PITTSBURGH (PRWEB)
September 11, 2019

Pressley Ridge will host a ribbon cutting ceremony to unveil its new $12 million School for Autism and School for the Deaf on September 20 at 1 p.m. on their Marshall Avenue campus on the North Side of Pittsburgh. Although the two schools have been in operation for many years, this is the first time they have a permanent—and state-of-the-art—home. Designed from the ground up with the help of experts in autism and deafness, the three-floor, 30,000-square-feet building will house both schools and offer these student populations an enhanced learning experience and access to programs and services that will allow them to achieve their maximum potential.

Pressley Ridge President and CEO Susanne Cole will speak at the ribbon cutting, along with Pennsylvania Senator Wayne Fontana, State Representative Jake Wheatley, Allegheny County Executive Rich Fitzgerald and Pittsburgh Mayor Bill Peduto. “We are extremely proud and excited to finally have a facility for our School for Autism and School for the Deaf that reflects the quality of education and care our staff has been providing over the years,” said Cole.

Pressley Ridge School for Autism is a licensed private academic school and is located on the second floor of the new facility. Youth ages 6-21 with Autism Spectrum Disorder receive intensive social, behavioral, and academic interventions to learn the skills needed to be successful participants in their communities. The program utilizes evidenced-based strategies and materials to encourage academic and social progress and aims to Increase the student’s ability to engage in sustainable relationships with peers and adults.

Pressley Ridge School for the Deaf, a year-round Approved Private School with a residential component, is located on the facility’s third floor. The school serves students who are Deaf or hard of hearing and also identified as having behavioral or emotional need or are on the Autism Spectrum. Some students also have intellectual disabilities or multiple disabilities. Pressley Ridge School for the Deaf, which is the only school of its kind in Pennsylvania, uses an individualized, strength-based approach to academic and behavioral growth. The program emphasizes access to language and communication and employs hearing assistive technology. A residential program is available to students who live too far to commute on a daily basis.

All classrooms are equipped with SMART Board® technology, calming areas, and their own restrooms. Sensory rooms provide interactive materials, including a platform swing, fiber optics, and Sensory Magic™ technology. The two schools share the building’s first floor, which features computer/media labs and special classrooms for STEAM (Science, Technology, Engineering, the Arts and Mathematics) and culinary education. A student-run coffee shop and PAES (Practical Assessment Exploration System) Lab

allows students to acquire vocational skills through hands-on experiences in a simulated real-world work environment. Students also learn life skills in a full-service hospitality-level kitchen and laundry. Office space, conference rooms, a cafeteria, and a large multipurpose room for physical education and performances are also located on the first floor. The campus includes other Pressley Ridge programs, playground areas, an adventure garden, and plenty of green space.

Tours of the new facility will begin at 11:30 a.m., followed by the ribbon cutting ceremony at 1 p.m. For more information on the Pressley Ridge School for Autism and School for the Deaf, visit http://www.pressleyridge.org.

ABOUT PRESSLEY RIDGE

Pressley Ridge is a social service non-profit organization that empowers children, adults and families with hope and healing through foster care, mental and behavioral health services and specialized education. Each year, nearly 8,000 families find the strength to succeed through Pressley Ridge’s 70+ innovative programs – all of which share a common goal of establishing stable families and lifelong relationships. Pressley Ridge was founded and remains headquartered in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania and also serves communities in Central Pennsylvania, Ohio, West Virginia, Maryland, Virginia and Delaware.

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HOUSTON (PRWEB)
September 10, 2019

Winpark announced today that Amy Zaid has been named as the company’s new Regional Vice President.

“Amy has always demonstrated a best-in-class approach to Winpark’s operations across our portfolio,” said Winpark’s President, Drew Riley. “Her focus has always been ‘quality over quantity’ which has translated into optimal financial performance for our clients and stakeholders, along with premium service delivery for our guests.”

Amy joined Winpark in 2011 as an Assistant Parking Manager and was soon promoted to Parking Manager for the 600 and 601 Travis Garages. In this role, she was instrumental in the technology upgrade at the facilities, which was featured in both Parking Today as well as The Parking Professional. Amy also pioneered Winpark’s iPad Management Project, where multiple facilities were able to be operated remotely. Amy most recently served as the company’s Regional Manager, where she was responsible for the oversight of the operations for Winpark’s entire Houston portfolio.

