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LIU Brooklyn Professor Helps Star Athletes Win Big

LIU Brooklyn assistant professor Tony Ricci hasn’t exactly “gotten away from it all” this summer. In fact, some of his biggest moments in recent months have come just a short train or subway ride from LIU Brooklyn, where he teaches exercise biochemistry and nutrition.

On June 24, Ricci was at Madison Square Garden as a performance coach for WBC International Super Bantamweight Champion Heather “The Heat” Hardy, who made a successful transition to mixed martial arts with a win over Alice Yauger at Bellator 180. Four weeks later, he was at NYCB Live, Home of the Nassau Veterans Memorial Coliseum, watching another of his athletes, former UFC Middleweight Champion Chris Weidman, defeat Kelvin Gastelum for his first win in more than two years.

“It’s been a nice summer,” Ricci said with a laugh.

Ricci wasn’t in either fighter’s corner, but as a performance coach, Ricci is a vital part of the fight preparation process for Weidman, Hardy, and several other fighters, including former WBO Junior Welterweight Champion Chris Algieri.

While Ricci leaves the specifics of what happens in the ring or the cage to the fight coaches, “I do pretty much everything else,” he said. “Cardiovascular conditioning, strength training…I make sure that the athlete is trying to optimize all the variables of performance and recovery.”

For an athlete changing disciplines – as Hardy did in moving from boxing to MMA, or as Weidman did following his collegiate wrestling career – optimizing those variables often means a significant change in training styles.

“You have to change the strength program and the power program,” Ricci said. “Boxers aren’t used to having level changes with their bodies, or having to use their arms to hold somebody. Wrestlers don’t like going up and down [on the mat], and then having to throw a punch.”

Ricci’s success comes in helping his fighters adjust to new challenges from a physiological perspective, and he draws on his work when teaching his students in LIU Brooklyn’s School of Health Professions, many of whom were on hand in May, when Hardy defeated Edina Kiss in a boxing match held at the LIU Brooklyn Paramount Theater.

“When they come with me,” Ricci said, “we discuss the physiology of what went on, and what energy systems were used. One of the most exciting things about it is that everything they’ve learned, they can apply to what happened. They understand why it’s different to train a fighter than it is to train an athlete for football or hockey: how do we take the protocols from our class and apply them to three to five minutes of continuous activity? They get to see it live.”

And, as Ricci gets Hardy ready for her next MMA bout in October, he’ll continue to share his experience with his students.

“It’s a wonderful way to have an interactive education,” Ricci said.

Wall Street Journal Publishes Israel Oped about N. Korea

The Wall Street Journal printed an oped piece by former Congressman Steve Israel, Chairman of the Global Institute at LIU and General (Ret.) Robert Scales offering insight into the ongoing nuclear standoff with North Korea.

LIU Post Hosts Civil and Criminal Tax Controversy Forum

On August 17, the LIU Post School of Professional Accountancy’s Tax and Accounting Institute hosted a Civil and Criminal Tax Controversy Forum in the atrium of the Tilles Center for the Performing Arts.

Approximately 100 people attended the forum, which served as a valuable learning experience for tax professionals and an opportunity to earn continuing education credits. The event brought together all of the stakeholders in the tax system, including return preparers, enrolled agents, CPAs and attorneys, with stakeholders from the government, including the Internal Revenue Service and the New York State Department of Taxation and Finance.

The Tax and Accounting Institute is a division of the School of Professional Accountancy in the LIU Post College of Management. The Institute runs approximately 10 to 12 seminars per year where CPAs have the opportunity to earn their CPE credits to keep their licenses current, as required by New York State.  LIU alumni often attend, as do area accounting professionals.

Frank Agostino, Esq. of Agostino and Associates, one of the key organizers of the event, believes that these seminars represent an important opportunity to not only educate tax professionals, but to voice their questions and concerns and to implement important industry improvements.

“We have a forum here where we can discuss updates, what’s been going on in the last year, taxpayers’ challenges, as well as the enforcement challenges that the government has,” Agostino said. “We go over current events and topics with a free exchange of ideas: how can we all help each other and make the system better? We all serve the taxpaying public.”

