For the seventh consecutive year since the inception of National Locum Tenens Week, the National Association of Locum Tenens Organizations® (NALTO®) is honoring temporary healthcare providers for their contributions in delivering medical care throughout the United States.

ALTAMONTE SPRINGS, Fla., Aug. 14, 2023 /PRNewswire-PRWeb/ — For the seventh consecutive year since the inception of National Locum Tenens Week, the National Association of Locum Tenens Organizations® (NALTO®) is honoring temporary healthcare providers for their contributions in delivering medical care throughout the United States.

“Locum tenens practitioners are the healthcare heroes who travel where their expertise is needed most, stitching together the fabric of patient care with their skillful hands and compassionate hearts, leaving a trail of healing in their wake,” said Matt Young, NALTO® President.

Currently there are nearly 52,000 physicians (over 5% of the US physician workforce) who commit to locum tenens assignments each year providing 7.5 million Americans with vital healthcare services.

Added Young, “We, as the member companies of NALTO®, play a small yet critical role in getting these talented providers where they need to be to make the most impact. I join our fellow members wishing them all a very Happy Locum Tenens Week!”

This year brings with it the industry’s current battle in Congress to pass The Healthcare Provider Shortage Minimization Act of 2022, a bipartisan legislation aimed at combatting the nation’s physician shortage and improve access to healthcare by expanding the number of Medicare-supported medical residency positions by 14,000 over the next seven years.

The legislation will also help in delivering not only critical healthcare services nationwide, but particularly in rural communities which are most in need of doctors in comparison to US metropolitan areas.

President Elect Jarin Dana, says, “As we celebrate National Locum Tenens Week, we honor the healthcare professionals working as Locum Tenens who stand at the forefront of medical care, especially in rural communities. Their commitment to serving communities, bridging gaps, and ensuring quality patient outcomes is critical for healthcare delivery in the United States. Together, we acknowledge their contributions and express our gratitude for their invaluable service.”

National Locum Tenens Week occurs annually the second full week in August. Led by the National Association of Locum Tenens Organizations® (NALTO®), the program’s annual platform provides a forum to collectively recognize locum tenens doctors and the contributions made by staffing agencies to the U.S. healthcare industry.

To download the 2023 National Locum Tenens Week marketing toolkit, please visit the NALTO® website.

About NALTO® (www.NALTO.org): The National Association of Locum Tenens Organizations® (NALTO®) is the only professional association of temporary physician staffing firms committed to a code of ethics and to maintaining the highest industry standards.

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Dawn McKnight, Executive Director
National Association of Locum Tenens Organizations® (NALTO®)
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Connecting early-stage, dual-use innovations with curated funding and commercialization opportunities, NTA establishes an inclusive ecosystem and sustainable infrastructure to enable faster investments in innovative technologies.

ARLINGTON, Va., Aug. 8, 2023 /PRNewswire-PRWeb/ — National Technology Alliance (NTA), an innovation-focused association created to accelerate the success of the nation’s diverse and distributed innovators in alignment with national priorities, today announced its official launch. A first-of-its-kind national organization to connect early-stage innovations with curated funding and commercialization opportunities, NTA provides an inclusive ecosystem and sustainable infrastructure for expediting the economic and societal impacts of government and commercial investments in innovative technologies.

“As we face both intense global competition for emerging technologies and domestic opportunities that require rapid commercialization, it’s critical to strengthen the country’s innovation capabilities,” said Matthew Laudon, executive director of NTA. “Achieving this objective requires embracing the full potential for innovation found in all regions of the country, while also facilitating the development of a thriving innovation ecosystem to support technology-driven economic growth. NTA is poised to do both.”

NTA brings together for the first-time builders of key innovation ecosystems and portfolios with leading funding and commercialization programs. By serving as the country’s only sustained effort to support regional and national innovation ecosystems, NTA provides a unique pathway to the nation’s largest pipeline of private sector emerging technologies matched with the largest curated pipeline of commercialization opportunities. NTA’s focus sectors include: energy and sustainability; biotech and medical; microelectronics; advanced materials; advanced manufacturing; advanced communications; aerospace and defense; and AI and digital transformation.

