Lucintel To Moderate Advanced Materials Discussion At Aerospace Manufacturing Conference

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Irving, TX (PRWEB) - Lucintel is participating in the SpeedNews Aerospace Manufacturing Conference, April 9-10, 2013, at the Charleston Place Hotel, in Charleston, SC. Joseph E. Fritz, Lucintels Vice President of Research and Operations, will moderate a discussion about advanced materials usage in the aerospace industry. He also will present a Lucintel paper titled Innovations in the Aero Structure Manufacturing.

Joseph will be available throughout the show to answer questions about key market trends and to discuss strategic challenges for the composites industry. He will also share how Lucintels strategic consulting engagements have helped major multinational companies make informed decisions and cost effectively deliver key strategic projects including New Market Entry; Growth Opportunity Screening; Competitive Benchmarking; M&A Due Diligence; and Build, Buy, and Partner strategies.

With more than 25 years work experience in the aerospace, defense, energy, and automotive industries, Josephs strengths include strategic consulting, market research, cost benchmarking, operations, and continuous improvement. As an engineer at General Electric Aerospace, he worked on several defense initiatives, including the Trident II Fire Control System and the Phalanx Close-In Weapons System. He has worked with several manufacturers in the metals industry, including Alcoa Howmet Castings and Doncasters Group, where he contributed to numerous programs, including the Joint Strike Fighter, Boeings 787, and the M1 Abrams tank. He has successfully held leadership positions in engineering, quality assurance, operations, marketing, and sales.

SpeedNews has been the source for easy-to-read news and information for executives in commercial, business, and military aviation industries since 1979. It offers the latest industry news along with information on SpeedNews newsletters and aviation industry events. SpeedNews hosts a comprehensive calendar of aviation industry airshows, exhibitions, meetings, and workshops around the world.

Lucintel is a premier global management consulting and market research firm that specializes in industrial markets and technologies, including aerospace and defense, composite materials, and related markets. Lucintel, which has deep knowledge of the composites arena, looks forward to sharing its strategic analysis and latest in-depth studies of the global composites market during the conference.

Being exceptionally well positioned to provide affordable consulting services and market reports, Lucintel uses a combination of industry experience with first-class consultants and analysts to provide quick, accurate results for clients research needs.

At the conference, Lucintel will showcase its latest market analysis reports, including the following:

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B/E Aerospace Schedules First Quarter 2013 Earnings Release and Conference Call for April 22, 2013

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WELLINGTON, Fla.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--

B/E Aerospace, Inc. (BEAV) will issue its financial results for the quarter ended March 31, 2013 prior to the opening of the NASDAQ Stock Market on Monday, April 22, 2013, and will hold a conference call to discuss the results at 9:00 a.m. Eastern Time on Monday, April 22, 2013. A live audio broadcast of the conference call, along with a supplemental presentation, will be available on the investor relations page of the Companys website at http://www.beaerospace.com.

About B/E Aerospace, Inc.

B/E Aerospace is the worlds leading manufacturer of aircraft cabin interior products and the worlds leading distributor of aerospace fasteners and consumables. B/E Aerospace designs, develops and manufactures a broad range of products for both commercial aircraft and business jets. B/E Aerospace manufactured products include aircraft cabin seating, lighting systems, oxygen systems, food and beverage preparation and storage equipment, galley systems, and modular lavatory systems. The Company also provides cabin interior reconfiguration, program management and certification services. B/E Aerospace sells and supports its products through its own global direct sales and product support organization. For more information, visit the B/E Aerospace website at http://www.beaerospace.com.

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Yourwellness Magazine Investigates Trend of Spirituality

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Yourwellness Magazine was granted exclusive access to Gill Potter, and her new book Sacred Paths Entwined, to find out how developing spirituality can improve overall health and wellbeing.