These seminars aim to both educate and advocate for the industry professionals and for the people they serve.  Agostino’s fellow panelists on August 17 included William Cheung, IRS Criminal Investigation; Bernard S. Mark, Esq., Kestenbaum & Mark; Noelle Geiger, Esq., Grassi & Co.; Barry Horowitz, CPA, Withum; Brian Skarlatos, Esq., Kostelanetz & Fink, LLP.; James D. Robnett, IRS Criminal Investigation; Margaret Neri, NYSDTF Taxpayer Advocate; and Darol Tucker, IRS Local Taxpayer Advocate. Topics included Federal Criminal Tax updates, both international and domestic, IRS Collection Division updates, and IRS Examination Division updates along with NYS Collection updates and NYS sales tax and residency audits.

Attendees earned eight New York and New Jersey CPE or CLE credits or four enrolled agent CE credits.

“It’s high-quality learning,” Agostino said. “They go away with materials they can use in their day to day practice as well as getting to meet and network with the government people they may have only previously met on the phone.”

LIU Post Ph. D Student Elected President of American Library Association

An LIU Post Ph.D. student was recently elected President of American Library Association (ALA).  President-Elect Loida Garcia-Febo, Library Consultant and President of Information New Wave in Brooklyn, New York, won this prestigious honor with 3,278 votes. She will serve as president-elect for a year before taking over as president of the ALA at the close of the 2018 ALA Annual Conference in New Orleans.

“I am thrilled about the opportunity to collaborate together with all ALA members to advocate for libraries while maintaining our core values, build partnerships with value-sharing organizations, and have a place and a voice at the decision makers’ table, Garcia-Febo said, “particularly for those in our communities with no voice.”

The goals of Garcia-Febo’s term will be to amplify libraries’ concerns to Congress, at the state house, in city councils, and on school boards. Her enthusiasm for the post stems from her 15-year ALA membership and her work at Information New Wave, bringing underserved communities access to information.

“I am excited about bringing my experience serving communities into this role,” she says. “Together, we can bring change to impact public policy, benefit our profession, and the communities we serve.”

Garcia-Febo is a current PhD candidate at the Palmer School of Library and Information Science at LIU Post.

The Palmer School is a recognized leader in information and library science and is one of just 62 schools accredited by the ALA.  It also offers the only PhD program in Information Studies in the New York metropolitan area, and was recently admitted to the elite community of iSchools, an international consortium of prominent information schools with robust research traditions and well-established PhD programs.  The organization promotes high-level research and higher education in the information disciplines.  LIU shares membership in this prestigious consortium with leading information schools around the world, including Penn State, Carnegie Mellon, and the University of California, Berkley,.

Garcia-Febo joined the ALA Council in 2011 and was elected to the ALA Executive Board in 2015.

She is also very active in IFLA (the International Federation of Library Associations) – where she currently sits on the governing board – and REFORMA (The National Association to Promote Library and Information Services to Latinos and the Spanish-Speaking), where she served on the executive board from 2008 to 2011, including a term as president in 2009 and 2010).

Among Garcia-Lebo’s many accomplishments are the 2015 REFORMA Elizabeth Martinez Lifetime Achievement Award, the Elizabeth Futus Catalyst for Change Award in 2010, and an ALA/IFLA Fellowship for the 2004 IFLA Congress where she co-established the IFLA New Professionals. She has been named a Library Journal Mover & Shaker Freedom Fighter, and a Notable Member on ALA’s International Relations Round Table.

“Loida Garcia-Febo​ is at the dissertating stage in our Ph.D. program and we are extremely proud of her accomplishments as an international expert in the field of libraries, an advocate for multi-lingual outreach, and a supporter of the diverse traditions of American librarianship,” said Dr. Thomas Walker, Director of the Palmer School. “We believe that her election to the presidency of the largest library association in the world reflects well on the quality of students we accept into our Ph.D. program and the Palmer School’s reputation as a leading institution in the field of Library and Information Science.”

­­Innovate Long Island Profiles New LIU Post Entrepreneurship Expert Dane Stangler

InnovateLI.com profiled Dane Stangler, one of the nation’s leading experts on entrepreneurship, who is joining the LIU Post College of Management as the first Visiting Associate Professor in the Vorzimer Endowed Chair in Entrepreneurship.  In addition to teaching, Stangler will help lead the T. Denny Sanford Innovation and Entrepreneurship Institute at LIU Post.  Click here to read more.

Formerly Vice President for Research and Policy at the Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation, Stangler has written for the Wall Street Journal, Huffington Post, Forbes.com, Washington Monthly, testified before the U.S. Senate, and is frequently quoted by national broadcast and print outlets. As a frequent public speaker, he has addressed local, national, and international groups and conferences on topics of economic growth and entrepreneurship development.