Membership in NTA is offered at no cost to applicants. NTA member benefits include access to NTA members-only engagements, such as matchmaking, networking sessions, special scouting/funding opportunities as well as access to NTA webinars and training on working with the federal government. NTA does not manage technology scouting contracts, take equity in any deal flow or directly manage government contracting.

NTA is backed by Advanced Technology International (ATI), a public service not-for-profit collaboration management organization, and ATI’s TechConnect division, which supports technology acceleration programs across diverse industry sectors and maintains partnership programs with all U.S. funding agencies.

“We’re excited to launch NTA in support of the nation’s innovation ecosystem and to accelerate emerging solutions aligned with the nation’s most critical technology challenges,” said Chris Van Metre, president & CEO of ATI. “NTA furthers ATI’s mission by offering improved access to a collective national asset – the best and brightest individuals and organizations collectively focused on advancing next generation technologies at pace and scale.”

NTA’s Catalyst Partner program features leading regional and national associations, ecosystems and commercialization offices with aligned missions to accelerate innovation to benefit our economy and society. It’s specifically partnering with technology-focused consortia, university and lab technology transfer offices, nationally distributed accelerators and incubators, regional economic development offices, and key government funding initiatives focused on emerging technology commercialization.

NTA’s biannual member meetings in the summer and fall of each year will align with the TechConnect Innovation Conference series, the nation’s premier technology acceleration events that provide access to top federal and industry commercialization programs. The conference series includes co-located SBIR/STTR Innovation Summits, numerous challenge and prize programs and year-round NTA networking opportunities. To learn more about NTA’s member benefits, visit https://nta.org/membership/.

About National Technology Alliance
National Technology Alliance (NTA) is the leading innovation-focused association accelerating the success of America’s diverse and distributed innovators in alignment with national priorities. Connecting early-stage, dual-use innovations with curated funding opportunities, NTA provides an inclusive ecosystem and sustainable infrastructure for expediting the economic and societal impacts of government and commercial investments in innovative technologies. NTA is backed by its parent nonprofit organization, Advanced Technology International (ATI), a public service not-for-profit collaboration management organization, and ATI’s TechConnect, which supports technology acceleration programs across every industry sector and maintains partnership programs with all U.S. funding agencies. NTA does not manage technology scouting contracts, take equity in any deal flow or directly manage government contracting. Membership is offered at no cost to applicants. For more information, visit http://www.nta.org.

About TechConnect
With 25+ years of experience connecting emerging technologies with unique funding and partnership opportunities, TechConnect boasts the most robust research and innovation network in the world. It employs a broad scope of tools to deliver top technologies, including open innovation programs, conferences, and open-access publications. Each year, TechConnect prospects, vets, and connects thousands of emerging technologies with corporate, investment, municipal, and national defense clients. TechConnect is a division of Advanced Technology International. For more information, visit techconnect.org.

About Advanced Technology International
ATI, a public-service nonprofit based in Summerville, S.C., builds and manages collaborations that conduct research and development of new technologies to solve our nation’s most pressing challenges. Fueled by a community of experts from industry, academia, and government, ATI accelerates impact by using the power of collaboration to help the federal government quickly acquire novel technologies. For more information, visit ATI.org.

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Michael Tebo, Gabriel Marketing Group (for NTA), 571-835-8775, michaelt@gabrielmarketing.com

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KUDO receives a Patent for Systems and Methods for Automatic Speech Translation, in recognition of their unique speech-to-speech process.

NEW YORK, Aug. 8, 2023 /PRNewswire-PRWeb/ — In a defining mark of innovation, KUDO receives a Patent grant certification from the United States Patent Office (USPO) for its unique, real-time speech-to-speech technology approach. This was one of multiple Patents currently pending by the global leaders in multilingual communication solutions for businesses. 

