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Business: Executives

The Magdi Yacoub Global Heart Foundation Welcomes Dr. Wael Abdelaal to its U.S. Team

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Dr. Wael Abdelaal

Dr. Wael Abdelaal


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The Magdi Yacoub Global Heart Foundation is pleased to welcome Dr. Wael Abdelaal to its U.S. team. Dr. Abdelaal has been Medical Director of the Aswan Heart Centre since 2010 and joins the Foundation as Medical Director for the next phase of growth. He will be instrumental in developing technical and funding partnerships to support the new Magdi Yacoub Global Heart Centre in Cairo.

“After nearly 10 years in Aswan, I can attest to the effectiveness of our integrated model of care, research and training, and the urgent need for our Cairo expansion. I am eager to work with our U.S. team to build the partnerships and support necessary to achieve our vision of greater global health outcomes,” Dr. Abdelaal said.

Dr. Abdelaal is a healthcare executive who began his career as a pediatric cardiologist. He went on to cofound the Aswan Heart Centre, continuing his leadership as Medical Director of the center and its life sciences research center. During his career he foresaw the opportunity of how e-health can revolutionize healthcare and in 2018 he cofounded a startup telehealth company, TeleMed International.

“Dr. Abdelaal brings firsthand expertise and intimate knowledge of both the Aswan Heart Centre and the medical field,” explains Foundation Board Chair, Magdy Ishak. “His insights will be invaluable to the progress of the Magdi Yacoub Global Heart Foundation and the new Global Heart Centre in Cairo.”

The new center, scheduled to open in 2021, builds upon the Aswan model of integrated medical care, research, and training, which has evolved and proved successful over the last ten years. It will provide a hub in Cairo with expanded training programs for African medical personnel. This will include support to launch satellite hospitals in their home countries – creating a pan-African network of expert care that is instrumental to greater global health.

Dr. Abdelaal earned a degree in cardiology from Cairo University and studied at Harvard University, Harefield Hospital, and the Cleveland Clinic. He will be based in New York.

About the Magdi Yacoub Global Heart Foundation

The Magdi Yacoub Global Heart Foundation supports the Aswan Heart Centre in Upper Egypt and is raising funds for the future Magdi Yacoub Global Heart Centre in Cairo. Beyond providing urgently needed cardiac care, they impact the region and continent by advancing scientific understanding through research and building human health capacities with training programs.

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KinderLab Introduces KIBO Robotics Course for the Youngest Homeschoolers

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WALTHAM, Mass. (PRWEB)

KinderLab Robotics today announced a new three-month KIBO Home Robotics Course that enables home educators and caregivers to introduce coding and robotics to their young learners without computers or screen time. The course provides a step-by-step curriculum to easily teach coding, robotics, and STEAM concepts, and includes use of a KIBO 18 Robot Kit to support the curriculum. This unique rental program makes creative, cross-curricular STEM/STEAM learning affordable and easy to implement for homeschool educators.

KIBO is a hands-on, playful robot that offers young children a fun way to learn coding and building along with storytelling and imaginative play. KIBO is entirely unplugged and screen-free: no smartphone, tablet, PC, or network connection is needed. Children use wooden blocks to program their own robot, then build onto the robot with art and craft materials to create a character to act out their story or lesson.

KIBO is the result of extensive research by KinderLab co-founder Dr. Marina Bers, Chair of the Eliot-Pearson School of Child Study and Human Development at Tufts University. Dr. Bers has shown that children engage with powerful ideas in computational thinking, the engineering design process, and social-emotional learning (SEL) by imagining and creating with technological tools. Dr. Bers’ research demonstrates that when children create and express themselves with age appropriate technologies, they develop not just technical skills but also confidence, perseverance, and creativity.

Jason Innes, the manager of training and curriculum development at KinderLab Robotics, Inc., said, “As the first educational robotics company to offer a program specifically designed for home educators, our goal is for KIBO to help level the playing field and offer homeschoolers the same opportunities their peers have in public schools. Adding coding, robotics, and STEAM to a homeschool curriculum can feel difficult—and expensive. We’re offering the KIBO Home Robotics Course as a rental program to create an affordable, step-by-step, supportive way to include KIBO in home learning environments.”

