Syiah Kuala University

Syiah Kuala University (), founded on 2 September 1961, is the largest and the oldest national university in Banda Aceh, Indonesia. The name of the university is taken from the prominent theologian, Tengku Abdur Rauf As Singkili, who lived in the 16th century.
Unsyiah has twelve faculties, providing Associate, Bachelor, and master's degrees. Unsyiah has 131 laboratories for student lab work, student and lecturer experiments, and community service. The laboratories are spread across departments and faculties as follows: economics 2, veterinary science 11, law 1 engineering 29, agriculture 17, medical 27, mathematics and natural sciences 26, and one integrated laboratory.
History.
In the government's period of Sultan Iskandar Muda, Aceh became the science development centre. The students and the teachers came from around the world, such as Turkish Sultanate, Iran, and India. During 1957, the beginning of the Acehnese Province was formed, the leaders of the Acehnese government agreed to place the foundation for the development of Acehnese regional education. On 21 April 1958, Yayasan Dana Kesejahteraan Aceh (YDKA) was formed.
YDKA was led by Regent M. Husen and afterward by Governor Ali Hasjmy. On 29 June 1958, the ruler of the Acehnese formed a special commission. The creator's commission was chaired by Governor Ali Hasjmy and Lieutenant Colonel T. Hamzah as the vice-chairman. His first work was to create Darussalam city as for student's city and Syiah Kuala for the name of university. Efforts were carried out by YDKA with the founder of the commission to bring about the Darussalam development and Syiah Kuala University.
The student's city of Darussalam was officially opened by President Sukarno on 2 September 1959, accompanied by the cover opening of the Darussalam monument and the appointment of the first faculty of the Syiah Kuala University: the Faculty of Economics. The next 2 September was appointed as the Day of Education of Nanggroe Aceh Darussalam and is commemorated every year by the Acehnese people.
The embryo of Unsyiah was begun from the Faculty of Economics and was continued with the formation of the Faculty of Veterinary Science and Animal Husbandry in 1960. Unsyiah as a university officially began on 21 June 1961. Along with that, Unsyiah opened the Faculty of Teacher Training and Pedagogy, and the Law Faculty and Human Knowledge. The development was followed by the founding of the Engineering Faculty, Agricultural Faculty, General Medicine Faculty, and Mathematic and Natural Science Faculty.
In 1998, Syiah Kuala University received a new student for a doctorate degree program in the field of Economic Knowledge.
Since being established, Unsyiah has been led by Colonel M. Jasin, Drs. Marsuki Nyak Man. A. Madjid Ibrahim, henceforth Prof. Dr. Ibrahim Hasan, MBA., Prod. Dr. Abdullah Ali, M.Sc., Dr. M. Ali Basyah Amin, MA., Prof. Dr. Dayan Dawood, MA., Pfeuidrof. Dr. Abdi A. Wahab, M.Sc, Prof. Dr. Darni M. Daud, M.A, and now headed by Prof. Dr. Ir. Samsul Rizal, M.Eng.
Faculties and departments.
There are twelve faculties for undergraduate programs and seven faculties for graduate programme.
Supporting facilities.
Syiah Kuala university has sport facilities such as tennis court, softball field, and football stadium. There are auditorium facilities, the Academic Activity Center (AAC) Building of Prof. Dr. Dayan Dawood, MA. Other facilities are telephone shop, internet cafe, post office, bank and ATM, public health center are on campus.
Office of Administration Center.
The Administration Center is a unit of the administration in the university consisting of several bureaus: Financial Administration Bureau, Academic Administration Bureau, Student Administration Center, and the Planning and Information Center.
Academic Activity Centre.
Academic Activity Center or Multipurpose Building is a facility donated by OECF, Japan. The construction was completed in 2003. The building is used for activities by campus or public.
Academic, research, and student service units.
The academic service unit includes the Language Center, Manpower Service Center, Guidance and Counseling Center, Printing Unit, Student Clinic, Experiment Garden, Garage, General Course Unit, Intellectual Property Right Center, Center for the Arts, American Corner/American Study Center, Living Environment Research Center, Population and Human Resource Research, Science and Technology Research, Student Dormitory, Education Research and Development Center, Women Study Center, Traditional Food Study Center, Marine Science Center, Center for Research, Development and Training in Agriculture, customary Law Study center, Human Rights Study Center, and Center for Peace and Conflict Resolution Studies.
Division and technical implementation units.
Syiah Kuala University has two division and two technical implementation units. They are Research Center and Community Service Center, Computer and Information System Center, and University Library. The library has intranet and internet connection with textbooks, reference, journals, serials, scientific writings provided by the society of academicians from Syiah Kuala University.
Quality assurance body.
An academic quality assurance system was established in 2006. The organizational structure of this body includes quality assurance at the university, faculty and department/field of study levels. At the university level, it is called the Quality Assurance Body. At the faculty level, it is called the Faculty Quality Assurance Unit, and at the department/field of study level, it is called the Academic Quality Assurance Team. At the academic staff level, there is a quality control cluster. The QA system has the motto "Keeping The Quality, Increasing The Competitiveness".
Islamic Center.
The university provides infrastructure to support spiritual development through an Islamic Center. The complex of Islamic Center is under renovation to provide it with more comfort for religious activities. Madrasah Dinayah Mosque will be relocated to the Islamic Center complex. This center is planning to conduct studies on Islam, such as the spreading of Islam in Indonesia, the contribution of Fiqh Islam in the development of Indonesia literature, Islamic architecture and other matters related to Islam, as it is the only religion embraced by the Acehnese community.


B. Braun

B. Braun is a German medical and pharmaceutical device company, which currently has more than 63,000 employees globally, and offices and production facilities in more than 60 countries. Its headquarters are located in Melsungen, in central Germany. The company was founded in 1839 and is still owned by the Braun family.
B. Braun has more than 5.000 different products for healthcare, out of 95% are manufactured by the company. In 2018, the company had a revenue of 6.908 Billion Euros.
History.
The company originated in the year 1839 as a pharmacy in Melsungen, where it started to sell medical herbs by mail to customers in Germany.
Later, a manufacturing plant was built, where production of several medical products began, mainly surgical sutures. With this product, Braun started to supply to hospitals, and added in the following decades other product lines to its manufacturing program, like intravenous solutions, monitoring apparatus and other medical devices. In the 1960s Braun became highly specialised in plastics for pharmaceutical and medical uses, and developed the first plastic container for I. V. solutions in 1956, as well as many other products for patient care in hospitals.
As the company grew, manufacturing facilities were acquired or established in the United Kingdom, France, Italy, Spain, Switzerland, Hungary, Slovakia, Czech republic, the United States, Brazil and Malaysia. B. Braun acquired Aesculap AG, a Germany-based manufacturer of surgical instruments. B. Braun and its subsidiaries employ more than 54,000 people in more than 60 countries as of 2014.
In 2009 the company was named the best company in Germany to work for.
Divisions.
On an international level, B. Braun is separated into several divisions:
The United Kingdom headquarters are located in Chapeltown, just north of Sheffield, in South Yorkshire. The United States headquarters are located in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, where the subsidiary company is known as B. Braun Medical, Inc. It sells pharmaceutical and medical products.
Aesculap.
B. Braun's Aesculap division, (/æsˈkliːp/), which includes Aesculap, Inc., its American unit, is a manufacturer of surgical equipment. It derives its name from Aesculapius, the Greek and Roman god of medicine and physicians. It manufactures a range of equipment including sutures, handheld surgical instruments, implants, and electrosurgical devices and powers systems. It also provides training to healthcare workers through its Aesculap Academy.
Aesculap was founded in 1867 in Tuttlingen, Germany by . Aesculap, Inc., its American division, was founded in 1977 in Center Valley, Pennsylvania. Aesculap AG was incorporated into the B. Braun Group in 1998.


Matthew McKay (politician)

Matthew McKay (6 October 1858 – 14 February 1937) was a Liberal party member of the House of Commons of Canada. He was born in West Gwillimbury Township, Ontario and became a dentist, dental surgeon and schoolteacher.
McKay attended high school at Bradford, Whitby Collegiate Institute, Normal School in Toronto and Queen's University in Kingston (Bachelor of Arts) and the Royal College of Dental Surgeons in Toronto.
McKay was a councillor of Pembroke, Ontario for five years and once served as the community's mayor.
He was first elected to Parliament at the Renfrew North riding in the 1921 general election. After serving one term, he was defeated by Ira Delbert Cotnam of the Conservative party in the 1925 election. After unsuccessful attempts to unseat Cotnam in 1926 and 1930, McKay returned to the House of Commons by defeating Cotnam in the 1935 election. McKay died at an Ottawa hospital on 14 February 1937 from influenza and pneumonia before completing his term in the 18th Canadian Parliament. He was survived by a wife, two daughters and a son.


Cholistan University of Veterinary and Animal Sciences

Cholistan University of Veterinary and Animal Sciences (CUVAS) is a Public University located in Bahawalpur, Punjab, Pakistan. It was established in 2014 on the initiative of Chief Minister Punjab Muhammad Shahbaz Sharif. <mapframe latitude="29.325347" longitude="71.644745" zoom="13" width="400" height="300" align="right" />
Programs.
CUVAS Bahawalpur offers the following program:
Undergraduate Programs
+Diploma Programs:


Naval Kishore Vikram

Naval Kishore Vikram (born 1970) is an Indian physician, diabetologist and a professor at the department of medicine of the All India Institute of Medical Sciences, Delhi (AIIMS Delhi). He is known for his studies in the field of metabolic disorders with special emphasis on insulin resistance and obesity and his work assisted in profiling the Indian population with regard to imbalanced dietary practices and cardiovascular risk factors. He was a member of the group which proposed guidelines for obesity management, metabolic syndrome, and dietary controls for Asian Indians. His studies have been documented by way of a number of articles and ResearchGate, an online repository of scientific articles has listed 125 of them.
A member of the Institute Ethics Committee of AIIMS Delhi, Vikram received the NASI-Scopus Young Scientist Award in 2010. The Department of Biotechnology of the Government of India awarded him the National Bioscience Award for Career Development, one of the highest Indian science awards, for his contributions to biosciences, in 2012. He is also a recipient of the AIIMS Excellence Award, which he received in 2013.