London, UK (PRWEB UK) 31 March 2013

For Gill, who works with clients worldwide using astrology and archetypes to know more about their life path and purpose, Many people would love to feel healthy and enjoy greater levels of wellbeing. Clients often tell me their life isnt moving in the desired direction and they are searching for new answers. It was something I wrestled with, too, for many years so I know the cost of poor health! Gill explained to Yourwellness Magazine that certain internal mental and emotional processes block people from better health and sense of purpose.

Gill also outlined the six main essential keys for getting spirituality on the right track:

1.Control of thoughts. A person who learns about their thought patterns can get to the point where they can control them, and stay on one thought without others interrupting.

2.Control of actions. Resolving to do something from ones own initiative can help a person achieve a higher life.

3.Equanimity. Become steadfast and even-tempered rather than rocking back and forth over several emotions.

4.Understand every being. Look for beauty and wonder in everything, because it can be found.

5.Complete openness. Dont judge things by previous knowledge but develop the ability to listen to something new.

6.Inner harmony. With the other five keys, inner harmony will be the result.

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New crew takes express ride to space station

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A new Russian-American crew arrived at the International Space Station (ISS) Friday after a fast-track trip from Earth of under six hours, the swiftest ever manned journey to the orbiting laboratory.

A NASA astronaut and two Russian cosmonauts opened the hatches of their Soyuz-TMA spaceship and floated into the ISS to a warm welcome from the three incumbent crew, live pictures broadcast on Russian television showed.

Russia's Pavel Vinogradov and Alexander Misurkin and American Chris Cassidy are now expected to spend the next five months aboard the station after their hitch-free launch and docking.

Their record-breaking trip from blast-off at Russia's Baikonur cosmodrome in Kazakhstan to docking with the ISS lasted less than six hours, slashing the usual travel time by some 45 hours.

Previously, trips to the ISS had taken over two full days as spaceships orbited the Earth 30 times before docking with the space station.

However, under a new technique now employed by the Russian space agency with the help of new technology, the Soyuz capsule this time only orbited Earth four times before docking.

After blast-off at 2043 GMT Thursday, the Soyuz capsule docked with the ISS at 0228 GMT with the hatches opening just over two hours later.

The quick journey -- dubbed by NASA's official television commentator as a "chase into space" -- has been made possible by launching the Soyuz just after the ISS passes overhead in orbit.

After reaching orbit, the Soyuz capsule then had just over 1,600 kilometres (1,000 miles) to make up to catch up with the ISS, which the Soyuz achieved with newly-improved thrusters and manoeuvring.

The manned "express" flight comes after Russia successfully sent three unmanned Progress supply capsules in August, October and February to the station via the short six hour route rather than two days.

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Watch a Soyuz rocket lift off, sending three spacefliers to the International Space Station.

By Alan Boyle, Science Editor, NBC News

A NASA astronaut and his two Russian crewmates made the fastest-ever trip to the International Space Station on Thursday, arriving less than six hours after launch.

In the past, it's taken two days for Soyuz spaceships to make the trip from Russia's Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan. But mission planners worked out a more efficient procedure that made it possible for the Soyuz to catch up with the station in just four orbits, compared with more than 30 orbits under the previous flight plan.

Russian cosmonauts Pavel Vinogradov and Alexander Misurkin, along with NASA's Chris Cassidy, rocketed into orbit from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan at 4:43 p.m. ET Thursday (2:43 a.m. Friday local time). "The spacecraft is nominal, we feel great," Vinogradov, the spacecraft's commander, reported as the rocket ascended to orbit.

NASA launch commentator Josh Byerly hailed Thursday's flight, saying that the crew was "on the fast track" to the station.

The six-hour trip lasted roughly as long as an airplane flight from Seattle to Miami. NASA officials say the fast-rendezvous procedure minimizes thetime that crew members spend in the Soyuz's close quarters and gets them to the much roomier space station in better shape. The down side is that the three spacefliers had to spend most of the trip sitting elbow to elbow in bulky spacesuits which might strike a familiar chord for Seattle-to-Miami fliers.