In addition to serving as a Visiting Associate Professor at LIU Post, Stangler is currently Head of Policy at Startup Genome, focusing on data assessment and policy analysis for entrepreneurial ecosystems around the world. He also serves as Director of Policy Innovation at the Progressive Policy Institute, with a focus on the future of economic growth and innovation.  Stangler received his B.A. in English from Truman State University in 2001 and his J.D. from the University of Wisconsin-Madison in 2004.

 

LIU Pharmacy’s Fernando Gonzalez Discusses Dangers of Expired Medication on Fox 5

LIU Pharmacy Professor Fernando Gonzalez shares his expertise.

As a leader in the education of the next generation of pharmacists, Dr. Fernando Gonzalez wants to make sure that their patients listen to instructions.

The Director of Pharmacy Practice at LIU Pharmacy was featured on Fox 5 New York’s evening newscast on August 21, stressing the importance of disposing of expired medication.

While some studies have indicated that medications can remain potent past their expiration dates, Dr. Gonzalez pointed out that the potency of a drug is just one of many concerns that patients must consider.

“The drug doesn’t dissolve the same way,” Gonzalez explained, “and once the medication is open, or it’s not kept under the right conditions – temperature, humidity – different things can happen to the drug. It can even become toxic.”

Dr. Gonzalez also noted that liquid medications pose a particular danger if kept and used past their printed expiration dates.

“Liquids are probably worse, because they’re less stable than the oral solid dosage forms. Many of the liquids, when you get an antibiotic, they’re so unstable that they don’t mix it until you get there, so if you get a pediatric antibiotic, the pharmacist probably mixes it when you bring [the prescription] and tells you it’s good for seven to 14 days.”

Those instructions are paramount for patient safety, and Dr. Gonzalez minced no words when addressing the television audience.

“If a doctor gives you an antibiotic for 14 days, take it for 14 days. Don’t take it for seven days and then stop, say, ‘I feel better,’ and then the next time, take it again.”

Click here to watch the full segment at Fox 5 New York’s website.

Memorial Sloan Kettering Nurse Residency Program Partners with LIU Post Interprofessional Simulation Center

On August 9, the LIU Post School of Health Professions and Nursing hosted its first group from Memorial Sloan Kettering (MSK) for a full day of simulation at its Interprofessional Simulation Center (ISC).

The ISC is a state-of-the-art Patient Simulation Center on the LIU Post campus, designed to improve health outcomes by providing programs for aspiring nurses and other health professionals which promote and enhance safe, quality healthcare through clinical competence, teamwork, and interprofessional collaboration.

“We have been working with our colleagues at MSK for the past six months to enable this experience to happen,” said ISC Manager Brian Haughney. “This collaboration went extremely smoothly and was well received by everyone. We look forward to regular future events to come.”

The ISC occupies a vital role in enhancing students’ preparedness to practice through an experiential approach to learning, including simulation that combines faculty-directed and independent learning.  In addition, the ISC supports interdisciplinary research and translational research to add to the body of knowledge on simulation, practice, technology, quality, and safety in the workplace.  Using state-of-the-art simulation equipment, participants learn proper techniques, refine interprofessional skills, and increase confidence in their abilities​.

The group from Memorial Sloan Kettering was cohort 51 from MSK’s Nurse Residency Program.  The group was divided into two sections; half focused on psychomotor skills task training in the north wing, while the other half worked on a multi-patient scenario, designed by LIU Post staff in collaboration with MSK.

Newly hired graduate nurses are expected to manage care for multiple patients in a complex and multifaceted health care system.  The goal of these simulations is to allow students to learn how to effectively prioritize and delegate care in a safe environment.  MSK chose to work with LIU Post because of its interprofessional approach to health care education, which will be a focus for upcoming events.

As a result of this collaboration, LIU Post will provide a greater opportunity for students to rotate through MSK’s growing network of health facilities. LIU will also have additional opportunities to promote its health profession programs to MSK’s staff.

This promises to be the beginning of a long and prosperous partnership between LIU Post and Memorial Sloan Kettering, which will help better train MSK’s staff in real-life simulations and provide experiential learning for nursing students as part of their comprehensive healthcare education.