Government Medical College, Datia

Government Medical College, Datia is a full-fledged tertiary Medical college in Datia, Madhya Pradesh. It was established in the year 2018. The college imparts the degree of Bachelor of Medicine and Surgery (MBBS). Nursing and para-medical courses are also offered. The college is affiliated to Madhya Pradesh Medical Science University and is recognized by Medical Council of India. The selection to the college is done on the basis of merit through National Eligibility and Entrance Test.The college has started MBBS courses from August 2018.
Courses.
Government Medical College, Datia undertakes the education and training of students MBBS courses.


Specialty Hospital, Jordan

Specialty Hospital is a medical center in Amman, Jordan, established in 1993 under royal patronage. A 250-bed multispecialty equipped facility, it was the first hospital to attain the BS OHSAS 18001 certification and is also the owner of several other international and national accreditations and recognitions, such as MECC award, King Abdullah II award, HCAC accreditation, ISO 9002 and ISO 9001, and more.
It features equipment and facilities including an Open MRI, a 3T MRI and 64-Slice CT Scan, 10 Operating Rooms with telemedicine capabilities, an I.V.F. Genetics Lab, 36 Royal Luxury Suites, and a Specialized Concierge Office for international patients.


Adventist University of the Philippines

The Adventist University of the Philippines is a private coeducational Christian university located in Puting Kahoy, Silang, Cavite, Philippines. The university is affiliated with the Seventh-day Adventist Church and holds an autonomous status recognized by the CHED (Commission on Higher Education).
It is a part of the Seventh-day Adventist education system, the world's second largest Christian school system.
History.
The Adventist University of the Philippines was established by Seventh-day Adventist Church missionaries. In 1915, A. G. Daniels visited the Philippine Islands and laid plans for the organization of an academic institution. Daniels was followed by L. V. Finster who reported that in 1916, I. A. Steinel and O. F. Sevrens and their families had arrived to supervise the building of the Philippine Seventh-day Adventist Academy on a five-acre land located along Calle Luna in Pasay then part of the province of Rizal. The school formally opened on June 12, 1917, with 24 boys and 12 girls. The school building had classrooms on the first floor and a dormitory for the boys on the second floor. The girls stayed in an old mixed-material house which already stood on the land.
In 1925, at the Spring Council of the Far Eastern Division, it was voted that the academy be authorized to carry fourteen grades, adding one grade each year towards 1927, and that the name be changed to Philippine Junior College. Elder W. B. Amundsen was elected principal in 1927 until 1931.
At the end of 1927, 26 hectares of land was purchased in Baesa, Caloocan, then part of the Rizal province, to accommodate the increasing enrollment. Prof. L. M. Stump, president of the college in 1931 directed the construction of the buildings. In 1932 the school moved to Baesa Campus. In that same year FED permitted the junior college’s elevation to a senior one naming it Philippine Union College (PUC). The school song, “Shine on Forever” was composed in 1933.
The growing enrollment inspired the administration to purchase a bigger property which comprises 165 hectares of land located at Putting Kahoy, Silang, in the province of Cavite in 1972. 1979 saw the first batch of freshmen and sophomore students at this new campus and in 1981, with the movement of the juniors and seniors from Baesa, the campus transfer was completed.
On August 1, 1996, in accordance with Republic Act (RA) No. 7722 and by the virtue of Resolution No. 132-96, Series of 1996, the Commission on Higher Education (CHED) granted PUC University Status entailing the change of the school’s name from Philippine Union College to Adventist University of the Philippines (AUP).
The university acquired Deregulated Status on October 22, 2001, and was awarded Autonomous Status on October 27, 2003.
Arts and Sciences, Business, Education and Nursing Programs are accredited Level IV; Accountancy, Master in Business Administration and Master of Arts in Education Programs are accredited Level IV; PhD Education is accredited Level 3 by the Association of Christian Schools, Colleges and Universities Accrediting Agency, Inc. (ACSCU-AAI).
AUP is accredited as a Level IV institution by the United States-based Accrediting Association of Seventh-day Adventist Schools, Colleges and Universities.”
Academic divisions.
The university consists of nine colleges:
The university is also home to two other campuses/schools.


David Gifford Croll

Colonel David Gifford Croll, CBE (1885 - 1948), was an eminent doctor from Queensland, Australia who served during World War I and World War II. He is remembered for his outstanding service in Gallipoli and the Middle East during World War I.
Early life.
Born in Glasgow, Scotland in 1885, Croll emigrated to New Zealand with his parents, before coming to Australia aged 13. He completed his medical training at the University of Sydney, and while studying, spent five years as part of the Sydney University Scouts (SUS), attaining the rank of Warrant Officer. Back in Queensland, Croll married a local Queensland nurse, Marian Winifred (Winnie) Payne on 13 April 1912 at St Andrew's Presbyterian Church in Brisbane. Both were employed at the Brisbane Hospital.
Military career during World War I.
When war was declared in 1914, Croll, wife Winnie and brother John all enlisted within weeks of each other. Croll enlisted on 19 October, and was recommended for appointment as a Major with the 2nd Light Horse Field Ambulance, having spent almost four years since qualification as a medical practitioner with the Australian Army Medical Corps. John also joined the 2nd Light House Field Ambulance, and Winnie served with the 1st Australian General Hospital, and departed for Egypt on board HMAT A55 "Kyarra" on 21 December 1914.
Major Croll embarked from Pinkenba Wharf, Brisbane, on board HMAT A30 "Borda" on 15 December 1914 as Second in Command of the 2nd Light Horse Field Ambulance. Once in Egypt, he and his medical staff quickly came to grips with the desert conditions, but found themselves deployed to the Gallipoli Peninsula in May, and witnesses to the failed August Offensive and the bloody end of the campaign.""…the whole landscape is bathed in moonlight & looks very beautiful but the din is awful, every bullet as it passes overhead makes more noise then the rifle which fires it"." (Major Croll’s war diary, 29 May 1915)After the evacuation of the Peninsula he was promoted to lieutenant colonel and given command of the 2nd Light Horse Field Ambulance as it supported operations in Egypt and Palestine. Croll was in charge of medical services and the logistics required to treat and retrieve wounded men under fire, in open warfare.
Sister Winnie Croll had remained in Egypt with the 1st Australian General Hospital during the Gallipoli campaign, but was invalided home with pleurisy in January 1916. Gifford also returned home for a period in 1917, reporting for duty on the Hospital Transport "Euripides", which embarked from Suez on 22 January. After a short period of leave in Australia he embarked again from Sydney on 9 May and returned to the Middle East. For a short while he was assigned to command the Camel Field Ambulance, then in August 1917 was appointed Assistant Director of Medical Services (A.D.M.S.) for Anzac Mounted Division.
Croll remained in the Middle East for the rest of the war, was promoted to Colonel in April 1918 and after the armistice was appointed Deputy Director of Medical Services (D.D.M.S.) of the Australian Imperial Forces. in Egypt in March 1919. He finally embarked for home on the Hospital Transport "Dunluce Castle" on 17 July 1919. He was appointed a CBE in November 1919 for his services with military operations in Egypt.
Later life and death.
Upon his return to Australia, Doctor Croll resumed his medical practice in Sherwood, a western suburb of Brisbane, and became a well known local identity. He served again in World War II, and in 1941 commanded the 112 Australian General Hospital, which later became known as Greenslopes Military Hospital or Greenslopes Repatriation Hospital. He was also founder of the British Medical Agency, formed to assist doctors in their work. He died in 1948, aged 62.
Legacy.
Croll was a foundation member of the Sherwood RSL, and he and Mrs Croll bequeathed their home to the Sub-Branch. In 1955, after Mrs Croll's death in 1954, it was dedicated as the Croll Memorial Centre. The title transferred to new premises at Corinda in 1967, and the precinct extended in 1971. Since the early 1970s, the Croll Memorial Precinct at the Sherwood Indooroopilly RSL Sub Branch has been a local centre for commemorative services.
Croll's extensive collection of personal and official diaries, reports, memoranda and photographs are held in the collections of the State Library of Queensland.


Rural Training School, Kintampo

The Rural Training School is public tertiary health institution in Kintampo formerly in the Brong Ahafo Region and currently in the Bono East Region of Ghana. The school is in the Kintampo District. The activities of the institution is supervised by the Ministry of Education. The Nurses and Midwifery Council (NMC) is the regulates the activities, curriculum and examination of the student nurses and midwives. The Council's mandate Is enshrined under section 4(1) of N.R.C.D 117.


Hans Renschler

Hans Renschler (April 19, 1925 – April 30, 2011), born in Stuttgart, Germany, was a scientist in the field of internal medicine and medical didactics. He was also the founder and director of the Institut für Didaktik der Medizin at the University of Bonn.
Research work.
Among his many publications, some stand out: Measuring low levels of glucose in urine to monitor health, meanwhile a routine clinical test, was first standardized and published in 1965 by Renschler.
An obituary was published 11/15/2011.


Cletus Nzebunwa Aguwa

Cletus Nzebunwa Aguwa was the first academic clinical pharmacist to be employed in Nigeria. He was also the first Professor of Clinical Pharmacy in Africa.
Early life and education.
He studied at St. Joseph's School, Eke Nguru (Now Central School, Eke Nguru) in Aboh Mbaise, Imo State for his primary education. He also studied at Holy Ghost College, Owerri, through the Eastern Nigerian Regional Scholarship (1960–1964). Thereafter, he proceeded to Trinity High School, Oguta for two years higher programme (1965–1966). He studied Pharmacy at Howard University College of Pharmacy, Washington D.C., USA and achieved a Bachelor of Science in Pharmacy. In 1987, he became the first Professor of Clinical Science in Black Africa.
Appointments.
After his studies at Howard University, he was offered employment as Assistant Professor of Clinical Pharmacy at Howard for four years (1974–1978). He was then employed by the Faculty of Pharmaceutical Sciences, University of Nigeria, Nsukka.
Fellowships.
He was a fellow at Pharmaceutical Society of Nigeria (FPSN) and the West African Postgraduate College of Pharmacists (FPCPharm).