The KIBO Home Robotics Course integrates arts and crafts into STEAM learning. As children develop their computational thinking and coding skills with KIBO, they can use their robot to tell stories, choreograph dances, create a vehicle to explore a cardboard town, create programs that model the behavior of animals in their habitats, and more. Coding becomes a new literacy that children can use to explore their other subjects more deeply.

With the three-month KIBO Home Robotics Course, home educators have full support from KinderLab Robotics as they integrate coding and robotics into their homeschool curriculum. In addition to the complete, research-backed Creating with KIBO curriculum, the program includes fun Activity Cards, helpful workbooks, and a clear lesson sequence. Course participants also receive weekly emails with specific advice, examples, and suggestions keyed to their progress through the course.

The KIBO Home Robotics Course is available now at KinderLabRobotics.com/at-home. The program fee of $169 includes the three-month KIBO rental, complete curriculum, and two-way shipping anywhere in the continental United States (additional shipping charges apply for US locations outside the continental US).

When participants complete the three-month course, they can use the pre-paid shipping label to return the course materials to KinderLab. Families who would like to continue using KIBO to support STEAM learning in the home can instead choose to purchase their KIBO Robot Kit at a significant discount. After purchasing, they can extend their KIBO experience with a range of fun add-ons and extension sets.

About KIBO – The Playful STEAM Robot

KIBO is a robot kit that allows children aged 4–7 to build, program, decorate, and bring their own robot to life without requiring any screen time on a smartphone, tablet, or computer. It is an open platform on which students can envision and create their own robot. With art and engineering, students transform KIBO into imagined animals, vehicles, storybook characters, and more. Students plan a coding sequence using wooden programming blocks, then scan their sequence with the built-in barcode scanner, press its button—and the robot comes alive.

When children build, code, and decorate their own robot, they perceive it as play, but they are learning invaluable STEAM skills. Not only are these hands-on experiences inherently rewarding, but they help children understand the technology in their world and can even improve their future job prospects.

About KinderLab Robotics

KinderLab Robotics is the creator of the award-winning KIBO, a playful educational STEAM robot kit based on 20 years of child development research with thousands of children, teachers, and parents. Developed specifically for teachers by Dr. Marina Umaschi Bers at Tufts University, KIBO is currently used in 59 countries and has proven efficacy in helping kids learn STEAM—and getting them excited about it! KinderLab offers a complete suite of teaching materials that help integrate STEAM elements into a wide range of curricula, including art, cultural studies, and reading literacy.

For more information, please visit KinderLabRobotics.com.

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Society: Christianity

Collection of Books on Prayer to Help Shape Prayer Culture Available

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A Prayer Collective: Four Great Classics on Prayer is a collection of four books on prayer revealing the biblical foundation on which we’ve developed our prayer culture as a global prayer ministry.


RIDGELAND, Mis. (PRWEB)

Sino & Kellie Agueze’s book, A Prayer Collective: Four Great Classics on Prayer ($13.49, paperback, 9781545679630; $6.99, e-book, 9781545679647), is available for purchase.

A Prayer Collective: Four Great Classics on Prayer is a collection of four books on prayer revealing the biblical foundation on which we’ve developed our prayer culture as a global prayer ministry. The Acts model has helped us recapture forgotten ancient landmarks that precipitated the mighty moves of God. The authors’ goal is to reintroduce these disciplines necessary for world evangelism in these last days.

Pastor JarsinoChe (Sino) Agueze is the founding Pastor of the 633 movement – a ministry calling the nations to seek God first. Sino and his wife Kellie have wholeheartedly committed themselves through many different platforms to a move of God rooted in prayer and resulting in their one billion soul mandate. Pastor Kellie Agueze is the founder of Warrior Nation; a global prayer ministry called to bring prayer back to nations and the nations back to its knees. She also serves as co-pastor of M633 churches. Together, they reach over 2.5 million households a month with the Gospel message of our Lord Jesus.

Xulon Press, a division of Salem Media Group, is the world’s largest Christian self-publisher, with more than 12,000 titles published to date.

A Prayer Collective: Four Great Classics on Prayer is available online through xulonpress.com/bookstore, amazon.com, and barnesandnoble.com.

