On Friday 16 June 2017, Dr Andrea Ammon took up office as the third Director of the European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC) following her election by the Centre’s management board earlier the same year. The appointment follows a two-year tenure as acting director during which Dr Ammon steered the ECDC steadily and calmly through a challenging period when besides the Centre’s d...

This paper undertakes a unique study of the determinants of corporate governance in the West African developing region and their impact on director compensation. A new measure of director total remuneration is constructed providing a conservative estimate of expropriation of private benefits of control. Using a hand-collected sample of 51 West African IPO firms from 2000 and 2011 we find eviden...

1. The Sixty-fifth World Health Assembly decided, in resolution WHA65.15 (2012), that an evaluation, open to all Member States, 1 will be conducted by the Executive Board 2 within one year from the appointment of the next Director-General of the World Health Organization, to assess the efficacy of the revised process and methods for the election of the Director-General, in order to discuss any ...

Dr Foresman is an Associate Professor of Clinical Medicine in the Department of Medicine, Division of Pulmonary, Allergy, Critical Care and Occupational Medicine at the Indiana University School of Medicine in Indianapolis. Dr Foresman also holds an Adjunct Associate Professor appointment in the School of Engineering and Technology at Purdue University. He is the Director of the Sleep Medicine ...

a Ed Pigott, Ph.D. is a licensed psychologist and Director of Neurotherapy Services at Behavioral Health of the Palm Beaches. He is also in private practice at The Center for Brain Training in Jupiter, FL. b Lindsay De Biase, Ph.D. is a neuroscientist and post-doctoral fellow. C Eugenia Bodenhamer-Davis, Ph.D. is an Associate Professor and Director, Neurotherapy Program, University of North Tex...

The material in this report originated in the National Center for Infectious Diseases, Rima F. Khabbaz, MD, Director; Division of Healthcare Quality Promotion, Denise M. Cardo, MD, Director; Division of Viral and Rickettsial Diseases, Steve Monroe, PhD, Acting Director; and National Immunization Program, Anne Schuchat, MD, Director; Epidemiology and Surveillance Division, Alison Mawle, PhD, Act...

Introduction Although in 2000, the frequency of birth injury claims filed in the Kaiser Permanente Northern California Region (KPNC) had remained stable for years, their cost had risen dramatically. In response to this trend, the KP Board of Directors assigned Bruce Merl, MD, Director of The Permanente Medical Group (TPMG) MedicalLegal Affairs, and Julie Nunes, KPNC Regional Risk Management Dir...

March, 2013: Each year nearly 140,000 new cases of colorectal cancer are diagnosed and 51,000 Americans die of the disease, making it the second leading cause of cancer-related deaths and the third most common cancer among both men and women. But many of these deaths are largely preventable through patient education and routine screening, says Olga Falkowski, M.D., a board-certified pathologist...

The WHO Executive Board has selected three candidates to be presented to the World Health Assembly as nominees for the post of Director-General. The three nominees were announced at a public meeting on 25 January. They are Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, nominated by the Government of Ethiopia, Dr David Nabarro, nominated by the Government of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, and Dr Sania Nish...

The NHS still lacks an effective “patient safety culture” and must overcome its reluctance to improve outcomes and save much needed cash, leading clinicians have warned. Speaking on 10 November at the Patient Safety 2011 conference in London, Rowan Hillson, England’s national clinical director for diabetes, said that one in 10 of the UK population is expected to have diabetes by 2020 but that c...