“Amy exemplifies strong leadership, coupled with a passion for mentoring and developing other professional women within our company,” continued Riley. “Her unyielding focus on Class A standards for our clients is passed on down through the management ranks of Winpark and permeates throughout all of the facilities entrusted to us.”

Amy Zaid received her degree in consumer science and merchandising at the University of Houston. She is a member of the Houston Building Owners & Managers Association (BOMA), Institute of Real Estate Management (IREM) and Central Houston, Inc. Additionally, Amy volunteers her time at the Houston Food Bank, and a variety of school booster clubs and sports clubs for her children’s school.

About Winpark

Founded by Hines in 1997, Winpark is a Class A parking services provider, operating assets throughout Texas and Phoenix. Winpark has successfully managed and consulted on some of the nation’s largest Class A office, municipal, retail, mixed-use, and medical facilities, as well as complex design and administrative challenges. Winpark has also developed a proprietary parking management software integration platform designed specifically for large real estate assets.

Acquired by Propark Mobility in February 2014, Winpark caters to its clients with the assured backing and support of a national parking management company and a depth of diverse experience providing parking management and transportation services for the hospitality industry; airports; commercial, residential, mixed use and retail properties; stadiums; universities; and hospitals. For more information, please visit http://www.winpark.com.

About Propark Mobility

Propark Mobility is one of the country’s largest privately-owned parking companies, providing full-service parking and mobility services for over 500 hospitality, healthcare, commercial and off-airport locations, in over 75 cities across the United States. For more information, please visit http://www.propark.com.

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FREDERICK, Md. (PRWEB)
September 06, 2019

RoosterBio, Inc, a biotechnology market disrupter and leading supplier of innovative human mesenchymal stem/stromal cell (hMSC) biomanufacturing systems, today announces its release of the Regenerative Medicine industry’s first human umbilical cord (hUC) MSC paired cell and media system designed for product development. RoosterBio continues to simplify MSC production by introducing an unprecedented step-change in quantifiable productivity metrics. RoosterVial™-hUC-MSC-XF, allows scientists to generate billions of perinatal cells in a fraction of the time when paired with RoosterBio’s existing xeno-free hMSC plug and play systems. This product line is the only commercially available, high-volume perinatal MSC bioprocess system with a line of sight to towards clinical translation.

“Until now, there was not a hUC-MSC on the market that would support the quality and scale needs of cell therapy product developers,” said RoosterBio Founder & Chief Product Officer Jon A. Rowley, PhD. RoosterBio’s launch of RoosterVial-hUC-MSC-XF introduces another first-in-class hMSC product on the market that simplifies all aspects of product development. “This very powerful set of biological tools has now been released into the Regenerative Medicine marketplace, introducing a major step-change in MSC productivity,” added Dr. Rowley.

The adoption of umbilical cord hMSC product development in Asia and Europe has demonstrated hUC-MSCs are the fastest growing tissue type and second in overall usage within hMSC Regenerative Medicine applications, according to recent global research publications. hUC-MSC product development in North America has been slower to develop due to the lack of availability of this critical raw material.

RoosterBio’s xeno-free hUC-MSCs are isolated from the perivascular Wharton’s Jelly region of the human umbilical cord and is collected after birth. “RoosterBio’s first-in-class characterization of hUC-MSC key quality attributes along with our readily implementable process recommendations gives added confidence in quality, reproducibility, and ease of integration,” said Dr. Rowley. “By introducing new tissue types, we are opening the door to support the incorporation of these new living cellular technologies into product development across the globe.”

Along with RoosterBio’s paired bioprocess media system, RoosterVial-hUC reaches new levels in hMSC expansion in terms of M cells/L media consumed as well as extracellular vesicle (EV) productivity. The product is backed by licensed intellectual property (IP) from Tissue Regeneration Therapeutics (TRT), a Canadian Controlled Private Corporation with a focus on Human Umbilical Cord PeriVascular Cell (HUCPVC) technology.

RoosterBio announced the collaboration with Tissue Regeneration Therapeutics in May 2019 which gave RoosterBio an exclusive worldwide license to TRT’s patent estate related to the manufacture and global sale of human umbilical cord-derived MSCs. The announcement advances both companies shared goal of accelerating the development of the Regenerative Medicine industry.

Visit https://www.roosterbio.com/collections/high-volume-hmscs for more information about RoosterBio’s radically simplified xeno-free hUC-MSCs.

About RoosterBio, Inc

RoosterBio, Inc. is a privately held cell manufacturing platform technology company focused on accelerating the development of a sustainable regenerative medicine industry, one customer at a time. RoosterBio’s products are high-volume, affordable, and well-characterized adult human mesenchymal stem/stromal cells (hMSCs) paired with highly engineered media systems. RoosterBio has simplified and standardized how stem cells are purchased, expanded, and used in development, leading to marked time and costs savings for customers. RoosterBio’s innovative products are ushering in a new era of productivity and standardization into the field, accelerating the road to discovery in Regenerative Medicine. For more information on RoosterBio, please visit http://www.roosterbio.com.

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BOSTON (PRWEB)
September 11, 2019

Cybereason, creators of the leading Cyber Defense Platform, today announced it is hosting a live webinar with The MITRE Corporation, Monday, September 16, 1:00 pm ET, to educate enterprises about how to operationalize MITRE ATT&CK threat intelligence to defend against cyberattacks. Israel Barak, Cybereason’s Chief Information Security Officer and Katie Nickels, ATT&CK Threat Intelligence Lead at The MITRE Corporation will lead the webinar.

Who: Cybereason and The MITRE Corporation

What: Earlier this year, Cybereason unveiled results from ‘Operation Soft Cell,’ its nearly year-long investigation into a massive, advanced espionage campaign targeting nearly a dozen global telecommunications providers. Cybereason’s investigation discovered commercial, privately owned critical infrastructure companies are tools being used in state-sponsored espionage and cyber war.

MITRE ATT&CK was an important component of Cybereason’s investigation, used to assist in detection, scope, attribution, and communication of the attack. The use of MITRE ATT&CK has allowed other organizations to more easily apply Cybereason’s intel to their security operations, to prevent from being affected by this threat.

When: Monday, September 16, 1:00 pm ET

Where: Live Webinar

Register: https://www.cybereason.com/mitre-operation-softcell-webinar-registrations

About the Presenters:

Katie Nickels is the ATT&CK Threat Intelligence Lead at The MITRE Corporation, where she focuses on sharing how ATT&CK is useful for moving toward a threat-informed defense. She is also a SANS instructor for FOR578: Cyber Threat Intelligence. Katie has worked in network defense, incident response, and cyber threat intelligence for nearly a decade. She hails from a liberal arts background with degrees from Smith College and Georgetown University, embracing the power of applying liberal arts prowess to cybersecurity. With more than a dozen publications to her name, Katie has shared her expertise with presentations at Black Hat, the FIRST CTI Symposium, multiple SANS Summits, Sp4rkcon, and many other events. She was the 2018 recipient of the President’s Award from the Women’s Society of Cyberjutsu and serves as the Program Manager for the Cyberjutsu Girls Academy, which seeks to inspire young women to learn more about STEM.

                                                                                                                                 Israel Barak is Cybereason’s Chief Information Security Officer. He is a cyber defense and warfare expert, with his extensive background established at the Israeli Defense Forces and the Government of Israel. He is at the forefront of the company’s security innovation, as well as research and analysis of current and evolving advanced threats. Israel founded the Israeli Defense Forces red team unit, as well as established and operated various cyber warfare teams. As part of his various roles, Israel developed cyber warfare infrastructure and proprietary technologies, including leading development of proprietary cryptographic solutions, research and analysis of security vulnerabilities. He spent years training, guiding and professionally mentoring new personnel, providing in-depth cyber expertise as it relates to cyber warfare, cyber security, and threat actor’s tactics and procedures. Israel is a regular speaker at leading cyber security industry conferences and events.

