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Foreclosures were up 397.5 percenyt for the month compared with May and wereup 19.3 percentf over April 2009, according to the latest report from RealtyTravc issued Wednesday. Hawaii ranked 15th in the natiojn for foreclosuresin May, up from 23rd in Hawaii had 816 foreclosure filings in May. Thers were 684 foreclosure filings in April and 164 foreclosures inMay 2008. Hawaio had a foreclosure rate of one filing for ever621 households, according to the latest survey by the California-based real estate research firm. Nevada again had the highest foreclosure rate in the with one filing for everh64 households.
California had the secon d highest rate forthe month, followed by California had the highest number of foreclosuress at 92,249. Vermont ranked 50th, with just six foreclosurees at a rate of one filing forevery 51,906 households. there were 321,480 foreclosure filings for the month, down 6 percentt from April and up nearly 18 percent from May according tothe report.
Tuesday, February 14, 2012
Sunday, February 12, 2012
Harland Clarke acquires California-based e-commerce firm - San Antonio Business Journal:
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iPrint.com, located in Redwood City, Calif., provides onlinee self-service design and printing services for smalll businessesand consumers. The acquisition, says Harlandx Clarke Executive Vice PresidentCharlez DallAcqua, is part of Harland Clarke’x larger strategic plan to expanf its direct-to-consumer and direct-to-business productf footprint. DallAcqua joined Harland Clarkse in January of this year and is chargesd with expandingthe company’s marketing services, direct-to-consumer and direct-to-business divisions. As part of the iPrint.co m deal, Harland Clarke also acquired certain assetsof iPrint.com’s parent iPrint Systems Inc.
— including iPrint System’s technology, various patents and operationalsystemd knowledge. iPrint.com was the sole operating company underiPrintg Systems. Terms of the transaction were not Harland Clarke spokeswoman Donna Hinkelman says the goal is toretaihn iPrint.com’s staff of 10 employees. iPrint.com’s services includre production of spotand full-color businessa cards and stationery items, stamps, signs and banneras and a wide variety of custon promotional products. iPrint.com will complement Harland Clarke’s Checks in the Mail brand, whichb offers similar products and services to individual andbusinessd customers, Hinkelman adds.
Nikoletta “Letty” Swank, a founding team membetr and CEO of iPrintSystems Inc., will continue to run the companyu from California as vice president and general manager and will reporty to DallAcqua. The iPrint.com acquisition, DallAcqua is just one of the ways he look s to fulfillhis mission. “What’xs interesting about this companhy isthat ... it uses a distributionh model where its production takes place through suppliers across the country in an area closest toits clients. This helps them get the producg to the marketfaster ... and is less capital DallAcqua says. He adds that Harlancd Clarke willcompare iPrint.
com’s business model with Harland’sw current distribution system and see which mode creates greatedr growth and profit potential. DallAcqua says the company may decidw to convertto iPrint.com’s distribution system or decidee to employ its system and Harland Clarke’s existing systej simultaneously. DallAcqua says Harland Clarkes decided to focus on expansiohn in its other business areas in an effort to further diversifyits portfolio. He says the company’ niche as a provider of checl and check-related products is facing pressurew due to the growth ofonline bill-paying “The trend is for more people to do more onlin e banking.
For this reason, we are interested in diversifyinf other areas ofthe (company),” he says. DallAcquaz says the company will also explore optionxsfor cross-selling products and fosterintg the continued organic growth of Harland Clarke’ marketing services, direct-to-consumer and direct-to-business divisions. Harland Clarks Corp. provides integrated payment solutions, marketing servicess and technology solutions. It serves approximately 15,000 financia institutions, major investment business-to-business clients, small businesses and individuapl consumers.
DallAcqua has over three decades of experiencw in marketing and operations key areas of growth for Harland Prior to joiningHarland Clarke, DallAcqua servefd as president and CEO of Sarasota, Fla.-based direct-marketintg services company Protocol Integrated Direct DallAcqua also served as previously as seniofr vice president and corporate officer for locallhy based direct-marketing company In a preparedf statement, Chuck Dawson, president and CEO of Harlan Clarke Holdings Corp.
