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EXPERT ALERTS

• Yes, Adults, You Can Still 'Believe' in Santa!
• Vertical Integration Among Health Systems
• Male Leaders and Masculinity
• Want to Listen Better? Pretend to Make a Toast

MEDIA JOBS

• Editor, Mansion – The Wall Street Journal (NY)
• Supervisory Content Editor – Voice of America (DC/NY/CA)
• Writer/Editor – LRP Publications (FL)

OTHER NEWS & RESOURCES

• Last-Minute Gift Ideas for the Journalists and Bloggers on Your List
• 12 Writer Residencies That Will Inspire You
• Blog Profiles: History Blogs

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EXPERT ALERTS:

Yes, Adults, You Can Still 'Believe' in Santa!
Mary Muscari
Associate Professor
Binghamton University Decker School of Nursing
"It's been 120 years since veteran newsman Francis Pharcellus Church, editor of The New York Sun, penned 'Yes, Virginia, there is a Santa Claus,' history's most reprinted newspaper editorial. Yet, his words ring true today -- we still live in a skeptical world, where without Santa [fairies, dragons and other enchanted wonders], there would be no childlike faith, no poetry and no magic. Studies of children's brain activity offer evidence that children do indeed have active imaginations. Thus, children may be more adept than adults in forming varied and creative images -- and see Santa with such clarity, when all we see are holiday bills."
Muscari can offer a number of activities that adults can engage in to recapture that lost spirit. Her areas of expertise include parenting, from toddler age and up, especially teens. She has conducted a number of parenting workshops around the country, the most popular topics including: keeping kids safe from predators ("live" and Internet), bullying, and raising nonviolent kids. She has written a number of parenting books, including "Child Behavioral and Parenting Challenges for Advanced Practice Nurses: A Reference for Front-line Health Care Providers" (Springer, 2016).
Website: https://www.binghamton.edu/dson/
Contact: John Brhel, [email protected]

Vertical Integration Among Health Systems
Ryan Marling
Healthcare Research Associate
Clayton Christensen Institute
"Horizontal integrations among health systems, like the potential Ascension Health and Providence St. Joseph Health merger, are often a temporary fix for health systems' bottom-lines, not a solution for the unsustainable cost growth in healthcare. However, vertical integration like the recent acquisition of Aetna by CVS aligns both sides, compelling them to work together. This integrated structure holds potential for payers and providers to address and coordinate both care delivery and payment in their innovation efforts and allows them to find ways to best treat and pay for complex conditions in which there may not be industry consensus. This differs from the traditional dichotomy, where insurers and providers are at odds with the each other to determine who will foot the financial risk of high-cost procedures."
Prior to joining Clayton Christensen Institute, Marling worked in practice solutions and health policy research at the Massachusetts Medical Society, publishers of The New England Journal of Medicine. He has recently been interviewed by and contributed articles to: Becker's Healthcare and Managed Healthcare Executive. Marling attained a BS in Biochemistry from the University of Iowa and an MPH in Health Policy & Management from the Boston University School of Public Health. He is based in Boston.
Website: www.christenseninstitute.org
Contact: Brian Hyland, [email protected]

Male Leaders and Masculinity
Mark S. Kiselica, PhD, HSPP, NCC, LPC
Founding Dean and Professor of Psychology, School of Humanities and Social Sciences
Cabrini University
"Men who embrace positive masculinity will not tolerate nor engage in violence, sexually insensitive behavior, or destructive exploitation. They have an inner knowledge about themselves and are confident, secure, humble, and trustworthy. I urge everyone to evaluate male leaders at all levels of power through the lens of positive masculinity. We must direct our support toward men who exhibit these qualities. We have an obligation to confront male leaders who are sexist, racist, hyper-aggressive, duplicitous, and pathologically narcissistic, invite them with optimism to learn and live by more positive notions of masculinity, and forcefully challenge them if they reject this invitation."
A national authority on positive masculinity and helping boys and men, Kiselica is Fellow and former president of the Society for the Psychological Study of Men and Masculinity and the author of 150 publications, including the books, "The Handbook of Counseling Boys and Adolescent Males" and "Counseling Troubled Boys." He believes that fostering positive masculinity is the best way to prevent disrespect and harm to women by men. Kiselica is available to speak on positive masculinity as an antidote to the problem of sexual harassment.
Website: www.cabrini.edu
Contact: Lori Iannella, [email protected]

Want to Listen Better? Pretend to Make a Toast
David Cunningham, M.Ed.
Seminar Leader
Landmark
"Most people simply attend holiday parties, meetings, events and conferences without thinking much about how to prepare to listen at those functions. In fact, they might even plan how to speak instead. They might practice soundbites or pitches to say just the right things to people in attendance. But how many people prepare to listen? What if listening is more important? Before you go to a social gathering, pretend to make a toast to the people in attendance. It can help both professionally and personally. It helps you become present to how you'd acknowledge a person -- and when you acknowledge someone, it opens up communication, partnership and trust."
Cunningham is a communication expert and seminar leader for Landmark, a personal and professional growth, training and development company that's had more than 2.4 million people use its programs to cause breakthroughs in their personal lives as well as in their communities, generating more than 100,000 community projects around the world. In The Landmark Forum, Landmark's flagship program, people cause breakthroughs in their performance, communication, relationships and overall satisfaction in life.
Online Press Kit: http://davidcunningham.onlinepresskit247.com
Website: www.LandmarkWorldwide.com
Contact: Michelle Tennant, [email protected]

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• 12 WRITER RESIDENCIES THAT WILL INSPIRE YOU. Writer's block can be the worst. There are many creative opportunities to help writers write, whether you're on deadline or have some time to sit and put words down. Here are a dozen programs to consider, should you need a change of scenery to start that writing project or push that best-selling novel out of your head: http://prn.to/2kQ6MbY
• BLOG PROFILES: HISTORY BLOGS. Each week, PR Newswire's Audience Relations team selects an industry/subject and profiles a handful of sites that do a good job with promoting and contributing to the conversation. This week, they look at a few history blogs: http://prn.to/2oXVOXk

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