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Women in CyberSecurity (WiCyS) call for proposals for its 10th anniversary conference

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Individuals, organizations and companies can submit multiple proposals in one of five tracks:

  • Technical Skill Building: technical skill development in all areas of cybersecurity
  • Education and Workforce Development: all levels of cybersecurity education and training programs
  • Research and Innovation: includes research, entrepreneurship, and trends in emerging technologies
  • Career Advancement: includes hiring, leadership, career development/growth, internships, apprenticeships
  • Community EcoSystem and Outreach: includes collaborations/partnerships and diversity, equality, inclusion & accessibility (DEIA) efforts

These sessions can be Birds-of-a-Feather (informal discussions), lightning talks, panels, presentations, workshops or student research posters.

“Once again, the WiCyS conference will demonstrate a beautiful tapestry of programming from a diverse group of talents showcasing their knowledge, experiences and best practices with emerging technology and topics in the field of cybersecurity,” said Dr. Ambareen Siraj, WiCyS founder and conference program chair. “We are hoping that the 10-year anniversary of this beloved conference will draw an abundance of participation from the community.”

Each accepted proposal will receive one complimentary registration. One student per research poster will receive a scholarship to attend. Submissions are due Nov. 6, and accepted proposals will be notified on Dec.18. For more information, visit http://www.wicys.org/events/wicys-2024/call-for-proposals/.

Women in CyberSecurity (WiCyS) is a nonprofit organization with international reach dedicated to the recruitment, retention and advancement of women in cybersecurity. Founded by Dr. Ambareen Siraj through a National Science Foundation grant given to Tennessee Tech University in 2013, WiCyS offers opportunities, trainings, events, and resources for its community and members. Strategic partners include Tier 1: Akamai Technologies, Amazon, AT&T Cybersecurity, Battelle, Bloomberg, Carnegie Mellon University – Software Engineering Institute, Cisco, Ford Motor Company, Fortinet, Google, Lockheed Martin, Microsoft, Optum, Sandia National Laboratories, SentinelOne. Tier 2: Accenture, Aristocrat, Dell Technologies, DeVry University, Intel, JPMorgan Chase & Co., LinkedIn, McKesson, Navy Federal Credit Union, NCC Group, Nike, Workday, Yubico Inc. To partner, visit http://www.wicys.org/support/strategic-partnerships/.

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Lynn Dohm, Women in CyberSecurity (WiCyS), 815-530-7307, [email protected], https://www.wicys.org/

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iatricSystems™ and Peterson Health Partner to Transform Controlled Substance Monitoring and Safety with DetectRx

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After integrating DetectRx, Peterson Health witnessed transformational changes. Patient safety was propelled to the forefront with enhanced charting and medical record accuracy, and two potential suspicious activities that may have gone unnoticed in a conventional audit were immediately identified. “I think your product just sold itself,” said Annie, a testament to their satisfaction. But its capabilities extended beyond just identifying potential diversion. “DetectRx didn’t just help look for potential diversion. It found practices that may have needed to be improved or practices that we didn’t know existed.”

The ethos of this transformation can be distilled into a single sentiment, “The word that comes to my mind is not just to be compliant, but to be proactive. Somebody told me once if you’re not finding drug diversion, you’re not looking hard enough.” With DetectRx, Peterson Health isn’t just hardening their defenses against potential misuse but also refining their processes, all the while ensuring the safety and well-being of their patients. “So, from safety and well-being, not only were we doing more complete charting and better information on the medical record, we’re keeping the patient safe.”

“Peterson Health’s journey with DetectRx is emblematic of what can be achieved when technology meets dedication” said Rob Rhodes, Executive Vice President of iatricSystems, Inc. As for Annie’s final thoughts, “having something in place that makes it easy to track and report on helps keep us in line on our drug prevention efforts. Actually, it makes me feel better… I feel a lot better with DetectRx knowing that we are looking at things and are doing our best to keep our patients and our staff safe.” The future of patient care at Peterson Health is brighter and safer, thanks to DetectRx.

About iatricSystems™

iatricSystems is a healthcare technology company dedicated to helping healthcare organizations better protect patients, connect systems, and optimize EHR usage. We do so with our diverse healthcare experience, an extensive partner network, and our proven capabilities in patient privacy, analytics, EHR optimization, and interoperability. For more information, contact iatricSystems at [email protected] or visit www.iatric.com. Connect with iatricSystems on Twitter, Facebook, and LinkedIn.

