Chief Of Staff Research Articles

My Life and Art in Lake Sentani

I use this opportunity to review my own collection of artefacts from Lake Sentani where I grew up and to reflect upon the spiritual and personal significance that this art has for me. I show how the beliefs that I inherited can be seen in the carvings designs. I explore two items in particular, a carving of two brothers from Asei Island and a chief's staff. I also document how these items came into my possession and their meaning to me many years later in the Netherlands.

Summit Tackles Speech-Language Provider Roles

You have accessThe ASHA LeaderASHA News1 Aug 2011Summit Tackles Speech-Language Provider Roles Lemmietta McNeillyPhD, CCC-SLP Lemmietta McNeilly Google Scholar More articles by this author , PhD, CCC-SLP https://doi.org/10.1044/leader.AN2.16102011.25 SectionsAbout ToolsAdd to favorites ShareFacebookTwitterLinked In http://www.asha.org/Publications/leader/2011/110830/Summit-Tackles-Speech-Language-Provider-Roles.htm A group of 70 invited representatives from state departments of education, academic programs, school districts, and state licensure boards, as well as speech-language pathologists, speech-language pathology assistants (SLPAs), and SLPA supervisors, met in a two-day summit to discuss the development of an explicit continuum of service-delivery providers. The goal of establishing this continuum is to clarify, articulate, and support the regulation of credentials, models of service delivery, and clearly differentiated roles among those providing services to individuals with communication disorders, primarily in educational settings. ASHA convened the “Speech-Language Pathology Professional Summit: Clarifying and Promoting the Regulation of Clearly Differentiated Provider Roles” July 22–23 in Tysons Corner, Va. The planning committee included Alina de la Paz, Janet Deppe, Laura Campbell-Young, Perry Flynn, Tom Hallahan, Michael Kimbarow, Monica Marrufo, Lemmietta McNeilly, Julie Noel, and Ashley Northam. The summit included several presentations. Shelley Chabon, 2011 ASHA president-elect, spoke on “The Professional Summit: Structured for Success.” Tommie L. Robinson Jr., 2010 ASHA president, provided a rich historical perspective of support personnel dating back to 1967 in “Building on a Tradition of ASHA Reform: What We Can Learn From the Past.” Barbara Ehren offered her perspective in “A Leadership Summons from the Field.” In the plenary session, “A Dialogue on the Issues,” Judy Rudebusch and Monica Marruffo provided an overview of the appropriate use of support personnel to enhance service delivery in the Irving, Texas, school district. In small groups, the participants addressed issues in three categories: delineating and standardizing the roles of various providers (SLPs, those who hold a bachelor’s degree, and SLPAs), defining and standardizing the appropriate skills, competencies, and responsibilities of the various providers, and delineating these roles and responsibilities in legislation. Participants divided into groups based on their positions (state departments of education, academic programs, school districts, supervisors of SLPAs, state licensure boards, and SLPAs) to address how they would engage colleagues to implement summit recommendations. In addition, lunchtime roundtable discussions focused on reimbursement (policies, restrictions, disincentives, protocols, regulations, etc.), the challenge of educating SLPAs, the challenge of educating potential SLPA employers, the challenge of educating the public, the scope of SLPA supervision, considerations regarding clinical experience, and capacity issues and opportunities. The summit outcomes provided recommendations for participants to pursue in their home states as well as recommendations that will be shared with the ASHA Board of Directors. The recommendations call for: Clarity regarding the roles and relationships of SLPs to others in the professional continuum of speech-language service delivery. Further discussions among the academic community and ASHA regarding education of future service providers to work together to deliver services appropriately. Common nomenclature for those who deliver services—specifically support personnel—to individuals with communication disorders. Continuing development of knowledge and competencies required for supervision of support personnel, graduate students, clinical fellows, and colleagues changing practice settings or populations. Research to assess the efficacy of various service delivery models that use individuals across the professional continuum. Tenets for model legislation and regulations that reflect the continuum of service delivery. For more information, visit ASHA’s 2011 SLP Professional Summit webpage. Author Notes chief staff officer for speech-language pathology, can be reached at [email protected]. Advertising Disclaimer | Advertise With Us Advertising Disclaimer | Advertise With Us Additional Resources FiguresSourcesRelatedDetails Volume 16Issue 10August 2011 Get Permissions Add to your Mendeley library History Published in print: Aug 1, 2011 Metrics Current downloads: 76 Topicsasha-topicsleader_do_tagasha-article-typesleader-topicsCopyright & Permissions© 2011 American Speech-Language-Hearing AssociationLoading ...