This partnership was organized by Christopher Brooks, the Director of Nursing Professional Development, and Elizabeth McNulty, the Nursing Professional Development Specialist and the Coordinator of the Nurse Residency Program at MSK, along with Stacy Gropack, PT., Ph.D., FASAHP, Dean of the School of Health Professions and Nursing at LIU Post, Brian Haughney, the ISC Manager, and Dr. Barbara Messina, Associate Professor of Nursing at LIU Post.

LIU Pharmacy Professor Billy Sin on Advancing Pharmacy Practice in Emergency Medicine

In a post on Medium, Billy Sin, Pharm.D., BCPS, an Assistant Professor of Pharmacy Practice at LIU Pharmacy and the Emergency Medicine (EM) Pharmacotherapy Specialist, writes about the need to advance pharmacy practice in emergency medicine.

 

LIU Post Alumnus Gifts Antique NYSE Sales Indicator to College of Management

Christopher Bates, an esteemed LIU Post alumnus, gifted the LIU Post College of Management with an antique New York Stock Exchange sales indicator that had once belonged to his grandfather, the late George F. Robb, founder of Robb, Peck, and McCooey, Inc.

In front of a crowd of students, alumni, and faculty, Chris Bates presented the sales indicator and a framed black and white photograph of his grandfather on the trading floor in front of the indicator. He described the old days on the Exchange, where manual stock trading was the norm before digital technology overtook the financial landscape.

“This place looks great,” Bates said of the school’s trading floor, where LED screens show a running stock ticker, flat screens keep students briefed on national news, and students can utilize the same Bloomberg terminals they would find at top financial firms. “It’s like coming back home [to the trading floor on Wall Street]. The only thing missing is the noise!”

Bates enjoyed a successful career as a stock trader, inheriting his grandfather’s seat on the Exchange. In 2012, Bates went back to college at LIU Post to earn both his Bachelor’s and Master’s degrees in Criminal Justice. He chose LIU Post, he said, because of the supportive and enthusiastic culture of the school. His ties to the University continue into the next generation as two of his daughters have earned degrees, and the third plans to attend this fall.

Dean Robert Valli, of LIU Post’s College of Management, spoke of the importance of history in the context of a business education. “I think that there’s a lot to history,” Valli said. “And to have a symbol of history in this room speaks volumes to what we areas an institution here at LIU. And that is an institution that is engaged with industry in a meaningful way.”

Photo Caption: L to R– Student Michael Nicosia, Dr. Harvey Kushner, Dr. Robert Valli, Christopher Bates, Sonia Bates, incoming LIU Post student Tara Bates and student Angelina Litterello at a ceremony to dedicate an antique Last Trade Indicator.

Dr. Harvey Kushner, Chair of the Criminal Justice department at LIU Post, described his relationship with Bates as “earth-shaking.”

“Every once in a while,” Kushner said, “you meet up with a student that teaches you something—not only about education, not only about learning, but about life, and about who that person is as an individual. As a man, as a family man, [Bates] is someone to admire.”

Bates discovered a profound connection when a Criminal Justice professor whose class he was taking referred to a case the professor had worked on as a detective back in 1980. The case he was discussing turned out to be the apprehension and arrest of the man who had murdered Bates’ grandfather.  Dr. Kushner became aware of the story and the shared realization of that connection became the foundation of a friendship the two treasure to this day.

“That’s what life is about,” Kushner concluded. “Not just to make money, not just to make a name for yourself, but when you’re gone, for someone to say, ‘I remember. I knew this man. I knew what he stood for. I knew his heart.’”

The Last Sale stock indicator will be on display for students to enjoy at the School of Business.

LIU Post Art Professor Winn Rea’s Work Displayed Across New York

Summer is a time for enjoying the natural beauty around us. Sometimes, though, that means going inside, as work by LIU Post Associate Professor of Art Winn Rea has been featured in the Hecksher Museum of Art in Huntington, N.Y. and Gallery 46 in Lake Placid, N.Y.

Billing herself as an “environmental artist,” Rea addresses environmental themes in a variety of media, including sculptures, installations, videos, and work on paper. “All of my works are a meditation on where I fit into the greater scheme of things on the planet,” Rea recently told the Times Beacon Record. “I want my legacy to be longer lasting in terms of the way my work helps people to think about the world differently and to become more aware of the impact of their everyday choices on the planet.”

Part of the way Rea changes how people think about the world is through her instruction at LIU Post. “I want to give students confidence in their own creativity and help them cultivate their problem-solving skills through the design process.” Rea said.

For more on Winn Rea and her environmental art, click here.

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