I n April 1996, occupational therapists were notified that the American Occupational Therapy Certification Board (AOTCB) is now the National Board for Certification in Occupational Therapy (NBCOT). The name change is indicative of a fundamental shift in purpose from managing administration of the certification examination and verifying credentials to instituting a recertification program on a 5...

Six candidates for the election of the next WHO Director-General will present their vision to representatives of WHO Member States and Associate Members at a candidates’ forum this month. The six candidates proposed by their respective governments: are Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus (Ethiopia), Flavia Bustreo (Italy), Philippe DousteBlazy (France), David Nabarro (United Kingdom of Great Britain and...

The Writing Committee was selected to represent the American College of Cardiology (ACC) and the American Society of Nuclear Cardiology (ASNC) and included a cardiovascular training program director; a nuclear cardiology training program director; earlycareer experts; highly experienced specialists in both academic and community-based practice settings; and physicians experienced in defining an...

The writing committee was selected to represent the American College of Cardiology (ACC) and included a cardiovascular training program director, a cardiology clinic director, early-career cardiovascular disease (CVD) prevention experts, highly experienced specialists representing both the academic and community-based practice settings, a physician experienced in defining and applying training ...

This study uses the current financial crisis as a quasi-experiment to examine whether and to what extent corporate boards affect the performance of firms. Using cumulative stock returns over the crisis to measure of firm performance, we find that board independence, as traditionally defined, does not significantly affect firm performance. However, when we re-define independent directors as outs...

Member, Medical Library Committee, Yale University School of Medicine, 1917, 1920, 1927-44; Chairman, 1917, 1932-41. Member of the Beaumont Medical Club; President, 1943-44. Member of the Advisory Board, Historical Library, Yale Medical Library, 1939-44. Member of Library Committee, Yale University. Member, Library Associates, Yale University. Member of the Executive Committee, Division of Biol...

The National SAFE KIDS Campaign is the first and only nationwide childhood injury prevention program in the United States focusing on preventing unintentional injuries to children ages 14 and under. Herta Feely, a public relations and media consultant, and Martin Eichelberger, MD, Director ofTrauma Services at Children's National Medical Center, cofounded the Campaign in 1987. Ms Feely served a...

The managerial revolution in the health services of the Thatcher years included the field of public health: thus from 19891 the DHSS (NI) required each Area Board to designate a consultant in Public Health Medicine as the Board 'Director of Public Health' to oversee 'not only efforts to preserve health ... but also the provision of effective and efficient services to restore the sick to health ...

We consider the current bipartite graph of German corporate boards and identify a small core of directors who are highly central in the entire network while being densely connected among themselves. To identify the core, we compare the actual number of board memberships to a random benchmark, focusing on deviations from the benchmark that span several orders of magnitude. It seems that the boar...