"well beyond the scope of a given news market, to animals (Secretariat), to two or more persons in the event of a tie, and to groups of persons whose membership is not clear (Ebola fighters). Also the award is presented annually by some organizations but may be a one-off or occasional event for others. The award can be facetious or serious. The chosen person is usually someone who has been notably influential or prominent during the year and could also be a hero or villain. Unlike most awards, it is externally oriented; the award is given to someone who is"
"Salome Karwah Salomé Karwah ( – February 21, 2017) was a Liberian nurse who was named co-Person of the Year by ""Time magazine"" in 2014 for her efforts to combat the West African Ebola virus epidemic in Liberia. She appeared on the cover of ""Time"" in December 2014 with other health care workers and colleagues working to end the epidemic. Karwah survived ebola herself before returning to work to help other patients afflicted with the disease. The actions of Karwah, who worked with Médecins Sans Frontières (Doctors Without Borders) (MSF) and other health care professionals, are believed to have saved"
"full-time doctors (with thousands more consultants working in multiple part-time roles), 149,000 nurses and midwives (23,000 of whom were part-time), 128,000 ancillary staff (catering, laundry, cleaning and maintenance), 25,000 administrative and clerical staff, and 19,000 professional and technical staff, of whom the 2,800 physiotherapists, 1,600 laboratory technicians and 2,000 radiographers were the largest groups. This workforce would continue to grow throughout the 20th and 21st Centuries, overtaking the National Coal Board to become Britain's largest employer in 1961. By the end of the 1970s, the NHS had passed 1,000,000 staff and in 2015 was the world's fifth largest work organisation"
"the Third World; Dr. Jerry Brown, a 2013 graduate of an affiliated program in Cameroon was among the ""Ebola Fighters"" named as the Time Person of the Year for 2014. The Dr Tom Dooley Foundation has an endowed scholarship at the St. Louis University Medical School called the Dr. Tom Dooley Memorial Scholarship Program and is intended ""to inspire students to follow the footsteps of Dr. Tom Dooley...in caring for thousands of refugees in Southeast Asia."" The Dr Tom Dooley Foundation also an endowed scholarship at the University of New Mexico, in the pediatric residency, to enable residents to travel"
"Alliance of International Doctors Alliance of International Doctors (AID, Uluslararası Doktorlar Derneği in Turkish) is an organization established by a group of volunteer doctors, pharmacists, dentists, and nurses in Istanbul in 2011. AID provides medical assistance to the people in the regions affected by disasters and poverty. The president of the organization is Dr. Mevlit Yurtseven. AID delivers medicine and hygiene items and deploys medical teams to the regions affected by natural disasters, war and violence. AID medical teams provided primary health care to the 2015 earthquake victims in Nepal. AID worked in The Philippines following Typhoon Haiyan as well"
"Alliance of International Doctors Alliance of International Doctors (AID, Uluslararası Doktorlar Derneği in Turkish) is an organization established by a group of volunteer doctors, pharmacists, dentists, and nurses in Istanbul in 2011. AID provides medical assistance to the people in the regions affected by disasters and poverty. The president of the organization is Dr. Mevlit Yurtseven. AID delivers medicine and hygiene items and deploys medical teams to the regions affected by natural disasters, war and violence. AID medical teams provided primary health care to the 2015 earthquake victims in Nepal. AID worked in The Philippines following Typhoon Haiyan as well"
"Rosalynn Carter, who received the Justice Prize. Additionally, the James J. Dudley Luce Foundation awarded her the first annual Clare Boothe Luce Award for International Service in 2017. In 2016, she was appointed to The World Economic Forum's Expert Advisory Global Futures Council on the Future of Health and Healthcare. Other members include Dame Sally Davies, Chief Medical Officer for England, and Peter Piot, the co-discoverer of the Ebola virus and Time's 2014 Person of the Year, and others. Khaliya sits on the advisory committee for the world's leading accelerator for neuroscience apps, NeuroLaunch. Khaliya was also on the founding"
"100 medical and public health organizations in the U.S., including the American College of Physicians, the American Public Health Association, the American Cancer Society, the American Heart Association, and the American Diabetes Association. His nomination was also endorsed by numerous op-eds and editorial boards including ""The New England Journal of Medicine"" and ""The New York Times"". He received the endorsements of two former Surgeons General, David Satcher and Regina Benjamin. Another former Surgeon General, Richard Carmona, opposed the appointment based on, at the time, Murthy's age and ""very limited public health education and experience."" On December 15, 2014, Murthy's appointment"
"and then die in the larger yet silent epidemic of health system failure … I have no words."" Karwah's life was remembered on BBC Radio 4's obituary programme ""Last Word"" by ""Time"" magazine’s Africa correspondent, Aryn Baker. Salome Karwah Salomé Karwah ( – February 21, 2017) was a Liberian nurse who was named co-Person of the Year by ""Time magazine"" in 2014 for her efforts to combat the West African Ebola virus epidemic in Liberia. She appeared on the cover of ""Time"" in December 2014 with other health care workers and colleagues working to end the epidemic. Karwah survived ebola"
