Wishing you a Happy New Decade (and sharing eight brain wellness tips to make it possible)
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Ready for a Happy New Year and Happy New Decade?
Here’s a special edition of the SharpBrains monthly e‑newsletter featuring the latest on brain health and mental well-being — we hope you enjoy these tips and advice about what to do, and what not to, to promote brain wellness in 2020 and beyond:
Practice Breathing & Compassion: Three evidence-based ways to develop a resilient mind
… and a Sport you love: Play sports (smartly) for a quieter brain
Challenge your friends, often: For better memory and thinking skills at age 70, play cards and board games from age 11
… for example by solving big problems ...
Source: SharpBrains - December 18, 2019 Category: Neuroscience Authors: SharpBrains Tags: Cognitive Neuroscience Education & Lifelong Learning Health & Wellness Peak Performance Professional Development Technology brain brain health brain wellness tips brain-wellness memory mental well being mind thinking Source Type: blogs
Mindstrong Health recruits slew of Silicon Valley talent
– Mindstrong Health is applying machine learning methods on human-smartphone interactions to identify digital phenotyping features that could be clinically useful.
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Mindstrong Health Expands Executive Team to Advance Technology for New Virtual Mental Health Care Model (press release):
“Mindstrong Health, a healthcare innovation company dedicated to transforming mental health through innovations in digital measurement and virtual care models, today announced the addition of ten senior executives to its leadership team including CEO Daniel Graf, who joined the company in October 2019.”
On top of Mr. Graf, Mindst...
Source: SharpBrains - December 12, 2019 Category: Neuroscience Authors: SharpBrains Tags: Cognitive Neuroscience Health & Wellness Professional Development Technology digital markers digital phenotyping healthcare healthcare innovation machine-learning Mindstrong Health virtual care Source Type: blogs
#Shemergency Reflections: An Inside Look at an Innovative Professional Development Group to Promote the Recruitment and Retention of Female Residents
Conclusion
R.G.
and E.T.: We are proud to be a part of the #Shemergency movement and hope it
continues to grow in the future. We are both looking forward to future events,
including an upcoming simulation session focusing on code leadership skills.
By: Rachel Gartland, MD, and Erica Tabakin, MD
Further Reading
Khatri UG, Love J,
Zeidan A, Hsu CH, Mills AM. #Shemergency: Use of a professional development
group to promote female resident recruitment and retention [published online
ahead of print August 27, 2019.] Acad Med. doi: 10.1097/ACM.0000000000002969 (Source: Academic Medicine Blog)
Source: Academic Medicine Blog - December 10, 2019 Category: Universities & Medical Training Authors: Guest Author Tags: Featured Guest Perspective gender inequities professional development women in medicine Source Type: blogs
ASHA Voices: The Changing Work World: With New Tech, A Growing Need for Soft Skills
On this episode of the podcast, we’re looking at the future…
In collaboration with the ASHA Leader magazine, we’re examining how work is evolving in the professions of audiology and speech-language-pathology.
Can how you treat your clients and colleagues make you stand out in a crowd? As increasing automation affects how people work, we discuss the importance and application of soft skills with emotional intelligence expert Kari Knutson.
Also, technology makes it easier to connect with clients and students from afar. We talk telepractice with speech-language pathologist Tracy Sippl of S&L Teletherapy Con...
Source: American Speech-Language-Hearing Association (ASHA) Press Releases - December 5, 2019 Category: Speech-Language Pathology Authors: J.D. Gray Tags: Academia & Research Audiology Health Care Podcast Private Practice Schools Slider Speech-Language Pathology Professional Development Source Type: blogs
Attend ASHA ’ s 2019 Schools Virtual Town Hall on Attracting, Preparing, and Retaining School-Based SLPs
Join a conversation about how to attract, prepare, and retain school-based speech-language pathologists in a free virtual Town Hall meeting on Monday, Dec. 9, from 6:30 to 8 p.m. EST. Attending the Town Hall makes you eligible for 0.15 ASHA continuing education units.
In response to concerns from members and administrators around the country about the need to expand the school-based workforce, the ASHA School Team recruited a group of top-level panelists to provide innovative solutions and success stories on how to attract, prepare, and retain school-based SLPs .
Judy Montgomery will moderate the panel discussion. Montgo...