The fast-track technique relies on a complicated round of orbital choreography that was tested three times over the past eight months, using unmanned Russian Progress cargo ships.

Last week, the space station raised its orbit by about a mile and a half (2.5 kilometers) to put it in the correct position for intercepting the Soyuz. The Soyuz had to be launched at just the right moment, to get into just the right orbit at just the right distance behind the station. To catch up with the station at the right time, the Soyuz had to execute a precisely timed series of thruster firings a task that was made easier by an upgrade to the spacecraft's automated navigation system.

"From a technical point of view, we feel pretty comfortable with this," Cassidy said at a pre-launch news briefing. "All of the procedures are very similar to what we do in a two-day process, and we've trained it a number of times."

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NASA ‘s Swift sizes up comet ISON

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Mar. 29, 2013 Astronomers from the University of Maryland at College Park (UMCP) and Lowell Observatory have used NASA's Swift satellite to check out comet C/2012 S1 (ISON), which may become one of the most dazzling in decades when it rounds the sun later this year.

Using images acquired over the last two months from Swift's Ultraviolet/Optical Telescope (UVOT), the team has made initial estimates of the comet's water and dust production and used them to infer the size of its icy nucleus.

"Comet ISON has the potential to be among the brightest comets of the last 50 years, which gives us a rare opportunity to observe its changes in great detail and over an extended period," said Lead Investigator Dennis Bodewits, an astronomer at UMCP.

Additional factors, including an encounter with Mars followed by a scorching close approach to the sun, make comet ISON an object of special interest. In late February, at NASA's request, a team of comet experts initiated the Comet ISON Observing Campaign (CIOC) to assist ground- and space-based facilities in obtaining the most scientifically useful data.

Like all comets, ISON is a clump of frozen gases mixed with dust. Often described as "dirty snowballs," comets emit gas and dust whenever they venture near enough to the sun that the icy material transforms from a solid to gas, a process called sublimation. Jets powered by sublimating ice also release dust, which reflects sunlight and brightens the comet.

Typically, a comet's water content remains frozen until it comes within about three times Earth's distance to the sun. While Swift's UVOT cannot detect water directly, the molecule quickly breaks into hydrogen atoms and hydroxyl (OH) molecules when exposed to ultraviolet sunlight. The UVOT detects light emitted by hydroxyl and other important molecular fragments as well as sunlight reflected from dust.

The Jan. 30 UVOT observations reveal that ISON was shedding about 112,000 pounds (51,000 kg) of dust, or about two-thirds the mass of an unfueled space shuttle, every minute. By contrast, the comet was producing only about 130 pounds (60 kg) of water every minute, or about four times the amount flowing out of a residential sprinkler system.

"The mismatch we detect between the amount of dust and water produced tells us that ISON's water sublimation is not yet powering its jets because the comet is still too far from the sun," Bodewits said. "Other more volatile materials, such as carbon dioxide or carbon monoxide ice, evaporate at greater distances and are now fueling ISON's activity."

At the time, the comet was 375 million miles (604 million km) from Earth and 460 million miles (740 million km) from the sun. ISON was at magnitude 15.7 on the astronomical brightness scale, or about 5,000 times fainter that the threshold of human vision.

Similar levels of activity were observed in February, and the team plans additional UVOT observations.

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2013-2014 Interns named for GSMC Internal Medicine Residency Program

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Longview, TX (Good Shepherd Medical Center) The Internal Medicine Residency Program at Good Shepherd Medical Center, sponsored by the UT Health Northeast, is pleased to announce that the next 18 candidates have been selected and matched and will be joining the East Texas community this summer. The National Resident Match Program conducted its yearly match services last week, and on Friday, March 15, the second class of interns at the UT/GSMC Program were officially announced.

