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SHM 2023 Awards of Excellence and Junior Investigator Award
The HOMERuN COVID-19 Collaborative Group, winner of the Excellence in Teamwork award, included more than 150 members across 80 institutions. SHM’s Awards of Excellence Program honors members who’ve made exceptional contributions to hospital medicine in a variety of categories. Please join The Hospitalist and SHM in congratulating the 2023 award winners. Clinical Leadership for Physicians Benji K. Mathews, MD, MBA, SFHM Dr. Mathews Dr. Mathews is the department chair of hospital medicine and division head at Regions Hospital with HealthPartners in Minnesota and an associate professor of medicine with a passion for ed...
Source: The Hospitalist - June 1, 2023 Category: Hospital Management Authors: Ronda Whitaker Tags: Awards Career Source Type: research

Learning to excel
Growing up in Armagh during The Troubles was not a time for lofty ambitions. You left school, you got a job. And that’s how it was for Lucia McKeever. But then, with encouragement from her trade union, her horizons started to widen considerably. Lucia rose through the ranks of first COHSE, then UNISON, before serving as UNISON president from 2014 to 2015 – the first Northern Irish member to hold that office. Now, as she prepares to step down from the union’s National Executive Council (NEC), she wants to encourage others to take the same journey. “I left school at 16. I hadn’t even a spirit level, never mind an O...
Source: UNISON Health care news - December 11, 2018 Category: UK Health Authors: Amanda Kendal Tags: Magazine activists' learning learning and organising lifelong learning return to learn Source Type: news

A Special Learning Journey Cut Short
Students at the St Pius X Resource Centre in Malawi for children with physical and developmental disabilities. Credit: Charity Chimungu Phiri/IPSBy Charity Chimungu PhiriBLANTYRE, Malawi, Mar 29 2017 (IPS)When building a house, it’s critical to lay a strong foundation. The same applies to education, with studies showing that children who attend early learning centers perform better in school than those who do not.In Malawi, a 2003 national survey found that only 18.8 percent of school-age children with disabilities were attending class. More than twice as many of the same age group without disabilities (41.1 percent) att...
Source: IPS Inter Press Service - Health - March 29, 2017 Category: Global & Universal Authors: Charity Chimungu Phiri Tags: Africa Education Headlines Health Poverty & SDGs Disability rights early childhood education Malawi World Autism Awareness Day Source Type: news

‘Don’t let dyslexia hold you back’
In kindergarten, while other students were beginning to read books, Josh Thibeau was still learning the alphabet. “I thought, I can’t read so why even try. I thought it was a waste of time.” Five to 17 percent of all children in the U.S. have developmental dyslexia. Josh is one of them. Children with dyslexia — often caused by some difference in normal brain development and damage to the brain — have trouble with comprehension because they can’t read text accurately or fluently. Josh, now 14, has four other siblings, three of whom also have dyslexia. “We are very fortunate because if Josh had been a first chi...
Source: Thrive, Children's Hospital Boston - August 24, 2016 Category: Pediatrics Authors: Rigel Cruz Tags: Our Patients’ Stories Department of Neurology dyslexia Gaab Lab neuroscience Source Type: news

This 2-Minute Test Helps Parents Easily Figure Out If A Child Has A Concussion
A quick and simple test can identify concussions in children as young as 5 with an astonishing rate of success, according to a new study. So why aren’t people talking about it more? The King-Devick test, as it’s called, was originally developed in the 1970s as a way to detect dyslexia. But a new study out of New York University's Langone Concussion Center and published in the Journal of Neuro-Ophthalmology has found convincing evidence that it can also detect when athletes of all ages suffer a concussion -- and that it can do so even better than other commonly used tests. What’s most notable about the King-Devick ...
Source: Healthy Living - The Huffington Post - March 6, 2015 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news

Uta Frith: 'The brain is not a pudding; it is an engine'
The neuroscientist who first recognised autism as a condition of the brain rather than the result of cold parentingUta Frith sits in her beautiful, book-lined sitting-room in Harrow, north London, looking out towards the Chilterns. She is emeritus professor in cognitive development at UCL – and last year was made a dame. She is warm, smiling, bespectacled, dressed in brown linen and a fine gold necklace.Towards the end of our meeting, she describes a conversation she once had with an autistic person who was obsessed with light fittings in railway carriages and was trying to interest her in the minute differences between ...
Source: Guardian Unlimited Science - February 24, 2013 Category: Science Authors: Kate Kellaway Tags: Autism Neuroscience Features The Observer Interviews Source Type: news