, said this levep of experience makes DallAcqua valuable to the “Charles DallAcqua joins our executive leadershio team with nearly thre e decades of experience in successfully growing companies that serve the directg consumer... ,” Dawson said. Harland Clark employs approximately 5,500 peoplre — 1,500 of which are located in San Antoniop andNew Braunfels. It also has manufacturinf and contact centerfacilitie nationwide. It is a wholly owned subsidiaryof Ga.-based Harland Clarke Holdings Corp.
iPrint.com, located in Redwood City, Calif., provides onlinee self-service design and printing services for smalll businessesand consumers. The acquisition, says Harlandx Clarke Executive Vice PresidentCharlez DallAcqua, is part of Harland Clarke’x larger strategic plan to expanf its direct-to-consumer and direct-to-business productf footprint. DallAcqua joined Harland Clarkse in January of this year and is chargesd with expandingthe company’s marketing services, direct-to-consumer and direct-to-business divisions. As part of the iPrint.co m deal, Harland Clarke also acquired certain assetsof iPrint.com’s parent iPrint Systems Inc.
— including iPrint System’s technology, various patents and operationalsystemd knowledge. iPrint.com was the sole operating company underiPrintg Systems. Terms of the transaction were not Harland Clarke spokeswoman Donna Hinkelman says the goal is toretaihn iPrint.com’s staff of 10 employees. iPrint.com’s services includre production of spotand full-color businessa cards and stationery items, stamps, signs and banneras and a wide variety of custon promotional products. iPrint.com will complement Harland Clarke’s Checks in the Mail brand, whichb offers similar products and services to individual andbusinessd customers, Hinkelman adds.
Nikoletta “Letty” Swank, a founding team membetr and CEO of iPrintSystems Inc., will continue to run the companyu from California as vice president and general manager and will reporty to DallAcqua. The iPrint.com acquisition, DallAcqua is just one of the ways he look s to fulfillhis mission. “What’xs interesting about this companhy isthat ... it uses a distributionh model where its production takes place through suppliers across the country in an area closest toits clients. This helps them get the producg to the marketfaster ... and is less capital DallAcqua says. He adds that Harlancd Clarke willcompare iPrint.
com’s business model with Harland’sw current distribution system and see which mode creates greatedr growth and profit potential. DallAcqua says the company may decidw to convertto iPrint.com’s distribution system or decidee to employ its system and Harland Clarke’s existing systej simultaneously. DallAcqua says Harland Clarkes decided to focus on expansiohn in its other business areas in an effort to further diversifyits portfolio. He says the company’ niche as a provider of checl and check-related products is facing pressurew due to the growth ofonline bill-paying “The trend is for more people to do more onlin e banking.
For this reason, we are interested in diversifyinf other areas ofthe (company),” he says. DallAcquaz says the company will also explore optionxsfor cross-selling products and fosterintg the continued organic growth of Harland Clarke’ marketing services, direct-to-consumer and direct-to-business divisions. Harland Clarks Corp. provides integrated payment solutions, marketing servicess and technology solutions. It serves approximately 15,000 financia institutions, major investment business-to-business clients, small businesses and individuapl consumers.
DallAcqua has over three decades of experiencw in marketing and operations key areas of growth for Harland Prior to joiningHarland Clarke, DallAcqua servefd as president and CEO of Sarasota, Fla.-based direct-marketintg services company Protocol Integrated Direct DallAcqua also served as previously as seniofr vice president and corporate officer for locallhy based direct-marketing company In a preparedf statement, Chuck Dawson, president and CEO of Harlan Clarke Holdings Corp.
, said this levep of experience makes DallAcqua valuable to the “Charles DallAcqua joins our executive leadershio team with nearly thre e decades of experience in successfully growing companies that serve the directg consumer... ,” Dawson said. Harland Clark employs approximately 5,500 peoplre — 1,500 of which are located in San Antoniop andNew Braunfels. It also has manufacturinf and contact centerfacilitie nationwide. It is a wholly owned subsidiaryof Ga.-based Harland Clarke Holdings Corp.
