WPA Presidential Address; Ethnic minority issues: Lessons learned from 40 years of research

In Minneapolis–St Paul, Minnesota, factors such as cultural and linguistic diversity make it difficult for public health agencies to reach immigrant and racial/ethnic minority populations with health initiatives. Founded in 2006, the Minnesota Immunization Networking Initiative (MINI) is a community project that has provided more than 80 000 free influenza vaccinations to vulnerable populations, including immigrants and racial/ethnic minority groups. MINI administered 5910 vaccinations through 99 community-based vaccination clinics during the 2017-2018 influenza season and surveyed the clients in their own language about influenza vaccination knowledge and practices. Among those surveyed, 2545 (43.1%) were uninsured and 408 (6.9%) received a first-time influenza vaccination at the MINI clinic. A total of 2893 (49.0%) respondents heard about the clinic through their faith community. Lessons learned included the importance of building relationships with community leaders and involving them as full partners, holding clinics in community-based settings to bring vaccinations to clients, and reporting outcomes to partners.

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Progress on the introduction of supervisory ward manager roles since the Francis report recommendations

British Journal of Nursing ◽

10.12968/bjon.2019.28.11.702 ◽

2019 ◽

Vol 28 (11) ◽

pp. 702-707

Author(s):

Paul Regan ◽

Sarah Shillitoe-Kehoe

Keyword(s):

Clinical Practice ◽

Patient Care ◽

Ethnic Minority ◽

Lessons Learned ◽

Minority Leadership ◽

Department Of Health ◽

Original Action ◽

Quality Of Patient Care ◽

The Subject

Recommendation 195 of the Francis report suggested that the introduction of supervisory ward managers into clinical practice could improve the quality of patient care in England. The Department of Health and NHS Commissioning Board's vision and strategy Compassion in Practice in 2012 restated the recommendation in action area four, with trusts required to publish progress. With the aim of identifying whether the lessons of the Francis report had been learned, a review of the published literature since 2012 retrieved only five articles on the subject, with many anecdotal accounts of its implementation in local trusts. The three subsequent update reports of Compassion in Practice stopped backing recommendation 195 and promoted black and ethnic minority leadership, a laudable initiative, but not a recommendation of the Francis report. The authors suggest recommendation 195 and Compassion in Practice's original action area four should be promoted again to ensure public safety and address the notion that lessons learned are less likely to be repeated.

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Naval aviation and neurosurgery: traditions, commonalities, and lessons learned

Journal of Neurosurgery ◽

10.3171/jns-07/12/1067 ◽

2007 ◽

Vol 107 (6) ◽

pp. 1067-1073 ◽

Cited By ~ 2

Author(s):

Donald O. Quest

Keyword(s):

American Association ◽

Presidential Address ◽

Lessons Learned ◽

Naval Aviation

✓In his presidential address to the American Association of Neurological Surgeons, the author recounts lessons he learned while training to be a Naval Aviator and later a neurosurgeon. He describes his life as an aviator and neurosurgeon, compares naval aviation and neurosurgery, and points out lessons that neurosurgery can learn from naval aviation.

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American Pediatric Society 2015 presidential address: life’s lessons learned

Pediatric Research ◽

10.1038/pr.2015.139 ◽

2015 ◽

Vol 78 (5) ◽

pp. 597-600

Author(s):

Catherine D. DeAngelis

Keyword(s):

Presidential Address ◽

Lessons Learned ◽

Pediatric Society

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“Geography of Opportunity”: Poverty, Place, and Educational Outcomes

Educational Researcher ◽

10.3102/0013189x08326409 ◽

2008 ◽

Vol 37 (7) ◽

pp. 397-411 ◽

Cited By ~ 94

Author(s):

William F. Tate

Keyword(s):

United States ◽

Educational Research ◽

Educational Outcomes ◽

Presidential Address ◽

The United States ◽

Lessons Learned ◽

Metropolitan Regions ◽

Geography Of Opportunity ◽

Political Economies ◽

Methodological Approaches

This article is an expanded version of the 2008 American Educational Research Association’s Presidential Address. The purpose of the article is to describe the geography of opportunity in two metropolitan regions of the United States that are engaged in significant efforts to transform their local political economies. Both metropolitan regions have invested substantive resources into the development of an area of industrial science—one in telecommunications, one in biotechnology. A central underlying question in this article is, How does geography influence opportunity? The article’s two case studies investigate this question, using different methodological approaches. The article concludes with two important lessons learned from the research.

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W. Dean Warren, MD, FACS, Father of Selective Shunts for Variceal Hemorrhage: Lessons Learned

The American Surgeon ◽

10.1177/0003134820942146 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 86 (9) ◽

pp. 1049-1055

Author(s):

William O. Richards

Keyword(s):

Alimentary Tract ◽

Presidential Address ◽

Lessons Learned ◽

Surgical Patients ◽

Endoscopic Sclerotherapy ◽

Variceal Hemorrhage ◽

Distal Splenorenal Shunt ◽

First Line ◽

First Line Treatment ◽

Selective Shunt

Dr Dean Warren was born in 1924 and died prematurely from cancer in 1989. He was a man of uncommon intelligence, wit, collegiality, integrity, honesty, and a true leader in American surgery. In 1966, he and his colleagues (Drs Zeppa and Fomon) presented a new concept for surgical shunts to control variceal hemorrhage while maintaining portal perfusion or hepatopetal blood flow. He termed this new shunt the distal splenorenal shunt (DSRS), which was the first selective shunt invented. The DSRS selective shunt was a brilliant improvement over the total shunt concept proposed by Nicolai Eck and was practiced worldwide during the 1980s. In a space of 2 decades, Dr Warren’s pioneering work would show that the selective DSRS was superior to total shunts for treatment of portal hypertension, but that endoscopic sclerotherapy was a better first-line treatment for variceal hemorrhage than his own creation. His absolute adherence to the principles he espoused in his presidential address to the Society for Surgery of the Alimentary Tract in 1973 were employed in his research and treatment of patients. This paper details Dr Warren’s extraordinary research accomplishments and sets a lesson for us that well-designed clinical trials including randomization are essential in the advancement of the care of surgical patients.

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