Nathaniel Burnett Ham

Nathaniel Burnett Ham (1865-1954), also known as Bertie Ham was an Australian physician. He studied at Guy's in London and became a member of the Royal College of Surgeons and a licentiate of the Royal College of Physicians in 1896. He obtained an MD from the Université Libre de Bruxelles in 1900. In Australia he became Queensland's first commissioner of public health in 1903, in which role he did important work in the study of bubonic plague and its relationship with the flea. His findings were published in his "Report on Plague in Queensland, 1900-07". He returned to England in 1913 and after service in World War I continued his career in England for the remainder of his life.


Giulia Enders

Giulia Enders (born 1990 in Mannheim) is a German writer and scientist whose first book "Gut: The Inside Story of Our Body's Most Underrated Organ", has sold more than two million copies in Germany and that was published in English, French (more than one million copies sold), Italian, Spanish, Arabic and other translations in 2015.
Biography.
Enders is enrolled in the doctoral (PhD) programme in gastroenterology at Goethe University in Frankfurt, Germany. In 2012, she won the first prize at the Science Slam in Freiburg, Berlin and Karlsruhe with her talk "Darm mit Charme" ("Charming Bowels"). This talk was also published on YouTube. Enders received the offer to write a book about this subject that has sat atop the German paperback charts shortly after the release in March 2014. The drawings for the book were made by her older sister Jill Enders. She appeared in the German talk-shows "3 nach 9" and "Markus Lanz".
"Darm mit Charme" was published in March 2014; in July 2014, the editor Ullstein Verlag announced that 500,000 copies were sold. The rights for the book have been sold in 18 countries.
In her book, she explains the functions and the importance of the human gastrointestinal tract. She also criticises the excess of hygiene in society and its impact on the immune system (hygiene hypothesis).
She is currently working on her thesis about the topic "Acinetobacter baumannii" that can cause infected wounds, respiratory diseases and blood poisoning. She would like to become a gastroenterologist afterwards.


The Japanese Red Cross Kyushu International College of Nursing

 is a private university in Munakata, Fukuoka, Japan, established in 2001.


Osmania General Hospital

Osmania General Hospital (OGH) is one of the oldest hospitals in India located at Afzal Gunj, Hyderabad and is named after its founder – Mir Osman Ali Khan, the last Nizam of Hyderabad. It is run by the Government of Telangana, and is one of the largest in the state. It was built at a construction cost of 2,00,00,000.
The hospital building, a heritage structure is in dire need of repairs and renovation.
History.
The Afzal Gunj Hospital, the predecessor of the Osmania General Hospital, was established in 1866 by Salar Jung I.
The present hospital building was completed in 1919 on orders of the last Nizam of Hyderabad, Mir Osman Ali Khan. It was designed by British architect Vincent Jerome Esch and Nawab Khan Bahadur Mirza Akbar Baig in Indo-Sarcenic style. In 1926, the wards of the Afzal Gunj hospital were transferred to the new building.
The history of the hospital includes Dr. Yusuf Mirza, the 1st RMO (Resident Medical Officer).
Dr. K Gopal Rao was one of the team of doctors when started along with the RMO. Names of these doctors are still there at the General Ward entrance.
In 2015, the Chief Minister of Telangana, K. Chandrashekhar Rao announced a plan to demolish the building. This sparked outrage among heritage activists, and he immediately retracted the statement.
Facilities.
The hospital has more than a thousand beds.


Papaarangi Mary-Jane Reid

Papaarangi Mary-Jane Reid (born 1954) is a New Zealand public health academic of Te Rarawa descent and, as of 2019, is a full professor at the University of Auckland.
Academic career.
After medical degrees at the University of Auckland, Reid joined, rising to full professor.
In 2007 Reid won the Public Health Association's Tū Rangatira mō te Ora award.


