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Supportive literature warrants the conclusion that until the present study, there has been a lack of workable approaches to leadership studies of this type. Previous studies have not been able to identify and group leaders in similar roles, regardless of job title or other specifically applied role designation in organ...
Church, Loretta, "Relationships in Organizations Between Leaders' Personality Characteristics and Their Hierarchical Levels and Role Foci" (1982). Dissertations. 2515.
Philip L. Glick, MD, MBA, professor of surgery and director of UB’s MD-MBA Dual Degree Program, authored an opinion piece. “The Jacobs School realizes what additional skill sets our students need to succeed in the current complex medical profession and are truly preparing all of our students to be tomorrow’s leaders,” ...
John B. Ortolani, MD, assistant professor of surgery, is interviewed for an article about genetic testing and what it can tell individuals about their future health risks. Ortolani said a thorough family health history can help genetic counselors decide if testing is warranted and, should a positive test for mutations ...
The new Jacobs School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences will have distinct surgical and robotic surgery training areas. "This is a huge expansion of our simulation space," said Michael E. Cain, MD, vice president for health sciences and dean of the medical school.
Steven D. Schwaitzberg, MD, professor and chair of surgery, talks about a new virtual reality surgical simulator that combines sensory touch and feel with a 3D-environment in order to train surgeons in a virtual operating theater that looks and feels like an operating room. “The better trained you are, the less likely ...
A Lakewood teen who underwent bariatric surgery in the fall and has lost nearly 90 pounds, improving worrisome health issues. A story on her quotes Carroll M. Harmon, MD, PhD, John E. Fisher Chair in Pediatric Surgery, chief of pediatric surgery, director of the pediatric surgery fellowship and co-principal investigato...
An article about the role UB plays in the growth of biomedical companies emerging in downtown Buffalo looks at some of the UB-affiliated companies, including Athenex and For-Robin, and notes that Steven D. Schwaitzberg, MD, chair of the Department of Surgery, recently said Buffalo looks like Boston in the late 1980s ju...
Yesterday [Monday, February 1] Killer Mike, Polo the Don and Usher kicked off Black History in the most impacting way.
The three men walked into a Black-owned bank and opened up accounts in a effort to show support in the community. In a petition for others to do the same, Killer Mike took to his Instagram page with a call to action for others in the community to find a local Black owned bank and open an account.
Mike’s request was heard loud and clear by several of Atlanta’s biggest stars in Atlanta’s entertainment community and they all joined forces to open accounts at Atlanta’s minority owned Citizens Trust Bank. Jermaine Dupri, Big KRIT soon joined in the cause to strengthen the economic system of the Black community.
Dupri and Usher took to their Instagrams and shared the following video alongside Killer Mike and Usher after they all opened accounts.
Currently there are 21 Black owned banks in America, with assets totaling approximately $4.7 billion or approximately 0.43 percent of African American’s $1.1 trillion in buying power. In 1994, there were 54 African American owned banks according to the FDIC. Now, there are 21.
Salute to Killer Mike, Usher and Jermaine Dupri for starting the movement. Below are a list of Black owned banks across the country to participate in your area.
Liberty, one of the nation’s largest African-American-owned banks, has 20 branches in four states, including locations in Mississippi and Texas. The Douglass National deal raises Liberty’s asset base to $373 million.
I'm looking forward to Paul Krugman's condemnation of this. More generally, one thing Hillary Clinton's supporters need to consider at this moment is the extent to which she and John McCain are reading from the same sheet of talking points.
If you genuinely believe in your heart that Obama is too green to be president, and that the person with more Beltway experience belongs in the White House, then by all means keep saying that stuff but if you would prefer Obama over McCain if Clinton can't get the nomination then you do need to consider what the impact...
SAN ANTONIO — This week marks the 19th anniversary of the 1998 flood that killed at least 25 people and caused hundreds of millions of dollars in damages across the Hill Country and in counties south and east of San Antonio.