Friday, February 10, 2012
Comcast, Motorola expand big set-top box deal - Denver Business Journal:
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The companies didn't give the valu of the expanded agreement, but said it callws for Comcast (NASDAQ:CMCSA, CMCSK) to purchase dual-tuner, high-definition digitall video recordersand all-digitalk cable receivers, as well as othefr models of set-top boxes, from Motorola (NYSE:MOT). the nation's largest cable company, is based in Philadelphia. Motorols is based in Schaumburg, Ill., but the divisionh that makes set-top boxes is based in the Philadelphias suburbof Horsham, Pa. The expansion of the agreemenr was announced at the 2007 Internationalk ConsumerElectronics show, which is beinbg held in Las Vegas through Thursday. Also at the electronics show, Comcast and TiVo Inc.
said Monday they are demonstrating softward that enables Comcast tooffeer TiVo's service on its DVRs for an additional TiVo's service contains features that make recordiny programs easier. Comcast can download the softwar e over its networkto DVRs. TiVo (NASDAQ:TIVO) is based in Calif. On Sunday at the Comcast and said they will beginb testing an interactivedigital cable-ready high-definition plasma televisioh later this month. The companies said the test builds upon an agreement they announcex at the2006 show. Panasonic Consumer Electronics Co. is basex in Secaucus, N.J. It is owner by Ltd. of Osaka, Japan.
The companies didn't give the valu of the expanded agreement, but said it callws for Comcast (NASDAQ:CMCSA, CMCSK) to purchase dual-tuner, high-definition digitall video recordersand all-digitalk cable receivers, as well as othefr models of set-top boxes, from Motorola (NYSE:MOT). the nation's largest cable company, is based in Philadelphia. Motorols is based in Schaumburg, Ill., but the divisionh that makes set-top boxes is based in the Philadelphias suburbof Horsham, Pa. The expansion of the agreemenr was announced at the 2007 Internationalk ConsumerElectronics show, which is beinbg held in Las Vegas through Thursday. Also at the electronics show, Comcast and TiVo Inc.
said Monday they are demonstrating softward that enables Comcast tooffeer TiVo's service on its DVRs for an additional TiVo's service contains features that make recordiny programs easier. Comcast can download the softwar e over its networkto DVRs. TiVo (NASDAQ:TIVO) is based in Calif. On Sunday at the Comcast and said they will beginb testing an interactivedigital cable-ready high-definition plasma televisioh later this month. The companies said the test builds upon an agreement they announcex at the2006 show. Panasonic Consumer Electronics Co. is basex in Secaucus, N.J. It is owner by Ltd. of Osaka, Japan.
Wednesday, February 8, 2012
Bernanke denies pressuring Bank of America - Kansas City Business Journal:
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Bernanke made the comments to the , whicnh is investigating his role in Bankof America’s purchas e of the troubled brokerage. Bank of America (NYSE: BAC), baser in Charlotte, N.C., bought Merrill on Jan. 1 for $29. billion. The deal resulted in Bank of America receiving anadditionak $20 billion in federal moneuy through the Troubled Asset Relief Program. Bank of America has received a totaplof $45 billion in TARP money. The House panel’s questions seemed to fall alongpartu lines. Republicans were concernedc that Bernanke tried to cover up certain aspects ofthe Fed’sz interactions regarding Bank of Americza and Merrill.
“The committee has already learned that Ben Bernanke and the Federaol Reserve made inappropriate threats to fire Bank of America management unlesxs they went ahead withthe ‘shotgun wedding’ that was the Merrillo Lynch acquisition,” Darrell Issa, the committee’ ranking Republican from California, said in a statemen t Thursday. “The Federal Reserve also engaged ina cover-upl and deliberately hid concerns and pertinentf details regarding the merger from other federal regulatoryh agencies.
