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Advocacy at the Eighth World Congress of Pediatric Cardiology and Cardiac Surgery
- Bistra Zheleva, Amy Verstappen, David M. Overman, Farhan Ahmad, Sulafa K.M. Ali, Zohair Y. Al Halees, Joumana Ghandour Atallah, Isabella E. Badhwar, Carissa Baker-Smith, Maria Balestrini, Amy Basken, Jonah S. Bassuk, Lee Benson, Horacio Capelli, Santo Carollo, Devyani Chowdhury, M. Sertaç Çiçek, Mitchell I. Cohen, David S. Cooper, John E. Deanfield, Joseph Dearani, Blanca del Valle, Kathryn M. Dodds, Junbao Du, Frank Edwin, Ekanem Ekure, Nurun Nahar Fatema, Anu Gomanju, Babar Hasan, Lewis Henry, Christopher Hugo-Hamman, Krishna S. Iyer, Marcelo B. Jatene, Kathy J. Jenkins, Tara Karamlou, Tom R. Karl, James K. Kirklin, Christián Kreutzer, Raman Krishna Kumar, Keila N. Lopez, Alexis Palacios Macedo, Bradley S. Marino, Eva M. Marwali, Folkert J. Meijboom, Sandra S. Mattos, Hani Najm, Dan Newlin, William M. Novick, Sir Shakeel A. Qureshi, Budi Rahmat, Robert Raylman, Irfan Levent Saltik, Craig Sable, Nestor Sandoval, Anita Saxena, Emma Scanlan, Gary F. Sholler, Jodi Smith, James D. St Louis, Christo I. Tchervenkov, Koh Ghee Tiong, Vladimiro Vida, Susan Vosloo, Douglas J. “DJ” Weinstein, James L. Wilkinson, Liesl Zuhlke, Jeffrey P. Jacobs
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- Cardiology in the Young / Volume 33 / Issue 8 / August 2023
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- 24 August 2023, pp. 1277-1287
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The Eighth World Congress of Pediatric Cardiology and Cardiac Surgery (WCPCCS) will be held in Washington DC, USA, from Saturday, 26 August, 2023 to Friday, 1 September, 2023, inclusive. The Eighth World Congress of Pediatric Cardiology and Cardiac Surgery will be the largest and most comprehensive scientific meeting dedicated to paediatric and congenital cardiac care ever held. At the time of the writing of this manuscript, The Eighth World Congress of Pediatric Cardiology and Cardiac Surgery has 5,037 registered attendees (and rising) from 117 countries, a truly diverse and international faculty of over 925 individuals from 89 countries, over 2,000 individual abstracts and poster presenters from 101 countries, and a Best Abstract Competition featuring 153 oral abstracts from 34 countries. For information about the Eighth World Congress of Pediatric Cardiology and Cardiac Surgery, please visit the following website: [www.WCPCCS2023.org]. The purpose of this manuscript is to review the activities related to global health and advocacy that will occur at the Eighth World Congress of Pediatric Cardiology and Cardiac Surgery.
Acknowledging the need for urgent change, we wanted to take the opportunity to bring a common voice to the global community and issue the Washington DC WCPCCS Call to Action on Addressing the Global Burden of Pediatric and Congenital Heart Diseases. A copy of this Washington DC WCPCCS Call to Action is provided in the Appendix of this manuscript. This Washington DC WCPCCS Call to Action is an initiative aimed at increasing awareness of the global burden, promoting the development of sustainable care systems, and improving access to high quality and equitable healthcare for children with heart disease as well as adults with congenital heart disease worldwide.