About Peterson Health

Peterson Health is a nonprofit, independent healthcare organization on a mission to provide exceptional, compassionate, patient-centered care to the Texas Hill Country. Peterson’s roster of facilities includes Peterson Hospice and Home Care, Peterson Medical Associates, Peterson Women’s Associates, Peterson Health Medical Plaza (formerly Kerrville Medical Plaza and to include Peterson’s Outreach Lab), Peterson Community Care, and Peterson Urgent Care. For more information contact Peterson Health at [email protected] or visit www.petersonhealth.com.

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Corey Mullins, iatricSystems™, 1 978-805-3161, [email protected], https://www.iatric.com/

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American College of Lifestyle Medicine announces 2023 Dr. Stephen Turner Residency Director and Faculty Scholarship recipients

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This year’s scholarship recipients come from 11 states and represent residency specialties that include family medicine, internal medicine, sports medicine, preventive medicine, pediatric medicine and physical medicine and rehabilitation. The award includes complimentary ACLM membership for one year, attendance to Lifestyle Medicine 2023, ACLM’s annual conference being held Oct. 29 to Nov.1, enrollment in the Foundations of Lifestyle Medicine Board Review, 4th Edition, and ABLM exam registration.

There is a growing urgency to fill the gaping void of lifestyle medicine training across the medical education continuum amid a pandemic of lifestyle-related chronic diseases. Six in 10 U.S. adults have been diagnosed with at least one chronic disease, and four in 10 have been diagnosed with at least two. The Wall Street Journal in April highlighted the increasing number of medical schools integrating principles of lifestyle medicine into curricula as part of its “The Future of Everything” series.

“Awareness is growing that if we are to truly alter the trajectory of chronic disease, physicians must enter the workforce with the knowledge and training to treat the root causes of their patient’s illness effectively, and those root causes are overwhelmingly unhealthy lifestyle behaviors,” said Brenda Rea, MD, DrPH, PT, RD, DipABLM, FACLM, LM Intensivist and program director of the Loma Linda University Health Lifestyle Medicine Intensivist Fellowship. “Residency programs that adopt the Lifestyle Medicine Residency Curriculum will become increasingly sought after as more medical schools incorporate lifestyle medicine into their curricula and graduating students look to grow their knowledge and skills in residency.

“I commend the 2023 scholarship recipients for leading the integration of lifestyle medicine into the residency programs they represent.”

The scholarships were created in 2021 by ACLM through a generous gift from Stephen Turner, MD, DipABLM, a longtime Mayo Clinic nephrologist who was in the inaugural 2017 cohort to become certified as a lifestyle medicine physician. Dr. Turner said he came to believe that “lifestyle medicine is the most positive thing happening in the medical space” and wanted to ensure that more young doctors are exposed to the rapidly growing medical specialty.

Lifestyle medicine uses therapeutic lifestyle interventions as a primary modality to treat chronic conditions including, but not limited to, cardiovascular diseases, type 2 diabetes, and obesity. Applying the six pillars of lifestyle medicine—a whole-food, plant-predominant eating pattern, physical activity, restorative sleep, stress management, avoidance of risky substances and positive social connections—also provides effective prevention for these conditions.

Since the LMRC was piloted in 2018, it has expanded to more than 300 lifestyle medicine residency and fellowship programs nationally, with more than 6,800 enrollees. A 2023 scholarship recipient, Puja Gandhi, MD, MPH, clinical instructor in the Department of Internal Medicine at UTHealth Houston McGovern Medical School, said she applied for the award because she believes that lifestyle medicine is the foundation of primary care and to not incorporate evidence-based lifestyle-focused conversations and interventions into care was a disservice to patients.

“The Lifestyle Medicine Residency Curriculum will allow for the standardization of lifestyle medicine primary principles and, ultimately, equip future physicians with the knowledge and skills needed to address the complex interplay between lifestyle and health, leading to better patient care and outcomes,” Dr. Gandhi said. “Lifestyle medicine is more vital than ever to our future of medicine. Our current health care system focuses more on treating than preventing and there is no end in sight of the rising prevalence of chronic diseases.

“Lifestyle medicine gives us that unique opportunity to strive for not only improvement and reversal of diseases, but also optimal whole-person health,” she said.