2011 Research Conference: Lessons for Success for Emerging Scientists

You have accessThe ASHA LeaderASHA News1 Jun 20112011 Research Conference: Lessons for Success for Emerging Scientists Margaret RogersPhD, CCC-SLP Margaret Rogers Google Scholar More articles by this author , PhD, CCC-SLP https://doi.org/10.1044/leader.AN2.16072011.18 SectionsAbout ToolsAdd to favorites ShareFacebookTwitterLinked In http://www.asha.org/Publications/leader/2011/110607/2011-Research-Conference--Lessons-for-Success-for-Emerging-Scientists.htm ASHA’s ninth annual “Lessons for Success: Developing the Emerging Scientist” brought together 32 junior and 15 senior scientists in the field of communication sciences and disorders (CSD) to enhance knowledge and skills in grant preparation, development and management of competitive research programs, and professional research competencies. The conference is supported by a grant awarded to ASHA from the National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders (NIDCD). The intensive three-day meeting was held at ASHA’s national office in Rockville, Md., on April 27–30. The participants included PhD students, post-doctoral fellows, and junior-level faculty, all of whom have shown promise for a productive research career. (Conference presentations and the list of participants and mentors are available on ASHA’s website.) Participants gained valuable lessons from conference mentors on topics such as managing the challenges of balancing research, teaching, and service in an academic setting; managing a lab; forging successful research collaborations; and publishing their research. In didactic sessions, mentors discussed the major sections of a grant—such as specific aims, abstract, significance, innovation, and approach—to help the participants understand how to communicate clearly and concisely the most important information for each section of a grant. Proposal Reviews In addition to presenting on a variety of grant-writing topics, the mentors conducted several mock reviews of the participants’ grant proposals. The participants also had the opportunity to serve as reviewers in a mock review session after they had observed the mentors’ review. The ability to think about a grant from a reviewer’s perspective is critical, as this perspective helps grant writers to organize and clarify key elements of a proposal more effectively. Every year, two participants from previous conferences are invited to return and share their perspectives and experiences leveraging the conference into funding success. This year, Mary Alt, a speech-language pathologist and assistant professor at the University of Arizona, and Matthew Fitzgerald, an audiologist and assistant professor in the Department of Otolaryngology at New York University School of Medicine, gave inspiring accounts about how the conference had helped them to focus their research, communicate its significance more clearly, and guide their collaborative efforts more effectively. Fitzgerald said that the conference was a welcome and informative opportunity to learn more about the grant-writing process, from basic grantsmanship tips to how the review process actually works. “I particularly enjoyed the mock review sessions, in which faculty and participants had the opportunity to review different grant proposals,” he said. “This is one facet of the grant submission process that often seems opaque to new investigators, and it was helpful to the participants to understand this part of the process better.” Presenters Judith Cooper, Daniel Sklare, Peggy McCardle, and Christine Livingston gave an overview of the funding mechanisms and the application and review processes at the National Institutes of Health (NIH). Patricia Dorn, from the Veterans Health Administration Rehabilitation Research and Development Service, and Ken Wood, from the National Institute on Disability and Rehabilitation Research, also presented information about funding mechanisms offered through their respective agencies. Nancy Minghetti, executive director of the American Speech-Language-Hearing Foundation, provided an overview of ASHFoundation funding opportunities. Participants also had an opportunity to meet individually with representatives from these funding agencies during a two-hour roundtable session. The conference was planned and coordinated by the Research and Scientific Affairs Committee, the Lessons for Success Planning Committee, and ASHA’s Academic Affairs and Research Education unit, and was co-sponsored by NIDCD, ASHA, and the ASHFoundation. Lessons for Success is one of five ASHA programs designed to provide educational and mentoring opportunities for emerging researchers. The Research and Scientific Affairs Committee, chaired by Holly Storkel, associate professor at the University of Kansas, also supports several ASHA convention sessions—such as roundtable discussions for new investigators and sessions on getting a PhD and grant writing—designed specifically for investigators in the early stages of their academic-research careers. Author Notes chief staff officer for science and research, can be reached at [email protected]. Advertising Disclaimer | Advertise With Us Advertising Disclaimer | Advertise With Us Additional Resources FiguresSourcesRelatedDetails Volume 16Issue 7June 2011 Get Permissions Add to your Mendeley library History Published in print: Jun 1, 2011 Metrics Current downloads: 62 Topicsleader_do_tagasha-article-typesleader-topicsCopyright & Permissions© 2011 American Speech-Language-Hearing AssociationLoading ...