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Technology: Computer

Radiant Demonstrates Display Test and Metrology Solutions at C-TOUCH & DISPLAY SHENZHEN

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Radiant Demonstrates Display Test and Metrology Solutions at C-TOUCH & DISPLAY SHENZHEN

Radiant’s imaging photometers and colorimeters are a leading choice of global manufacturers looking to ensure efficient production-level display testing for in-line operations, employing the benefits of imaging technology for quick, single-measurement analysis of an entire display at once.


REDMOND, Wash. (PRWEB)

Radiant Vision Systems, a leading provider of automated visual inspection solutions for display devices worldwide, announces that it will demonstrate measurement solutions for ensuring the quality of displays at C-TOUCH & DISPLAY SHENZHEN, November 21-23. Alongside sister company Konica Minolta (China) Investment Co, Ltd. at co-located booths #1B02 and #1C01, Radiant will be showcased in over ten live demonstrations of its high-resolution photometric imaging systems, software, and specialized lenses for evaluating the unique characteristics of light and color in displays used in smart devices, automotive integrations, augmented and virtual reality (AR/VR) headsets, and other emerging applications.

C-TOUCH & DISPLAY SHENZHEN takes place November 21-23 at the Shenzhen Convention & Exhibition Center in Shenzhen, China. The event is one of the leading and largest professional exhibitions in the touchscreen industry. At this year’s exhibition, Radiant and sister company Konica Minolta will be joined by nearly 1,000 other renowned brands from both China and abroad, specializing in touchscreens, display devices, home appliances, tablets, mobile solution design, and consumer electronics manufacturing industries.

From their shared booth in the exhibit hall, Radiant and Konica Minolta will present photometric test and measurement solutions for displays designed for consumer devices to automotive dashboards. The Radiant ProMetric® Imaging Photometers and Colorimeters will be showcased in over ten live display test demonstrations, applying analyses from TrueTest™ Software in automated test sequences to measure display brightness, color, uniformity, contrast, mura (including Black Mura Gradient), and more. Radiant’s newly released ProMetric Y43 (43-megapixel) imaging photometer will be demonstrated in a special application of OLED display testing, where the camera will capture all OLED pixels in a single measurement image, calculate pixel-level non-uniformities, and determine coefficients for display uniformity correction. Known as “demura,” Radiant’s correction application has been widely implemented in OLED display production to significantly increase yield and lower manufacturing cost by directly improving the quality of poorly performing display modules.

Radiant solutions are engineered to ensure consistent and accurate photometric data from lab to line. Radiant’s imaging photometers and colorimeters are a leading choice of global manufacturers looking to ensure efficient production-level display testing for in-line operations, employing the benefits of imaging technology for quick, single-measurement analysis of an entire display at once. Radiant’s imaging photometers evaluate high-resolution displays for spatial luminance, color, and uniformity in under one second—and total pixel-level values in as little as 1.4 seconds—per display, with USB and Ethernet communications for easy integration. Radiant’s TrueTest Software offers a breadth of light, color, and dimensional analyses that can be applied individually, or in an automated sequence for rapid production-level pass/fail qualification. TrueTest also features an API for custom installations into any unique manufacturing environment.

In addition to production-level display testing and correction, the Radiant booth at C-TOUCH & DISPLAY SHENZHEN will include demonstrations of testing of e-paper displays, virtual reality (VR) displays viewed through the headset, near-infrared light sources as used for facial recognition applications, and surface inspection—ensuring total component quality for consumer electronics devices. From the same booth, Konica Minolta will host demonstrations of Radiant imaging and software solutions designed to evaluate automotive displays, including freeform display registration (displays with non-rectangular shapes), view angle performance evaluation for in-vehicle displays viewed from fixed positions, and automated head-up display testing.

Visit sz.quanchu.com.cn/en to register to attend the show, and learn more about Radiant Vision Systems by visiting booth #1B02 at C-TOUCH & DISPLAY SHENZHEN 2019 or online at http://www.RadiantVisionSystems.com.

About Radiant Vision Systems

Radiant Vision Systems works with world-class brands and manufacturers to deliver creative visual inspection solutions that improve quality, reduce costs, and increase customer satisfaction. Radiant’s legacy of technology innovation in photometric imaging and worldwide install base date back more than 25 years and address applications from consumer electronics to automotive manufacturing. Radiant Vision Systems product lines include TrueTest™ automated visual inspection software for quality control, and ProMetric® imaging colorimeters, photometers, and light source measurement systems. Radiant is headquartered in Redmond, Washington, USA, with strategic offices in California, Michigan, China, and South Korea. Radiant has been a part of Konica Minolta’s Sensing Business Unit since August 2015. For more information, visit http://www.RadiantVisionSystems.com.