2023 Dr. Stephen Turner Residency Director & Faculty Scholarships Recipients

Karina Atwell, MD, MPH
University of Wisconsin Department of Family Medicine and Community Health

Francesca Cimino, MD, MHPE
Fort Belvoir Community Hospital

Ryan Draper, DO
Cone Health Sports Medicine

Jessica Engle, DO
Johns Hopkins School of Medicine

Edwin Farnell, MD
Dwight D. Eisenhower Army Medical Center

Puja Gandhi, MD, MPH
UTHealth Houston McGovern Medical School

Kathleen Head, MD, MS, MPH
Medical University of South Carolina

Marissa Khajavi, MD, MPH
University of Maryland Medical Center

Cecilia Kipnis, MD
Naval Hospital Jacksonville

Stephanie LaFave, MD
Valley Health/Virginia Commonwealth University

Melissa Martin, MD
Texas Institute for Graduate Medical Education and Research

Laura Preece, DO, FACOI, FACP
MountainView Regional Medical Center

Richard Sundermeyer, MD
HealthONE

Nathan Wood, MD
Yale School of Medicine

ABOUT ACLM
The American College of Lifestyle Medicine is the nation’s medical professional society advancing lifestyle medicine as the foundation for a redesigned, value-based and equitable healthcare delivery system, leading to whole person health. ACLM educates, equips, empowers and supports its members through quality, evidence-based education, certification and research to identify and eradicate the root cause of chronic disease, with a clinical outcome goal of health restoration as opposed to disease management. http://www.lifestylemedicine.org

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Alex Branch, American College of Lifestyle Medicine, 19719835383, [email protected], https://lifestylemedicine.org/ 

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Renowned Beverly Hills, CA, Facial Plastic Surgeon, Dr. Benjamin Talei, Honored at the 5th Annual Daytime Beauty Awards

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“It is truly an honor to receive this prestigious award. To be acknowledged among such esteemed professionals in the industry is humbling, and I am grateful for the ability to make a positive impact on the lives of my patients,” says Dr. Ben Talei.

More about Dr. Benjamin Talei:

Dr. Talei received his medical degree at the University of California, San Diego School of Medicine. He then went on to complete his residency training in head and neck surgery at Columbia University, Cornell University Medical Centers and New York Presbyterian Hospital. Following his residency program, Dr. Ben Talei became one of the only surgeons in the country to complete two separate fellowships in facial & plastic and reconstructive surgery, including a fellowship at the Vascular Birthmark Institute of New York. In addition, Dr. Talei is a respected author, speaker and humanitarian and has been widely featured as an expert in various media outlets. His clinic, The Beverly Hills Center for Plastic & Laser Surgery and the AuraSpa Healing Center, is located at 465 N Roxbury Dr. in Beverly Hills, California. For more information or to schedule a consultation with Dr. Benjamin Talei, please visit http://www.beverlyhillscenter.com or call (310)288-0641. 

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Robert Roach, The Beverly Hills Center for Plastic & Laser Surgery, (310) 288-0641, [email protected], https://www.beverlyhillscenter.com/

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Home and Family: Marriage / Relationships

83% Of Brands Plan To Increase Their Investment in Women’s Sports Media in 2024

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The stat-packed, 41-page report is available to download for free on Sports Innovation Lab’s website. This is the third annual report Sports Innovation Lab has released on the state of the women’s sports industry as part of its internationally acclaimed The Fan Project series.

“Since launching our first women’s sports report in 2021, The Fan Project, we’ve been using data to tell the industry why investing in women’s sports was a smart business decision,” said Angela Ruggiero, co-founder of Sports Innovation Lab. “This report is the how. It’s providing a blueprint to both maximize the ROI of a brand’s marketing investment in women’s sports, while at the same time breaking down barriers inhibiting the industry’s growth.”

In March 2023, Sports Innovation Lab formed the Women’s Sports Club powered by Ally to solve the issues preventing deal flow of women’s sports media inventory. Bringing active media buyers and sellers together at key sports industry events, the Club is responsible for facilitating a number of headline sponsorships that have occurred between the Club’s 300+ curated executives.

Researchers interviewed Women’s Sports Club members – including representatives from Fortune 500 brands across industries including, but not limited to, CPG, insurance, travel, and technology – and found:

  • On average, brands were spending 9% of their total sports media investment on women’s sports
  • Eighty-three percent of brands plan to increase their investment in women’s sports in 2024, but a majority (2/3rds) are targeting an increase of 10% or less

In further analysis, Sports Innovation Lab found three main barriers to prohibiting brands from investing more in women’s sports: Reach, Experience, and Discoverability.