Doubting the Global War on Terror

Soon after Al Qaeda's terrorist attacks on 11 September 2001, the Bush Administration described its new grand strategy: the "Global War on Terror". This article examines the 'two-track' process that US neoconservatives and 'echo chamber' media used, to promote the GWOT grand strategy. It re-examines why many experts and institutions expressed doubt about specific claims the Bush Administration made to support the 2003 Iraq War. Historical counterfactuals suggest that the Bush Administration's Global War on Terror could have evolved very differently . . . or not occurred at all.

Where Have You Gone, Father Roland de Vaux?

Abstract In 1960 a bundle of letters, written by Shimon Bar-Kosibah (Bar-Kokhba), was discovered during an archaeological dig in Nahal Hever. This archaeological dig was led by Professor Yigael Yadin, former Israel Defense Forces’ chief of staff and an archaeologist at the Hebrew University. In order to comprehend the cultural meaning of this event I would like to mention another figure, Father Roland de Vaux, an archaeologist and Dominican priest who was the first to find scrolls sent by Bar-Kosibah, and who Yadin chose not to mention. I believe that this omission sheds profound light on Yigael Yadin’s role as mythmaker.

Tertium Quid

Tertium Quid Megan Staffel (bio) Meredith was a good person. She had been young once, but now she had entered the age of entropy, and the great media machine of American culture gunned past her, its probes searching out juveniles. Movies, music, TV shows, like bathing suits and bras, were not created for a person like her. Sixty and beyond, it was the age no one wanted to be reminded of, except of course the other women who had reached it also. They were an army that is no longer needed yet still wanders the countryside, doing all of the things they were taught to do despite the fact that no one was watching. Why wasn’t it a celebration? Birth control, pregnancy scares: relics of a bygone era! The always lovely nipples, once so eager, poking through the blouse at the cry of an infant, any infant—they were no longer on call! No more blood, no more babies, no more milk! No guilt for staying home with sick children. No sick children fending for themselves while mommy worked. The whole megillah, come to an end, and now a different mixture of hormones that required a tweezers to the chin every once in awhile, extracting the male whisker. What was going to happen next? It seemed to Meredith that, in the end, goodness put her on the wrong path; it was time to say what she desired. And she was lucky. She had a husband, also aged, and the two of them had Dr. Zoot. Dr. Zoot was the only one at the frontier who welcomed the troops. Women in their waning years: he liked them. “Yes indeedy,” Dr. Zoot murmured, perched high on a limb of a tree, licking his chops as he watched the troops clanking across the field with their heavy, outdated equipment. Gregory, the husband, was a few years older than Meredith, but he had a head of hair that was still just as thick and deeply black as it had been when he was young. At least his hairline had receded, and those two fresh scoops, Meredith thought, had a certain je ne sais quoi. Well, they were paths to the interior. Scoops of transport. Tomorrow they were going to the Dexlers for a dinner party, but tonight, why, there was nothing on the calendar. “Hey,” Meredith said, draping her arm over Gregory’s shoulder, fitting her palm on his nice plump bottom. “Wanna mess around?” “I’m tired,” he said. “I’m going to bed.” “How about I come up and we see what happens?” [End Page 154] Forget it. A thought not voiced. The husband had been trained. “I’d really look forward to doing that with you some time, but tonight I’m really tired. I have to get horizontal. My back aches.” “You’re sure? I can’t do a little convincing? Maybe the doctor is interested.” “The doctor is not interested.” “How do you know? Sometimes he surprises us.” “Not this time. Trust me, nothing’s going to happen.” Dr. Zoot had grown older too, but he hadn’t noticed. It seemed the male ego was indestructible, while the female ego, those sad, tired soldiers marching through the hot, deserted fields, grew dispirited. Of course, Dr. Zoot was not the actual phallus. He was chief of staff, spokesperson. The phallus itself . . . well, it was one of the mysteries. Beyond reason, definition, understanding, its inscrutability was perhaps what she liked the most. Women were more predictable, and, as far as Dr. Zoot was concerned, the naughtier the better. But any age, any type, was entertaining. He whirled, he danced, he imagined. In the mornings he peed off the porch in full view of the road and wandered around without trousers, his air-cooled parts still pink and bouncy though some of those hairs were gray. In reality—but what was that? And whose? Meredith’s sophomore year roommate, an aspiring fashion designer named Carmen, had created Dr. Zoot in her sketchbook and he’d become the model for her line of gangster-era clothing. She’d given him a sinister look. She’d posed him against crime-scene backdrops: on...

Identity Wars: Then and Now

From the commander of the Nicaraguan Contra's elite 4th Salazar Task Force, the Flash message was sent in a back channel directly to “Comandante Franklyn,” their Chief of Staff, deliberately bypass...