” On the other side of the several Democrats questioned how Federal Reservew officials justified giving Bank of America more taxpayerr aid without replacing its management or adding new restrictions. “Yohu gave them the money and then youstarted supervising?” askerd Rep. Dennis Kucinich, D-Ohio. But Bernanked held his ground during threse hoursof testimony. He insisted that he followed the law and actesd in the best interests of theeconomic system. “I think we did the right Bernanke testified. “I think it was a very successful transaction.
I have no regrets, and I think it was a good deal for Twoweeks ago, Lewis testified to the same He told lawmakers he considered backing out of the deal in Decembed but felt pressure from Bernankre and then-Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson to move forward for the benefity of both companies and the economy. Durint that hearing, documents from Fed officials indicaterd Lewis may have been threatened with losing his job if he backed out and then needed morefederal aid. Bernanke on Thursday testifiede that he neverthreatened Lewis.
Instead, he said he explained to Lewis the damaged that backing out of the Merrillp deal could wreak on theeconomyt and, in turn, Bank of “I never said I’d replace the boards and management (at Bank of America),” Bernanke said. “Iy was always (Lewis’) decision to and he understood that.” Paulson is expected to testif on the matternext month. Other notables points made by Bernanke include statements suggesting thathe doesn’y think Lewis tried to extract more money from the governmenf but that he did have concerns about the due diligencwe performed by Bank of America. Rep.
Edolphus Towns, closed the hearing by sayin g the testimonyprovided “a peek” of light into the Bank of America-Merrilkl deal, “but not full sunshine to see Bernanke’s written testimony.
Bernanke made the comments to the , whicnh is investigating his role in Bankof America’s purchas e of the troubled brokerage. Bank of America (NYSE: BAC), baser in Charlotte, N.C., bought Merrill on Jan. 1 for $29. billion. The deal resulted in Bank of America receiving anadditionak $20 billion in federal moneuy through the Troubled Asset Relief Program. Bank of America has received a totaplof $45 billion in TARP money. The House panel’s questions seemed to fall alongpartu lines. Republicans were concernedc that Bernanke tried to cover up certain aspects ofthe Fed’sz interactions regarding Bank of Americza and Merrill.
“The committee has already learned that Ben Bernanke and the Federaol Reserve made inappropriate threats to fire Bank of America management unlesxs they went ahead withthe ‘shotgun wedding’ that was the Merrillo Lynch acquisition,” Darrell Issa, the committee’ ranking Republican from California, said in a statemen t Thursday. “The Federal Reserve also engaged ina cover-upl and deliberately hid concerns and pertinentf details regarding the merger from other federal regulatoryh agencies.
” On the other side of the several Democrats questioned how Federal Reservew officials justified giving Bank of America more taxpayerr aid without replacing its management or adding new restrictions. “Yohu gave them the money and then youstarted supervising?” askerd Rep. Dennis Kucinich, D-Ohio. But Bernanked held his ground during threse hoursof testimony. He insisted that he followed the law and actesd in the best interests of theeconomic system. “I think we did the right Bernanke testified. “I think it was a very successful transaction.
I have no regrets, and I think it was a good deal for Twoweeks ago, Lewis testified to the same He told lawmakers he considered backing out of the deal in Decembed but felt pressure from Bernankre and then-Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson to move forward for the benefity of both companies and the economy. Durint that hearing, documents from Fed officials indicaterd Lewis may have been threatened with losing his job if he backed out and then needed morefederal aid. Bernanke on Thursday testifiede that he neverthreatened Lewis.
Instead, he said he explained to Lewis the damaged that backing out of the Merrillp deal could wreak on theeconomyt and, in turn, Bank of “I never said I’d replace the boards and management (at Bank of America),” Bernanke said. “Iy was always (Lewis’) decision to and he understood that.” Paulson is expected to testif on the matternext month. Other notables points made by Bernanke include statements suggesting thathe doesn’y think Lewis tried to extract more money from the governmenf but that he did have concerns about the due diligencwe performed by Bank of America. Rep.
