INFORMS Appoints New Director of Meetings, Kyle Jordan
News Release, September 16, 2021
CATONSVILLE, MD, September 16, 2021 – INFORMS has named Kyle Jordan, CAE, CEM, CMP, DES, CMM, as the association’s new director of meetings.
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Announcing the results of the 2026 INFORMS Board of Directors election and the new board for 2027.
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INFORMS has named 12 distinguished leaders as the 2026 class of INFORMS Fellows, one of the highest honors in the profession.
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Most medical devices do not hit the market through rigorous safety testing but by being deemed similar enough to something already approved—the “predicate” device through a mechanism known as the FDA’s 510(k) pathway. But similar is not a synonym for safe. While the assumption may be that substantial equivalence is a reasonable stand-in for a safety review, a share of devices cleared with this method still get recalled, and the FDA spends valuable time reviewing devices the same way, regardless of how risky it is on paper.
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Georgia University Chancellor Won’t Mandate Masks on Campuses
Flagpole Magazine, September 13, 2021
At two Atlanta meetings Thursday morning, two groups of education leaders outlined opposing visions for the COVID-19 safety measures students and employees should be subject to at Georgia’s colleges and universities.
Students Face Quarantines As School Districts Grapple With Masking
WVXU, September 14, 2021
There is no statewide mask mandate for schools in Ohio and that has left a piecemeal approach to masking among districts to mitigate the spread of COVID-19. The school year has started off with many districts implementing quarantines and shutdowns as cases are detected within schools.
Vaccine resistant people are easy targets to exploit
The Hill, September 13, 2021
It has become abundantly clear that there is no benefit in getting sick with COVID-19. Avoiding becoming infected should be everyone’s goal. It is an infectious disease with unpredictable outcomes, ranging across the health spectrum from benign asymptomatic, to mild cold-like symptoms, to severe flu-like symptoms, to intubation in an intensive care unit (ICU) or death.
As Vaccine Incentives Flounder, Messaging Revamp Called Critical
Bloomberg Law, September 13, 2021
A Biden administration push for states to pay low-income residents to get the Covid-19 shot is clashing with research findings that certain financial incentives are largely ineffective—leaving government officials on the line for new ways to bolster vaccination numbers.
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