ASHA Will Roll Out Associates Program in 2011

ASHA Will Roll Out Associates Program in 2011

The Price of Discretion: Prostitution, Venereal Disease, and the American Military in France, 1944–1946

IN SEPTEMBER 1944, WHILE LEADING the 29th Infantry Division across Brittany to liberate France, the American general Charles Gerhardt decided that his boys needed sex. So he instructed his chief of staff to start a house of prostitution.1 The task went to the St. Renan office of Civil Affairs, the military section assigned to address the needs of the liberated civilian population. Asa Gardiner, the local civil affairs officer, called upon his contacts in the French police force, who produced a pimp named Morot. The pimp, in turn, recommended four prostitutes currently refugeed nearby. Gardiner and Morot rode an army jeep to interview them, and on the way back Gardiner asked Morot to manage the business. For the actual brothel, they billeted a house outside St. Renan that had recently been vacated by the Germans.2

The Role of the Operating Room Nurse Manager in the Successful Implementation of Preoperative Briefings and Postoperative Debriefings in the VHA Medical Team Training Program

To improve communication within surgical teams, Veterans Health Administration (VHA) implemented a Medical Team Training Program (MTT) based on the principles of crew resource management. One hundred two VHA facilities were analyzed. Nursing leadership participation in the planning stages of the program was compared with outcomes at follow-up. Nurse manager participation in planning was associated with higher rates of implementation of preoperative briefing and postoperative debriefing. Nurse managers are a critical component in the planning phase of team training programs focused on OR clinical staff.

Preparing for the Long War: The United States Army and the Early Cold War Period 1945–1950

As American and British troops pushed into the heart of the Third Reich during the spring of 1945 (March–May 1945), the U.S. Joint Chiefs of Staff began making preparations for a postwar force that supposedly would maintain the peace on the European continent and prevent the outbreak of a third, more devastating conflict. Unfortunately, as events turned out, the victorious U.S. Army of some 8 million men that had fought in the European Theater of Operations (ETO) rapidly demobilized once the surrender of Germany (and later Japan) had been achieved. This in turn left Germany and much of Western Europe, already devastated by the effects of the war on their soil vulnerable to exploitation and possible invasion by the Soviet Army. Maintaining the peace in Europe was a U.S. military that was but a remnant of the mighty U.S. and British military machine that had defeated the Wehrmacht, that had now been whittled down to a mere occupation or constabulary force.1 1 For an analysis of U.S. Army operations from January to May 1945 see MacDonald, C. B. (1973/2000). United States Army in World War II: The European theater of operations, the last offensive Washington, D.C.: for the occupation of Germany see Cameron, R. There and back again: Constabulary training and organization, 1946–1950. In Combat Studies Institute. (2004) Armed diplomacy: Two centuries of American campaigning, a conference at the Combat Studies Institute, 5–7 August 2003, Ft. Leavenworth, KS: Combat Studies Institute, pp. 115–35; Ziemke, E. F. (1990). The U.S. Army in the occupation of Germany, 1944–1946. Washington, D.C. Center of Military History,; Frederiksen, O. J. (1955). The American military occupation of Germany, 1945–1953. Darmstadt, Germany: Historical Division, Headquarters, United States Army Europe, and Gott, K. D. (2005). Mobility, vigilance, and justice: The U.S. Army constabulary in Germany, 1946–1953. Fort Leavenworth, KS. Combat Studies Institute.

Popular Politics, the New State and the Birth of the Iranian Working Class: The 1929 Abadan Oil Refinery Strike

Popular Politics, the New State and the Birth of the Iranian Working Class: The 1929 Abadan Oil Refinery Strike

Managing a Peace Process: An Interview with Jonathan Powell

This is an extended interview with Jonathan Powell, former Chief of Staff for the Blair government from 1997 to 2007, about the Northern Ireland peace process and the negotiations and talks which led to the Good Friday Agreement of 1998 and a power‐sharing Assembly led by the Democratic Unionist Party (DUP) and Sinn Féin in 2007. The interview seeks to reveal what Powell and the British considered as key motivations and intentions in the peace process, such as choreography, momentum and ambiguity, as well as bring to light other perhaps less acknowledged but equally important factors, such as inter‐personal relations and trust. The interview is necessarily wide‐ranging in order to highlight the extent of considerations which came into play in order to keep the peace process on track. As such, it serves as a useful point of reference for further studies about the politics of conflict management and transformation, inviting us to think about the importance of individual forces at work, but within a context of multiple influences and pressures.