From Oct. 16-21, 1998, numerous records were broken for rainfall at the time with 15.66 inches of during that period, said NWS meteorologist Bob Fogarty. That remained the highest ever recorded in the area until a 6-day period in July 2002, when San Antonio received 16.14 inches of rain.
Photos in the gallery above shot by the San Antonio Express-News show devastation the floods caused in the area.
Olmos Dam has become a staple structure in the city. Take a look inside the dam to see how it functions, and to learn about why it is so important.
Some people had to bury loved ones, while other lost vehicles, homes and more in the high waters. Members of the San Antonio city health agency were giving out free tetanus and flu shots following the flood.
Prior to the storm, National Weather Service forecasters predicted a front would trigger rain in the area, later saying “excessive rains” would fall in the Central Texas Hill Country area.
San Antonio and Seguin received a large amount of rain, 16 inches to be exact, before the front arrived. New Braunfels received even more with 20 inches, but San Marcos appeared to have received the largest amount of rain with 28 to 30 inches, according to a previous mySA.com report.
Forrest Mims III, an amateur scientist who previously wrote about the flooding for the San Antonio Express-News, said the 1998 flooding demonstrated that “unprecedented weather events can slip by forecasters” who have satellite imaging and computers.
He also states that Central Texas is known for how severe flash floods can become in the area.
Nottingham added another RBI in the fifth with a run-scoring single to right, bringing home Phillips to bring the Shuckers' lead to 4-2. Monday night's contest was the first three-hit performance for the California native, as well as his first three-RBI game.
Montgomery strung together a two-out rally to plate two runs in the third to cut the Shuckers' lead to one.
After a one-out single by Jake DePew, Pat Blair flew out to right for the second out of the inning. A passed ball to Kean Wong moved DePew up to second, and Wong cracked a double to center to bring home the runner. Jake Bauers walked and Casey Gillaspie drove home Wang with a single to left for the second run of the fr...
Starter Woodruff left the game with runners on the corners and two outs with the sixth, giving way to Tristan Archer. The 25-year-old reliever shattered Mike Marjama's bat on a popup, as Javier Betancourt made the catch to escape the inning and preserve the two-run advantage. The right-hander worked 1.1 innings and str...
Steve Peterson worked a perfect eighth with two strikeouts. Daniel Tillman (SV, 2) allowed a leadoff single to Willy Adames in the ninth, but struck out Patrick Leonard and induced a game-ending double play off the bat of Marjama to earn his second save of the season.
Biloxi will look for the two-game advantage in the five-game set at 7:10 p.m. Monday night at Riverwalk Stadium. LHP Josh Hader (1-1, 0.88) takes the mound for the Shuckers, while RHP Chi-Wei Hu (2-2, 1.84) toes the rubber for the Biscuits.
Mary Rose Carter, 54, of Chandler, IN, has gone to be with the Lord on January 25, 2019. She was born in Evansville, IN on July 28, 1964 to the late Ivan and Rhoda Carter.
Mary loved being a mother and was a great cook.
She is walking in glory with her parents and brother, Pat Tooley.
Mary is survived by her companion, Billy Jost; sons, Joshua Lindenschmidt (Amanda), Michael Lindenschmidt (Chasity), Kevin Egan, Jr.; her parent-in-laws, Irvin and Rosie Jost; step-children, Jeana Hall (Scott), Tyler and Leslie Jost, 13 grandchildren; sister Frances Carter; brothers, Marvin and Mickey Carter; sister, R...
Funeral services will be held at 1:00 p.m. on Monday, February 4, 2019 at Alexander West Chapel, officiated by Rev. Tyrone Edwards. Family and friends may visit from 10:00 a.m. until service time at the funeral home.
Memorial contributions may be made to Michael Lindenschmidt to help with funeral expenses.
"In loving memory of the sweetest person ever."
Chris McDaniel calls Campaign Legal Center's complaint against him "bogus" and politically motivated.
Chris McDaniel's U.S. Senate campaign has filed a complaint with the IRS against a nonprofit group that filed a federal elections complaint alleging his campaign and a super PAC illegally coordinated events and spending.