Reflecting significant efforts in R&D since their Series B investment round, KUDO gains a Patent in recognition of the innovative methodology behind KUDO AI, its AI-powered speech-to-speech translator. The Patent focuses on the company’s unique method for real-time, continuous (simultaneous) translation, and for translating spoken language in a natural way.

Launched in January 2023 and designed by a Product and Engineering team of both language and AI specialists, the ground-breaking Speech Translator integrates state-of-the-art Natural Language Processing systems – such as speech recognition and synthesis – with KUDO’s innovative language models. The result is high quality, live multilingual audio and captions. And as of today, the solution is available in thirty languages, on most videoconferencing platforms. 

Usage from early adopters indicates that the most popular use case for KUDO AI so far remains internal meetings and webinars. Data around language shows that the most requested languages for participants to hear include Spanish, French, German, Hindi, and Japanese. KUDO anticipates that these will likely adapt as the solution continues to evolve in its sophistication. 

“The awarding of this Patent reflects KUDO’s cutting-edge position in the language technology space. But we built KUDO AI with a bigger mission: to give everyone the power to understand and be understood in their own language,” says KUDO’s CEO, Fardad Zabetian. “As an entrepreneur whose first language is not English, this is of personal importance. Nobody should be hindered or defined by their level of proficiency in Business English; with KUDO AI, we aim to enable the transfer of knowledge fairly across all businesses, and eventually, all nations.”

“We’re thrilled with this milestone. It’s the first of many more announcements to come this month,” adds Dr Claudio Fantinuoli, KUDO’s CTO and the inventor of the Patented speech translation methodology. “Since its launch, KUDO AI has already undergone a new AI engine, seen a dramatic increase in translation quality, and we are constantly adding new languages in line with our rigorous quality and accuracy checks. Watch this space.” 

For anyone looking to experience this technology in action, KUDO AI is available to test via a free trial from the website, or to experience via a personalized demo with a KUDO expert.

About KUDO

KUDO is the world leader in providing real-time multilingual solutions that enable people to communicate effortlessly in any language⁠—on any platform. Their network of 12,000 professional language interpreters, combined with their ground-breaking Speech Translator, empower organizations of all sizes to collaborate more efficiently, with greater inclusivity, and on an international scale. KUDO Inc. is a New-York based technology start-up founded and managed by language and conferencing industry insiders seeking to create a world in which everyone has the power to understand and be understood in their own language. More info at http://www.kudoway.com.

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Chloë Walford-Delahaye, KUDO, Inc., +1 347 943 9056, [email protected]

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Initiative Aims to Bring Clinical Research Education and Resources to Medically Underserved Communities

BOSTON, Aug. 9, 2023 /PRNewswire-PRWeb/ — The Center for Information and Study on Clinical Research Participation (CISCRP), a nonprofit organization dedicated to educating and informing the public about the clinical research process, was a recipient of an award by the Food and Drug Administration’s Office of Minority Health and Health Equity (FDA OMHHE). The OMHHE innovation award will fund a grassroots pilot research project designed to offer and integrate educational programming and resources about clinical research into the heart of communities.

“We are excited to collaborate with CISCRP on this important pilot research project that meets communities where they are so that everyone has an opportunity to learn and become more informed about clinical research,” said RDML Richardae Araojo, FDA Associate Commissioner for Minority Health and OMHHE Director.

The research project seeks to identify practices that address some of the underlying issues of underrepresentation in clinical research through a coordinated, grassroots mobile community education and engagement campaign. CISCRP – in partnership with patient communities and health literacy experts – has developed an educational exhibit within a mobile RV and will be visiting community events and festivals in the cities of Philadelphia, PA, and Baltimore, MD, this fall.

