School of Management’s Nowak Tells FierceCEO How to Motivate Employees

Feb 09, 2018

In a story about organizational excellence at FierceCEO, NYIT School of Management Assistant Professor Radoslaw Nowak, J.D., Ph.D., discusses ways companies can get the best out of employees. “Employees must believe that there are clearly defined and transparent processes that determine such things as who gets a pay raise, who gets promoted, and who gets training opportunities,” he says.

Nowak adds, “When companies ensure that qualified employees have control over their tasks, they can utilize their skills, provide feedback regarding process improvements, and develop new skills.”

 

Dean Fields Advocates for More Diverse RN Workforce in LIBN

Feb 09, 2018

Commentary by Sheldon Fields, Ph.D., dean, School of Health Professions, was featured in Long Island Business News regarding the need for increased diversity in the Registered Nurse (RN) profession. In the article, Fields advocates for the region’s nursing schools to better collect and examine the demographics of their students in order to prepare an RN workforce that is well equipped to treat a local population that is growing more ethnically and racially diverse. He states:

“The impending nursing shortage is not just a deficiency of numbers, but also of diversity. Underserved communities, many of which already experience barriers to healthcare, will be hit the hardest. This begs the question, what are local nursing schools doing to ensure all communities, regardless of their racial and ethnic background, can attain their highest level of health?”

Fields goes on to note that New York State licensed 17,000 RNs in 2017, but nursing schools know little about the demographics of their graduates and whether these nurses best represent and understand the needs of the increasingly racially and ethnically diverse population they treat. He writes, “This lack of diversity must be addressed if we are to educate a workforce that mirrors the New York City melting pot where so many of our graduates are employed. Now is the time to develop an effective local strategy that allows our graduates to be representative of the patients they will serve.”

 

CSO Online Quotes Dean Anid on NYC’s Cybersecurity Industry

Feb 06, 2018

An article in CSO Online reports on the New York City Economic Development Corp. launch of Cyber NYC to foster public-private partnerships focused on building a vibrant cybersecurity community and talent pool there.

“We commend Mayor de Blasio and his vision to make New York City the number one destination for cybersecurity companies seeking the best talent in the U.S.,” says Nada M. Anid, Ph.D., dean of NYIT’s School of Engineering and Computing Sciences. “This will be possible when businesses and academia work hand in hand to grow a workforce with the needed competencies and skills to accomplish this vision.”

 

Medical School Partnership with Catholic Health Services Makes Headlines

Feb 06, 2018

NYITCOM was featured in several regional news outlets, including Crain’s Health Pulse, Long Island Business News, and InnovateLI regarding its partnership with Catholic Health Services to expand medical student clinical rotations and post-graduate residencies and fellowships. As mentioned in InnovateLI, Jerry Balentine, D.O., vice president for medical affairs and global health, NYIT, notes this opportunity presents expanded educational opportunities and a new post-graduate luster to NYITCOM’s already well-regarded medical program.

 

Healio Shares Flu Prevention Tips from NYITCOM at A-State's Shane Speights

Feb 05, 2018

Shane Speights, D.O., site dean, NYITCOM at A-State, lent his influenza expertise to Healio, a digital news source for healthcare professionals, for its article, “How to Encourage Flu Vaccine Uptake Among Patients.” Speights addresses a series of flu season concerns, explaining why this year’s strains have caused severe reactions, confirming that patients should still get their flu shot, and advising whether patients should consider wearing surgical masks to stop the virus from spreading. On the latter, Speights notes:

“That is not a current recommendation and not one that I advise. The practice of wearing a mask is used in hospitals, urgent cares, and physician offices to reduce the spread of disease between those that are ill and those that are not. The general population should not subscribe to that.”

 

Speights in Mashable and Yahoo: How Doctors Predicted the Hong Kong Flu

Feb 01, 2018

Shane Speights, D.O., dean and associate professor of Medicine, NYITCOM at A-State, was featured in the Mashable and Yahoo articles,“We Saw This Deadly 'Hong Kong' Flu Coming, But No One Could Prevent Its Spread.”

According to the story, experts watched flu activity unfold in Australia in 2017, where the Hong Kong flu (formally known as the H3N2 strain) was dominant, and knew what to expect and prepared as best as they could. However, in this strain's typical fashion, it likely mutated, rendering vaccines less effective and resulting in the virus’ remarkable 2018 spread. Speights notes that doctors predict what flu will hit the U.S., and accordingly, what vaccines to produce, based upon which influenza strain has been dominant in places like Australia. "Every year we look at the Southern Hemisphere. The Southern Hemisphere dictates what goes into our vaccine," he says.

 

Gugliotti Lends Physical Therapy Expertise to U.S. News & World Report

Feb 01, 2018

U.S. News & World Report recently interviewed Mark Gugliotti, assistant professor of Physical Therapy, on the negative effects of poor posture, namely forward head posture. As mentioned in the slideshow article, forward head posture causes some muscles to weaken and others to tighten, leading to neck pain caused by muscle strain and tension headaches.

“Ideally, a healthy head and neck relationship would align a person’s ear with his or her shoulder when viewing them from the side,” says Gugliotti. “As the head progressively lurches forward over time, the individual may succumb to a myriad of musculoskeletal dysfunctions impacting various systems of the body.”

 

Mashable Quotes NYITCOM at A-State Dean in Flu Article

Jan 31, 2018

As seen in Mashable, Shane Speights, D.O., dean and associate professor of Medicine at NYITCOM at A-State, explains what has caused this year's flu shot to be less effective in fighting the predominant H3N2 strain, but why the vaccine still serves as a vital public health tool. As covered in the story, Speights explains that because the vaccines are created in laboratories months in advance, the virus has plenty of time to morph and attack the body of a person who has been inoculated. He notes that while the vaccine may not be as effective in preventing someone from falling ill, it can jump start the body's immune system to better fight the virus, thereby lessening the severity of symptoms. He states:

“The vaccine certainly still provides a lot of benefits. It’s still enough for your body to mount a response. It starts creating infantry cells so that when you come in contact with the real thing, it has some resistance to fight it off.”

 

Sommer Advocates for Telemedicine in Medical School Education

Jan 26, 2018

NYITCOM at A-State’s Darren Sommer, D.O., who facilitated the creation of the first telemedicine training program for first- and second-year NYITCOM medical students, has published an opinion commentary in Telemedicine Magazine. Sommer conveys telemedicine as an integral component of medical school education in the digital age, and advocates for a national standard that would require all U.S. medical students to be trained in the technology. He writes:

“One medical school cannot do it alone. It is time for other medical schools to consider not just the role telemedicine plays in the delivery of today’s healthcare services, but the role it will have in the future. This concept can be officially reinforced by getting medical school and post-graduate accreditation entities such as the Association of American Medical Colleges (AAMC) and Accreditation of Graduate Medical Education (ACGME), on board with mandating some level of telemedicine education into their members core curriculum. These influential organizations set the standards for the quality of our future physicians, and without their mandate, it will be left up to the individual educating bodies to sort out how best telemedicine education should be delivered.”

 

Nowak on The Academic Minute: Why Firms Should Empower Employees

Jan 26, 2018

Today’s episode of The Academic Minute features School of Management Assistant Professor Radoslaw Nowak, J.D., Ph.D. Nowak describes his research into absorptive capacity, which is an organization’s ability to absorb new developments and act on them to enhance productivity. The episode also appears at Inside Higher Ed.

Large firms are less agile than small firms in implementing innovations, and Nowak’s research suggests a solution: increase the autonomy of qualified employees at lower levels of the organization.

“Employee empowerment diminishes the negative impacts of size and lets frontline employees drive positive organizational change,” says Nowak. He adds, “When employees don’t feel micro-managed, they can improve processes or suggest new applications to improve efficiency.”