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Yahoo
4 days ago
- Business
- Yahoo
Zimmer Biomet Chairman, President and CEO Ivan Tornos Joins OREF Board of Trustees
ROSEMONT, Ill., May 29, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- The Orthopaedic Research and Education Foundation (OREF), the leading private nonprofit organization funding musculoskeletal (MSK) research across all orthopaedic sub-specialties, is pleased to announce that Ivan Tornos, Chairman, President and CEO of orthopaedic medical device company Zimmer Biomet has joined its Board of Trustees. Mr. Tornos joined Zimmer Biomet in 2018 as Group President, Orthopedics. Prior to his appointment as President and Chief Executive Officer in 2023, he held the positions of Group President, Global Businesses and the Americas, and Chief Operating Officer with responsibility for overseeing all global businesses at Zimmer Biomet. He was elected Chairman of the Board of Directors of Zimmer Biomet, a global leader in musculoskeletal health, in May of 2025. OREF Board President, Joshua J. Jacobs, MD, stated, "On behalf of the entire board, I am delighted to welcome Ivan to OREF. Our two organizations have a long history of collaboration and a shared commitment to improving patient care and outcomes. Ivan's presence on the OREF board will bring heightened visibility to our mission and to the need for more research funding. His service to OREF and the financial support of Zimmer Biomet underscore his commitment to improving the health of our communities here in the U.S. and throughout the world." "I am thrilled to be joining the OREF board. Now more than ever, it's important we move with a sense of urgency and deep purpose to ensure that musculoskeletal research advances at a much faster pace and delivers even bolder solutions. There are countless patients currently waiting on the sidelines who could benefit from the meaningful work that we will do together, and I'm committed to doing all I can to reduce the current gaps in this area," said Ivan Tornos. The growing burden of MSK conditions in the United States is well documented with MSK-related diseases and injuries affecting more than half of the adult population and imposing an estimated economic burden of $980 billion annually.1 Despite the outsized impact of MSK diseases on quality of life and the U.S. economy, funding for MSK conditions is disproportionately low when comparing the physical and economic burden of various diseases. OREF is a leading voice in advocating for increased MSK research funding and strongly believes that the nation's healthcare will not improve unless and until MSK research funding becomes a national priority. OREF grantees' success in securing additional funding from the NIH and other government entities is unparalleled within the MSK research community. Research published in JBJS demonstrates that OREF grant recipients are more likely to receive subsequent NIH funding compared to other applicants (23.5 percent vs. 20.6 percent), with Career Development Grant recipients achieving a 48.4 percent success rate.2 Given the limited availability of MSK research funds, investing in a reputable independent source with a proven return on investment is essential. OREF's collaboration with more than 60 MSK-related organizations is a key factor in its success in funding significant and impactful research that improves clinical practice and patient outcomes. About OREF An independent 501(c)3 nonprofit, OREF strives to improve clinical care and patient outcomes by advancing innovative research, developing new investigators, and uniting the orthopaedic community in promoting musculoskeletal health. The Foundation raises funds to support research on diseases and injuries of bones, nerves, muscles, and tendons and to enhance clinical care leading to improved health, increased activity, and a better quality of life for patients. For more information, visit or follow OREF on X and LinkedIn. 1United States Bone and Joint Initiative: The Burden of Musculoskeletal Diseases in the United States (BMUS), Third Edition, 2014. Rosemont, IL. Available at 2Li, Alan K. BS1,a; Kendal, Joseph K. MD, MSc2; Hamad, Christopher D. MD2; Peterson, Nicholas V. MD2; Asachi, Parsa BA1; Taylor, Jeremiah M. BS1; Le, Michael M. MD1; Lloyd, Trevor S. BS1; Wessel, Lauren E. MD2; Bernthal, Nicholas M. MD2. Identifying Predictors of Successful Conversion from OREF Grants to Extramural Federal Funding Among Orthopaedic Surgeons. The Journal of Bone and Joint Surgery 107(1):p 96-103, January 1, 2025. DOI: 10.2106/JBJS.24.0064 View original content to download multimedia: SOURCE Orthopaedic Research and Education Foundation
Cision Canada
4 days ago
- Business
- Cision Canada
Westgold appoints Ivan Mullany as Independent Non-Executive Director
PERTH, Western Australia, May 29, 2025 /CNW/ - Westgold Resources Limited (ASX: WGX) (TSX: WGX) – (Westgold or the Company) is pleased to announce the appointment of Mr Ivan Mullany as an Independent Non-Executive Director to the Board, effective immediately. View PDF Mr. Mullany (BSc, Majoring in Extractive Metallurgy, CIMM, FAusIMM), has over 35 years in mining project management with broad international experiences. Most recently, with Newmont Corporation and its predecessor Goldcorp Inc. on the Senior Leadership Team, Mr. Mullany led numerous major projects, collectively in excess of $18 billion, during the engineering study, construction and execution stages. In Australia and most recently, Mr Mullany was appointed Chair of the Hemi Gold Project Committee at De Grey Mining Limited (ASX:DEG), where he provided strategic oversight of the Project Execution Plan for the proposed Hemi development, prior to the takeover by Northern Star. Mr Mullany is currently a Non-Executive Director of Nexgen Energy Ltd and is a Fellow of the Australian Institute of Mining and Metallurgy. " Westgold is delighted to welcome Ivan to the Board. Ivan is a great cultural fit and his extensive operational and project delivery experience will significantly strengthen our Board and strategic planning processes. Our leadership team will directly benefit from his operational excellence background as this is a key to unlocking greater productivity and increasing free cash flow from our expansive Western Australian gold portfolio." This announcement is authorised for release to the ASX by the Board. SOURCE Westgold Resources Limited
New European
6 days ago
- General
- New European
Everyday Philosophy: Where is God when children are starving?