  • Reach is being restrained by undesirable time slots, a lack of quality women’s sports content, and poor advertising inventory packaging. Despite this, fans of women’s sports are 20% more likely than fans of men’s sports to spend on sports streaming platforms
  • A lackluster in-person experience is holding back the potential of a fan market that is clearly hungry for live entertainment: 53% of fans of women’s sports paid for ticketed events in 2022 (compared to 38% of fans of men’s sports), and fans of women’s sports are about 3x more likely to spend toward live ticketing platforms than the general population
  • Discoverability is an issue as fans struggle to find where to watch their favorite teams and leagues, yet Roku shows what happens when platforms cater to women’s sports fans: Users of Roku’s women’s sports hub spent a median of 12.7x more hours streaming the 2023 FIFA World Cup vs. all Roku World Cup streamers

Sports Innovation Lab is hosting a live webinar on November 8th to provide a report read-through and data deep dive, which can be accessed by registering here.

About Sports Innovation Lab

Sports Innovation Lab is a fan intelligence and market research company that helps the world’s leading sports organizations acquire the fan of the future – the Fluid Fan™ – and maximize their value. We collect and analyze observational data on what fans buy, watch, and how they behave, then provide analysis and strategic interpretation of that data to world-class clients such as the NFL, NHL, FIFA, Google, Facebook, Coca-Cola, Visa, and Puma. Learn more at sportsilab.com.

Media Contact

Anthony Baldini, Sports Innovation Lab, 1 617-480-7089, [email protected], sportsilab.com 

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Spatially Health Names Nicole Bradberry as Board Member to Drive Innovation and Growth in the Healthcare Space

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Nicole is passionate about changing healthcare and enabling physicians to provide high-quality, cost-effective, and consumer-focused care. Her expertise in leveraging cutting-edge technologies to revolutionize healthcare aligns seamlessly with Spatially Health’s mission to improve patient outcomes and healthcare accessibility.

Bradberry is the Co-Founder of MIND 24-7 and the CEO of the Florida Association of ACOs (FLAACOs). Nicole is also the Founder of ValueH Network (valueh.com) which aggregates high-performing value-based care network providers to enable the best performance in value-based / risk-based contracts. Previously, she was the Co-Founder and Managing Partner for Cura Health Management and Co-Founder and President of Citra Health, both which created and managed ACOs and other risk-based contracts. She was also the Executive Director for ACO Health Partners, a Cura fully owned MSSP ACO based in Florida. Bradberry also spent 16 years as a senior executive within Cigna and United Healthcare.

Nicole holds a bachelor’s degree in Statistics from the University of Florida. She is currently an Operating Partner for Empactful Capital, a former Board Member of Rose Health and Diabetes America, Board Advisor to Deep Risk Management, Convening Panel Member of the Florida State of Reform, Co-Founder of HealthChiefs, prior Board member of the Boys and Girls Club of NE Florida, and member of the Junior League. She has been recognized for her personal and professional achievements many times, recently as the nation’s Outstanding Midmarket IT Leader of the Year and one of the Business Journal’s “Women of Influence.”

“I am honored to welcome Nicole Bradberry to our Board of Directors,” said Dr. Hillit Meidar-Alfi, co-founder and CEO at Spatially Health. “Her shared passion for improving patient outcomes and her collective knowledge of the industry will be instrumental in driving the future of Spatially Health and enhancing our ability to make a positive impact on global healthcare.”

Spatially Health is growing at a rapid pace. The number of organizations already using the Equity EqualizerTM platform to address SDOH include Palm Beach ACO located in West Palm Beach, Florida, ACO Health Partners, in Jacksonville, Florida, Asaar Medical, a Boca Raton FL-based ACO Reach Organization, Shore Quality Partners, an ACO Reach Organization in New Jersey and ilumed, an Accountable Care Organization REACH, based in Jupiter Florida.

The platform continues to evolve, helping ACOs gain deeper insights into their patient populations, identify health disparities, and allocate resources effectively to reduce compliance and financial risks and promote health equity. Spatially Health will continue working with its partners to introduce new capabilities and ensure they are fully leveraged to advance health equity.

Spatially Health’s Equity Equalizer™ platform pinpoints specific obstacles to each patient’s health equity and recommends tailored solutions to stimulate patient involvement and boost the effectiveness of healthcare management strategies, culminating in better health results.