McDaniel in a news release called the Campaign Legal Center a "George Soros-backed anti-First Amendment front group" and said the group has violated tax laws prohibiting nonprofits from engaging in political campaign activity.
The nonpartisan, nonprofit Campaign Legal Center has received donations from the Open Society Institute founded by billionaire liberal political activist George Soros and from a Soros family foundation, among dozens of other groups and foundations it lists on its website.
McDaniel has called the organization's complaint against his campaign "frivolous" and "bogus" and initially accused one of his likely opponents for U.S. Senate, Republican Cindy Hyde-Smith, and the GOP establishment in Washington of being behind it.
“I’d like to say that I’ve never seen a non-profit take the brazen step of expressly engaging in political activities but CLC is well-known for using its status as a non-profit as a cover for directly trying to influence the outcome of elections,” McDaniel said in a statement.
The Campaign Legal Center responded that it was founded by Republican Trevor Potter, a President George H.W. Bush appointee to the FEC, and that it has a long history of filing complaints against candidates or PACs regardless of political affiliation.
CLC on Monday filed a complaint with the Federal Election Commission that alleges the Remember Mississippi super PAC was created by and is run by McDaniel and therefore has accepted more than $1 million in illegal contributions.
The complaint also alleges Remember Mississippi violated federal law by organizing and funding three free fish fry dinners attended by hundreds this month that were actually campaign events, and that the McDaniel campaign violated the law by accepting and failing to report contributions from the PAC.
Finally, the complaint claims McDaniel failed to timely register his federal candidacy.
The news release from McDaniel's campaign said CLC "uses its non-profit status as a front to engage in political activity for the express purpose of defeating political candidates for public office who disagree with their radical anti-speech views."
McDaniel said his campaign has followed the advice of his lawyer in his dealings with the super PAC and violated no laws.
EAST STROUDSBURG — Seniors Kimberly Lawson and Sami Vavra have been named East Stroudsburg University's Warriors of the Week for their performances at the PSAC Swimming Championships last weekend.
Lawson and Vavra both made championship finals and set school records in their primary events. They also helped contribute to parts of four school-record relays as ESU's ninth-place finish was its best since placing sixth in 2002.
Lawson was eighth in the 100 fly and broke a 36-year- old school record, swimming 58.41 in the prelims to break the record of 58.55 set by Karen Linck in 1977. She qualified fifth for the finals and was eighth in 59.00.
She also made the consolation finals in the 100 and 200 back, and swam on four of the Warriors' five relays. She helped set school records in the 400 free, 200 medley and 400 medley, and was also part of the school record-holding 200 free relay last year.
Vavra was fifth in the final of the 100 breast, breaking her own school record in 1:06.09 and making the championship final for the second straight year. She was a consolation finalist in the 200 breast, placing 12th, and broke her own school record in the prelims (2:26.04) before it was broken by freshman Sophie Coy i...
Vavra contributed to three relays over the weekend, including records in the 200 and 400 medley. She was also part of the school record 200 free relay last year.
Strouse 7, Yarnall 8, Hayden, Banashefski 2, Stokes 3, Adams 5, Mercurio, Corbin 4, Pembleton 2, Griffith, Herrera, Verano. Totals — 14 3-13 31.
Wilson 3, Sprague 4, Ingulli 7, Wesenyak 2, Mowatt, VanWettering, McCormack, McGrath, Rose, Schwartz. Totals — 6 4-6 16.
Mitchell, Bowers, Patterson 4, Iaconetti 4, Goicoechea 10, DeJesus, DeSantis 8, Bensley-Dobish 4, Kinney. Totals — 11 8-16 30.
Conklin 4, Robinson 4, Smith 4, C. Covart, T. Covart 6, Amermann 2, Hammond 6, Gonzalez, Hudson. Totals — 11 2-16 26.
Mann 7, Danyi, J. Kolakowski 2, L. Kolakowski 2, M. Amy 2, M. Amy 11, Sands 2, Einfalt 2, Hoff 2, Youngkin 6. Totals — 17 2-8 36.