Clinical Manual of Prevention in Mental Health

Back to table of contents Previous article Next article Book ReviewFull AccessClinical Manual of Prevention in Mental HealthYad M. Jabbarpour M.D.Yad M. Jabbarpour M.D.Search for more papers by this authorPublished Online:1 May 2010https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.2010.61.5.533aAboutSectionsPDF/EPUB ToolsAdd to favoritesDownload CitationsTrack Citations ShareShare onFacebookTwitterLinked InEmail So goes a Chinese proverb: "The inferior doctor treats actual sickness. The mediocre doctor attends to impending sickness. The superior doctor prevents sickness." Although clinicians have the responsibility and mission to serve persons with "actual" mental illness, we also maintain the worthy vision of recovery and prevention. The Clinical Manual of Prevention in Mental Health provides the reader with a pragmatic, evidence-based resource for prevention in psychiatric settings. The seed for this work was planted in 2007, during discussions within the Prevention Committee of the Group for the Advancement of Psychiatry (GAP). Michael Compton of Emory University edited the manual, working with chapter authors, several of whom are from the GAP Prevention Committee. The first two chapters introduce the reader to the various prevention classifications, present the GAP Prevention Committee's eight guiding principles in considering prevention in mental health, and provide an overview of risk and protective factors. The next several chapters focus on mood and anxiety disorders, which are followed by specific attention to schizophrenia, alcohol and substance abuse, cigarette smoking, suicide, family violence, and somatic illness. Also covered are health promotion and use of complementary and alternative medicine. Sensitivity to developmental perspectives is apparent throughout, with entire chapters devoted to prevention principles for adolescents and older adults. Each of the central chapters is uniformly organized into overviews, epidemiology, diagnostic criteria, and risk factors and protective factors, ending with advice for clinicians and key points.The core prevention sections are often presented in the format of universal, selective, and indicated preventive interventions. Primary, secondary, and tertiary prevention strategies are also addressed. Universal interventions focus on the general population, selective prevention targets specific groups at elevated risk associated with certain risk factors, and indicated interventions focus on individuals with a high likelihood of developing the disorder.Some authors provide in-depth reviews of the specific prevention studies, which help the reader make an informed decision as to the weight and quality of the literature. Issues not addressed by the authors, and which I would have read with interest, include the challenges and solutions associated with operationalizing prevention into mental health system settings in terms of resource allocation, politics, education, financing of prevention services, system structure support, and integration. Dr. Compton and colleagues more than fulfilled their ambition to provide a manual "to encourage mental health professionals to adopt prevention-mindedness into their everyday practice with patients and in their collaborations with community organizations and agencies that may have a role to play in prevention efforts." They have created a valuable resource that would also be beneficial for mental health system architects and funders, including the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration, Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, National Institute of Mental Health, National Association of State Mental Health Program Directors, and state and regional mental health system leaders. The manual also serves advocates and consumers. For example, the National Alliance on Mental Illness assessment Grading the States ( 1 ) could incorporate the evidence-based prevention elements, which are summarized well in these chapters, into its analytic review of the states' investment in evidence-based prevention, a component of recovery. Dr. Compton and his colleagues have succeeded in providing a manual to help us realize the 13th century English jurist Henry de Bracton's adage: "An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure." The reviewer reports no competing interests.Dr. Jabbarpour is clinical assistant professor at the University of Virginia School of Medicine, Charlottesville, and chief of staff at Catawba Hospital, Catawba, Virginia.Reference1. Aron L, Honberg R, Duckworth K, et al: Grading the States 2009: A Report on America's Health Care System for Adults With Serious Mental Illness. Arlington, Va, National Alliance on Mental Illness, 2009. Available at www.nami.org/grades Google Scholar FiguresReferencesCited byDetailsCited ByNone Volume 61Issue 5 May, 2010Pages 533-534PSYCHIATRIC SERVICES May 2010 Volume 61 Number 5 Metrics PDF download History Published online 1 May 2010 Published in print 1 May 2010