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- By Brian Abaluck, Imran M. Ahmed, Torbjörn Åkerstedt, Sonia Ancoli-Israel, Anna Anund, Donna L. Arand, Isabelle Arnulf, Fiona C. Baker, Thomas J. Balkin, Christian R. Baumann, Michel Billiard, Michael H. Bonnet, Meredith Broderick, Christian Cajochen, Scott S. Campbell, Sarah Laxhmi Chellappa, Fabio Cirignotta, Yves Dauvilliers, David F. Dinges, Christopher L. Drake, Neil T. Feldman, Catherine S. Fichten, Charles F. P. George, Namni Goel, Christian Guilleminault, Shelby F. Harris, Melinda L. Jackson, Joseph Kaleyias, Göran Kecklund, William D. S. Killgore, Sanjeev V. Kothare, Andrew D. Krystal, Clete A. Kushida, Luc Laberge, Gert Jan Lammers, Christopher P. Landrigan, Sandrine H. Launois, Patrick Levy, Eva Libman, Yinghui Low, Jennifer L. Martin, Una D. McCann, Renee Monderer, Patricia J. Murphy, Sona Nevsimalova, Seiji Nishino, Eric A. Nofzinger, Maurice M. Ohayon, Masashi Okuro, Jean-Louis Pepin, Fabio Pizza, Anil N. Rama, David B. Rye, Paula K. Schweitzer, Hideto Shinno, Renaud Tamsier, Michael J. Thorpy, Astrid van der Heide, Hans P. A. Van Dongen, Mari Viola-Saltzman, Jim Waterhouse, Nathaniel F. Watson, Rajive Zachariah
- Edited by Michael J. Thorpy, Michel Billiard
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- Sleepiness
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- 04 February 2011
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- 27 January 2011, pp vii-x
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15 - The Influence of Learning Research on the Design and Use of Assessment
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- By Eva L. Baker
- Edited by K. Anders Ericsson, Florida State University
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- Development of Professional Expertise
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- 04 August 2010
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- 22 June 2009, pp 333-355
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In the education and training worlds, the term “assessment” is on everyone's agenda – from classroom instruction to local schools, to on-the-job training, to international comparisons of education, both at high school and college levels. Although the term has technical variations in meaning, the ascriptions of assessment dramatically shift according to the education and training settings in which the terms are used. In the clinical psychology realm, assessment usually denotes the use of specific procedures to examine and interpret patient status as well as the results of these procedures. In the military and in business sectors, assessment applies to a broader range of activities and purposes that can include the evaluation of a program's effectiveness, an individual's productivity, and even the estimate of future status of an entire area, as in “technology assessment.” In this discussion, I will use the term assessment and its functional synonym, “test,” to refer both to (1) the procedures designed and used, and (2) the criteria and judgments made, which together estimate the proficiency of an individual or group with respect to a domain of desired behaviors, achievements, or performances. Assessment procedures within this interpretation may vary with respect to their purposes, design, surface features, methods of analysis, and reporting approaches. They also may explicitly favor uniform or adaptive performance. Assessment can also be used as part of the dependent variables for efforts such as research studies or program evaluations.
1 - The Measurement and Development of Professional Performance: An Introduction to the Topic and a Background to the Design and Origin of This Book
- Edited by K. Anders Ericsson, Florida State University
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- Development of Professional Expertise
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Developments in technology and software engineering are making many types of traditional jobs, such as bookkeeping, accounting, routine design, and document indexing, virtually obsolete (Rasmussen, 2000). The rapid improvements in technology and automated work methods challenge even the traditional idea of stable job competence, as well as the ability to predict the length and the nature of current or future professional careers. Today's work conditions require ongoing adaptations by employees and entrepreneurs to new demands and competitive opportunities through continuing education and training. Technological innovations, such as the World Wide Web, broadband communication, and highly portable communication and work devices, have reduced the constraints of geography on work. Today, many services can be provided with an equivalent level of quality irrespective of whether the provider is in the office next door or on a different continent. It is, indeed, becoming an age of global consumerism in which one can “work with anyone, anytime, anywhere.” Additionally, many specialized skills previously performed by human beings are now the purview of automated systems, and can often be conducted anywhere in the world at a fraction of the cost if carried out in Western Europe and North America. This technological revolution suggests that the competitive advantage of any country aspiring to economic prosperity is increasingly dependent on the capability of both its research and development groups and its skilled workforce, not only to create and develop new and improved products that are at the cutting edge, but also to quickly react and adapt to market forces.
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