"and recommended 'emotional resilience' training for doctors. The Health and Safety Executive's (HSE) provisional figure for the number of workers fatally injured in 2013/14 is 133, and corresponds to a rate of fatal injury of 0.44 deaths per 100 000 workers. According to the recent Horsfall review the size of the deaths of doctors under the GMC procedures in the 8 years between 2005 and 2013 accounts for over 10% of the country’s death rate at work of the entire UK workforce, annually and consistently. According to the HSE's timeline, no other organisation, besides the GMC, has come anywhere near"
"of the Year 2014, renowned Senior Obstetrician and Gynecologist, Advanced Laparoscopy Surgeon, and a best-selling Penguin author. She is a powerful advocate for better policies in TB across the world. As CEO, Sandeep has led the organization since 2006. He was member of the Board of the Stop TB Partnership from 2009-2012 where he represented NGOs of developing countries. Before founding Operation ASHA, Sandeep served for many years as additional commissioner for the Government of India. Operation ASHA has established DOTS (Directly Observed Therapy, Short-Course) clinics in existing and accessible locations such as businesses, temples, and pharmacies where field staff"
"The Alliance for Surgery and Anesthesia Presence (ASAP) The Alliance for Surgery and Anesthesia Presence is a multidisciplinary society of surgeons, anesthesiologists, obstetricians and public health specialists organized to improve the delivery of surgical care, particularly in low and middle income countries. The body, named the Burden of Surgical Disease Working Group at its founding in 2007, was renamed in 2010. It became an international society in 2013 under the umbrella of the International Surgery Society. The Burden of Surgical Disease Working Group was co-founded by Kelly McQueen, MD, MPH and Doruk Ozdigez, MD, MPH, originally convening a small group"
"reach of hospitals and clinics. They can provide a range of proven, lifesaving services including maternal and newborn care, child health, and management of chronic and communicable diseases, such as tuberculosis, AIDS and diabetes. Yet according to the World Health Organization, there is a global shortage of at least one million frontline health workers. In 2014 to mark the three-year anniversary of the Syrian civil war Save the Children released a campaign video about what life would be like for British kids if a civil war erupted in London. The video reached over 20 million views in less than a"
"named by the Health Service Journal as one of the top hundred NHS trusts to work for in 2015. At that time it had 2577 full-time equivalent staff and a sickness absence rate of 4.04%. 64% of staff recommend it as a place for treatment and 53% recommended it as a place to work. Yvette Bynoe, who works for the Trust in West London, was awarded the title School Nurse of the Year at the Community Practitioners and Health Visitors Association Awards ceremony in April 2015. In April 2016 it took over community service for Merton CCG practices. In October"
"the Health Service Journal as being one of the top 100 influential clinical leaders in England and the top 50 inspirational women in the UK in 2013. She was awarded Fellowship of the Royal College of Nursing in 2014, an award given to UK registered nurses who have made an exceptional contribution to the advancement of nursing and health care as a profession. With Mark Butler, Director of The People Organisation, Andrews was author of Trusted to Care, an independent report on the care of frail older people in general hospitals in Wales, which gave rise to an immediate review"
"business in a 2014 list compiled by Fast Company. The magazine said it chose Dudley ""for splicing information with quality medical care."" In 2014 the institute, in collaboration with Sage Bionetworks, announced a new project aiming to genotype up to 1 million people with the goal of identifying the rare biological mechanisms that keep people healthy when they have genetic variants that should cause disease. The Resilience Project will scan the genomes of healthy people age 30 and older who contribute their DNA to the effort with an initial focus on 127 diseases. Scientists anticipate that finding protective mechanisms for"
"chronic shortages of health workers around the world due to decades of underinvestment in their education, training, salaries, working environment and management. The day was also meant to celebrate individual health workers – the people who provide health care to those who need it, in other words those at the heart of health systems. The Day also marked the launch of the WHO's ""World Health Report 2006"", which focused on the same theme. The report contained an assessment of the current crisis in the global health workforce, revealing an estimated shortage of almost 4.3 million physicians, midwives, nurses and other"
