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Experts Available to Discuss Georgia's Rank in Emergency Medical Care
A national medical association recently announced that Georgia earns a C+ for its emergency medical care.
The average grade for states nationwide was a C-. Experts at Mercer University are available to talk with the media about the state of Georgia's emergency medical
care, as well as efforts being taken by the University to address such critical needs. The first-ever National Report Card on Emergency Medicine was compiled by
the American College of Emergency Physicians, and issues warnings on topics such as nurse shortages, emergency department overcrowding and low levels of state
financial support for trauma systems, educational programs and preventive care programs. Dr. Ralph Griffin, chair of emergency medicine at the School of
Medicine and the Medical Center of Central Georgia, is available to discuss the need for developing an organized and well-funded statewide trauma system, adequate
training programs and systems to overcome the state's nursing and physician shortage, injury and illness prevention programs, and a better funded Medicaid system.
Dr. Susan S. Gunby, dean of Georgia Baptist College of Nursing, is available to discuss ways Mercer University is addressing the critical nursing shortage.
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Dean Developed Technology That Might Have Averted Tragic Deaths at Sago Mine
The tragic loss of life at the Sago Mine in West Virginia might have been avoided had technology developed more
than 35 years ago been in place, according to M. Dayne Aldridge, the dean of Mercer University's School of Engineering. A coal-mine electronics pioneer, Aldridge
was the first person to demonstrate the feasibility of through-the-earth communication within coal mines in the United States. He also led a team of researchers that
developed a real-time gas-monitoring system that was demonstrated in an operating coal mine for six years. Aldridge was an electrical engineering professor at West
Virginia University from 1968 to 1984. In 1978, he founded the West Virginia Energy Research Center and directed it until 1984. Aldridge grew up in Beckley, W.Va.,
where his father was a coal miner for more than 30 years. He also worked in the mines while he was in college. Aldridge received his bachelor's degree in electrical engineering from West Virginia University and his master's and doctoral degrees from the University of Virginia.
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Mercer Men's Basketball Team Up For Big Week of Competition
The Mercer men’s basketball team returns to the University Center for two home conference games. The Bears
will host Kennesaw State for the first time at the UC at 7 p.m. on Thursday night, Jan. 19. The Bears will then welcome, for the first time to the Macon campus,
East Tennessee State University, at 2 p.m. on Saturday, Jan. 21. For tickets, visit mercerbears.com.
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January 16, 2006
This is a weekly
installment of experts and story ideas at Mercer University. For more
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