Yet images of emaciated Palestinian children and babies, victims of the Israeli blockade on Gaza, are now so common that we risk becoming immune to them, and to what it means morally for someone to have ordered actions with this predictable result. Some humanitarian aid is getting through now, but for thousands it will be too late. No one can justify starving a child. Ever. It's not a legitimate response to the sadistic brutality of the attacks by Hamas on Israeli citizens on October 7, 2023. Adults are dying too, of course, but it is the children and babies that most wrench the heart of anyone capable of compassion. What is happening to them now, today, not as the result of drought or a pandemic, but through Benjamin Netanyahu's policies, is almost too terrible to imagine. In Dostoevsky's novel The Brothers Karamazov, the character Ivan asks how widespread and intense cruelty towards children, including their torture and murder in war, can be compatible with the existence of a good God. If the price of believing in God is that this is a necessary feature of a preconceived harmonious whole, then for him the price is too high. Ivan refuses to believe in such a God. As he puts it, 'What have children got to do with it? It's quite incomprehensible why they should have to suffer.' This is an aspect of the Problem of Evil, the problem of squaring the undeniable existence of evil in the world, both naturally occurring and evil as a result of human choice, with the existence of an all-powerful, all-knowing, benevolent God. How can this be in the plan of a supremely loving Being? And if it's not in the plan, but down to bad human choices, what possessed a kind God to invent beings with the capacity for such acts? What's going on? Atheists have a simple answer: it isn't compatible, and this is further evidence that God doesn't exist. That seems right to me. The usual response of believers is that the gift of human free will brings with it the possibility of doing evil. But it's worth asking whether we really do have free will, and also why a good God couldn't have made us more prone to treating one another better. Why doesn't He, She, It intervene to stop atrocities like the mass starvation of children? Why perform a miracle like turning water into wine, curing someone of leprosy, or making a statue weep, and not save the many hungry children of Palestine? For believers, agnostics and atheists alike there is now a practical question about how we should react to the knowledge that children are being starved. Should we, as most of us do, get on with our lives and not think too much about it? We are more or less incapable of helping them. Faced with the suffering of her compatriots in occupied France during the second world war, the French philosopher and religious mystic Simone Weil, who had escaped to England hoping to join the French resistance from there, chose a radical and self-destructive form of solidarity with them. Weil had always had a deep and passionate concern for the suffering of others. In 1928, Simone de Beauvoir, her fellow student at the Sorbonne in Paris, learned that Weil had wept on hearing about the outbreak of famine in China. In Memoirs of a Dutiful Daughter, Beauvoir explained 'these tears compelled my respect much more than her gifts as a philosopher. I envied her for having a heart that could beat right across the world.' They met and discussed which was more important: the revolution that would feed all the starving people of the Earth, or finding the meaning of human existence. Weil chose revolution; Beauvoir put the existential question higher. Weil's reaction was to dismiss Beauvoir as petit bourgeois. She looked her up and down and told her: 'It's easy to see you've never gone hungry'. Weil's hopes of being parachuted back into France as a resistance radio operative were thwarted by advanced tuberculosis. In 1943, already frail, she decided to eat only the quantity of food she believed people in occupied France could obtain. This extreme act of solidarity hastened her death, which came in August of that year. She was only 34. Weil experts still debate whether solidarity really was the motivation for her minimal diet, or whether this was an act of religious asceticism inspired by her reading of Schopenhauer. Either way, self-starvation doesn't help hungry children, and I definitely don't recommend Weil's approach. But what can we do?