"in 1991 to recognize those who have made major contributions to education for family practice in undergraduate, graduate and continuing education spheres. In a press release from the New York State Academy of Family Physicians, it was announced that Linda Prine was the winner of the 2014 Educator of the Year award. The June 6th, 2014 release read, ""Dr. Linda Prine is a nationally recognized leader and educator in reproductive health."" Each year Physician's for Reproductive Choice and Health honors a reproductive health care physician who provides outstanding abortion care. According to their website the ""William K. Rashbaum, MD, Abortion"
"NHS by strengthening medical device legislation and language testing for non-British workers. She felt the European Working Time Directive which restricts working hours in the NHS needed to be relaxed to enable more hours of training. The Royal College of Surgeons of England later sent out a press release clarifying that they did not endorse a return to excessive hours for NHS workers. Clare Marx Dame Clare Lucy Marx, DBE DL, FRCS SFFMLM (born March 1954) is the former President of the Royal College of Surgeons of England from July 2014 to July 2017, the first woman to hold the"
"Médecins du Monde Médecins du monde (MdM; ) or Doctors of the World, provides emergency and long-term medical care to the world's most vulnerable people. It also advocates to end health inequities. It was founded in 1980 by a group of 15 French physicians, including Bernard Kouchner. It works in both the developed and developing world. MdM was formally established on 1 February 1980. Its goals were ""to go where others will not, to testify to the intolerable, and to volunteer"". Its origins lay in a 1979 intervention to assist a drifting boat of Vietnamese refugees in the South China"
"healers, artists, and moguls. The honorees on the 2015 list were in no particular order. The 2015 list was divided into nine categories; decision-makers, challengers, innovators, advocates, artists, healers, stewards, chroniclers, and moguls. The categories of ""naturals"" and ""agitators"" from 2014 were replaced with the ""stewards"" category. The honorees on the 2016 list were in no particular order. The 2016 list was divided into the same nine categories as the 2015 list. The honorees on the 2017 list were in no particular order. FP Top 100 Global Thinkers ""Foreign Policy"" magazine recognizes the world's pre-eminent thought leaders and public intellectuals"
"for Healthcare Research and Quality from August 2013 until March 2016, when he stepped down to return to his position at UCSD. When his resignation was first announced, Sylvia Burwell, the then-United States Secretary of Health and Human Services, said that ""The value of AHRQ's work, and his leadership in developing that work, was never more important than it was in the past year when AHRQ's funding was at risk."" Kronick was named one of ""Modern Healthcare""s 100 Most Influential People in 2014; that same year, he was elected to the National Academy of Medicine. Kronick married Amy Beth Bridges"
"provided disaster relief for people impacted by the 2010 Haiti earthquake, the 2011 Tōhoku earthquake and tsunami, the Ebola virus epidemic in West Africa, and the April 2015 Nepal earthquake. International Medical Corps International Medical Corps is a global humanitarian nonprofit organization established by volunteer doctors and nurses. The organization is a global first responder during disaster and humanitarian crisis providing emergency medical relief, delivering health care to underserved regions, building clinics, and training local health care workers with the goal of creating self-reliant, self-sustaining medical services and infrastructure in places where that had previously been lacking. International Medical Corps"
"(14th). In this same classification, the Victor Palmer Health Group, equipped with a solid ""mother-to-child hub"", gained a 5th place in the table for the gynaecological clinics and an 8th place for breast cancers. In 2005, the CHU of Amiens became of international renown thanks to Professor Bernard Devauchelle, a native of the city, where his team performed the first partial face transplant in the world. Thanks to the youth of its population, the dynamism and the success of its sports clubs, Amiens has been awarded the title of by the ""L'Equipe"" newspaper in 1999. She had already won the"
"in the 2014 Birthday Honours, for services to healthcare. Andrew Vallance-Owen Andrew John Vallance-Owen MBE[Masters degree in Business Administration |MBA]] FRCSEd FRSA (born 1951) is a British physician. Andrew Vallance-Owen received his early education at Epsom College. Vallance-Owen graduated with the degree of MBChB in Medicine from Birmingham University in 1976 where he was President of the Guild of Students 1974-5 Vallance-Owen was Medical Director and Chief Medical Officer of the Bupa Group from 1995 to 2012. He was deputy chairman of the Bupa Foundation from 1998 to 2012. He was chairman of the Department of Health's Patient Reported Outcomes"
"among others.<br> More than 15,000 physicians, research scientists, and nurses and other allied healthcare professionals (32 percent of whom work outside the United States). The interests of members are represented by the Society's 14 specialty-specific assemblies and 2 sections. With the overarching goal of advancing the Society's mission, each chapter represents a state or other geographical area and includes, in its membership ATS members. The ATS also works to engage its members around the globe. In 2015, the ATS allegedly added information to the Wikipedia article about the organization and that user was banned from Wikipedia (blocked in Wikipedia lingo)."