This years class is representative of US medical school graduates, US international medical graduates and international medical graduates, as listed specifically below:

Hana Altwal, MD University of Jordan Madhavi Annakula, MD Gandhi Medical College Leon Chen, DO UNTHSC TX College of Osteopathic Medicine Maria Chiejina, MD Igbinedion University Suyao Huang, MD Chicago Medical School at Rosalind Franklin University Ruth Jackson, MD UT San Antonio Jeffrey Kemp, MD UT Houston Zahi Merjaneh, MD University of Aleppo Nithin Nayini, MD St. Georges University Curtis Okpara, MD Ross University Yetsy Olusanya, MD Texas A&M Health Science Center Justin Oring, DO West Virginia School of Osteopathic Medicine Nadia Siddiqi, DO Des Moines University College of Osteopathic Medicine Mohammed Suhail, DO UNTHSC TX College of Osteopathic Medicine Carmen Tran, MD Ross University Jessica Vazquez, MD UT San Antonio Kyle Willingham, MD Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center Sudha Yanamandra, MD Guntur Medical College

We are very thankful to have received such a well-educated group of interns, said Dr. Emmanuel Elueze, Program Director for the Internal Medicine Residency Program. Already in the second year, we have become a highly-competitive program. We received more than 1,800 applications and had to narrow that down to 200 candidates to interview. We were successful in achieving our goals to attract and obtain high quality candidates with close ties to Texas, meaning that we will hopefully retain them as primary care givers in Texas after their training.

Ken Cunningham, interim chief executive officer for Good Shepherd Medical Center, said that this upcoming class proves that the program is headed in the right direction. Most of the candidates that we interviewed this year were US medical graduates, with a large percentage of them from Texas. The goal of our program is to train and keep primary care providers in Texas and going into our second year, we are on the right path.

The new interns will begin program orientation on June 17, and their first day of rotations will be Monday, July 1. The current class of interns will move to second-year residents and will act as upper-level supervisors to the interns, with the assistance of the current medical staff who act as attending physicians in the program.

The program will begin to receive applications for the 2014-2015 academic year in September, and interviews for the third class of residents at Good Shepherd Medical Center will be conducted from November to January. The program match occurs each March for the next academic year. The academic year runs from July to June.

If you would like more information on the UT/GSMC Internal Medicine Residency Program, please visit http://www.gsmc.org/residency. In addition to the incoming interns, a new class of third-year medical students will begin in July as well. Good Shepherd will welcome 12 students who will reside in Longview for the academic year and complete their third-year clerkships, which include internal medicine, family medicine, surgery, psychiatry, osteopathic manipulative medicine, obstetrics/gynecology and pediatrics.

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Medical Marijuana Resource UnitedPatientsGroup.com Adds New Naturopathic Medicine Page

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As more patients turn to UnitedPatientsGroup.com for trustworthy information about medical marijuana and alternative pain medicine, the reputable website extends its reach with the addition of a new Naturopathic Medicine page.

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Conveniently housed in one online location, the new Naturopathic Medicine page includes information regarding naturopathic doctors, therapies and remedies categorized by ailment. For example, patients with breast cancer can see what naturopathic nutrition, lifestyle and supplemental remedies are available for them all on one page.

Were dedicated to bringing awareness and education to patients who are in search of natural alternatives to traditional medical treatments, said John Malanca, founder and owner of United Patients Group. This new page will allow us to delve even further into this much needed education.

The Naturopathic Medicine page covers natural remedies for ailments ranging from seasonal blues and flu season to prostate cancer and HPV. Each ailments own separate page goes further into detail about causes and suggested natural remedies.

Patients suffering from migraine headaches can see what triggers the effects of this debilitating condition, what foods to avoid, what a sample treatment plan would look like if they visited a naturopathic doctor and other useful information.

From another angle, patients interested in finding out more about therapies like ultraviolet blood irradiation (UBI) can see comprehensive information about the procedure and its benefits at the click of a button.

The information contained in the Naturopathic Medicine section has been carefully selected from professional sources to ensure the highest level of quality and benefit of patients.

UnitedPatientsGroup.com has several ties to the medical community and seeks to highlight the newest discoveries within the alternative medicine industry in addition to proven clinical methods.