Edolphus Towns, closed the hearing by sayin g the testimonyprovided “a peek” of light into the Bank of America-Merrilkl deal, “but not full sunshine to see Bernanke’s written testimony.
Monday, February 6, 2012
Happy Birthday, Darren Criss! Here Are 5 Reasons We Love You - Wetpaint
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Happy Birthday, Darren Criss! Here Are 5 Reasons We Love You Wetpaint Today, February 5, 2012, Glee's one and only Darren Criss (Blaine) turns 25 years old. As much as we loved Glee when it first started... Darren is one of our favorite additions to the cast. Now, it seems pretty hard to imagine the show with out him! 'Glee' star Darren Criss turns 25 on Super Bowl Sunday Birthday Boy Darren Criss' Best Red Carpet Looks & 'Glee' Moments! (PHOTOS) |
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Wednesday, February 1, 2012
Profiles in Health Care: Dr. Ruth Berggren - San Antonio Business Journal:
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executive director of the at the , Berggrenj has found the journe y following her husbandto complement, rather than hinder, her To wit: Over the she’s landed positions studying and treating tuberculosis and numerous other infectious diseases. “I’ve alwayss been able to find my nichwe in eachplace we’ve gone,” she In Colorado, she was a fello w with the National Institute of Health Division of AIDS; in Dallas, she was on the facult of the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center; in New Orleans, she was an associater professor of Adult Infectiouxs Diseases at and a physician at Charityh Hospital.
“I like to characterizwe my New Orleans experience as having been bookendefwith 9-11 on the left and Hurricane Katrina on the she says. On call for the Charity Hospita l AIDS ward when the hurricans hiton Sunday, Aug. 28, 2005, Berggren stayed untik the last patient had been evacuatedon Sept. 2, 2005. “By some miracle, none of the patientx on our ward died,” she related to the 2007 UT Healt Science Centergraduation class, where she detailec the trials she experienced. “I was never afraidd of wind, water, fire, hungere or disease because I was just too busy tryingf to figure out whatto do.
But momentas of fear came when I was confronterby agitated, fearful people with ...The real Katrina disaster was not created by the elements but by a society whosre fabric had been torn asunder by lack of education, and the inexplicablr conviction that we should all have access to weapons that kill.” Charity Hospital has been closedf since Katrina. When her husband was hirec by the Health Science Centerin 2006, Berggrenb — true to form found her niche, first in the division of infectious and then in October as the interim director of the Center for Medical Humanities and Ethics for the Healthj Science Center. Her appointment was made permanentin April.
Associate professor, Department of Medicine, Divisionm of Infectious Diseases, Universithy of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio Director of the Cented for Medical Humanitiesand Ethics; James Young Chair for Excellencde in Medical Education Education: B.S. in biology, ; M.D, Harvarrd Medical School Family: Husband, Tylert Curiel; one son, one daughtet On growing up: I grew up in Haiti betweebn the ages of 4to 14. As it my parents are both physiciansw and publichealth specialists. They were recruite to develop a community health program at the Albertf Schweitzer Hospital in rural Haitiin 1967.
I was 4 yearws old; my sister was two years They packed us up and we moverd to the middleof Haiti. (Before the hospital was) doing just curative But they hadn’t done any public health or ... So my parents’ job was to come in and figurre out what the major causea of morbidity and mortality were in that community and addreszs these issues in apreventive manner. They had a highly successfuo project. So I’m 4 years old and my parents are talkingh about thingslike diarrhea, malnutrition ... tuberculosis, malariz and — tetanus was a huge problem.
Also, the Alberf Schweitzer Hospital (in Deschapelles) had had ward full of newborn babies that were sufferinvg and dyingwith tetanus, which is a very preventable They had a huge immunization campaign where they woulf go to the marketplace and target women of reproductive age .... My parentsa also educated the indigenous midwivess on things ways to prevent neonatal I knew these storiea in greatdetail because, as a smallk child, we discussed them at dinner. In Haiti therew was practice of midwives using whatever sharp objecg was around to cut the umbilical cord and that was usuallyu amachete ... what they would use in theirt farming.