Miami Herald
6 days ago
- Miami Herald
Sailors recount their life-saving rescue by Carnival cruise ship
Just a week after Carnival Paradise rescued a group of refugees from an adrift vessel near Cuba, another Carnival Cruise Line ship's crew sprang into action to make a dramatic rescue on the other side of the world. Carnival Splendor was sailing south of New Caledonia in the South Pacific during an eight-day cruise from Sydney when the Maritime Rescue Coordination Centre in Noumea alerted them of a distress call from a disabled catamaran carrying four people and three dogs. Related: Video: Carnival cruise ship rescues refugees in distress Carnival Splendor was five hours away from the catamaran and immediately rushed to their aid in the middle of the night, as cruise ships will always do when they learn of anyone in peril at sea. One of the rescued couples, who feared for their lives while stranded on board the disabled catamaran, have since recounted the frightening ordeal and the cruise ship's extraordinary response, in a touching letter addressed to the entire Carnival Cruise Line crew. Sign up for the Come Cruise With Me newsletter to save money on your next (or your first) cruise. Carnival Cruise Line Brand Ambassador John Heald shared the letter from rescued sailors Juli and Ivan on his popular Facebook page that's followed by more than 600,000 Carnival cruisers. "To all the Carnival crew, we are Juli and Ivan, two Argentinians 25 years old, traveling around the world for one year. We got the opportunity of crossing from Australia to Fiji in a catamaran, a bit more than a month ago, and from what you all know, it didn't end as expected," the letter began. The sailors detailed how they ended up adrift at sea hundreds of miles from land. Related: Man climbs Carnival cruise ship; cruiser injured during excursion "After 8 days of crossing the ocean and having lost both engines, we were caught in a storm, which first made us think we were going to get hit by lightning and ended up breaking our mast in two after 50 knots of wind surprised us. 200 nautical miles away from New Caledonia, and this being our first passage, we were frightened to death," they explained. The sailors reported contacting every coast station they could, but did not receive a reply for hours until the voice of Carnival Splendor Captain Eduardo Ferrone brought them hope. "After two hours with no news, we received a call from your captain, saying he knew about our situation and that by doubling their speed in the middle of the storm, could reach us in just five hours. That was and will [for]ever be the best notice of our lives," the letter emphasized. Be the first to see the best deals on cruises, special sailings, and more. Sign up for the Come Cruise With Me newsletter. "After 5 hours, hoping the catamaran didn't sink because of the mast hitting us on every wave, we received the second-best call of our lives, from your captain asking us to drop the first flare, and straight away confirming he could see us," the letter continued. Finally, Carnival Splendor reached them at 3 a.m., swiftly bringing them aboard the cruise ship and saving their lives. But what Carnival crew members did for them did not end there. "What followed was just beyond reality," the letter continued. "This boat and its crew not only saved us but gave us all kindness, warmth, smiles, and attention which made recovering a completely different experience and a much easier one. There are no words to thank you all for being part of this recovery and exceeding expectations. Human values on board showed us better, and for that, we will be forever thankful." More Carnival cruise news: Carnival Cruise Line answers controversial tipping questionCarnival Cruise Line passengers targeted by more travel scamsCarnival Cruise Line cruisers debate controversial elevator issue The letter ended with heartfelt words of gratitude to Carnival Splendor's captain and several other crew members whom Juli and Ivan thanked by name. "Special thanks to the Captain, Eduardo Ferrone, for being our guiding light in the middle of the ocean, giving us hope by making the call to save us and taking us back to land," the emotional letter read. The rescued sailors went on to thank many other crew members who not only made sure they were safe, but who received them with exceptional kindness and concern for their health, well-being, and happiness. "To all of you, thanks for the warm words and treatment, this would have been a different story if it wasn't for you," they added. "We will forever be grateful to Carnival Cruise Line." (The Arena Group will earn a commission if you book a cruise.) Make a free appointment with Come Cruise With Me's Travel Agent Partner, Postcard Travel, or email Amy Post at amypost@ or call or text her at 386-383-2472. Copyright 2025 The Arena Group, Inc. All Rights Reserved
24-05-2025
- Business
Alabama study reveals hurricane resilience programs are paying off for homeowners and insurers