About Cybereason

Cybereason, creators of the leading Cyber Defense Platform, gives the advantage back to the defender through a completely new approach to cybersecurity. Cybereason offers endpoint prevention, detection and response and active monitoring. The solution delivers multi-layered endpoint prevention by leveraging signature and signatureless techniques to prevent known and unknown threats in conjunction with behavioral and deception techniques to prevent ransomware and fileless attacks. Cybereason is privately held and is headquartered in Boston, with offices in London, Sydney, Tel Aviv, Tokyo, Asia-Pacific and continental Europe.

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BOSTON (PRWEB)
August 31, 2019

To address surging interest in the social determinants of health among healthcare providers and non-profit organizations in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, ACT.md has today announced the formation of a statewide alliance to design, develop, and implement solutions for Massachusetts non-profit and community-based organizations to work more closely with the state’s world-renowned healthcare community.

Starting September 1, ACT.md, a national provider of collaboration software for social determinants of health (SDOH), will kick-start a series of conversations, roundtables, and in-depth development and beta-testing with institutions across the state to facilitate collaboration between the healthcare and nonprofit sectors. The alliance’s goal will be to create real-world technology solutions to manage, track, and report on referrals from healthcare systems to social services providers.

“The intent of this Alliance is to help establish best practices, protocols, and tools for linking healthcare organizations with the community resources that deliver local services and supports to people in need,” said Ted Quinn, ACT.md’s CEO and Co-Founder. “The healthcare system knows its patients, but the community organizations know the local landscape. Over the next four months, ACT.md will engage directly with nonprofits and healthcare systems across Massachusetts to design and prototype technical solutions for SDOH.”

“Health Leads has been championing collaborations between the healthcare and nonprofit sectors for years,” said Dr. Damon Francis, Chief Clinical Officer of Health Leads, “so we welcome the opportunity to be part of this kind of dialogue. The more partners and perspectives we can connect in this critical conversation, the better our prospects are for advancing health equity.”

Healthcare reform is a main driver of this effort. As in many states, policymakers in Massachusetts recognize the important role that social and economic factors such as housing, healthy food, and income play in a “whole person” approach to health care. Beginning in January 2020, the state will be investing tens of millions of dollars in a project called Flexible Services:

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  $149 million will be available to test whether healthcare providers can improve patient health outcomes and reduce total cost of care by working with local social services organizations to meet patients’ health-related social needs, such as homelessness and food insecurity.
• The state is also launching a $4.5 million Preparation Fund to support participating social services organizations as they innovate around technology, data exchange, business practices, and other areas where close collaborative communication with ACO partners is needed.

“For the past two decades, the United Way has been investing to build the leading directory to assist thousands of people across the Commonwealth,” said Paul L. Mina, President & CEO, Mass2-1-1. “Individuals and families turn to 211 for information and support—whether financial, housing, health or disaster-related services. We’re looking for meaningful ways to innovate our referral and information helpline and website that connects people of all ages and from all communities. We’re excited about the new initiatives across the Commonwealth to meet and fund such needs.

According to experts at the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation1, the evidence base for the cost-effectiveness of addressing social need is strongest for high-need populations, such as Medicaid enrollees, who are low-income by definition. Efforts to integrate social services organizations with the healthcare system, such as the Massachusetts Flexible Services program, have widespread support among leaders of social services organizations, such as Mass2-1-1 and East Boston Social Centers.

“Communities across the Commonwealth of Massachusetts are developing and deploying new integrated program and service models to meet the needs of their communities,” said Justin Pasquariello, Executive Director, East Boston Social Centers. “At the East Boston Social Centers, we are developing a collective impact approach with our community partners toward a vision of ensuring all children enter Kindergarten ready to learn, joyful and thriving – and their families have the resources they need to support this. We will leverage our network of services providers, technology partners, and community partners to achieve this vision in these dynamic times in Massachusetts.”

If your organization is interested in joining the Alliance, or learning more about this initiative, please visit our sign-up page: https://www.act.md/mass-sdoh-alliance.

About ACT.md®

ACT.md’s cloud-based CareHub™ platform connects patients, families, care teams, and community partners on the journey to health and well-being. With ACT.md, everyone can act together to make healthier lives happen, wherever they are. Headquartered in Boston, Mass., ACT.md is privately held and venture-funded by the disruptive innovation investment firm, Rose Park Advisors. For more information, visit https://www.act.md.

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