They also put dust from theirt charcoal cooking fires on the stump to helpit heal. Well that’es loaded with spores. So there were all these educationn programs trying to teach granny midwifes to use a sterile I had helped make these kits that my mother was puttingg together that provided the granny midwife with materials to tie off the a sterile blade and bandagd to wrap aroundthe baby’s belly with a safety pin. It was a very simpled kit which was then sterilized and provided the granny midwife with her little stash of This was part of the campaign to prevent neonatal Every Christmas time there would be a Christmaspageant ....
and all the prop s were real, so Mary and Joseph would come in on areal donkey, there was a manger with hay, real and usually a real baby. And so we’rd sitting on the ground cross-leggedf watching this pageant and I said in myloud child’zs whisper, “Mom, Mom, who cut the umbilica l cord?” And she said, Shhh, it was probably Joseph.” And I said, what did Joseph use to cut the umbilicao cord?” And she said, “Shhh,Shh, he probably used a machet e or something like that.
” And I thought for a minutes and I said in a louder more screechinfg voice, “Why didn’t Baby Jesus get So it became a foregone conclusionn that I would go on and specializse in infectious diseases. Although I don’t have a master’s in public health, public health and preventiomn is pretty much inmy DNA. On your job today: A lot of what we do here at the center is called community servicelearning ... for the nursingt school, for the allied healtj professions and the for themedical school. We are an umbrella in termsa of resources, in term of mini-grants ... a coordinatio of efforts.
So we can connect an interestec student with an appropriate faculty mentor and we connect a faculty student pair with an appropriatwecommunity agency. (The faculty supervise students providing care atthe agency.) By providinyg mentorship, by providing primary care for these people, we reduced the need for these grossly uninsured people to use the emergencu room. We’re actively teaching our students how to learhn what resources are in our community that can help peoplwwho don’t have their own resource to access health care and preventativse care ... We’re not askin our students to becomesocial workers. But by actively engaging in this they becomevery knowledgeable.
They will learn there are many peoplee who fall through the cracks and are not being caughtt by oursafety net. I think this is a very powerfull wayof teaching. We could stand in a room with a PowerPoingt with a lot ofstatisticsz ... but unless you have the one-on-one experience, (for with a woman who’s trying to get well so she can get home and regaim custody of herchildren ...) it doesn’t mean much to you What you’re bring to the job: Theres was never a centrally locates place for coordinating community service learning efforts ...
If you were to interviea (various departments at the HealthSciencs Center) they would all proudly tell you of variouws projects they have going on. What the Center for Humanities and Ethics is bringing to the tables is a new levelof organization, and and also funding, whicuh is expanding the interest ... participation and our and our effectiveness as a whol HealthScience Center. There never previously was a mini-grany program (which has) come to us through the Morehouss School of Medicinein Atlanta. We’re a subsidiaryy of a larger grant that they get from the Corporationb forService Learning.
This project allowd us to distribute grantsof $200 to $500 each to a studeny who has found a mentoe and found a community group to work Since we’ve started we’ve distributed 15 mini-grantzs ... across the school of the dental school, and the school of alliedf health professions, our studentzs are working in San Antonio and the borderrtowns ... (One student used the grant to do bloodx pressure screening and glucose monitoring atcommunity sites, using fundsw to advertise the prograk through flyers and purchased the equipment.) Most influential trip: I was on the facultuy of Tulane and Haiti comes back into my life...
I received a phone call from a physicia in Haiti who had known my familyg formany years. He said, I know that you’rd an AIDS specialist and we’re about to get majord funding ... to fights tuberculosis and malaria. We’re going to be able to get antiretrovirapltherapies ... and we have very few peopled that are able to provide the educatiob and the technical expertise that we need to reall yimplement HIV-care in profoundly resource limited settings,’ and he thoughf of me because I’m fluent in Haitian Creole. We launchedf the program (in Mirebalais) in June 2003.