In September and October 2023, the Journey to Better Health mobile exhibit will be attending multiple events in both cities. Planned events include:

•     ACLAMO’S Hispanic Heritage Month Event, on September 23rd in Philadelphia, PA
•     Puerto Rican Day Parade, on Sunday, September 24th in Philadelphia, PA
•     Coppin State University Campus, on Thursday, October 5th in Baltimore, MD
•     Fell’s Point Fun Festival, on Saturday, October 7th in Baltimore, MD
•     Baltimore City Farmers’ Market, on Sunday, October 8th in Baltimore, MD

For updates about this initiative, please visit http://www.journeytobetterhealth.info

About CISCRP
The Center for Information and Study on Clinical Research Participation (CISCRP) is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization dedicated to educating and engaging the public and patients as partners in the clinical research process. CISCRP provides free education, resources, and advocacy services to patients and the public. Visit http://www.ciscrp.org for more information. For additional questions about the Journey to Better Health mobile exhibit, please contact Lindsey Elliott, at [email protected].

Media Contact

Lindsey Elliott, CISCRP, 9788821409, [email protected]

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22 Experts Talk Innovative Partnerships & Housing Affordability in Metro Atlanta

ATLANTA, Aug. 11, 2023 /PRNewswire-PRWeb/ — On August 10, 2023, the Council for Quality Growth, through the Quality Growth Institute, hosted The 2023 INTERSECTION Quality Development Conference at the City Springs Studio Theatre. Mayor Rusty Paul opened the conference with a warm welcome to the City of Sandy Springs. Over 300 Council for Quality Growth members, elected officials, government staff, and development industry professionals gathered for the 3rd annual event. The 2023 theme “Collaborate & Compete” convened 22 expert speakers to share stories, unwrap critical issues, and discuss opportunities as they relate to collaboration between public and private entities and housing affordability in the metro Atlanta region. On the backend of an economically trying pandemic, a region with a dependence on commercial property taxes has great opportunity to lean into public-private partnerships that create housing inventory that is affordable and attainable for the talent of continued investment. The Council for Quality Growth is a convener of private investors and public policy makers, advocating for regulations that support smart growth in the region. “The INTERSECTION Conference is about bringing these groups together,” said Rob Ross, 2023 Council Chairman and Senior Vice President of Kimley-Horn, “and to get them talking about ways to collaborate towards higher quality development in metro Atlanta. The best way for us to learn is from each other.” This annual event serves as the Council’s platform to educate both sides of development with outside approaches, best practices, and lessons learned. Doug Hooker, CEO of the Atlanta Connector Park and former ARC Executive Director, guided these conversations as emcee of the full conference.

Jonathan Tower, Founder & Manager Partner of Arctaris Impact Investors delivered the opening keynote address on “Expanding Your Community’s Fiscal Health Toolkit.” Tower flew from Boston to highlight the need for office to residential conversion in metro Atlanta. According to Tower, Atlanta’s over-reliance on tax revenues from commercial properties could prove problematic with the expected decline in property values. “Atlanta’s problem might be bigger,” said Tower, “but so is it’s opportunity.” He outlined his toolkit of ways local governments can mitigate what is typically a costly conversion, including modernizing zoning, eliminating risk with feasibility studies, providing anchor tenants, and creating tax abatement and direct subsidy programs. Arctaris Impact Investors is the largest impact-focused manager of opportunity zones nationally.

Three public-private partnership case studies showcased the important role collaboration plays in our region’s economic development. Greg Voetsch with I-3 Partners shared his private equity model for funding municipal projects, most recently with the Clayton County School District. Brian Johnson, City Manager of Peachtree Corners and Tiana McNeil with T-Mobile shared the partnership they’ve leaned on to create the very unique Curiosity Lab, and Centennial Yards’ Brian McGowan and Invest Atlanta’s Dr. Eloisa Klementich shared all their progress in redeveloping The Gulch.

Tony Perez, Senior Associate at Opticos Design delivered the second keynote, “An Objective Approach to Housing.” His California-based firm consults with local governments on form-based zoning to create sustainable communities. Perez presented the spectrum of housing choices available, reporting a growing realization that the vast amount of land dedicated to single family housing could be better utilized. “You can add housing without changing much about the community,” Perez said, comparing the varying levels of density that can be allowed from small changes to a zoning ordinance. He provided a look into what other states, regions, and local governments elsewhere are doing to creativity provide housing products that fit into existing communities. These include implementing Objective Design Standards (ODS), making Accessory Dwelling Units (ADUs) “by-right” for property owners, and writing zoning codes that better allow for the implementation of missing middle housing.