Jack Tizard

Jack Tizard (25 February 1919 – 2 August 1979) was a research psychologist, Professor of Child Development, Research Unit Director, international adviser on learning disability and child care, and a President of the British Psychological Society.
Introduction.
Jack Tizard was born in New Zealand but spent most of his professional life in England where, as a psychologist, he worked at the boundaries of psychology, medicine, education and the social sciences. His work on alternatives to institutional care in the 1950s and 1960s underpinned the subsequent development of ‘ordinary life’ models for children and adults with learning disabilities. His later work focused on developing services for young children and their families. Jack's approach was characterised by a commitment to using high research standards to address important social problems, ensuring through his extensive advisory activities that the results of research were available to practitioners and policy-makers.
Family history.
Jack was born on 25 February 1919 in the town of Stratford on the North Island of New Zealand where his father was a police constable.
Jack’s father, John Marsh Tizard, was born in 1885 in the small mining township of Cromwell on the South Island of New Zealand. In 1910 John married Lionelle Washington Ward and commenced training with the police. His father had died in 1908 and in 1913 his mother Emma, Jack’s grandmother, moved with most of her ten children, of whom John was the oldest surviving son, to Timaru, a seaside town on the South Island. John worked as a policeman in Timaru until being transferred to Stratford in 1916.
Tragically, Jack’s parents both contracted tuberculosis. In 1920 the family moved to Tokaanu, a village near Lake Taupo on the North Island where there were hot springs beneficial to health. Lionelle died there in 1922 aged just 33. Jack was only three years old. After her death, Jack’s father John moved back with his three children to live at Timaru on the South Island with the family of Jack’s grandmother, Emma. Jack’s father died in 1924 aged 39, when Jack was five. Jack and his two sisters were brought up by their grandmother and six aunts. Also in the household were three other orphaned grandchildren of Emma.
Early years.
Jack’s later childhood was lived through the global depression and the family suffered a degree of poverty. Jack attended Timaru Boy’s High School, a school which had, and still has, a reputation for high academic standards. His grandmother Emma died in 1935 at age 79 when Jack was 16. He obtained a scholarship to Canterbury University College of the University of New Zealand in Christchurch where he chose the subjects of psychology and philosophy. He was fortunate to have as a philosophy lecturer the renowned philosopher of logic and scientific method, Karl Popper, who had moved to New Zealand in 1937 after the Nazis came to power in his native Austria. Jack was very strongly influenced in his later commitment to scientific methodology by Karl Popper. Popper described Jack as ‘the best student I had in New Zealand’.
Jack obtained a first class degree in 1940 and was given the award of the University of New Zealand’s Senior Scholar in Philosophy.
War service.
The War had broken out before Jack completed his studies. As a pacifist, he volunteered as a member of the Medical Corps for the Second New Zealand Expeditionary Force. He spent five years in the field ambulance service in Greece, North Africa and Italy, as a medical orderly and stretcher bearer. He was involved in the major battles of El Alamein and Monte Cassino.
Move to the UK.
At the end of the War Jack took up an award he had been granted to study for a PhD at Oxford University. He travelled to the UK in December 1945. The subject he chose was social history. Jack did not like life in Oxford, including the elitism and snobbishness associated with the university. He did, though, fall in love with an undergraduate, Barbara Parker (1926-2015) and they married in December 1947. To escape Oxford and earn some money, Jack spent a short time as a part-time teacher of logic with his former teacher, Karl Popper, who had been appointed Reader (and later Professor) of Logic and Scientific Method at the London School of Economics. He then took a post as psychology lecturer at St Andrews University. Preferring research to teaching, through contacts in the British Psychological Society Jack was recommended to the psychiatrist Aubrey Lewis who was setting up a new research unit at the Maudsley Hospital in London, funded by the Medical Research Council. This was called the Occupational Adaptation Unit, later changed to the Social Psychiatry Unit. Jack began work there in April 1948. He had continued his studies at Oxford University, but downgraded his degree there from PhD to BLitt, which he was awarded in 1948. He registered for a PhD at London University which he was awarded in 1951.
Jack’s initial brief, together with his colleague Neil O’Connor, was to research the occupational potential of people with learning disabilities (then called ‘mental deficiency’ and later ‘mental handicap’, terms that are now outdated).
Politics.
At university, Jack was a member of the Radical Club and campaigned as a student for university education to be free and for the system to be less exam-bound and more relevant to real world problems.
Jack’s family experiences had reinforced a belief in the need for government action on social issues and he developed a lifelong commitment to Socialism. During Jack’s undergraduate years he had also joined the university Socialist Society and the power of Socialist ideas and policy were confirmed when the New Zealand government passed the Social Security Act 1938, covering unemployment benefit, pensions and universal health care, the first example in the world of comprehensive Welfare State provision. Jack’s war experience was of mixing with fellow soldiers from a very wide variety of backgrounds, reinforcing his distaste for class differences and class prejudice.
Jack’s wife Barbara had joined the Communist Party as an undergraduate and Jack also joined. He was a member from 1947 to 1956, when they left the party after the Soviet invasion of Hungary. Later, Jack’s former membership of the Communist Party caused him some problems in gaining visas to visit America, but because of his high reputation there these were eventually overcome. He remained a lifelong Socialist and from 1956 a member of the Labour Party.
In the mid-20th century, large numbers of people with learning disabilities were detained in institutions with little legal protection in the UK, under the 1913 Mental Deficiency Act. An organisation campaigning about the plight of people with learning disabilities detained under the 1913 Act was the National Council for Civil Liberties. Jack supported this campaign and wrote several articles which fed into the Royal Commission on the Law Relating to Mental Illness and Mental Deficiency. This reported in 1957 and led to the passing of the 1959 Mental Health Act which completely reformed the 1913 Act.
One of Jack’s major achievements was to link high quality scientific research to political agendas for change, particularly from a Socialist perspective. This was evident in his research work right from the start. His Socialism informed his use of research data in his advisory work, his choice of research topics and his criticism of the triviality of much psychological and sociological research.
Output.
Jack remained at the Social Psychiatry Research Unit from 1948 to 1964 when he was appointed Professor of Child Development at the Institute of Education, University of London. In 1973 he founded the Thomas Coram Research Unit, still under the Institute of Education, and changed his role to become Director. He remained there until his early death in 1979. During these 31 years, Jack published ten books, 74 articles in scientific journals, and 27 chapters in edited books. He also gave numerous conference papers and authored several government reports.
The Social Problem of Mental Deficiency.
Between 1948 and 1956 Jack, together with his colleague Neil O’Connor, worked on demonstrating the ability of adults with learning disabilities to learn industrial tasks and hence to improve their possibilities of obtaining work. This initially focused on the more able people, but later extended to those with a severe degree of learning disability. Around a dozen articles on this work were published in scientific journals, including the "American Journal of Mental Deficiency", thus ensuring that Jack’s work became well known in the USA.
In 1956 the research was brought together in a book with the title "The Social Problem of Mental Deficiency". If a book with that title had been published in the first half of the 20th century it would almost certainly have reflected the agenda of the Eugenics Movement: the belief that social problems such as poverty, unemployment and criminality result from learning disabilities being inherited through families, and that the solution lies in programmes of sterilisation, incarceration or even extermination. Jack and Neil’s approach was very different. They believed, and demonstrated, that people with learning disabilities could be taught skills and that they could carry out work and did not need to be detained in institutions.
Epidemiological approaches.
Jack had also developed a principle that research work should be underpinned by surveys of the extent and nature of problems – an epidemiological approach. In the early 1950s he published several studies of the prevalence and characteristics of people with learning difficulties. He also embarked, with Jacqueline Grad, on a study of 250 families with a member with learning disabilities. In 1962 he published a major study, with Nancy Goodman, of the prevalence of learning disability amongst children. Both the Wessex Project and the Isle of Wight Study, described below, rested on large epidemiological surveys. Jack’s emerging research strategy was to identify issues through comprehensive surveys, and then set up model services to address the issues and evaluate their outcomes.
The Brooklands Experiment.
Apart from the early promotion of workshops for training and employment of adults with learning disabilities, the first model service set up and evaluated by Jack was the Brooklands experiment. Brooklands was a big house at Reigate in Surrey. A group of 16 children were moved there from the Fountain Hospital in London, a large institution for children and adults with learning disabilities. The smaller scale care at Brooklands was organised on developmental rather than custodial principles, on similar lines to that provided for children without disabilities who were unable to live with their parents, and the progress of the children was compared with that of a matched group of children who remained in the hospital. The Brooklands children showed greater development especially in the areas of speech and verbal intelligence.
Community Services for the Mentally Handicapped.
Probably the most influential work in the whole of Jack’s career was the book "Community Services for the Mentally Handicapped", published in 1964. This outlined the research findings on employability, on the benefits of small scale care and on the needs of families. On the basis of this research he put forward a blueprint for a comprehensive system of care for people with learning disabilities based in their local communities: ‘community care’ that could meet their needs in a more humane and successful way. The book pioneered the thinking that would lead eventually to the closure of nearly all institutional care for people with learning disabilities in the UK and their replacement with small-scale, developmentally oriented local services. Jack’s ideas were also put forward in an influential publication by the President’s Commission on Mental Retardation in 1969, ensuring their influence in the USA as well.
The Wessex Project.
In 1962 Jack negotiated substantial long-term funding from the Department of Health for an ambitious project based on his research strategy. A doctor with experience of epidemiology and care of people with learning disabilities, Albert Kushlick, was appointed to develop and lead this project, working from the Wessex Regional Hospital Board in Winchester. The first step was to carry out a comprehensive epidemiological survey of people with learning disabilities in the population of 2 million people served by the Wessex Board. This enabled cohorts of children, and later severely disabled adults, from smaller population areas to be identified and moved from large hospitals to ‘locally based hospital units’ (LBHUs), homes of 20 places with a developmental rather than custodial emphasis situated within the areas close to their families. The feasibility of such services, and the outcomes for residents and families, would be evaluated.
The LBHUs were successfully set up and served their residents for several years, demonstrating the feasibility of this kind of service. Measurement of outcomes showed benefit to residents. Later, members of the research team turned their attention to the feasibility of providing care in very small groups in ordinary housing.
The Wessex project fed in to several parallel political and professional developments. Politically, a number of scandals of ill-treatment of people in large hospitals led to highly critical public inquiries, and in 1971 a government White Paper, "Better Services for the Mentally Handicapped", recommended a reduction of half in the number of places in hospitals and their replacement by community-based facilities. Professionally, the philosophy of ‘normalisation’, providing services that give people experiences as close as possible to those generally valued in ordinary society, had gained much support in Scandinavia, the USA, the UK and other countries.
The Child Welfare Project.
In parallel with the Wessex Project, Jack had initiated and secured funding for a study of management practices in different kinds of residential provision for children, with a focus on those with learning disabilities. These studies were published in the book "Patterns of Residential Care" in 1971. This documented in detail the findings from 16 residential services on measures of management practice. Children’s homes and local authority hostels were found to operate in a more child-centred and beneficial way than long-stay hospitals. The book included recommendations for improved practice in all residential services.
The Isle of Wight Studies.
In collaboration with the child psychiatrist Michael Rutter and a senior medical officer at the Department of Health, Kingsley Whitmore, Jack had also initiated and negotiated funding for a major study of disability amongst a complete cohort of children aged 9 to 12 years on the Isle of Wight. In the total population of the island of around 100,000 people there were 3,500 children in this age range. The collaborative project demonstrated another key feature of Jack’s research, the bringing together of different fields and disciplines in the study of social issues. The work was reported in a 400-page book "Education, Health and Behaviour" (1970), with Jack as co-editor. The main surveys were carried out in 1964 and 1965 though follow-up work continued for another ten years. The extent of intellectual or educational disability, psychiatric disorder and physical disability was assessed. It was found that one in six children had a degree of one or more of these issues sufficient to entail ‘considerable interference with their ability to lead a normal life’. The final chapter of the book discussed implications for effective service provision. In 1998 to 2000 there was a further follow-up of some of the children into mid-life, with a focus on literacy and mental health.
The Institute of Education and widening interests.
In 1964 a Chair in Child Development was established at the Institute of Education, University of London, funded by the charity then called The Spastics Society (now called Scope). The post was offered to Jack who became Professor of Child Development. His brief was to develop research as well as teaching activities that would still have an emphasis on disability but would also offer opportunities for the study of wider issues affecting children. Jack had already been involved in an epidemiological study of delinquency and maladjustment in children.
As well as continuing his involvement in the projects he had already initiated, during his time as Professor at the Institute of Education Jack widened his research interests. For example, in 1971 with his wife Barbara, he carried out a study of two-year-old children in residential nurseries, and in 1972 he spent three weeks in Jamaica, again with Barbara, studying the effects of malnutrition on child development and giving a conference paper on the topic. He expanded his advisory work and published articles on a wide range of topics as well as overseeing many research projects carried out by colleagues and students.
Thomas Coram Research Unit.
In the early 1970s Jack negotiated with the Department of Health for long-term funding of a unit dedicated solely to research projects that could be coordinated and would ensure the building up of multi-disciplinary expertise. The Thomas Coram Research Unit (TCRU), again under the auspices of the Institute of Education, was established in 1973 with Jack as Director. Between then and Jack’s death in 1979 the number of researchers increased from 18 to 37, with funding from ten different agencies. The unit continued with studies of children, and in some cases adults, with learning and other disabilities but greatly expanded studies of children in families, in foster care, in nurseries, in pre-school education and in residential care
In 1975 Jack, with Ian Sinclair and Ronald Clarke, edited the book "Varieties of Residential Experience", a collection of studies of different kinds of residential care for children and young people. This described different patterns of care and their effects on residents in homes for children with learning disabilities, residential nurseries, approved schools, probation hostels, other ‘correctional’ units and homes for autistic children. Recommendations were made for improved care.
A priority for Jack on establishing TCRU was services for young children and their families, which he thought in urgent need of reform. He applied to them his research strategy, including surveys of the conditions and needs of families and the establishment and evaluation of a model service, in this case multi-purpose Children’s Centres available to all families in their catchment areas, with two such Centres set up in inner city areas of London. Although ignored by government at the time, Children’s Centres were to become a flagship policy of the new Labour government 30 years later. Jack, together with Peter Moss and Jane Perry, set out his ideas on early childhood services in the 1976 book "All Our Children", including a central role for Children’s Centres. "All Our Children" also highlighted Jack’s concerns about childminding: that it was characterised by little research, few resources, a lack of training and ineffective regulation. He therefore initiated a major research study on this topic.
Jack was not afraid to challenge government policy. For example, in 1976 he gave a powerful rebuttal to the notion that services for young children and their families could and should be provided cheaply, at a conference with the title ‘Low Cost Day Provision for Under Fives’ organised by the Department of Health and Social Security. At the time of his death, Jack was working on a project on the involvement of parents in helping their children’s reading ability. His reports of this work were published posthumously.
Links between projects.
A theme throughout Jack’s career was the linking of projects together to enhance the findings and better inform policy implications. In his influential book "Community Care for the Mentally Handicapped", work on training and employment, on the needs of families and on residential care were brought together. There was much cross-fertilisation of ideas between the Brooklands experiment, the Wessex Project, the Child Welfare Project and later the "Varieties of Residential Experience" project. Many of the projects Jack initiated at the Institute of Education were linked, as were most of those at the Thomas Coram Research Unit. A clear rationale for this linkage was given in a report to the Chief Scientist at the Department of Health and Social Security in the year of Jack’s death. He also argues for support for research across government departments (e.g. Health and Education) and across government research councils (e.g. Medical and Social Science Councils), rather than the pursuit of sectional interests.
Controversies – Jensen and Burt.
Jack was sceptical of genetic explanations of human differences and in the 1970s he got involved in two related controversies on this topic.
The American professor Arthur Jensen had argued for a genetic basis for black people measuring on average lower than white people on intelligence tests. In a highly critical article Jack challenged the statistical basis of Jensen’s work, and also went further in arguing that centuries of oppression are likely to have influenced the performance of black people on tests and that Jensen’s research question represented "from a scientific point of view a pseudo-problem".
Cyril Burt was a British psychologist whom Jack had previously greatly admired. He had published studies of identical twins reared apart, in order to work out the relative influence of genetics or environment on their development. Jack was among a number of people who became suspicious that Burt had faked at least some of his data, and he investigated and wrote about this, particularly discovering that co-workers that Burt had claimed he worked with on the twin studies did not exist.
Advisory work.
The high quality and pioneer nature of Jack’s research led to him being invited to join or contribute to many advisory and policy bodies. Jack always welcomed these opportunities to try to ensure that decisions were taken on the basis of good evidence rather than polemic. Much of this involvement was time-consuming and often unpaid. It also entailed travel to many countries outside the UK.
Jack was a consultant on learning disability to the World Health Organisation and also to the Centre for Educational Research and Innovation, a branch of the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development. For the UK Department of Health he was adviser on learning disability, a member of the Chief Scientist’s Research Committee, Chair of the Advisory Committee on Handicapped Children, and a member of the Court Committee on Child Health Services. He was a member of the Social Science Research Council and Chair of its Educational Board. He was adviser to the Home Office Research Unit. He was a Fellow of the British Psychological Society, an honorary member of the British Paediatric Association, a Fellow of the Royal Society of Medicine, and a member of and adviser on learning disability to the Association for Child Psychology and Psychiatry (now called the Association for Child and Adolescent Mental Health). He was one of the first to join the Society for Social Medicine on its founding in 1956.
In 1975-6, Jack was President of the British Psychological Society.
Awards and memorials.
Jack was granted two prestigious American awards for his work on learning disability. In 1968, jointly with Neil O’Connor, he received the Kennedy Foundation International Award for Scientific Research in Mental Retardation, and in 1973 the Research Award of the American Association on Mental Deficiency (now the American Association on Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities). Also in 1973 he was awarded a CBE in the Queen’s Honours List. His socialist principles caused him to consider refusing this, but he decided it would help him to influence policy and gain research grants.
He was very successful in achieving the award of large grants for major research projects, from the Department of Health, the Medical Research Council, and some American organisations such as the Association for the Aid of Crippled Children (now called the Foundation for Child Development). After his death, a Memorial Fund was set up by his colleagues. It helped to fund a memorial volume of key articles by Jack, published by the British Psychological Society, edited by Alan Clarke and Jack’s wife Barbara. In memory of Jack a special school in London was named the Jack Tizard School, a research unit at Kent University was named the Tizard Centre, and a Tizard Memorial Lecture was established by the Association for Child and Adolescent Mental Health which is still given annually.
Family and early death.
Jack and Barbara had five children: Bill, John, Jenny, Martin and Lucy.
In December 1978, after increasing pain and weight loss, Jack was diagnosed with inoperable stomach cancer. He died on 2 August 1979. He was 60 years old. He had continued to go into work until a month before his death. Barbara wrote a moving account of this period. A renowned researcher in her own right, she was appointed to succeed Jack as Director of the Thomas Coram Research Unit.
Personal qualities.
Jack possessed a very effective combination of a likeable personality and great persuasiveness.
Barbara wrote of him: "Despite his radical ideas on social policy, he was widely respected in Establishment circles. This was in part because of the powerful charisma which he developed over the years; the qualities which contributed to this…included the exceptional warmth and generosity with which he responded to almost everyone he met, a steadiness of character and deep moral conviction combined with wit and high intelligence".
His colleagues wrote of him: "In committee, as everywhere else, he showed courtesy, loyalty, total honesty and integrity, and combined these with continuous clarity of thought. Although honoured and internationally regarded he never appeared pompous. Above all he was an exceptionally nice man, backed by a stable, close and rewarding marriage, a man with whom it was a pleasure and a privilege to collaborate, and one who worked hard and conscientiously to the end".
Legacy.
As soon as Jack was introduced to people with learning disabilities in 1948 he realised that services for them were inadequate. He set out to influence policy, not by polemic or anecdote but by high quality science. He developed the effective three-fold strategy of surveying need, establishing model services and evaluating outcomes. His studies generated advice which he disseminated widely through gaining an international reputation as innovator, thinker and researcher. Jack’s major contribution to psychology was to demonstrate that psychological research could be allied to social policy and so become more powerful and relevant. This was an important revelation to many students beginning their careers in psychology and research in the 1950s, 60s and 70s.
The American writer on leadership, John Maxwell, has said: "A leader is great, not because of his or her power, but because of his or her ability to empower others". One of Jack’s strengths was his ability to initiate and negotiate funding for research projects, but then to empower others to develop the project and report the findings. Among those benefiting from Jack’s generosity in this respect were J G Lyle in the Brooklands project, Albert Kushlick in the Wessex project, Michael Rutter in the Isle of Wight study, Roy King and Norma Raynes in the Child Welfare Project, Berry Mayall and Pat Petrie in the childminding project at TCRU, and many more. Many of Jack’s students and colleagues went on to pursue further psychological or sociological research to influence policy and improve service quality. In the field of learning disability alone, researchers who had worked on Jack’s projects became Founders or Directors (or both) of the Hester Adrian Research Centre at the University of Manchester, the Mental Handicap in Wales Applied Research Unit at Cardiff University, the British Institute of Learning Disability, the Learning Disability Team at the King’s Fund Centre in London and the Tizard Centre at the University of Kent. In wider fields, many went on to hold Professorships and research posts at universities in education, psychology, psychiatry, sociology and criminology, studying a wide range of aspects of social policy, especially in relation to children. The Thomas Coram Research Unit, established by Jack in 1973, continues its work to the present day.