Source: American Speech-Language-Hearing Association (ASHA) Press Releases - December 2, 2019 Category: Speech-Language Pathology Authors: Stacey Glasgow Tags: Schools Slider Speech-Language Pathology Advocacy Source Type: blogs
Insights and Tips for My Fellow Introverted SLPs
As a speech-language pathologist, you talk to patients and their caregivers, to colleagues, and to collaborators, and then you talk to yourself while making notes on the all previously listed interactions. Therefore, you’d think an extrovert would be the ideal personality for the job. After all, SLPs devote their careers to promoting better communication, so they must enjoy communicating, right?
Not always. As it turns out, a special and not-so-rare species of introverted SLPs quietly works in the profession.
The term “introverted SLP” should not come off as an oxymoron. When talking to my peers for this piece, I dis...
Source: American Speech-Language-Hearing Association (ASHA) Press Releases - November 18, 2019 Category: Speech-Language Pathology Authors: Marsha Pinto Tags: Academia & Research Health Care Private Practice Schools Slider Speech-Language Pathology Professional Development Source Type: blogs
Everyday Ethics: Do I Discontinue Services for Unvaccinated Clients?
Question: I’m a private-practice, ASHA-certified speech-language pathologist who is three months pregnant. I have been treating a child in her home, but I want to discontinue services to the child because no one in the family has been vaccinated for the measles. Can I do so or would it be considered client abandonment?
More than 1,150 measles cases occurred in more than 30 states in the U.S. in 2019, and most of those cases involved unvaccinated people, according to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). Measles is highly contagious and there is no cure. Measles in pregnant women may have serious cons...
Source: American Speech-Language-Hearing Association (ASHA) Press Releases - November 15, 2019 Category: Speech-Language Pathology Authors: Donna Euben Tags: Audiology Health Care Private Practice Slider Speech-Language Pathology Early Intervention Professional Development Source Type: blogs
New Rules for Student Loan Forgiveness Program Might Help You
Many of you likely know about the federal Public Service Loan Forgiveness (PSLF) program,. The program allows you to eliminate loan debt if you work for a qualified public service employer. If you qualify, the program forgives the balance on your federal student loans after you make 120 monthly payments.
While the program works well for some borrowers, others encounter problems and confusion. Some expected loan forgiveness, then never saw it materialize. In an effort to aid these borrowers, in spring 2018, the federal government created the Temporary Expanded Public Service Loan Forgiveness (TEPSLF) program. It allocated ...
Source: American Speech-Language-Hearing Association (ASHA) Press Releases - November 6, 2019 Category: Speech-Language Pathology Authors: Jacob Parish Tags: Audiology Slider Speech-Language Pathology Health Care Professional Development Schools Source Type: blogs
NLN Center of Excellence
The Johns Hopkins School of Nursing has been named a 2019 National League for Nursing (NLN) Center of Excellence in Nursing Education for sustained accomplishments in creating environments that enhance student learning and professional development. “This is one of the most distinguished and esteemed designations earned by a school of nursing and indicative of our
The post NLN Center of Excellence appeared first on Johns Hopkins Nursing Magazine. (Source: Nursing Blogs at Johns Hopkins University)
Source: Nursing Blogs at Johns Hopkins University - November 6, 2019 Category: Nursing Authors: Editor Tags: Fall 2019 On the Pulse Doctor of Nursing Practice Education Excellence honor jhson master's nurse anesthetists Nursing education online programs professional development Source Type: blogs
4 Simple Stress-Reduction Strategies for Students and New Clinicians
As the end of the semester and holidays approach, we all start to feel overwhelmed. Students feel the pressure of assignments, placements, paperwork, and the forever-looming PRAXIS exams. Practicing audiologists and speech-language pathologists—along with my clinical fellow peers—must prepare clients, patients, or student for the holidays. Whatever your setting, you’re probably cramming for exams, helping your students prepare for exams, or working to ensure that speech and social skills, hearing assistive devices, and eating issues are ready for large family gatherings.
This time of year—and any time of year—we ...