Clinical Manual of Prevention in Mental Health

Back to table of contents Previous article Next article Book ReviewFull AccessClinical Manual of Prevention in Mental HealthYad M. Jabbarpour M.D.Yad M. Jabbarpour M.D.Search for more papers by this authorPublished Online:1 May 2010https://doi.org/10.1176/ps.2010.61.5.533aAboutSectionsPDF/EPUB ToolsAdd to favoritesDownload CitationsTrack Citations ShareShare onFacebookTwitterLinked InEmail So goes a Chinese proverb: "The inferior doctor treats actual sickness. The mediocre doctor attends to impending sickness. The superior doctor prevents sickness." Although clinicians have the responsibility and mission to serve persons with "actual" mental illness, we also maintain the worthy vision of recovery and prevention. The Clinical Manual of Prevention in Mental Health provides the reader with a pragmatic, evidence-based resource for prevention in psychiatric settings. The seed for this work was planted in 2007, during discussions within the Prevention Committee of the Group for the Advancement of Psychiatry (GAP). Michael Compton of Emory University edited the manual, working with chapter authors, several of whom are from the GAP Prevention Committee. The first two chapters introduce the reader to the various prevention classifications, present the GAP Prevention Committee's eight guiding principles in considering prevention in mental health, and provide an overview of risk and protective factors. The next several chapters focus on mood and anxiety disorders, which are followed by specific attention to schizophrenia, alcohol and substance abuse, cigarette smoking, suicide, family violence, and somatic illness. Also covered are health promotion and use of complementary and alternative medicine. Sensitivity to developmental perspectives is apparent throughout, with entire chapters devoted to prevention principles for adolescents and older adults. Each of the central chapters is uniformly organized into overviews, epidemiology, diagnostic criteria, and risk factors and protective factors, ending with advice for clinicians and key points.The core prevention sections are often presented in the format of universal, selective, and indicated preventive interventions. Primary, secondary, and tertiary prevention strategies are also addressed. Universal interventions focus on the general population, selective prevention targets specific groups at elevated risk associated with certain risk factors, and indicated interventions focus on individuals with a high likelihood of developing the disorder.Some authors provide in-depth reviews of the specific prevention studies, which help the reader make an informed decision as to the weight and quality of the literature. Issues not addressed by the authors, and which I would have read with interest, include the challenges and solutions associated with operationalizing prevention into mental health system settings in terms of resource allocation, politics, education, financing of prevention services, system structure support, and integration. Dr. Compton and colleagues more than fulfilled their ambition to provide a manual "to encourage mental health professionals to adopt prevention-mindedness into their everyday practice with patients and in their collaborations with community organizations and agencies that may have a role to play in prevention efforts." They have created a valuable resource that would also be beneficial for mental health system architects and funders, including the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration, Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, National Institute of Mental Health, National Association of State Mental Health Program Directors, and state and regional mental health system leaders. The manual also serves advocates and consumers. For example, the National Alliance on Mental Illness assessment Grading the States ( 1 ) could incorporate the evidence-based prevention elements, which are summarized well in these chapters, into its analytic review of the states' investment in evidence-based prevention, a component of recovery. Dr. Compton and his colleagues have succeeded in providing a manual to help us realize the 13th century English jurist Henry de Bracton's adage: "An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure." The reviewer reports no competing interests.Dr. Jabbarpour is clinical assistant professor at the University of Virginia School of Medicine, Charlottesville, and chief of staff at Catawba Hospital, Catawba, Virginia.Reference1. Aron L, Honberg R, Duckworth K, et al: Grading the States 2009: A Report on America's Health Care System for Adults With Serious Mental Illness. Arlington, Va, National Alliance on Mental Illness, 2009. Available at www.nami.org/grades Google Scholar FiguresReferencesCited byDetailsCited byNone Volume 61Issue 5 May, 2010Pages 533-534PSYCHIATRIC SERVICES May 2010 Volume 61 Number 5 Metrics PDF download History Published online 1 May 2010 Published in print 1 May 2010

Richard B. Cheney and the rise of the imperial vice presidency

1. The Vice Presidency 2. The Nixon-Ford Years 3. Chief of Staff 4. Congressional years 5. Iran-Contra 6. Secretary of Defense 7. In and Out of the Wilderness 8. Terrorist Attacks: Transformation of the Vice Presidency 9. Iraq 10. Reversals for the House of Cheney 11. Iraq: A Failed Coalition and Aftermath

The UK National Health Service approach to the economic crisis

The UK National Health Service approach to the economic crisis

Trip Notes on a Return to Israel and The West Bank: Reflections on U.S. Peacemaking, the Security Mission, and What Should be Done