For more information about United Patients Group and the new Naturopathic Medicine section, call (415) 524-8099 or visit UnitedPatientsGroup.com.

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Metro State edges West Liberty 83-76

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LOUISVILLE, Ky. (AP) -- Jonathan Morse, Brandon Jefferson and Nicholas Kay each scored 17 points, helping Metro State overcome a second-half rally by top-ranked West Liberty for an 83-76 victory Saturday in the NCAA Division II semifinal.

The third-ranked Roadrunners had a 16-point lead in the first half, but needed that trio to hold off the Hilltoppers in the second period.

West Liberty (34-2) rallied within 69-68 with 3:02 left on a three-point play by All-American Alex Falk, who scored 28 second-half points and 34 overall. Metro State went on a 9-1 run, with Jefferson scoring five points, Morse making two free throws and Kay adding a layup for 78-69 lead with 1:05 left. The Roadrunners clinched the game with five late free throws, finishing 27 of 35 from the line.

Demetrius Miller added 15 points and Mitch McCarron 14 for Metro State (32-2), which advanced to the April 7 final in Atlanta against Drury, a 107-97 winner over defending champion Western Washington in the second semifinal.

The Roadrunners will be seeking their first national championship since winning titles in 2000 and 2002.

''When they got it to one point, I don't think anybody on our bench was panicked like we're in trouble,'' said Metro State coach Derrick Clark, whose team played without a timeout for the final 14 1/2 minutes. ''It was just time to make a play, and that's what we did. We just continued to answer any kind of a rally they made and that's a credit to our guys and their toughness.''

McCarron had a game-high 16 rebounds for the Roadrunners, who also got nine boards each from Kay and Morse.

The balanced box score typified the season for Metro State, which entered the game with its starters averaging in double figures. That mix of offensive and quickness helped the Roadrunners take control early and eventually withstand West Liberty's numerous comeback attempts from beyond the arc.

The Hilltoppers attempted 47 3-pointers and made just 13, but two by Falk helped cut into the Roadrunners' lead. He did most of his damage driving to the basket and seemed on the verge of completing a stunning rally for the West Virginia school before its 20-game win streak ended.

''I just saw some lanes open up and tried to drive the lane and create for other people,'' Falk said. ''But really, overall, I just didn't shoot very good in the second half. It was tough going for us for a while, we made a run, but they just pulled away from us at the end.''

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More Taiwan ships to patrol disputed islands

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TAIPEI - Taiwan's President Ma Ying-jeou on Saturday unveiled two new ships that will join the patrol in waters off disputed islands in the East China Sea at the centre of a regional territorial row.

"We will gradually build up our capabilities in the sea to enforce the law, to conduct rescue missions and protect fishermen," Ma said before boarding a new ship to inspect a drill off the Kaohsiung port in the south.

Taiwan will not "concede one step" in upholding its sovereignty claim over the islands, Ma said, while urging all sides involved to seek a peaceful resolution to the dispute.

The contested islands, in an area where the seabed is believed to harbour valuable mineral reserves, are claimed as the Senkakus by Japan and the Diaoyus by China. The Japanese-controlled islands are also claimed by Taiwan.

In January, coastguard vessels from Taiwan and Japan converged and duelled with water cannons in their latest stand-off as a boat carrying Taiwanese activists was heading to the islands.

The incident came at a time of growing regional concern over the intensified friction over the islands between China and Japan, with both Beijing and Tokyo recently scrambling fighter jets to assert their claims to the area.

Coastguard vessels from Japan and Taiwan also exchanged water cannon barrages in September after dozens of Taiwanese boats were escorted by patrol ships into the islands' waters.

Japan's government nationalised three of them in September by taking them out of private Japanese ownership, triggering strong protests from Taiwan and China.