About Spatially Health

Founded in 2019, Spatially Health provides intelligent decision support and guidance platforms for risk-based organizations that are focused on improving the quality of health outcomes for vulnerable populations. Spatially Health is a female-founded and female-lead team, founded by Hillit Meidar-Alfi, Ph.D., and Adi Segal. Spatially Health is headquartered in Miami, Florida.

The company’s Equity Equalizer™ Platform helps risk-based entities lower compliance and financial risks while improving the quality of health outcomes for vulnerable populations. Spatially Health is an SDOH expert whose platform ties SDOH factors to health outcomes and costs. The platform’s proprietary models leverage location intelligence and spatial analytics that go beyond ZIP codes and provide granular patient insights at the hyper-local level. Spatially helps identify and quantify SDOH health barriers at the individual level, guiding decision makers on where and how to allocate resources to maximize positive impact and promote equity. Spatially Health is certified Women’s Business Enterprise National Council (WBENC). WBENC Certification is the gold standard for women-owned business certification in the United States. For more information on Spatially Health, visit http://www.SpatiallyHealth.com or connect with Spatially Health on LinkedIn, Twitter, Instagram, and YouTube.

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Cessie Cerrato, Spatially Health, 1 7862950493, [email protected], www.spatiallyhealth.com

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BigRio acquires Damo, expanding its Healthcare Business

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Damo Consulting provides digital transformation (DT) advisory services to enable healthcare organizations to navigate the technology-enabled transition to telehealth and virtual care. Damo specializes in digital strategy and roadmaps, CRM strategy, and market insights and advisory.

Damo is also known in the industry for its digital maturity framework and assessment that helps healthcare enterprises assess their digital maturity, benchmark against their peers, and make informed decisions towards their digital transformation strategy. There is an obvious and powerful synergy between the two consulting firms that made the acquisition easy and mutually beneficial.

“We are very happy to continue the legacy of Paddy and partner with Vidya Padmanabhan to build further on the Damo success with their clients in healthcare. This will be very positive to both BigRio and Damo, and we will be able to add immense value for Damo clients as we bring them additional expertise and innovation in Data and Analytics, AI and GAI, and Cloud Engineering for better patient engagement, and improved care delivery,” said Rohit Mahajan, Managing Partner and CEO of BigRio.

“BigRio’s experience, business model, and client base align quite closely with that of Damo. BigRio and Damo have mutual goals, the same level of respect for our clients, and a similar vision for the future of AI in enhancing healthcare delivery and facility modernization. We share Rohit’s excitement about this new venture,” said Vidya Padmanabhan, Director of Damo Consulting.

The two company leaders believe that the knowledge and expertise of the two firms will combine to help C-level executives in healthcare leverage the next transformative force in IT – Generative AI (GAI) and Large Language Models (LLMs).

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Rohit Mahajan, Damo Consulting, 1 617 500 5093, [email protected], www.damoconsulting.net

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Science: Biology

Dice for Dungeons and Dragons use advanced math to produce results along a curve

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Creating a single die that returns the same results as rolling multiple dice is extremely complicated: rolling multiple dice returns results along a curve. A normal 4-sided-die, or D4, has the same 25% chance to land on any number, where as rolling 2d4 will return a range from 2–8 where 5 appears 25% of the time and 2 or 8 only 6.25%.

“We thought this was going to be pretty easy, but when we started looking for formulas, or physics engines, to determine what shape to use we realized this math didn’t exist.” Says Al McWilliams, Gyld’s Co-Founder. “We tried a bunch of different solutions, but each created more issues than they solved—including dice that would need to be the size of Michigan Stadium.”

James found a solution, “there is some research around how the specific dimensions of a die correlate to the probability for it to land on each face. After brushing up on my spherical trigonometry I was able to write a program that helped brute-force our solution.”

Gordie Garwood, Co-Founder, went on to say “Once we had the 3D models generated from the program, we had a friend print them. Then we rolled the dice 6,000+ times each to check the math, and it works!”

The resulting four irregular polyhedrons represent new shapes that when constructed of homogeneous material will land on each side in the prescribed ratio along a standard distribution curve. Gyld’s healing potion dice have patents pending as Gyld develops an entire line of single-but-many dice for ultra-specific purposes in Dungeons and Dragons.

Gyld is launching a Kickstarter to fund the molds and development of the first run of dice.

Media Contact

Al McWilliams, Gyld, 1 7342725956, [email protected], https://shop.gylded.com

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