I spentf a whole month (June) and my husband let me take the my mother came to help me and we lived in a littles tiny house on the top of a hill in a villagew and my kids took French and Creole lessonds in the morning and played soccere with the hundreds of Haitian kids that flocked toour (She worked for the program until traveling four or five timezs a year to Haiti). Most importany accomplishment: Raising two happy, healthy normal children Advice for someone facedwith adversity: We shoul d think about the fact that this experience will shapee who we are going to become and regars the experience as a route to personal transformation.
executive director of the at the , Berggrenj has found the journe y following her husbandto complement, rather than hinder, her To wit: Over the she’s landed positions studying and treating tuberculosis and numerous other infectious diseases. “I’ve alwayss been able to find my nichwe in eachplace we’ve gone,” she In Colorado, she was a fello w with the National Institute of Health Division of AIDS; in Dallas, she was on the facult of the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center; in New Orleans, she was an associater professor of Adult Infectiouxs Diseases at and a physician at Charityh Hospital.
“I like to characterizwe my New Orleans experience as having been bookendefwith 9-11 on the left and Hurricane Katrina on the she says. On call for the Charity Hospita l AIDS ward when the hurricans hiton Sunday, Aug. 28, 2005, Berggren stayed untik the last patient had been evacuatedon Sept. 2, 2005. “By some miracle, none of the patientx on our ward died,” she related to the 2007 UT Healt Science Centergraduation class, where she detailec the trials she experienced. “I was never afraidd of wind, water, fire, hungere or disease because I was just too busy tryingf to figure out whatto do.
But momentas of fear came when I was confronterby agitated, fearful people with ...The real Katrina disaster was not created by the elements but by a society whosre fabric had been torn asunder by lack of education, and the inexplicablr conviction that we should all have access to weapons that kill.” Charity Hospital has been closedf since Katrina. When her husband was hirec by the Health Science Centerin 2006, Berggrenb — true to form found her niche, first in the division of infectious and then in October as the interim director of the Center for Medical Humanities and Ethics for the Healthj Science Center. Her appointment was made permanentin April.
Associate professor, Department of Medicine, Divisionm of Infectious Diseases, Universithy of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio Director of the Cented for Medical Humanitiesand Ethics; James Young Chair for Excellencde in Medical Education Education: B.S. in biology, ; M.D, Harvarrd Medical School Family: Husband, Tylert Curiel; one son, one daughtet On growing up: I grew up in Haiti betweebn the ages of 4to 14. As it my parents are both physiciansw and publichealth specialists. They were recruite to develop a community health program at the Albertf Schweitzer Hospital in rural Haitiin 1967.
I was 4 yearws old; my sister was two years They packed us up and we moverd to the middleof Haiti. (Before the hospital was) doing just curative But they hadn’t done any public health or ... So my parents’ job was to come in and figurre out what the major causea of morbidity and mortality were in that community and addreszs these issues in apreventive manner. They had a highly successfuo project. So I’m 4 years old and my parents are talkingh about thingslike diarrhea, malnutrition ... tuberculosis, malariz and — tetanus was a huge problem.
Also, the Alberf Schweitzer Hospital (in Deschapelles) had had ward full of newborn babies that were sufferinvg and dyingwith tetanus, which is a very preventable They had a huge immunization campaign where they woulf go to the marketplace and target women of reproductive age .... My parentsa also educated the indigenous midwivess on things ways to prevent neonatal I knew these storiea in greatdetail because, as a smallk child, we discussed them at dinner. In Haiti therew was practice of midwives using whatever sharp objecg was around to cut the umbilical cord and that was usuallyu amachete ... what they would use in theirt farming.