A new Alabama study of hurricane-affected homes sends a clear message to insurers and homeowners nationwide: climate-resilient construction methods can protect homes, and save a lot of money. The first-of-its-kind analysis, released this week, reviews thousands of insurance claims linked to Hurricane Sally, which struck Alabama's coast in 2020 with wind speeds up to 105 miles per hour. Homes retrofitted or built to Fortified standards, a voluntary construction code created by the nonprofit Insurance Institute for Building and Home Safety (IBHS) for wind and rain mitigation saw significantly fewer and less costly claims. If every impacted house in Mobile and Baldwin counties had met Fortified standards, insurance companies could have spent 75% less in payouts, saving up to $112 million, and policyholders could have paid up to 65% less in deductibles, saving almost $35 million, according to the study. The results show "mitigation works and that we can build things that are resilient to climate change,' said Dr. Lars Powell, director of the Center for Risk and Insurance Research at the University of Alabama's Culverhouse School of Business, which led the study with the Alabama Department of Insurance. Across the United States, insurance markets are buckling under the pressure of more frequent and expensive climate events, and federal support is shrinking for resilience projects that could reduce that damage. Officials and researchers involved with the study say it proves Alabama's proactive approach to the challenge — mandatory, sizable insurance discounts for those who use Fortified and a grant program to help them afford it — could be a national model for increasing insurability and safety. IBHS created Fortified to strengthen buildings against storm damage based on decades of research at its facility, where it uses a giant wind tunnel to pummel model houses with rain, hail, and wind up to 130 miles per hour. 'We are having record breaking year after record breaking year of disasters and insured losses, and we have been searching for meaningful ways to reduce the severity and the frequency of those losses,' said Fred Malik, managing director of the Fortified program. The three levels of designations — Fortified Roof, Silver and Gold — employ methods like improving roof fasteners, using impact-rated doors and windows, and more securely anchoring walls to their foundation. The program requires third-party verification of work. About 80,000 homes across 32 states now have Fortified designations, with over 53,000 in Alabama. The state began looking for ways to improve storm outcomes after Hurricane Ivan in 2004 jolted the state's insurance market. 'Ivan was absolutely devastating,' said Alabama Insurance Commissioner Mark Fowler. 'Our market was going crazy, insurers were leaving.' It became the only state to implement mandatory minimum insurance discounts for Fortified homes, currently as much as half off the wind portion of homeowners' premiums. It also launched the Strengthen Alabama Homes incentive program, offering grants of up to $10,000 for homeowners retrofitting their houses to Fortified standards. The state has doled out $86 million for 8,700 Fortified retrofits since 2015. Fowler credits the initiative with also catalyzing demand for new Fortified construction and incentivizing contractors and inspectors to learn the standards. 'It worked like gangbusters,' he said. 'We've seen the market substantially stabilized." Hurricane Sally offered researchers their first chance to assess the program's benefits in a real storm. 'It really was a prototypical storm that anybody who lives on the hurricane coast is liable to see in any given year,' said Malik. They collected insurance data on more than 40,000 houses in the affected area — a total insured value of $17 billion. Fortified construction reduced claim frequency by 55% to 74%, depending on the designation level, and loss severity by 14% to 40%. Despite representing almost one-quarter of the policies studied, Fortified homes accounted for only 9% of claims. They even fared better than houses built to similar codes but without the official designation, likely due to the program's more stringent verification requirements. 'It really does start to bring home that there is value for everybody involved,' said Malik. 'There's value for the insurers, there's value for the homeowner.' Fortified doesn't address all types of hurricane losses. Nearly half the claims in the study were from fallen trees, which require separate mitigation strategies. The enhanced standards do add cost: between 0.5% to 3% more for new construction, and 6% to 16% for retrofits. But the longterm benefits have spurred even disaster recovery nonprofits like Habitat for Humanity, Team Rubicon and SBP to use Fortified, often with the philanthropic support of insurers like Travelers and Allstate. 'Helping disaster-impacted homeowners build back smarter with storm-resilient construction and IBHS Fortified standards helps break the cycle of disaster and loss,' said Thomas Corley, chief operating officer at the New Orleans-based nonprofit SBP, which has built 671 homes to Fortified standards in nine states. The potential insurance discounts also help recovering families by lowering their monthly expenses and boosting confidence that they can keep affording their homes. 'For low-income families, this could mean the difference between upward mobility or years of financial instability after a disaster,' said Corley. Alabama is expanding its grant program to three new counties this year. Fowler said he hopes the results encourage more insurance companies to offer wind protection on coastal homes, and that adoption will spread to less hurricane-prone areas still susceptible to severe weather. The approach has caught the attention of other states seeking resilience solutions. Fowler spoke before a California legislative committee last month in support of the California Safe Homes Act, a proposed bill that would fund grants for fire-safe roofing and defensible space to protect from wildfires. 'Natural disasters like windstorms, earthquakes, or wildfires will come no matter what we do,' he told the committee. 'That means you must find ways to build stronger before the event so you will have less damage after the event. It's actually a pretty simple concept.'