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Technology: Electronics

Tripp Lite Expands Solutions Available on BIMObject® Platform

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The breadth of Tripp Lite solutions available on the platform now includes wall-mount and floor-standing rack enclosures, UPS systems, PDUs, power strips and KVM switches.


CHICAGO (PRWEB)

Tripp Lite, a global manufacturer of power protection and connectivity solutions, announced that it has expanded its IT infrastructure solutions available on the BIMObject platform, providing additional design tools for data center architects.

The BIMObject platform is the largest and fastest-growing digital content management system for building information modeling (BIM) objects. The cloud-based platform provides architects, builders, engineers and interior designers with robust and accurate 3D representations of components used in building design. It integrates with computer-aided design and machine execution systems and helps designers facilitate collaboration and decision-making, raise efficiencies and cut costs.

The breadth of Tripp Lite solutions available on the platform now includes wall-mount and floor-standing rack enclosures, UPS systems, PDUs, power strips and KVM switches.

“Including products in the Tripp Lite BIM catalog helps data center designers conceptualize and render realistic, space-efficient and cost-effective plans,” said Tony Locker, Tripp Lite’s Vice President of Product Management, Enterprise Solutions. “By developing BIM files of products, data center designers are able to incorporate photo-real drawings of IT infrastructure solutions with confidence that the items’ geometry and appearance are represented accurately within the plans.”

Tripp Lite BIM files integrate into compatible three-dimensional design software such as 3ds, ArchiCAD, AutoCAD, ifc, PDF, Revit and SketchUp.

For more information about Tripp Lite’s BIM catalog, visit bimobject.com/tripplite.

https://www.bimobject.com/en-us/product?brand=tripplite

About Tripp Lite

Since 1922, Tripp Lite has established a global reputation for quality by providing reliable products and exceptional service to customers worldwide. From desktop to critical infrastructure, Tripp Lite products and solutions power and connect the computers, networking equipment and electronic devices that form the foundation of our digital world. Headquartered in Chicago, Tripp Lite manufactures UPS systems, cables, connectivity solutions, PDUs, racks, cooling solutions, KVM switches, console servers, charging stations, display mounts, surge protectors, power strips, network switches, power inverters and specialty products for data center, healthcare, government, education and digital signage applications. Learn more at tripplite.com

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Lifestyle: Self Help

REVIV, The World’s Leading Lifestyle and Wellness Company, Announces The North Face Founder, Hap Klopp, as New Board Member

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Hap Klopp Joins REVIV Board

“Hap’s coming on board represents a seismic jump for REVIV,” said Sarah Lomas, President, REVIV. “His widespread knowledge and groundbreaking methods place REVIV at the perfect juncture to move from IV therapy to overall wellness based on disruptive and groundbreaking genetic analysis.”


NEW YORK (PRWEB)

REVIV, a leading global brand in preventative health, offering IV therapies and cutting edge lifestyle genetics services to deliver a unique approach to holistic wellness, has announced the newest member to its advisory board, effective September 1: Kenneth “Hap” Klopp, the founder and 20-year-CEO of The North Face, one of the leading international sports apparel companies.

Klopp will serve REVIV as Non-Executive Director. He runs a private consulting company, HK Consulting, which specializes in strategy, global business, marketing and sales for sports, apparel and financial services companies. He is a Board member of numerous entrepreneurial ventures and the author of Conquering The North Face–an adventure in Leadership, and ALMOST–12 electric months chasing a Silicon Valley Dream.

He is also a lecturer and motivational speaker specializing in strategy, brand building, M&A and financing.

“Hap’s coming on board represents a seismic jump for REVIV,” said Sarah Lomas, President, REVIV. “His widespread knowledge and groundbreaking methods place REVIV at the perfect juncture to move from IV therapy to overall wellness based on disruptive and groundbreaking genetic analysis.”