"exceeds the national average of 87.5%. The Health Service Journal named WWL as Provider Trust of the Year in November 2014 on the basis that their strong focus on staff engagement had helped them to reduce mortality rates while achieving a cash surplus. It also won the awards for Improving Environmental and Social Sustainability and Patient Safety. In 2015, it was named by the Health Service Journal as the second best acute trust to work for. At that time, it had 4,169 full-time equivalent staff and a sickness absence rate of 4.71%. 78% of staff recommend it as a place"
"Pete Conrad; and former congressman, Dana Rohrbacher. In 2014, the award was given to a group of national consumer advocates. Among their numerous accomplishments, these individuals have written and published peer-reviewed medical articles, co-authored The National Quality Forum Safe Practices for Better Healthcare. They were honored for their perseverance in championing the cause of patient safety for over a decade. The 2018 award winners are both individuals and a team. Sorrel King, Sue Sheridan, and Heather Foster are individual champions for patient safety who have exhibited the courage, faith, and tenacity to speak truth to power on behalf of patients"
"taking a position at United HealthCare. Shortly after taking the position he was promoted to Chief Medical Officer. Within weeks of taking this position, his departure from the position and the company was confirmed, although no reason was given. In 2008, he was named in ""Time"" magazine's 100 most influential people in the world, and was also named a MacArthur Fellow. In 2011, Pronovost was recognized for his outstanding professional achievement and commitment to service with election to membership in the Institute of Medicine, one of the highest honors in the fields of health and medicine. On March 28, 2013,"
"pathology department in 2013. Famous people born at Glan Clwyd include double Olympic gold medallist Jade Jones. A report by Donna Ockenden claiming “institutionalised abuse” at the Tawel Fan psychiatric ward at the Ablett Unit was published in May 2015. Families described seeing patients ""constantly crawling on dirty floors"" and being ""like a zombie...drugged up"". As a result, seven employees were referred to the Nursing and Midwifery Council and three to the General Medical Council. Chief Executive Trevor Purt described the treatment of some patients as “shocking, inexcusable and unacceptable”. Hip replacement surgery waiting times (112 weeks) at the hospital"
"and other recognition, including TIME Magazine’s 2014 Time 100 list of the ""100 Most Influential People in the World"", Prospect magazine 2015 list of “Top 50 World Thinkers”, Marquis Who’s Who 2018 Lifetime Achievement Award, the 2013 “Il Leone di San Marco Award in Medicine” (Italian Heritage and Culture Committee, along with Regis Philbin, who received the award in Entertainment), a 2010 National Institutes of Health (NIH) Director’s Award for “Translating Basic Science Discoveries into New and Better Treatments”; a 2010 “Movers and Shakers” Who Will Shape Biotech Over the Next 20 Years (BioWorld, along with Craig Venter and President"
"number of hours recommended as safe"". In August 2014, healthcare workers represented nearly 10 percent of cases and fatalities—significantly impairing the capacity to respond to an outbreak in an area already facing severe shortages. By 1 July 2015, the WHO reported that a total of 874 health workers had been infected, of which 509 had died. Among the fatalities was Samuel Brisbane, a former adviser to the Liberian Ministry of Health and Social Welfare, described as ""one of Liberia's most high-profile doctors"". In July 2014, leading Ebola doctor Sheik Umar Khan from Sierra Leone also died in the outbreak. In"
"Jay Consulting, and Schumacher Group Emergency Care ""Innovation of the Year 2014"". Kirk B. Jensen Kirk B. Jensen is an American author and an educator. Jensen began his medical career as the medical director of the emergency department at Memorial Hospital in Michigan City, Indiana. In 1998 Jensen became a faculty member of the Institute for Healthcare Improvement. Jensen served on the expert panel and site examination team of Urgent Matters, a Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Initiative focusing on elimination of ED and Hospital crowding and preservation of the health care safety net, and presents expert insights through the George"