Mike Carnathan, Manager of Research & Analytics at the Atlanta Regional Commission, provided a look at regional housing data and numbers, further highlighting the need for housing that is affordable. Matt Bedsole, Director of Atlanta’s Housing Innovation Lab, gave an overview of the Dickens Administration’s effort to deliver 20,000 affordable housing units in the next 8 years. Bedsole was joined by Sarah Kirsch, Managing Director of Housing Funds at the Community Foundation for Greater Atlanta, and Dr. Eloisa Klementich, President & CEO of Invest Atlanta, to detail the recent announcement of $300 million in affordable housing funds and the importance of partnerships to continue to provide capital and deliver affordable housing.

Two affordable housing panels followed, the first of which discussed some of the challenges faced when funding affordable housing projects and the opportunities presented from finding the right partners and properties. Alan Ferguson, President & CEO of Atlanta Habitat for Humanity moderated this conversation between Sharon Guest, Owner and Manager of Radiant Development Partners, Ashani O’Mard, Senior Vice President of Strategic Housing Investments for the Atlanta Neighborhood Development Partnership, and Richard Taylor, Managing Partner at ARRC Capital Partners.

The final panel, moderated by Parker Poe’s Shaun Adams, explored built environments and reimaging spaces to include deliverable housing products. Marjy Stagmeier, Founder of TriStar Real Estate Investment, Lejla Prljaca, Executive Director of the Gwinnett Housing Corporation, Booker Washington, Founder and CEO of South Park Cottages in College Park, and Mayor Vince Williams of the City of Union City joined this conversation, each presenting their unique approach to housing projects, including microhomes, education-based housing developments, and reinvesting in extended stays. This panel showed how the right housing in the right place can have lasting impacts on communities, including reduced crime and transiency and increased home ownership and generational wealth.

In 2023, housing continues to be pushed to the forefront of development woes, and the Council is working daily to support our local governments making critical regulatory decisions to provide homes for their communities. With proactive leadership in local governments and willing investors, our region will continue to thrive.

The INTERSECTION Conference is a product the Quality Growth Institute, the education arm of the Council for Quality Growth and an established 501(c)(3) non-profit organization in the state of Georgia.

More information can be found at http://www.councilforqualitygrowth.org/INTERSECTION.

View and download the conference program here: https://www.councilforqualitygrowth.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/INTERSECTION-2023-Program-Final.pdf

A full recording of the program, presentation slides, and a photo gallery will be posted to the Council for Quality Growth’s website in the coming days. Please direct all media inquiries to Kathryn Jones at [email protected].

About The INTERSECTION Quality Development Conference:
The INTERSECTION is the Council for Quality Growth’s Quality Development Conference that annually convenes the public and private sectors for an in-depth discussion of critical issues to our region and how we compare to national trends. The INTERSECTION was developed as a means of education and information for our members, partners, and other industry professionals, with a sharp focus on the most relevant trends and issues affecting the growth and development industry from year to year. The INTERSECTION Conference is a product the Quality Growth Institute, the education arm of the Council for Quality Growth and an established 501(c)(3) non-profit organization in the state of Georgia. https://www.councilforqualitygrowth.org/INTERSECTION

About the Council for Quality Growth:
The Council for Quality Growth is a trade organization that works to ensure continued growth and economic success for generations to come by providing advocacy, information, and education to its members. For 38 years, the Council has been committed to the mission of promoting balanced and responsible growth and is proactively involved in the formulation of policy and legislation critical to the growth and development industry. The Council addresses, head-on, strategic economic planning, infrastructure needs, and tough quality-of-life issues throughout the metro Atlanta region and state. http://www.councilforqualitygrowth.org

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