List of psychiatric hospitals in Australia

This is a list of operational and former Australian psychiatric hospitals.
Australian Capital Territory.
There are no institutions known to have existed.
Northern Territory.
There are no asylums known to have existed.
Victoria.
Pleasant View Receiving House in Preston (short lived). Heatherton Hospital in south east Melbourne.


Caroline Finch

Caroline Finch AO is widely regarded as Australia's leading sports injury epidemiologist and sports injury prevention researcher. Her research has been adopted and used to directly inform safety policy by Government Departments of Sport and Health, health promotion and injury prevention agencies, and peak sports bodies both within Australia and internationally. Her injury prevention research has been applied to falls in older people, road safety, workplace safety and injuries in children.
Education.
Finch graduated from Monash University, Melbourne in 1983 with a BSc (Hons, 1st Class) majoring in statistics. In 1985 Latrobe University awarded her a MSc in Statistics. In 1995 she was awarded a PhD in Mathematical Statistics from Monash University for a thesis titled: "Fasting plasma glucose distributions and their implications for the diagnostic criteria for non-insulin dependent diabetes mellitus in Pacific populations".
At high school Finch was interested in disease prevention. As an undergraduate student she realised this interest could be combined with her strong mathematics and statistics skills which led to her career as an epidemiologist and biostatistician.
Career.
Finch began work as a Researcher at the Monash University Accident Research Centre training in injury research from 1992 until 1997 and continued from 2001-2003 within the Monash University, Department of Epidemiology and Preventive Medicine.
From 2003 to 2006 Finch was Professor and Director, NSW Injury Risk Management Research Centre, University of New South Wales and then held the position of Research Professor, School of Human Movement and Sport Sciences, University of Ballarat until 2010.
In 2010 she returned to Monash Injury Research Institute as Research Professor and National Health and Medical Research Council (NHMRC) Principal Research Fellow in the Australian Centre for Research into Injury in Sport and its Prevention (ACRISP). ACRISP is one of only nine centres worldwide recognised as International Research Centres for Prevention of Injury and Protection of Athlete Health and supported by the International Olympic Committee (IOC).
Finch became the Robert HT Smith Professor and Personal Chair at Federation University, Ballarat, Australia in 2013. In December 2017 she was appointed Deputy Vice-Chancellor (Research) at Edith Cowan University, Perth, Western Australia.
Finch has held positions as a sports injury prevention adviser to the Commonwealth Department of Health and Aged Care, the Australian Sports Commission, Sports Medicine Australia, Sport and Recreation Victoria, Department of Human Services (Victoria), the Victorian Health Promotion Foundation, The Australian Football League and other national and state sports bodies. She is a continuing Board Member, Sports Medicine Australia, since 2015, a Member of the Concussion Advisory Group for World Rugby, since 2014, a Member of the Victorian Government Sports Injury Prevention Taskforce from 2011 to 2013 and a Member of the National Sports Safety Framework Committee in 1996,1997 and 2003.
Funding for Finch's research has come from the NHMRC, Australian Research Council, VicHealth, the International Olympic Committee (IOC), the US and Canadian National Institutes of Health, Australian Federal and State government departments for health and sport and from peak sports bodies including the International Rugby Board, Fédération Internationale de Football Association (FIFA), the Australian Football League and Cricket Australia.
Finch has worked to improve community safety in sport and to drive significant change around children's and women's sport and in the Australian school system, to improve safety equipment and training methods in individual sports and to create a database for sports injuries. The work of Finch and her teams has led to government departments of health and peak sport bodies recognising that they have a duty of care to everyone, not just the elite athletes and that sports safety is their business as well.
Finch is a Senior Associate Editor (Injury Prevention) for the British Journal of Sports Medicine and the Injury Prevention and Health Promotion BJSM Series and a member of the Editorial Boards of the international journals: Journal of Science and Medicine in Sport, Injury Epidemiology and Sports Medicine. She has published over 250 articles.
Awards.
Finch was awarded the 2015 International Distinguished Career Award by the American Public Health Association's (APHA) Injury Control and Emergency Health Services (ICEHS) Section. The award recognised her "outstanding dedication and leadership in injury/violence prevention and control and emergency health services internationally with contributions and achievements that have a significant and long term impact on the field".
In January 2018 Finch was made an Officer of the Order of Australia (AO), "for distinguished service to sports medicine, particularly in the area of injury prevention, as an educator, researcher and author, and to the promotion of improved health in athletes and those who exercise."
Projects.
Projects Finch has been involved with include:
NoGAPS.
Carried out from 2010 to 2013, NoGAPS (National Guidance for Australian football Partnerships and Safety) was a NHMRC Partnerships Project which aimed to develop, deliver, implement and evaluate new evidence-based guidelines for exercise training programs to prevent lower limb injuries in community Australian football. It aimed to identify factors that affect the application of evidence-based injury prevention interventions into practice in community sport, and to find evidence for the effectiveness of an evidence-based exercise-training program for lower limb injury prevention in community Australian football. The project involved partnerships with the Australian Football League, Victorian Health Promotion Foundation, NSW Sporting Injuries Committee, JLT Sport, a division of Jardine Lloyd Thompson Australia Pty Ltd; Department of Planning and Community Development - Sport and Recreation Victoria Division; and Sports Medicine Australia - National and Victorian Branches (SMA).
Preventing Australian Football Injuries through eXercise (PAFIX) project.
Finch was the project leader of the 2015 PAFIX study which followed 18 community-level Australian football clubs in Western Australia and Victoria through an entire season aiming to understand and prevent knee injuries in community Australian football. The large scale PAFIX project was unique in its use of a multi-level approach to understand the cause and prevention of knee injuries in community Australian football. Published results provide information to assist coaches and sports clubs to implement injury prevention programs. Data was also collected during the project focusing on concussion with the aim to understand and prevent head injuries within a community Australian football setting.
Helmets and headgear.
Since the mid 1990s Finch has carried out studies relating to use of helmets for both pedal and motor cyclists.
In 2013 Finch jointly published results of a study of associations between helmet use and brain injuries amongst injured pedal- and motor-cyclists. The study was carried out at the University of New South Wales, School of Risk and Safety Sciences under funding by an Australian Research Council (ARC) Linkage Grant: Pedal and Motor Cycle Helmet Performance Study. The project partners were: the Commonwealth Department of Infrastructure and Transport, NSW Roads and Traffic Authority (NSW RTA), Transport Accident Commission Victoria, NRMA Motoring and Services, NRMA-ACT Road Safety Trust and DVExperts International.
Finch has also been involved in research into the efficacy and methods of improvement of protective headgear in rugby union, rugby league, and Australian rules football.
Child safety.
Finch's research has also encompassed several aspects of child safety including vehicular safety restraints, parent/caregiver supervision and water safety.
Fall prevention in older adults.
Finch has been involved in research around falls prevention and implementation of fall prevention strategies in older people.


