has a team even grander than his ego, Auriemma should–for the good of his players and the women’s game–take a step back and cede the spotlight. This should be a moment to praise a team that for my money is the best NCAA women’s team ever and in the conversation as the most dominant... |
I know this is going to get played out the wrong way, but I’m going to say it anyway, and I know I’m going to get criticized for this: white kids are always looked upon as being soft. So Stanford’s got a tremendous amount of really good players who, for whatever reason, because they don’t look like Tina Charles or Maya... |
The statement was bizarre but it was also pure Auriemma. First it made no sense. No one had made any such statement about Stanford. Also, if there is a tired stereotype about white players, from baseball’s David Eckstein to basketball’s Kevin Love to football’s Wes Welker, it’s that they are “scrappy, hard-nosed” and “... |
But even with Auriemma’s overpowering ego, his program has over the years created real stars: Diana Taurasi, Swin Cash, Sue Bird and Nykesha Sales. This year it was remarkable Maya Moore. Blake Griffin, the men’s AP Player of the Year, was asked if Maya Moore was the Blake Griffin of the women’s game, and he said, “Mor... |
But even more respect would be if Auriemma turned down his volume and the sports world took notice of history being writ large on the hardwood. Gender should be irrelevant when we reckon with perfection. But perhaps we should accentuate it even more and recognize that the Huskies right now are as good as it gets. |
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