On the move
Dr. Lorri Perry, of Stone Ridge, N.Y., and the Kingston Audiology Center, provided hearing screenings and education at the 2017 annual convention of the National Football League Players Association in Scottdale, Ariz.
The convention highlighted health issues for former professional football players.
Players from across the country received screenings, hearing aid fittings, and health education.
••• Dr. Ephraim Back, of Guilderland and residency program director for the Institute for Family Health’s Mid-Hudson Family Medicine Residency Program, in Kingston, has been presented a bronze level Program Director Recognition Award by the Association of Family Medicine Residency Directors.
The awards recognize contributions to family medicine in the areas of tenure, training, performance, and advocacy. Awardees at the bronze level must have held the position of program director for at least three years; prepared and successfully presented at professional workshops or seminars or authored publications in refereed scientific journals; encouraged professional development in their peers, along with themselves, through family medicine-centered conferences, workshops, and programs; given service to local, regional or state family medicine organizations; completed a family medicine advocacy course; and corresponded with local, state or federal legislature regarding family medicine priorities.
The Institute for Family Health’s Mid-Hudson Family Medicine Residency Program was founded in 1979 and now graduates 10 physicians annually. The program is a collaboration with HealthAlliance of the Hudson Valley and receives federal funding from the U.S. Health Resources and Services Administration.
••• Jeffrey W. Smith, of Clintondale and a certified insurance counselor with Ryan & Ryan Insurance Brokers Inc., of Kingston, has been recognized for professional leadership and advanced knowledge by the Society of Certified Insurance Counselors, a national insurance professional organization.
Smith was awarded a certificate marking more than 15 years of participation as a designated, certified insurance counselor, which requires annual completion of education and training.
••• Bard College Assistant Professor of Biology Cathy Collins, of Kingston, has been awarded a $371,652 National Science Foundation grant to study “how landscape fragmentation interferes with plantpathogen interactions that maintain local plant diversity.”
Plant diseases are often thought of as backyard nuisances or crop destroyers, but they can also play beneficial roles in unmanaged ecosystems by maintaining plant diversity. Collins’s research, which includes work with Bard students, will explore if and how conditions in fragments change the way plants interact with their pathogens and the resulting impacts on local plant diversity.
The project, which is in collaboration with Sarah Lawrence College biology professor Michelle Hersh, received a total of $600,000 from the National Science Foundation.
Collins has a bachelor of arts degree from Pitzer College, a master of science degree from the University of Arizona, and a doctor-
ate from the University of Kansas.
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