Margaret Matilda White

Margaret Matilda White (9 January 1868 – 6 July 1910) was a New Zealand photographer and nurse. Her best known works are photographs she took at the Auckland Mental Hospital. A collection of her glass plates is held by the Auckland War Memorial Museum.
Biography.
White was born in Belfast, Northern Ireland and emigrated to New Zealand with her family in 1886. From 1890 she worked with New Zealand photographer John Hanna in his studio. She later established her own photographic studio in Newton, Auckland. However this venture was not a success and she was forced to close her business. Despite this failure she continued to take photographs up until her death. After the closure of her studio she worked as a nurse at the Auckland Mental Hospital in Avondale. It was while working there that she took a series of photographs for which she is best known.
She died at Waihi hospital on 6 July 1910. Auckland War Memorial Museum holds a large collection of White's photographic glass plates.


Perminder Sachdev

Perminder Sachdev (born 1956) is a neuropsychiatrist based in Australia. He is the Scientia Professor of Neuropsychiatry at the University of New South Wales (UNSW), Australia, the director of the Centre for Healthy Brain Ageing (CHeBA), UNSW, and the Clinical Director of the Neuropsychiatric Institute (NPI) at the Prince of Wales Hospital, Sydney, Australia.
Early life.
Sachdev was born in Ludhiana, India and went to school in Solan, in the foothills of the Himalayas. He received his MBBS from the All-India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS) in 1978, his MD in psychiatry from AIIMS in 1981, and his PhD in psychiatry from UNSW in 1991. He became a Fellow of the Royal Australian & New Zealand College of Psychiatrists (FRANZCP) in 1985.
Clinical and research achievements.
Sachdev is the Clinical Director of the NPI at the Prince of Wales Hospital. He has played a leading role in the development of higher training in Neuropsychiatry through his leadership of the International Neuropsychiatric Association (INA), and the Neuropsychiatry Section of the RANZCP. The major contribution of the NPI to psychiatric research has been in the field of Movement disorders, such as drug-induced Akathisia, tardive dystonia, Neuroleptic malignant syndrome, Tourette Syndrome, golfer's cramp and Psychomotor retardation in Melancholia. In particular, akathisia and its subtypes were characterised, including the development of a rating scale and research diagnostic criteria.
Other work has been in the areas of late-onset Schizophrenia and secondary schizophrenia (including head injuries and schizophrenia-like psychosis). Sachdev published the first negative study of Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation (TMS) for depression, the first TMS treatment study of Obsessive Compulsive Disorder (OCD), and the first study that examined the effect of different frequencies of TMS on an animal model of depression.
Sachdev's early research was in the field of Transcultural psychiatry, including descriptions of Maori ethnopsychiatric constructs such as mana-tapu-noa and whakama.
Since 1997, Sachdev's major area of research has been cognitive disorders. He is currently directing a number of longitudinal, community-based studies of brain ageing, including the Sydney Memory and Ageing Study (MAS), the Older Australian Twins Study (OATS), the Sydney Centenarian Study (SCS), and the Sydney Stroke Study (SSS). He is also a collaborator on one of the largest community-based studies of brain imaging: the Australian PATH Through Life Study [16]. Sachdev has contributed to the diagnosis of dementia as a member of the Neurocognitive Disorders Workgroup for the DSM-5. He has also contributed to the field of epilepsy research as a member of the Task Force of the International League Against Epilepsy (ILAE) Neuropsychobiology Commission.
Honours and awards.
In 2011, Sachdev was made a Member of the Order of Australia (AM) for "services to medical research in the field of neuropsychiatry, as a clinician and academic, and to professional associations at a national and international level". He has received numerous other awards, including the NSW Scientist of the Year in Biomedical Sciences (2010) and the Organon Senior Research Award, Royal Australian & New Zealand College of Psychiatrists (RANZCP) for the best research by an Australian or New Zealand psychiatrist in the previous five years (1995). He occupied the first chair of Neuropsychiatry in Australia.
Sachdev is a Founding Executive committee member of the Tourette Syndrome Association of Australia. He was elected President (2004–2006) of the International Neuropsychiatric Association. Sachdev was international advisor to the Psychosurgery Review Committee of the American Neurosurgical Society and a member of the F1000 Reports advisory board. He has served on the editorial board of a number of international peer-reviewed journals, including the American Journal of Geriatric Psychiatry, Neuropsychiatric Disorders and Treatment, Acta Neuropsychiatrica and Current Opinion in Psychiatry.
In 2015 Sachdev was elected Fellow of the Australian Academy of Health and Medical Sciences.
Bibliography.
Sachdev is the author/editor of five books, first author for 31 and co-author for 10 book chapters, and has been involved as first- or co-author for over 278 papers in refereed journals.> His work has received over 5000 citations to date.


Alex Wodak

Alexander David Wodak, AM is a physician and the director of the Alcohol and Drug Service, at St Vincent's Hospital, in Sydney, Australia.
Wodak is a notable advocate of drug reform laws. Wodak helped establish the National Drug and Alcohol Research Centre, the NSW Users AIDS Association, and the Australian Society of HIV Medicine. Wodak is President of the Australian Drug Law Reform Foundation and was President of the International Harm Reduction Association. Wodak also helped open Australia's first needle exchange programme and the first medically supervised injecting centre in Kings Cross.
A portrait of him by artist Nick Mourtzakis was a 2009 Archibald Prize finalist. In the 2010 Queen's Birthday Honours, he was made a Member of the Order of Australia for "service to medicine and public health, particularly in the area of drug and alcohol dependency treatment, through legislative reform, and to medical education".


Clara Stone

Grace 'Clara' Stone (12 January 1860 – 10 May 1957) was one of the first two women to graduate with honours in medicine at the University of Melbourne in 1891. She was named the first president of the Victorian Medical Women's Society, being elected in 1895, when the Society was founded. Dr. Stone was also one of three founders of the Queen Victoria Hospital, the first hospital in Australia founded by women, for women.
Her sister, Constance Stone, was the first woman to practice medicine in Australia.
Awards.
Stone was inducted onto the Victorian Honour Roll of Women in 2007.


List of hospitals in Toronto

There are over forty hospitals located in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. Many of them are also medical research facilities and teaching schools affiliated with the University of Toronto. Most hospitals are grouped under administrative networks that serve particular neighbourhoods and communities and share a number of medical services. The largest of the networks is University Health Network, which governs four of Canada’s largest research hospitals located across Downtown Toronto. Some hospitals in Toronto operate independently, attracting large funding and public donation due to historic brand value and overall clinical standards.