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In this photo released by Taiwans Central News Agency, a Taiwanese fishing boat comes close to the disputed islands called Senkaku in Japan and Diaoyu in China, in the East China Sea, Tuesday, Sept. 25, 2012. On Tuesday morning, about 50 Taiwanese fishing boats accompanied by 10 Taiwanese surveillance ships came within almost 20 kilometers (about 12 miles) of the disputed islands- within what Japan considers to be its territorial waters. APfile AP FILE PHOTO/Central News Agency/TAIWAN OUT

TAIPEI Taiwans President Ma Ying-jeou on Saturday unveiled two new ships that will join the patrol in waters off disputed islands in the East China Sea at the center of a regional territorial row.

We will gradually build up our capabilities in the sea to enforce the law, to conduct rescue missions and protect fishermen, Ma said before boarding a new ship to inspect a drill off the Kaohsiung port in the south.

Taiwan will not concede one step in upholding its sovereignty claim over the islands, Ma said, while urging all sides involved to seek a peaceful resolution to the dispute.

The contested islands, in an area where the seabed is believed to harbor valuable mineral reserves, are claimed as the Senkakus by Japan and the Diaoyus by China. The Japanese-controlled islands are also claimed by Taiwan.

In January, coastguard vessels from Taiwan and Japan converged and duelled with water cannons in their latest stand-off as a boat carrying Taiwanese activists was heading to the islands.

The incident came at a time of growing regional concern over the intensified friction over the islands between China and Japan, with both Beijing and Tokyo recently scrambling fighter jets to assert their claims to the area.

Coastguard vessels from Japan and Taiwan also exchanged water cannon barrages in September after dozens of Taiwanese boats were escorted by patrol ships into the islands waters.

Japans government nationalised three of them in September by taking them out of private Japanese ownership, triggering strong protests from Taiwan and China.

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National Health Care Law Divides Mass. Senate Candidates

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BOSTON (AP) Three years after it split Massachusetts voters in the 2010 special U.S. Senate election, the debate over President Barack Obamas health care law has lost little of its political punch.

Of the five candidates vying to fill the seat left vacant by John Kerrys resignation, just one has offered a full-throated defense of the law. Democratic U.S. Rep. Edward Markey has described his vote for the Affordable Care Act as the proudest vote of my career.

Markeys primary opponent, fellow Democratic U.S. Rep. Stephen Lynch, voted against the bill and continues to point to what he says are serious flaws. But Lynch has stopped short of calling for its repeal.

The three Republicans in the race former U.S. Attorney Michael Sullivan, Norfolk state Rep. Daniel Winslow and Cohasset businessman Gabriel Gomez are all strong critics of the law.

Sullivan and Gomez say they support repealing the law; Winslow says hed push to give states a chance to opt out of it.

The jousting is more vigorous on the Democratic side.

Lynch has described the 2010 law as a giveaway to the insurance industry. He said the decision to abandon a proposed public option that would have created government insurance plans that could have competed with private plans ended up benefiting insurance companies even as the law requires tens of millions of Americans to obtain health insurance.

What the insurance companies wanted, they wanted 31 million new customers. We gave them everything they wanted, Lynch said in a recent debate. It was like a hostage situation where we not only paid the ransom, but we let the insurance companies keep the hostages.

Lynch also said the law includes so many new taxes that employers are running away from their health care obligations.

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Crain's is seeking nominations for Health Care Heroes, a special report on hat will run Aug. 12. The program honors top-notch medical innovators and patient advocate.

There are five categories:

Corporate achievement in health care: Honors a company that has created an innovative health benefits plan or has solved a problem in health care administration.

Advancements in health care: Honors a company or individual responsible for a discovery or for developing a new procedure, device or service that can save lives or improve quality of life.

Physician: Honors a physician whose performance is exemplary.

Allied health: Honors an individual from nursing or allied health fields who is deemed exemplary.

Trustee: Honors leadership and distinguished service on a health care board.

A panel of health care judges will choose the winners. Nominations, which are due May 13, can be made at crainsdetroit.com/nominate. Statewide nominations accepted. Questions? Contact Bill Shea at bshea@crain.com or (313) 446-1626.

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