“REVIV is a major disruptor in the DNA testing industry,” said Klopp. “Its depth and excellence will make it the new standard that delivers the triple bottom line: profits, environmental health and societal improvement.”

In addition, REVIV will undertake its Series Round A funding in a few weeks and Klopp will be contributing his extensive entrepreneurial experience to facilitate the financing.

REVIV Genetics is the most accurate DNA testing available today at 99.97% accuracy. While currently the only company to provide personal follow-up consultation, REVIV is branching out to offer DNA testing and fully personalized IV therapies designed to maximize individual overall health.

About REVIV

REVIV now operates across six continents, with clinics located in over 35 countries, firmly establishing itself as the global market leader in IV therapy-led preventative health solutions.

In September 2019, the company introduced REVIV Genetics, the new disruptive lifestyle genetics service to perfectly complement its overall wellness and preventative health strategy.

REVIV Genetics has the broadest offering of lifestyle genetic tests and the most comprehensive analysis available on the market today, providing bespoke health and wellness therapy at its highest accuracy via a very safe and secure doctor-led service. Results come with information on how to prevent or improve health outcomes and REVIV’s experienced medical team provide tools to apply the advice to daily life and lifestyle. These include food and medication lists and high-level preventative tips.

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Surfing Madonna Beach Run a Resounding Success with Over 3,400 Participants from 17 States and Six Countries

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Over 3,400 runners from 17 different states and six different countries came together to participate in the Surfing Madonna Beach Run, sponsored in part by Herman Cook Volkswagen of Encinitas.

Over 3,400 runners from 17 different states and six different countries came together to participate in the Surfing Madonna Beach Run, which was sponsored in part by Herman Cook Volkswagen of Encinitas.


ENCINITAS, Calif. (PRWEB)

The Surfing Madonna Beach Run, which took place on Saturday, October 26, 2019, in Encinitas, California, was a resounding success for all involved, allowing the annual event to keep its title as the “Largest Race on Sand” from the Guinness Book of World Records.

Over 3,400 runners from 17 different states and six different countries came together to participate in the race, which was sponsored in part by Herman Cook Volkswagen of Encinitas.

Among those runners were multiple participants from countries such as Mexico, Canada and England. The runners were assisted throughout the day by a dedicated and hard-working group of 364 volunteers.

The runners enjoyed a scenic beach run of either 5 kilometers, 10 kilometers or 12 kilometers, starting at Moonlight Beach in Encinitas and then heading up the coast to Beacons Beach and Ponto Beach before heading south to Swami’s Beach.

Before the race started, participants were treated to two dances performed by the University of California San Diego dance team, which is ranked 10th in the nation.

After the race, participants were gifted a carved wood medal, a race shirt, a race mug and treats galore. They were also treated to a live performance by local Encinitas musicians, Bucket Ruckus.

Proceeds from the event are being used to support the Surfing Madonna Beach Run and its Oceans Project efforts to protect the coastline.

Those efforts are one of the main reasons Herman Cook Volkswagen chooses to sponsor the race, as everyone at the dealership is committed to supporting the local beach community and the efforts taking place to preserve the beauty and health of those beaches. Herman Cook VW is grateful to be a sponsor of the event and is proud of all the runners and spectators who came out to participate.

More information on Herman Cook Volkswagen can be found by visiting the dealership’s website or by calling its friendly and knowledgeable staff at 855-637-8636. Herman Cook Volkswagen is located at 1435 Encinitas Boulevard in Encinitas.

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Industry: Healthcare

Dr. Neda Shamie Partners with the Exclusive Haute Beauty Network

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Neda Shamie, MD is a renowned LASIK, cataract, and corneal surgeon and partner of the Maloney-Shamie Vision Institute in Los Angeles, CA.


LOS ANGELES (PRWEB)

The Haute Beauty Network, well known for its exclusive and luxurious lifestyle publication Haute Living is privileged to present Dr. Neda Shamie as a visual expert and our newest addition to the Haute Beauty members-only network.

Haute Beauty offers a prominent collective of leading doctors. The invitation-only exclusive publication maintains elite as ever, with only two doctors in every market. This partnership allows Haute Beauty to connect its affluent readers with industry-leading aesthetic surgeons located in their area.