Advanced Accelerator Applications

Advanced Accelerator Applications (AAA) is a pharmaceutical group specialized in the field of nuclear medicine.
The group operates in all three segments of nuclear medicine (PET, SPECT and therapy) to diagnose and treat serious conditions in the fields of oncology, neurology, cardiology, infectious and inflammatory diseases.
In late October 2017, "Reuters" announced that Novartis would acquire the company for $3.9 billion, paying $41 per ordinary share and $82 per American depositary share representing a 47 percent premium. On January 22, 2018, Novartis AG (NYSE: NVS) announced the successful completion of the tender offer by its subsidiary, Novartis Groupe France S.A.
History.
AAA was created in 2002 by Italian physicist Stefano Buono to exploit a patent from the European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN).
AAA currently has a total of 31 sites in 12 countries, including: 19 production facilities in 8 countries (in Europe and the U.S.) that manufacture targeted radioligand therapies and precision imaging radioligands, and 6 sites with R&D activity.
Products.
AAA has a portfolio of diagnostic and therapeutic applications and products in the fields of Molecular Imaging and Therapy.
The group’s portfolio of radiopharmaceuticals includes radioactive agents for positron emission tomography (PET) imaging as well as single-photon emission computed tomography (SPECT) diagnostic products.
Lutathera.
The company's lead product is LUTATHERA, a Lutetium Lu 177 dotatate
External links.
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National Academy of Psychology

The National Academy of Psychology (NAOP) is the major national organization of psychologists in India.
The decision to form the organization was made in 1988 by psychologists gathered at Bhopal University.
L. B. Tripathy was the convenor of the advisory committee for drafting the organization's constitution.
The organization was established in 1989.
Ajit K. Mohanty was the first convenor of the NAOP.
Since 2000, the official journal of the NAOP has been "Psychological Studies", edited (as of 2015) by Girishwar Misra.


John Malcolm (professor)

John Malcolm (31 August 1873 – 17 June 1954) was a Scottish physiologist and university professor in New Zealand.
Life.
He was born in Halkirk, Caithness, Scotland, on 31 August 1873 the son of John Malcolm, a public works contractor.
He studied medicine at the University of Edinburgh graduating with an MBChB in 1897 and gaining his MD in 1899. He initially lectured in chemical physiology at the University of Edinburgh. He lived at 1 Sciennes Road in the south side of the city.
In 1905 he obtained a post of professor of physiology at the University of Otago in New Zealand. In 1933 he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh. His proposers were Sir Edward Albert Sharpey-Schafer, William Anderson Bain, Walter Phillips Kennedy, and Philip Eggleton.
In the 1947 King's Birthday Honours, Malcolm was appointed a Companion of the Order of St Michael and St George for services to the medical profession.
Family.
On 8 November 1912, he married Vicky Simpson at All Saints' Church in Dunedin. They had one daughter and two sons. One of their sons, John Laurence Malcolm, after working as senior lecturer with John Eccles from 1942 to 1947 at the University of Otago, worked temporarily at St Thomas's Hospital Medical School in London, then emigrated from New Zealand in 1953 to be professor of physiology at the University of Aberdeen and died in 2001.
Vicky Malcolm died in 1953. John Malcolm died in Dunedin on 17 June 1954.


International Institute of Rehabilitation Sciences and Research

The International Institute of Rehabilitation Sciences and Research (IIRS, Bhubaneswar) is managed by ASTHA Trust, founded by Mrs.Bishnupriya Mishra . The campus is located at KHANDAGIRI, in Bhubaneswar, Orissa, India. The institution provides 3yeae +10 month degree course called BASLP.
The Bachelor in Audiology and Speech Language Pathology (BASLP) course is a rehabilitative professional course standardized by the Rehabilitation Council of India. BASLP professionals (audiologist and speech language therapist) deal with persons with hearing and speech language problems. These professionals assess the existence of problem, severity, and type of problem as well as provide qualitative intervention to the persons with disabilities.
Their services includes assessing hearing impairment (type and degree of hearing loss with possible site of lesion), applying different audiological tests, assessment of speech, and language problem (type and severity). Besides assessment the professionals also give qualitative intervention to the patients to combat with the problem.
Course description.
The program consist of professional and academic component which leads to registration as an Audiologist by Rehabilitation Council of India. The program provides four year full-time study with 3 years institutional academic exposure and clinical exposure, and one full year of clinical placement and supervision that supports placement. During the three year degree period, students get knowledge in the below listed subjects:
Departments.
Audiology department.
The department deals in academic and clinical activity such as assessment/ diagnosis, management, treatment, habilitation, rehabilitation, special education for hearing impaired, organising hearing check-up camps, early identification programs, awareness programs, etc.
Speech department.
The department deals in both the academic and clinical activity such as assessment/ diagnosis, management, treatment of communication related problems, special education, recreation therapy, preschool facility for disabled, early identification programs, clinical conference, awareness programs, etc.
Psychology department.
Provides both academic and psychological diagnosis of some speech problems, psychological assistance to clients and family members and links with community based rehabilitation.


KNN College of Nursing

KNN College of Nursing, located at Yelahanka, Bangalore, was established in 2004 by a team headed by its current chairman, Dr. K.N. Satish. The institute offers all the available courses in nursing, namely, B.Sc (Nursing), M.Sc (Nursing), general nursing and midwifery, and Post Basic B.Sc (Nursing). The master's degree is available in five specialties: psychiatry, pediatrics, obstetrics & gynecology, medical-surgical nursing.
The institute has entered into an exclusive memorandum of understanding with Columbia-Asia Hospitals such that the latter will recruit fresh graduates only from KNN College of Nursing, and in turn, Columbia-Asia Hospitals gets to train the students to its own standards.


Lagos State College of Health Technology

Lagos State College of Health Technology, fondly called LASCOHET, is one of the oldest college of health technology in Nigeria and was established in 1920.
History.
Lagos State College of Health Technology, formerly known as School of Hygiene was established in 1920 by Dr I. Oladipo Oluwole based on the prevailing health situations and low human health resources available in the community. The then School of hygiene offered six major health courses before incorporating the training of community midwives and nurses into its program between 1957 and 1966.
On the 21st of February, 1977, Lagos State College of Health Technology, under the directive of the Federal Military Government was transformed from a School of hygiene to a School of Health Technology as a result of the Third National Development Plan (1975 – 1980) on National Basic Health Service Scheme (NBHSS) which mandated the train middle level manpower for the health sector.
On the 22nd of January, 2004, Lagos State College of Health Technology's establishment was assented by the former Governor of Lagos State, Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu and the Lagos state college of health technology's governing council was constituted and inaugurated in July, 2012 by Babatunde Raji Fashola’s Administration
Governing Council.
The governing council of Lagos State College of Health Technology is usually led by a chairman, representative of the ministry of education and 2 members of the teaching staff of the college.
Academics.
Lagos state college of health technology is divided into six schools:
Location.
Lagos state college of health of technology is located in Alagbomeji, Yaba, an environment that accommodates several other government institutions like; Queen's College, the Nigerian Institute of Medical Research, the Yaba College of Technology, Igbobi College, the University of Lagos, the Federal Science and Technical College, and the Federal College of Education.


Frank Dolphin

Frank Dolphin is an Irish businessman known for his involvement with the Irish Health Service, as a former chairman of Temple Street Children's University Hospital and Governor of the Mater Hospital, as a past President of the Waterford Chamber of Commerce, and for founding RigneyDolphin Ltd..
Education.
Dolphin was born in Birr, County Offaly and attended Presentation College in Birr. He subsequently attended University College Dublin, where he obtained a PhD in Psychology. His early research on information models in speech fluency was recognised by the British Psychological Society when he was awarded their Young Psychologist of the year award for his post graduate research.
He lectured at Trinity College Dublin (covering the topics of Psychology and Consumer Behaviour) while working on his PhD at Temple Street. After obtaining his PhD he moved to Waterford and set up the department of Psychology at the Waterford Institute of Technology (then Regional Technical College) and was responsible for introducing counselling and medical services there. He also worked as a consulting psychologist for St Joseph's Industrial School, Clonmel.
Dolphin is currently on the board of Governors of WIT.
RigneyDolphin Ltd..
In 1990, Dolphin left the WIT and founded RigneyDolphin Ltd.. He remains chairman of the firm. The firm initially offered a range of recruitment, HR and consultancy services but in recent years have focused on business support services catering to national and international clients.
In 2010 RigneyDolphin employed 1,200 staff at offices in Dublin, Dundalk, Derry and Waterford with an annual turnover of €20.2 million.
Health Service.
In 2009 Dolphin was appointed chairman of Temple Street Children's University Hospital.
In July 2010 the Minister for Health and Children Mary Harney announced that Dolphin would assume the role of Chairman of the Health Service Executive with effect from 15 August 2010. Dolphin stepped down from this role in December 2011.
In March 2012 Dolphin was chosen to lead the review group for the construction of a new children's hospital, following the refusal by An Bord Pleanála to give planning permission for the proposed Children's Hospital of Ireland at a site on Eccles Street. Enda Kenny stated that the report this group put forward (the "Dolphin Report") would be the only one used to decide on the location of the proposed hospital. The Dolphin Report did not rank locations, but left the final decision to the cabinet; in the end, St. James's Hospital was chosen as the site for the new children's hospital, with a €500m budget being allocated to the project.
Chamber of Commerce.
Dolphin was President of the Waterford Chamber of Commerce in '05/'06. While President, he presented a paper to the World Chambers Federation's 4th World Chamber Congress in Durban on "Training Solutions", Waterford Chamber's training and development business, in conjunction with Training Solutions founder and Deputy CEO of Waterford Chamber Michael Cox.


Leduc Community Hospital

The Leduc Community Hospital located 20 kilometres south of Edmonton. There are a total of 70 beds, 34 acute care beds, plus 22 subacute beds and 14 transition beds.
Services.
The hospital provides may services including.