The following document, previously unpublished, was written in March 2010 by a recently retired ( June 2009) U.S. Army colonel with thirty years experience in the Middle East, including tours of duty and advisory roles (in both military/security and civilian domains) from North Africa to the Persian Gulf. The subject of the informal report is the author's first two trips as a "civilian" to Israel and the West Bank, where he had served two tours of duty, most recently as U.S. military attachéé in Tel Aviv during Israel's 2005 unilateral disengagement from Gaza and the formation of the U.S. Security Coordinator's (USSC) mission to reform Palestinian Authority (PA) security forces.Written as an internal document for military colleagues and government circles, the report has been circulating widely——as did the author's earlier briefings on travel or missions in Syria, Lebanon, Jordan, Egypt, and especially Iraq——among White House senior staff, the Joint Chiefs of Staff, the Defense Intelligence Agency, CENTCOM (U.S. Central Command), EUCOM (U.S. European Command), and the USSC team.The document's focus is the state of the "peace process" and the current situation in the West Bank, with particular attention to the PA security forces and the changes on the ground since the author's last tour there ended in mid-2007. But the real interest of the paper lies in the message directed at its intended audience of military and government policy officials——that is, its frank assessment of the deficiencies of the U.S. peace effort and the wider U.S. policy-making system in the Israel-Palestine arena, with particular emphasis on the disconnect between the situation on the ground and the process led by Washington. The critique has special resonance in light of the emerging new thinking in the administration fueled by the military high command's unhappiness (expressed by CENTCOM commander General David Petraeus and Joint Chiefs of Staff chairman Admiral Michael Mullen) with the State Department's handling of Middle East diplomacy, especially with regard to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, on the grounds that diplomatic failures are having a negative impact on U.S. operations elsewhere in the region.For most JPS readers, the report has additional interest as an insider's view of the U.S. security presence in the Israel-Palestine arena. It also reflects a military approach that is often referenced but largely absent in public discourse and academic writings.The author, in addition to his tours of duty and peacekeeping missions in various Middle Eastern countries, has served as advisor to two U.S. special Middle East envoys, the U.S. negotiating team with Syria, General Petraeus, Lieutenant General Keith Dayton, Vice President Dick Cheney, and, more generally, to CENTCOM, the Department of Defense, and the Joint Chiefs of Staff, among others. In retirement, he has worked with CENTCOM as a key primary subject matter expert in the development of analyses and solutions for its area of responsibility, leads predeployment briefings for army units heading to Iraq, and travels frequently to Iraq and elsewhere in the region as an independent consultant. He is currently in Afghanistan with the CENTCOM commander's Afghanistan-Pakistan Center of Excellence.The report, made available to JPS, is being published with the author's permission.

Remarks by Theodor Meron

Thank you, Dean, for your kind remarks. First, a few words about the role of the ICTY. The International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia is, as you all know, the court of law established under Chapter VII of the UN Charter to address grave international crimes that took place in the Balkans in the 1990s. Its mandate, more specifically, is to bring to justice those individuals alleged to be responsible for serious violations of international humanitarian law committed in the former Yugoslavia since 1991, and thus contribute to the restoration and maintenance of peace in the region. The ICTY's indictments have charged 161 persons, including heads of state, prime ministers, army chiefs of staff, interior ministers, and many other high- and mid-level political, military, and police leaders from various parties to the Yugoslav conflicts. Notably, as you all know, the ICTY was the first war crimes tribunal created by the United Nations and the first truly international war crimes tribunal since the Nuremberg and Tokyo tribunals, which were founded in the wake of the Second World War and were, in effect, occupation courts. The establishment of the ICTY and its sister tribunal, the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda, in the early 1990s not only helped to lead the way for the establishment of a number of other ad hoc international criminal courts, but demonstrated that the international community was fully committed to ending the impunity for the gravest of international crimes by making international criminal justice a reality. The ICTY and the ICTR were also an important catalyst for the adoption of the Rome Statute establishing the International Criminal Court. In addition, the ICTY has contributed to the international legal system in a far more straightforward manner through its cases and its jurisprudence. In case after case, the Chambers of the ICTY have shown that it is possible and practical to apply international criminal and humanitarian law in actual cases, not just a few times, as in Nuremberg, but repeatedly and in ways consistent with fair trial principles. The ICTY Chambers have construed, clarified, and applied customary humanitarian law, helping to articulate and strengthen norms concerning the protection of civilians and modes of individual criminal responsibility and firmly rooting its jurisprudence in the principle of legality. No less important, the decisions and judgments of the ICTY have also addressed a wide variety of procedural and evidentiary issues by reference to international standards, thus creating--perhaps for the first time--an important corpus of procedural law to which both international courts and national jurisdiction may refer. And even the factual determinations in the ICTY cases have contributed to the international legal system, as in the ICJ's ruling in the Genocide Case, where the ICJ's reliance on factual determinations by the ICTY in the Krstic case proved essential to the conclusions reached by the ICJ. Finally, the ICTY has made, and continues to make, important contributions to the strengthening of competent national judicial systems and the rule of law in the region of the former Yugoslavia. Indeed, thanks in great part to the ICTY's initiative and the support of the international community, specialized mechanisms for war crimes prosecutions have now been established in Bosnia and Herzegovina, Serbia, and Croatia, including the Special War Crimes Chamber in Sarajevo. Meanwhile, the training of legal professionals and witness support staff in the region by their ICTY counterparts has facilitated the implementation of international standards and best practices within the local judiciaries. These developments, while taking place on a national level, contribute in a meaningful way to global goals concerning the rule of the law. I turn to the implications of collocation at The Hague of tribunals and dynamics among courts situated at The Hague. …