Neda Shamie, MD is a renowned LASIK, cataract, and corneal surgeon and partner of the Maloney-Shamie Vision Institute in Los Angeles. She previously was the Medical Director of the Doheny Eye Institute and is a Clinical Professor of Ophthalmology at the USC Keck School of Medicine.

ABOUT DR. NEDA SHAMIE

Dr. Shamie graduated Summa Cum Laude with high honors from UCLA and obtained her medical degree from UCSF School of Medicine. She completed her residency and fellowship training in corneal and laser refractive surgery at UC Irvine where she also served as Director of the Corneal Service. Soon thereafter she joined the Devers Eye Institute in Portland, Oregon, where together with Dr. Mark Terry, they spearheaded many projects and advances in the field of lamellar corneal transplantation with emphasis on endothelial keratoplasty (DSEK and DMEK).

Dr. Shamie was the first surgeon in the Northwest to offer both artificial corneal transplantation and DMEK surgery to her patients. Recognized as an expert in complex vision correction surgery, Dr. Shamie has coauthored over 50 publications on the topics of cataract surgery and corneal transplantation, written 8 chapters for surgical textbooks and has led international lectures, courses, and seminars teaching colleagues about the advances in vision correction surgery. In 2017, the American Academy of Ophthalmology awarded her the Senior Achievement Award for contributions to the education of other eye surgeons. She has trained and instructed over 500 surgeons and has personally performed over 6,500 vision correction surgeries.

She is an active member of numerous ophthalmic societies, has served on the Cornea Clinical Committee of the American Society of Cataract and Refractive Surgery, was the President of the Los Angeles Society of Ophthalmology and has been voted by peers to be among America’s Top Doctors.

Dr. Neda Shamie specializes in advanced vision correction surgery including LASIK, PRK, ICLs, refractive lens exchange, and advanced lens laser cataract surgery. She also is an expert in complex corneal transplant surgeries including DMEK, DSEK, DALK, and PKP as well as the breakthrough, non-invasive keratoconus treatment, Collagen Cross-Linking.

Visit Dr. Shamie’s profile on Haute Beauty: https://hauteliving.com/hautebeauty/member/dr-neda-shamie/

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Health: Mental Health

Partnership for Children’s Mental Health, a Center Focused on Improving the Youth Mental Health System in Colorado

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The Quad Innovation Partnership (QIP), the only higher education partnership of its kind in the United States, is pleased to announce new work with Partners for Children’s Mental Health (PCMH), a center supported by Children’s Hospital Colorado and the University of Colorado Department of Psychiatry.

PCMH operates as across-system resource, training, and implementation hub in order to ultimately increase capacity, access, and quality of youth mental health services in Colorado. It works with partners across the state to identify, scale, and sustain best practices to help connect youth and families to effective mental health treatment and, ultimately, save lives.

One of PCMH’s key action items is school-based mental health care and suicide prevention. Students from QIP will conduct and deliver interdisciplinary research to assess best practice suicide prevention programs that address key risk factors among elementary and middle school students in Colorado. PCMH currently offers support to high schools; the project will help PCMH expand support to elementary and middle school students statewide.

“The Quad works on many important initiatives that impact our communities and this initiative with Partners for Children’s Mental Health is one of the most critical items our organization has been a part of,” said Jake Eichengreen, Executive Director of the Quad Innovation Partnership. “As noted by PCMH, suicide is the #1 cause of death among Colorado youth ages 10-24. This is a massive problem and we have assembled a dedicated team to produce outcomes for PCMH that address real need and will strengthen their essential work.”

QIP is comprised of students, staff and faculty from Colorado College, Pikes Peak Community College, University of Colorado Colorado Springs and the US Air Force Academy. This diverse group delivers professional-grade recommendations, tactics and solutions for a varied array of clients, covering a wide range of initiatives and issues that impact the lives of people in southern Colorado and the nation.

“The Quad’s recommendations will be critical to our efforts to provide a scalable, low-cost suicide prevention package to schools across Colorado,” said Shannon Van Deman, Executive Director of Partners for Children’s Mental Health and Vice President of the Pediatric Mental Health Institute at Children’s Hospital Colorado. “The Quad is recognized as a leader tackling some of the biggest challenges facing our state. We’re excited to partner with them to create real impact for youth and families.”