John White (South Australian painter)

John White (1854 – 8 January 1943) was a South Australian painter and pharmacist.
History.
John White was born in Bath, England and trained as a pharmacist in Bristol. He emigrated to South Australia in 1878, and set up a chemist's shop on Rundle Street, Kent Town, and was in partnership with Philip John Evans as chemists of The Parade, Norwood until April 1888. He purchased the retail arm of F. H. Faulding & Co., and set up pharmacies in Graves Street, Kadina from 1919, operated by his son H. G. White, and at Port Lincoln.
He was a member of George Brookman's original Coolgardie Goldmining Prospecting Company Limited, and made a fortune in the gold mines of Western Australia. He retired in 1899, leaving W. J. Burton as manager of the business.
Painting.
He was highly respected as a fine amateur painter and connoisseur, judge and lecturer.
He was a founding member of the Adelaide Easel Club in 1892, and its treasurer from 1899. He joined the South Australian Society of Arts when the two clubs merged in 1901 and served as its president 1911–1914; 1919–1921 and 1923–1927. He was a member of the Board of Governors of the South Australian Institute (which included the Public Library, Museum and Art Gallery) and president of the council, S.A. School of Arts and Crafts 1926–1928.
These are some works which were praised by contemporary media:
He continued into old age to paint and exhibit fine works, but was no longer selected for special comment by newspaper critics.
Other interests.
He was on the board of management of the Adelaide Hospital.
Family.
He married Katherine Isabella "Kate" Brookman ( – 2 November 1893), second daughter of Benjamin Brookman of Parkside, South Australia, and sister of Sir George Brookman, on 24 August 1882. She died after giving birth to son Howard.


Maree Smith

Maree Therese Smith is an Australian researcher, inventor and innovator based at the University of Queensland. She is executive director of the Centre for Integrated Preclinical Drug Development, and TetraQ (a drug testing facility), head of the Pain Research Group in the UQ School of Pharmacy, and the inventor and developer of a potential novel treatment for chronic pain, EMA401.
Smith received a 2012 Life Sciences Queensland Industry Award for Excellence, the 2015 Johnson & Johnson Innovation Industry Excellence Award for biotech industry leadership, and the 2016 Australian Academy of Technological Sciences and Engineering Clunies Ross Award for contributions to the application of technology for the benefit of Australia.


List of hospitals in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa

The following is a list of hospitals in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa.
Tertiary hospitals.
 Souvenir General Hospital in PeshawarSouvenir General Hospital in Peshawarbacha khan medical complex Swabi
District hospitals.
 HAMMAD KHAN*SAIFI MALIK Hospital Swabi


Gretty Mirdal

Gretty Mizrahi Mirdal (born Gretty Kazes) is Emeritus Professor of Psychology at the University of Copenhagen, and was the director of the Paris Institute for Advanced Study from 2012 to 2018.
Biography.
She was born and grew up in Istanbul, Turkey, but has lived all her adult life in Denmark.
After graduating from high school in Istanbul, she went to the US, and received a B.A. degree at Smith College, Northampton, Mass. She did her post-graduate work and clinical training at the University of Copenhagen. She holds a Doctor of Philosophy degree form the University of Copenhagen, and she is licensed in both clinical and health psychology by the Danish Psychological Association.
Academic career.
Her research and teaching have centred mainly on the areas of psychosomatics, post-traumatic stress, and migration psychology. She has done research on the long-term impact of migration and transcultural integration on mental and physical health, and on the psychological treatment of chronic disease. She has been affiliated with the Psychology Department of the University of Copenhagen throughout her career, and has worked as guest researcher in hospital departments, mainly at the University Hospital (Rigshospitalet) in Copenhagen. She was the director of the Paris Institute for Advanced Study from 2012 to 2018. Presently she directs the "Brain, Culture and Society" programme at the Paris Institute for Advanced Study, and she is Professor Emeritus at the Institute of Psychology at the University of Copenhagen.
She has chaired the section for Humanities and Social Sciences for the Synergy Grants of the European Research Council; the Standing Committee for the Humanities of the European Science Foundation; the European Research Council’s Panel on "The human mind and its complexity"; the committee for Junior Researchers of the Institut Universitaire de France; the Scientific Committee for the programmes of basic research in the humanities at the Agence Nationale de la Recherche. She has also been a member of the board of the Grundforskningsfond (Danish National Foundation which grants centres of excellence), and of the Scientific Council of the CNRS (Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique). She is presently member of the Supervisory Board of the FMSH (Fondation Maison des Sciences de l'Homme) and of the Faculty for the Social and Human Sciences of the Université de Paris.
She is a fellow of the Royal Danish Academy of Sciences and Letters and Officier de l'Ordre des Palmes Académiques.


Cyrus S. Poonawalla

Cyrus S. Poonawalla (born in 1941) is an Indian businessman, and the chairman of Poonawalla Group, which includes Serum Institute of India, the Indian biotech company that manufactures vaccines.
Family.
Cyrus Poonawalla was born in a Parsi family. His father Soli Poonawala was a horse breeder. He was married to Villoo Poonawalla, who died in 2010. They have a son, Adar, who currently works as the CEO of Serum Institute of India.
Philanthropy.
In May 2019, it was reported that Poonawalla, in partnership with Naum Koen, had proposed supplying Ukraine with 100 thousand doses of the measles vaccine for free vaccination.


Nurse Next Door Home Healthcare Services

Nurse Next Door Home Care Services is a Canadian-based franchise system that offers private home care to seniors. Services range from companionship to round-the-clock nursing care. The system currently has over 200 franchise locations across Canada, US, and Australia.
In 2018 Nurse Next Door awarded their first international deal, with the company's Australian Master Franchise going to Melbourne locals Amber Biesse and Matt Fitton.
History.
Nurse Next Door Home Care Services was launched in Vancouver, British Columbia in September 2001 by co-founders Ken Sim and John DeHart. The two decided to start the company after trying to find quality care for Ken's pregnant wife Teena (who was placed on emergency bed rest with their first child). The company began franchising in April 2007 and has since added over 200 senior home care franchise locations across Canada, US, and Australia.
The company has been recognized with numerous awards including the 2006 Ernst & Young Entrepreneur of the Year Award as well as being named as one of the top 10 small and medium employers in Canada in 2012. They are also 4 time top ten winners of BC Business Best Companies to Work For award, coming in 1st place in 2009 and 3rd place in 2012.
Nurse Next Door Home Care Services has also been widely featured in media across Canada and the United States including The National Post, The Globe and Mail, CBC, The Vancouver Sun and Fortune Small Business Magazine.
Australia.
Nurse Next Door Home Care Services awarded the company's Australian Master Franchise in 2018 to Melbourne Entrepreneurs, Amber Biesse and Matt Fitton. Amber and Matt have been referred to as serial entrepreneurs, having run multiple successful businesses during their lifetime. Due to the rapid growth of the NDIS and Australian's desire to age at home, Nurse Next Door Australia has experienced unprecedented expansion. After launching their first franchise in May 2020, the Australian business has twelve locations awarded, four more optioned and a corporate location based in Melbourne as the end of 2020.


Princess Punzalan

Bernadette Vela Punzalan-Field (born November 20, 1968), known professionally as Princess Punzalan, is a Filipino actress. She began her career starring in "Lovingly Yours: The Movie" (1984) and "Lovingly Yours, Helen" (1992-96) and was nominated of PMPC Star Awards for Television in 1987. Her profile continued to grow when she starred as antagonist Selina Pereira-Matias in "Mula sa Puso" (1997–99) with Claudine Barretto, and won Best Actress in 1998.
Career.
Princess Punzalan started out her career as one of the regular co-host in now defunct GMA Network Sunday noontime musical variety show "GMA Supershow". Soon after she was launched in her own afternoon TV drama anthology entitled "Princess" in 1987 which was produced by her mom Helen Vela's production outfit Hyper Vision. To avoid a possible collision with RPN's "Coney Reyes on Camera" (headline by her mom's best friend Coney), her drama anthology was aired at a later timeslot.
While her TV career began to be successful, she also branched out into making films. She made her mark in the film "Kung Tapos Na ang Kailanman" (shown in 1990) which gave her a FAMAS nomination for Best Actress.
In 1989, her drama series was cancelled to make way for "Family 3+1", a sitcom which she headlined with her mother Helen Vela and also starred Ronaldo Valdez and Caridad Sanchez. The show made waves and even received 2 awards for Best Comedy Show at Star Awards. But with the untimely death of its main star Helen Vela caused the show to gradually decline until it was cancelled. Soon after, Princess filled in the void left by her mother (as producer-host/actress) in the drama anthology "Lovingly Yours, Helen" which was renamed "Lovingly Yours". The reformatted drama anthology survived for four more years until it was ended by the GMA management in 1996.
She became popular for her role as antagonist Selina Pereira-Matias in the 1997 hit TV series "Mula sa Puso" starring Claudine Barretto, aired in ABS-CBN.
In the later 2000s, she transferred back to GMA and did supporting/main roles. One of her last TV series as a series regular was "Kung Mawawala Ka" a political drama on primetime airing on GMA Network which garnered attention at the time of its back to back battle with the drama series "Pangako Sa 'Yo".
She returned to film as co-teacher and Mila's best friend in "Mila" played by Maricel Soriano.
In 2005, she played the evil aunt of Ryza Cenon and LJ Reyes in GMA Network's afternoon drama series and "Now and Forever" first installment series "Mukha" and then moved back to ABS-CBN though was only visible on Maalaala Mo Kaya. She appeared in "The Last Prince" (2010) starring Aljur Abrenica and Kris Bernal, where Punzalan played an evil witch named Alwana.
She returned to ABS-CBN in 2015 after five years with GMA-7.
She appeared in the GMA Films and Regal Films movie "My Valentine Girls" with Richard Gutierrez. She did a film "Johnny Loves Dolores" (2012), an entry in the San Francisco International Asian Film Festival, directed by Clarissa delos Reyes.
Punzalan is now based in the United States, fulfilling her duties as a registered nurse.
Personal life.
She was the daughter of Orly Punzalan (a broadcaster who was formerly the president of IBC) and actress/host Helen Vela, now both deceased. Her siblings are Paolo, Meg and Reuben. Her niece is Janina Punzalan, daughter of Paolo was currently worked as a model.
Punzalan was previously married to controversial TV host and actor Willie Revillame. Punzalan remained friends with Revillame and is glad that the media did not have to get involved during their separation.
Punzalan settled in California since 2005 after she married Jason Field, an American marketing professional. Punzalan has a daughter with Field named Ellie.