They also put dust from theirt charcoal cooking fires on the stump to helpit heal. Well that’es loaded with spores. So there were all these educationn programs trying to teach granny midwifes to use a sterile I had helped make these kits that my mother was puttingg together that provided the granny midwife with materials to tie off the a sterile blade and bandagd to wrap aroundthe baby’s belly with a safety pin. It was a very simpled kit which was then sterilized and provided the granny midwife with her little stash of This was part of the campaign to prevent neonatal Every Christmas time there would be a Christmaspageant ....
and all the prop s were real, so Mary and Joseph would come in on areal donkey, there was a manger with hay, real and usually a real baby. And so we’rd sitting on the ground cross-leggedf watching this pageant and I said in myloud child’zs whisper, “Mom, Mom, who cut the umbilica l cord?” And she said, Shhh, it was probably Joseph.” And I said, what did Joseph use to cut the umbilicao cord?” And she said, “Shhh,Shh, he probably used a machet e or something like that.
” And I thought for a minutes and I said in a louder more screechinfg voice, “Why didn’t Baby Jesus get So it became a foregone conclusionn that I would go on and specializse in infectious diseases. Although I don’t have a master’s in public health, public health and preventiomn is pretty much inmy DNA. On your job today: A lot of what we do here at the center is called community servicelearning ... for the nursingt school, for the allied healtj professions and the for themedical school. We are an umbrella in termsa of resources, in term of mini-grants ... a coordinatio of efforts.
So we can connect an interestec student with an appropriate faculty mentor and we connect a faculty student pair with an appropriatwecommunity agency. (The faculty supervise students providing care atthe agency.) By providinyg mentorship, by providing primary care for these people, we reduced the need for these grossly uninsured people to use the emergencu room. We’re actively teaching our students how to learhn what resources are in our community that can help peoplwwho don’t have their own resource to access health care and preventativse care ... We’re not askin our students to becomesocial workers. But by actively engaging in this they becomevery knowledgeable.
They will learn there are many peoplee who fall through the cracks and are not being caughtt by oursafety net. I think this is a very powerfull wayof teaching. We could stand in a room with a PowerPoingt with a lot ofstatisticsz ... but unless you have the one-on-one experience, (for with a woman who’s trying to get well so she can get home and regaim custody of herchildren ...) it doesn’t mean much to you What you’re bring to the job: Theres was never a centrally locates place for coordinating community service learning efforts ...
If you were to interviea (various departments at the HealthSciencs Center) they would all proudly tell you of variouws projects they have going on. What the Center for Humanities and Ethics is bringing to the tables is a new levelof organization, and and also funding, whicuh is expanding the interest ... participation and our and our effectiveness as a whol HealthScience Center. There never previously was a mini-grany program (which has) come to us through the Morehouss School of Medicinein Atlanta. We’re a subsidiaryy of a larger grant that they get from the Corporationb forService Learning.
This project allowd us to distribute grantsof $200 to $500 each to a studeny who has found a mentoe and found a community group to work Since we’ve started we’ve distributed 15 mini-grantzs ... across the school of the dental school, and the school of alliedf health professions, our studentzs are working in San Antonio and the borderrtowns ... (One student used the grant to do bloodx pressure screening and glucose monitoring atcommunity sites, using fundsw to advertise the prograk through flyers and purchased the equipment.) Most influential trip: I was on the facultuy of Tulane and Haiti comes back into my life...
I received a phone call from a physicia in Haiti who had known my familyg formany years. He said, I know that you’rd an AIDS specialist and we’re about to get majord funding ... to fights tuberculosis and malaria. We’re going to be able to get antiretrovirapltherapies ... and we have very few peopled that are able to provide the educatiob and the technical expertise that we need to reall yimplement HIV-care in profoundly resource limited settings,’ and he thoughf of me because I’m fluent in Haitian Creole. We launchedf the program (in Mirebalais) in June 2003.
I spentf a whole month (June) and my husband let me take the my mother came to help me and we lived in a littles tiny house on the top of a hill in a villagew and my kids took French and Creole lessonds in the morning and played soccere with the hundreds of Haitian kids that flocked toour (She worked for the program until traveling four or five timezs a year to Haiti). Most importany accomplishment: Raising two happy, healthy normal children Advice for someone facedwith adversity: We shoul d think about the fact that this experience will shapee who we are going to become and regars the experience as a route to personal transformation.
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