Source: American Speech-Language-Hearing Association (ASHA) Press Releases - October 28, 2019 Category: Speech-Language Pathology Authors: Lisa Marie Serrone Tags: Academia & Research Audiology Slider Speech-Language Pathology Professional Development Source Type: blogs
Novartis dissolves agreement to market Pear Therapeutics ’ prescription digital therapeutics for substance/ opioid abuse
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As Sandoz returns marketing rights for digital therapeutics to Pear, what does it mean for co-promote arrangements? (MM&M):
“Sandoz, the generics division of Novartis, is altering commercial course, returning marketing duties for two prescription digital therapeutics (DTx) back to Pear Therapeutics. The move, which some had anticipated, comes 18 months after the two signed a co-promotion deal.
Since the Sandoz/Pear pact was widely seen as a litmus test of sorts for pharma’s role in helping distribute this nascent technology, the commercial break-up raises questions about the viability of such partne...
Source: SharpBrains - October 25, 2019 Category: Neuroscience Authors: SharpBrains Tags: Cognitive Neuroscience Health & Wellness Professional Development Technology adherence aging-population digital therapeutics DTx FDA marketing Novartis Pear Therapeutics pharma reSET Sandoz Source Type: blogs
Making young minds resilient to disasters
As a pediatrician and a parent, I often think about what I’d do to keep my children safe if we were hit by a storm like Hurricane Dorian, which reduced whole towns in the Bahamas to rubble. Or by a wildfire, like the Camp Fire that burned the town of Paradise, California to the ground. Or how we’d deal with this year’s record-breaking rains that flooded scores of towns throughout the Mississippi River Basin.
Disasters like these — which may be getting more dangerous with climate change — can directly harm a child’s body. But what’s less well appreciated is how they can harm our children’s minds, and how the...
Source: Harvard Health Blog - October 23, 2019 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Aaron Bernstein, MD, MPH Tags: Anxiety and Depression Children's Health Environmental health Source Type: blogs
Exploring Students ’ Interprofessional Health Systems Science Experiences From a Communities of Practice Perspective: What We Learned and What’s Next?
Looking back on my training, I
gained an early appreciation of what other health professionals could do.
Perhaps this was because, as someone who aspired to be a geriatrician since
medical school, I observed many different ways in which an interprofessional
team optimized my older adult patients’ health by skillfully addressing their
medical and psychosocial needs. However, many of my peers had a different
experience due to only brief and sporadic opportunities for interprofessional
collaboration, which was not an explicit learning objective of our medical
school and residency education.
Fortunately, since I finished
...
Source: Academic Medicine Blog - October 22, 2019 Category: Universities & Medical Training Authors: Guest Author Tags: Featured Guest Perspective health systems science interprofessional Source Type: blogs
Bayer to support 11 digital health startups, 5 of which are developing behavioral/ cognitive/ mental health solutions
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Bayer inks deals with eleven startups under G4A Digital Health Partnerships program (press release):
“Bayer announced today that the company has signed collaboration agreements with eleven digital health startups. As part of the program, Bayer will support these startup companies aiming for longer-term collaborations to drive forward the development of specific digital solutions to improve patients’ health in the fields of cardiovascular diseases, oncology, ophthalmology, pulmonology, radiology as well as digital therapeutics.”
Out of the eleven digital health startups, five are developing solutions d...
Source: SharpBrains - October 15, 2019 Category: Neuroscience Authors: SharpBrains Tags: Cognitive Neuroscience Health & Wellness Professional Development Technology anxiety Bayer behavioral intervention cognitive-behavioral-therapy Cognitive-Training depression digital health digital therapeutics Litesprite mental h Source Type: blogs
ASHA Voices: Become Your School ’ s Speech-Language Leader
On this episode of ASHA Voices, we’re looking at how—given their large caseloads—school-based speech-language pathologists can work smarter not harder to maximize their services.
We’ll consider the role of creativity in service delivery and how SLPs can advocate for themselves with Kim Murza, an associate professor at the University of Northern Colorado and former school SLP.
Murza shares ways SLPs can completely reimagine service-delivery by harnessing the power of their school treatment team: “I went to grad school, like all the other SLPs, to be a therapist and to work with kids. And some of these new rol...
Source: American Speech-Language-Hearing Association (ASHA) Press Releases - October 10, 2019 Category: Speech-Language Pathology Authors: J.D. Gray Tags: Podcast Private Practice Schools Slider Speech-Language Pathology Professional Development Technology Source Type: blogs