Berryman 7, Wittel 2, Richard, Passmore, Szatkowski 2, Breen, Powell. Totals — 5 1-2 11.
No. 3 Parkland vs. No. 6 Pl. Valley at Allen, 6 p.m.
No. 2 Notre Dame ES vs. No. 7 Lehigh Valley Christian at Catasauqua, 1 p.m.
Amateur video shows fighting between the Syrian rebels and IS militants in Kobani, as rebel forces take the fight to government forces in other parts of Syria. Deborah Lutterbeck reports.
Kurdish fighters join Free Syrian Army forces to battle Islamic State militants in Kobani. This comes as the U.S. said they have led 17 airstrikes on IS targets in Iraq and Syria since Monday-- including 10 near Kobani. The town near the Turkish border has taken center state in the fight against IS -- as war rages acro...
Vaccine court is housed in a red brick building, two minutes from the White House.
Vaccine court in Washington, DC was established in 1988 after a series of unfounded lawsuits threatened to erase the national supply of diphtheria, pertussis, tetanus (DPT) vaccines.
The court is a no-fault system where injured people can have their cases heard, and everyone's attorneys are compensated through a special fund.
A 75¢ cent tax on every childhood vaccine and flu shot in the US pays for the program.
But it's extremely difficult to prove that vaccines cause harm. Most successful verdicts in vaccine court are awarded for bad needle jabs that prompt shoulder injuries.
Over 80% of vaccine court cases settle without making any scientific conclusions about what caused the injury.
Just a two minute walk from the front door of the White House, on the eastern edge of leafy Lafayette Square, sits the Howard T. Markey National Courts Building, a 9-story red brick structure with dark, narrow windows. Inside, federal judges oversee a mix of cases and appeals involving patent disputes, veteran benefits...
Eight of those judges belong to the Office of Special Masters, a small unit within the much larger Court of Federal Claims. For more than two decades, these legal minds have applied a meticulous understanding of medical science - including neurology, rheumatology, and pediatrics - to one of the most contentious corners...
This is vaccine court, whose staff adjudicate cases brought by individuals who claim vaccines harmed them or their children. The tribunal administers the National Vaccine Injury Compensation Program, which Congress established in 1986 and funded with a 75¢ tax on every childhood vaccine sold in America. Since its incep...
Every year, the court's special masters, who are appointed by the president and approved by the US Senate, receive around 500 petitions for monetary damages. Much like a lawsuit, each petition is a legal accusation from someone who says they've been hurt by a prick in the arm or jab in the thigh. For each one, the spec...
Demonstrators gathered in Lafayette Square on February 18, 2019 in Washington, DC.
In 2016, vaccine court awarded $230 million to patients who said they were wronged by vaccines, and paid over $22 million in attorney fees. (The courts pays those fees even when the petitioner loses their case - a significant deviation from standard practice that experts believe is unique to vaccine court.) The system ...
"It is a no-fault compensation program designed to encourage vaccination, encourage vaccine manufacturers to continue making vaccines, and to compensate the small but significant number of people who are injured by a vaccine they receive," the former head of vaccine court, Chief Special Master Denise Vowell, explained ...
This doesn't mean that vaccines are inherently dangerous. More than 80% of the claims the court receives are settled, without concluding that a vaccine caused any injury at all. But the existence of the court, and the history behind its creation, illustrate the complicated realities of modern medicine - and the consequ...
A technician in an incubator at the virus laboratories of Chas. Pfizer & Co. nurtures cells to serve as hosts for live virus needed for the measles vaccine.
The origins of vaccine court can be traced to the 1970s, when parents began filing lawsuits against doctors and vaccine manufacturers over allegations that vaccines for diphtheria, pertussis, and tetanus (DPT shots) posed a dangerous risk to children. One of the first lawsuits to succeed was brought by the parents of K...