Research Symposium Probes Neural Regeneration

You have accessThe ASHA LeaderASHA News1 Jan 2010Research Symposium Probes Neural Regeneration Margaret RogersPhD, CCC-SLP Margaret Rogers Google Scholar More articles by this author , PhD, CCC-SLP https://doi.org/10.1044/leader.AN4.15012010.26 SectionsAbout ToolsAdd to favorites ShareFacebookTwitterLinked In More than 100 scientists and clinical professionals gathered in New Orleans in November for “Neural Regeneration and Communication Processes,” ASHA’s 19th annual research symposium. The full-day symposium, held concurrently with the annual ASHA convention, is funded by the National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders (NIDCD). The event is organized by ASHA’s Scientific Informatics and Research Programs unit and supported by ASHA members who wrote the grant application in 2006 that funds the symposia through 2011. This year’s symposium, organized by Julie Barkmeier-Kraemer (University of Arizona) and Brenda Ryalls (James Madison University), featured three renowned senior scientists: Tessa Gordon (University of Alberta), who spoke on the physiology of neural injury and regeneration in both the central nervous system and the peripheral nervous system; Jeff Kleim (University of Florida), who addressed neural regeneration of the motor cortex, especially as it relates to rehabilitation; and Yehoash Raphael (University of Michigan Medical School) who discussed inner-ear tissue engineering to restore hearing. The symposium also features the work of more junior scientists; the 2009 presenters and topics included Kazuo Oshima (Stanford University), hair cell regeneration through manipulation of stem cells; Michele Ciucci (University of Wisconsin-Madison), striatal-dopaminergic neuron recovery with behavioral intervention; and Doug Van Daele (University of Iowa), laryngeal muscle fiber changes with denervation. ASHA’s annual research symposium grants fund convention and symposium attendance for up to five doctoral students and provides a structure for these individuals to be mentored throughout convention. The 2009 recipients of the Research Symposium Mentoring-Pair award were: Yi-Chi Lo (University of Wisconsin-Madison) and mentor Cynthia Fowler (University of Wisconsin-Madison); Stacy Harnish (University of Florida) and mentor Jeff Kleim (University of Florida); Jun Wang (University of Nebraska-Lincoln) and mentor Brad Story (University of Arizona); Michelle Quinn (University of Iowa) and mentor Bruce Tomblin (University of Iowa); and Peter Meulenbroek (University of Wisconsin-Madison) and mentor Malcolm McNeil (University of Pittsburgh). The mentors and mentees also were invited to participate in a luncheon that featured Steve Barlow (University of Kansas) and Diane Bless (University of Wisconsin-Madison), who spoke about the importance and challenges of developing and maintaining research collaborations. Future research symposia topics include: Neural Plasticity: Mechanisms and Drivers of Functional Recovery in the Mature Brain (2010 ASHA convention) will examine the different forms and theories of neural plasticity and how the factors driving brain plasticity may be applied to the rehabilitation of individuals with acquired neurological communication and swallowing disorders. Neurobiological Bases of Auditory and Speech Perception (2011 ASHA convention). Research Symposia Planning Committee ASHA volunteers involved in writing the NIDCD grant and planning the 2007–2011 research symposia include: Julie Barkmeier-Kraemer, University of Arizona Steven Barlow, University of Kansas Marc Fey, University of Kansas Medical Center Lisa Hunter, University of Utah-Health Science Center Amanda Owen, University of Iowa Leslie Gonzalez Rothi, University of Florida/VAMC Margaret Rogers, ASHA (then at the University of Washington) Brenda Ryals, James Madison University Diane Scott, North Carolina Central University Linda Shuster, West Virginia University Author Notes Margaret Rogers, PhD, CCC-SLP, chief staff officer for science and research, can be reached at [email protected] for information on the symposia or other research initiatives. Additional Resources FiguresSourcesRelatedDetails Volume 15Issue 1January 2010 Get Permissions Add to your Mendeley library History Published in print: Jan 1, 2010 Metrics Downloaded 131 times Topicsasha-topicsleader_do_tagleader-topicsasha-article-typesCopyright & Permissions© 2010 American Speech-Language-Hearing AssociationLoading ...