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- 01 Jun 1999
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Ikenna Okezie
and the Harvard Medical School. He plans to combine his two loves - medicine and entrepreneurship - in a way that will improve health care for all. Born in Nigeria, Okezie came to the United States at the age of two and was raised in... View Details
Keywords: Judith A. Ross
- 01 Mar 2024
- News
On the Radar
Illustration by Brian Stauffer Illustration by Brian Stauffer Our planet is teeming with trillions of viruses and bacteria, most of which are innocuous or even helpful, but some pose a significant risk to public health, animals, and crops. In recent decades,... View Details
- 01 Mar 2024
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books and Podcasts
Edited by Margie Kelley Alumni Books You Got This! A Straightforward, No-Nonsense Playbook for Crushing 130+ Workplace Challenges By Heidi Abelli (MBA 1993) Palmetto Publishing Stepping into the corporate world can feel like navigating a labyrinth, especially when... View Details
- 01 Dec 2019
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Bridging the Gap
care workers and is keeping her options open, curious to keep learning and see where she might fit in. “So many times we approach business and say, this is what we want you to do,” says Hamilton County Schools Superintendent Bryan... View Details
- 01 Sep 2023
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books
Edited by Margie Kelley The Happiness Handbook By Landon Carter (MBA 1967) Marshall and McClintic Publishing Have you ever wished you had the instruction manual for being a happy human on planet Earth? This book will answer some of life’s fundamental questions: Who am... View Details
- 07 Apr 2015
- News
Warrior Spirit
the number of employees had grown to 140. Sityodtong then moved to New York City, where he bought his mother an apartment and launched a career on Wall Street as a hedge fund manager. Having enough money to take care of his family had... View Details
- 01 Jun 2008
- News
You Only Thought You Were Republican
care will they enjoy if you need to downsize and lay some of them off? I know you. You care about these things. It concerns you that the gap between upper-class Americans and everyone else has grown so... View Details
- 01 Dec 2022
- News
Singing to the Corn
preventing diabetes in indigenous populations. “I quickly realized that business alone was not enough to reverse the dysfunction of some tribal economies,” says Keen. Earlier, he’d experienced the fallout of an LBO at Maine shipbuilder... View Details
- 25 Aug 2022
- News
Up on the Corner
happened” across the city along racial and ethnic lines. In the early 20th century, Baltimore pioneered the use of racially discriminatory housing ordinances and deed covenants that prevented Blacks, Jews, and other minorities from buying... View Details
- 20 Jan 2023
- News
Free Spirits
pair reinvented the process. Athletic’s proprietary system prevents the fermentation process from generating ethanol in the first place, an innovation that opened up a new range of NA opportunities. Where, previously, only lagers had been... View Details
- 20 Jan 2015
- News
Patient Medical Records, Pocket-sized
health care system. Bushkin’s unassuming item is MedKaz®, a 4-GB flash drive carried on a keychain or in a wallet that can hold a lifetime of medical records, giving patients control over their data and providing a full picture for... View Details
- 22 Feb 2022
- News
The Well-Healed Athlete
to studying athletes of different ages, genders, and ethnicities to better understand the potential of the healthy human body and to improve knowledge of injury prevention and rehabilitation. The goal is to give people of all abilities... View Details
- 22 Feb 2022
- News
Elevator Pitch: Good Vibrations
Illustration by Drue Wagner Illustration by Drue Wagner Bone Health Technologies Laura Yecies (MBA 1988), CEO Concept: OsteoBoost, a wearable vibration belt that is designed to treat osteopenia and prevent osteoporosis by reducing bone... View Details
- 01 Mar 2015
- News
Clubs Hopping
care tools in several Ebola-affected West African countries where IBM has introduced education and data-gathering mobile applications to improve prevention and treatment. View Details
- 01 Dec 2013
- News
Your Own Medicine
level of creatine kinase—an enzyme indicative of muscle damage—in a normal person's blood is around 50 units per liter, maybe as high as 100 after a workout. Charley's was 20,000. It suggested muscular dystrophy. Related Links Curing Health View Details
- 22 Sep 2015
- News
Promoting a Healthy Policy Agenda
My particular focus in the public policy area within health care has been focusing on promoting policies around prevention and wellness, the thinking being that, if we can help people to stay healthy—keep... View Details
- 28 May 2019
- News
Cure All
interactions between health care providers and payers, as well as antitrust enforcement. Here, they discuss what it would take to improve the provision of care. Say you’re settling into your seat for a short-haul flight, and your seatmate... View Details
- 01 Mar 2009
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A New Approach to Health-Care Reform
the fixed-fee system, filling cavities is a cost, not a revenue opportunity. So the financial incentive supports preventive care. So a system where health providers offer comprehensive care for a fixed fee... View Details
- 01 Jun 2010
- News
Cardiac Kid
has more than 1,000 workers and expects revenues of about $280 million this year. “The company was founded basically to prevent heart attacks,” Huennekens told the San Diego Union-Tribune (January 25, 2010). To that end, Volcano makes... View Details
- 21 Nov 2024
- News
Mother Nurture
health. “We’d all had experiences that left us feeling that the current health care system wasn’t serving us, as women,” Keshani says. The name Seven Starling was inspired by the flocking behavior of starlings. By following their seven... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley