Stacy Pritt, DVM, MS, MBA, CPIA, CHRC, ECoP(EAR), DACAW’s Post

In this year’s Big Ideas Research Grants, CC&E’s Tom Douthat's LA-SEER Center won $250,000 in Phase 3 funding Learn more about this project, and how CC&E faculty are working in interdisciplinary teams to solve pressing problems in Louisiana and around the globe https://ow.ly/PnLv50RWH64

Join us at the Florida Association of Science Supervisors Conference this week! Let's discuss the power of a high quality, science intervention for your students and changing science outcomes. https://ow.ly/otlo50RqK5e

If you're interested in #attention and how to make the best use of it, check the this guide from WARC 👇🏾

It is with enormous pride and sense of responsibility that I announce the next ESTD Conference that will take place in Lisbon in 2026, from the 1st to 3rd October, with the tittle: "From Fragmentation to Integration: New perspectives on identity, resilience and growth after trauma". ESTD Conference is the most important european conference in the field of trauma and dissociation with renowned speakers in the area as well as the most recent research.

Honoring the legacy of Elliott Dan Kieff, a distinguished scholar whose dedication and pioneering spirit led to significant advancements in our understanding of the Epstein-Barr virus (EBV). Learn more about his contributions to science: https://ow.ly/Mx5R50SUesz

Love how non scientists are increasingly being involved in ocean conservation. Learn more about Citizen of the Sea and the potentially behind this new initiative!

Psychological Safety is a through line of many conversations and trainings Northstar EAP has with organizational leaders, managers, and supervisors. Can you give feedback? Direct, good, and constructive? Can you be open to that feedback no matter the person who is delivering? Do you feel that you can trust and respect those you work with to find the strongest outcome? Can you win together and fail together, be accountable together? We appreciate partners like Joel Bennett delivering this training on this topic to gain better understanding of the importance of a 'Psychological Safe' Work Environment.

In early September I was fortunate enough to attend The OR Society Conference #OR66, which took place at Bangor University this year. For those of you who've never heard of it, operational research is the application of mathematical techniques to solve logistical problems and was used extensively during the World Wars (l think a link is attached to this post!) This conference was a wonderful opportunity to see work in the same field but across several industries, which I'd recommend to anyone who is on the fence about attending similar conferences. There were so many excellent talks at the conference, I couldn't even try to describe all of them, but I've tried to give a brief overview of my favourites: - President's address by Dr Gilbert Owusu focussed on the shape of operational research now and its possible future form. My favourite part of his address was the emphasis on the personal skills required for effective operational research; ‘It's easy to focus on the technique and not think about the "soft side"'. I have always found the OR Society focusses on more than other, related organisations like the RSS on promoting these skills and this was a nice reminder of that emphasis. - Plenary from Dr Jeroen Mulder discussing various applications of OR within AirFrance-KLM. I could feel lots of parallels to the flight industry and the health and care industry, particularly if we think about the many complex factors that impact the industry and the person-centred focus. - Strategic workforce modelling that colleagues in HEIW showed, looking to forecast future workforce using a system dynamics model. The model hopes to make projections up to 15 years into the future, to inform the commissioning of education to create that workforce. - ‘Grand challenges in OR’ workshop. This workshop was an opportunity to put our profession into practice in a completely different setting. We heard the story of the football club the North Wales Dragons, a club that was formed to increase wellbeing through football. The team wanted to find more of the options for assessing their impact and I was able to point them to assessment similar to PROMS/PREMS. It felt amazing to be able to help the club and lend some of my experience for another good cause. If this sounds like something that would interest you in future, there is a #Simulation workshop scheduled for the end of March and the European conference for #OR, #EURO25, is in Leeds in June 2025.

*Fellow Spotlight* Dr. Fiorentino is a Professor of at the University of North Carolina Pembroke and was inducted as the 7th NAKHE Fellow in 2015 Learn more about Dr. Fiorentino https://buff.ly/3MCsv3X NAKHE Fellows https://buff.ly/3s2bOVy

Here’s the video of Dr Riegl about the importance of our reef and how business and science are aligned for the greater good.