"Kevin Toner, then a three-month-old infant, was vaccinated with Tri-Immunol"- a DPT vaccine since discontinued in the US - "and suffered a rare condition of the spine known as transverse myelitis, the cause of which is unknown," court documents state. "As a result of the affliction, Kevin is permanently paralyzed from...
Family lawyer Kenneth Pedersen remembers that as a young attorney in his early 30s at the time, winning the case helped launch his own budding legal career. "The argument was that the vaccine could've been safer," he told Business Insider. "It was a scary proposition, taking on a huge drug company. We had to prove that...
A jury of six Idahoans awarded the Toners $1.3 million in their case against vaccine maker Lederle Laboratories. Toner later graduated from college and settled down in Salt Lake City with his wife and their children. He currently works for a major bank.
The Toner verdict arrived amid a national debate over the safety of DPT shots. Shortly before the family's case made its way through the court system, a documentary called "Vaccine Roulette" aired on NBC, scaring parents across the country about the dangers of the vaccine.
The American Academy of Pediatrics denounced NBC, saying the documentary's "total lack of balance of scientific fact [caused] extraordinary anguish and perhaps irreparable harm to the health and welfare of the nation's children."
Still, the number of DPT injury lawsuits skyrocketed, from what had been one single case in 1978 to 73 lawsuits in 1984. The cases got more expensive, too. As Dr. Alan Hinman noted in a 1986 JAMA Pediatrics article, "the average amount claimed per suit has risen from $10 million to $46.5 million."
Pedersen believes it would have become much harder to win tort cases like Toner's once more scientific literature started coming out about vaccine safety. "The medical literature kind of turned on us," he said.
A comprehensive review of DPT shot safety, published in 1991, determined the shots do not cause autism or other dangerous and chronic conditions like attention deficit disorder or juvenile diabetes. The study found a few notable exceptions where children developed allergies or inflammation, and a different study docume...
These anomalies are best understood in the broader context of vaccine safety. The vast majority of vaccines work as promised and do not cause any serious or permanent side effects. As the 1991 paper put it, "next to clean water, no single intervention has had so profound an effect on reducing mortality from childhood d...
Nevertheless, the financial impact of the DPT lawsuits in the 1970s and 80s caused a nationwide vaccine shortage and threatened to shutter the manufacture of DPT vaccines altogether. Before long, doctors, public health experts, and drug companies began lobbying the federal government to do something about the rising co...
Jonas Salk, who invented the first polio vaccine, was one of the experts who testified before lawmakers. Before his vaccine went into widespread use in 1955, polio outbreaks caused more than 15,000 cases of paralysis in the US every year.
"The live polio virus vaccine now in general use causes more than the two cases per year of vaccine-associated paralysis," Salk told lawmakers. "Such cases occur to the extent of about 6 to 10 cases per year." He encouraged vaccine-makers to focus on administering more of the killed polio virus vaccine, which did not c...
"In the case of vaccine-associated injuries, it is clear that it would be far more desirable to avoid them," Salk said. "In the event that compensation is necessary, it seems to me that the kind of legislation that you are proposing would be desirable."
Two years later, the House passed the bipartisan National Childhood Vaccine Injury Act of 1986. Sen. Edward Kennedy later folded its provisions into a larger health bill already moving through the upper chamber. President Ronald Reagan signed the amended bill into law that November, despite his "mixed feelings" and "re...
That made the job of defending lawyers like Pederson much easier. "They got rid of the causation thing, and you didn't have to prove fault," he said. "Overall, I think a lot of people got compensation who wouldn't have ... Congress responded 'let's not go to court, let's take care of these kids.'"
Today, the special masters hear complaints about alleged injuries from 15 of the most common childhood vaccines, plus the flu shot. "It absorbs vaccine injury controversies and keeps them from becoming lawsuits that could result in large damage awards from juries, which could threaten production and availability of vac...
Vaccine court exists, in part, to address the fact that research and lawsuits move at different speeds. "We know that the pace of science and publishing is often slower than the pace of litigation," Kirkland said. "Some of those claims could have become massive class-action lawsuits that could have caused manufacturers...

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