The project was made possible through the generosity of Mark and Shannon Breuer and their family, who are dedicated to supporting the most effective initiatives in expanding behavioral health access, reducing youth suicide, and positively impacting our community’s children and families. 

About the Quad Innovation Partnership: A collaborative initiative of Colorado College, Pikes Peak Community College, University of Colorado at Colorado Springs and the United States Air Force Academy[1], the Quad deepens the ability of graduates to innovate within professional settings in the Pikes Peak Region. As the only initiative combining the capacities, students and faculty of a private liberal arts college, a regional community college, a state research university and a US service academy in the United States, the Quad’s value is built on the diversity of institutions it represents. All projects the Quad facilitates leverage the combined capacities of these four institutions in order to work together to discover, validate and initiate solutions for public, private and philanthropic clients

[1] Insofaras authorized by Federal law. The Quad is not an organization of the Federal government and USAFA offers no underwriting or endorsement of the activities.

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Business: Insurance

Sontag Advisory and Bronfman Rothschild Combine to Launch Wealthspire Advisors

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“Wealthspire Advisors embodies a shared vision for our culture and future. It’s built upon our relentless approach to making a difference in the lives of our clients,” said Mike LaMena, CEO of the combined firms.


NEW YORK (PRWEB)

NFP today announced the launch of Wealthspire Advisors, representing the combined advisory business of Sontag Advisory and Bronfman Rothschild.

“Our new name emphasizes that we are one united firm,” said Howard Sontag, chairman of the combined firm. “The key to our future is enhancing client experiences and outcomes. Combining these two highly successful firms creates a great future for our clients and our team members.”

Bronfman Rothschild was acquired by NFP in May. NFP first announced plans to acquire Bronfman Rothschild in March, noting that a new brand strategy for integration of Bronfman Rothschild with Sontag Advisory and their shared values would follow.

“Wealthspire is the result of our focus on seizing opportunities across all our businesses to strengthen capabilities and increase scale,” said Mike Goldman, president and COO of NFP. “Integrating these two successful firms will drive tremendous growth in our wealth advisory business.”

Wealthspire centers around a culture of purposeful planning for clients’ aspirations. The combined firms manage approximately $10 billion in AUM*, making it one of the nation’s largest investment advisors, and serves clients from 11 offices across the country. With the backing of NFP, an established insurance brokerage and consulting firm with more than 5,400 employees, Wealthspire Advisors is built on a firm foundation for growth while maintaining its independent, fiduciary-focused position within the wealth management industry.

“Wealthspire Advisors embodies a shared vision for our culture and future. It’s built upon our relentless approach to making a difference in the lives of our clients,” said Mike LaMena, CEO of the combined firms. “With NFP’s backing and our combined scale, we expect to expand our reach into new markets by identifying and welcoming top-quality advisors and professionals to Wealthspire.”

About Wealthspire Advisors

Wealthspire Advisors is a New York City-based, independent registered investment advisory business with more than 120 associates serving clients from 11 offices in 7 states. With a strong commitment to a fiduciary business model, Wealthspire Advisors believes in connecting all parts of a clients’ financial life and delivering thoughtful, collaborative strategies that focus on what’s most important to each client. Wealthspire Advisors acts as a wealth manager, investment advisor, consultant, and constant partner in helping clients achieve their aspirations. For more information on Wealthspire Advisors, please visit http://www.wealthspire.com.

About NFP

NFP is a leading insurance broker and consultant providing customized property and casualty, corporate benefits, retirement, and individual solutions through its licensed subsidiaries and affiliates. NFP enables client success through the expertise of over 5,400 global employees, investments in innovative technologies, and enduring relationships with highly rated insurers, vendors, and financial institutions. NFP is the 6th largest US-based privately-owned broker, 5th largest benefits broker by global revenue and 7th best place to work in insurance (Business Insurance); 10th largest property and casualty agency (Insurance Journal); and 13th largest global insurance broker (Best’s Review).

Visit NFP.com to discover how NFP empowers clients to meet their goals.

Wealthspire Advisors is the common brand and trade name used by Sontag Advisory LLC and Wealthspire Advisors, LP, separate registered investment advisers and subsidiary companies of NFP Corp. Securities, when offered, are offered through an affiliate, Wealthspire Capital, LLC, member FINRA/SIPC.

*As of September 30, 2019

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