UAlbany in the News
by Michael Parker (November 22, 2005)
- Hany Shawky, professor of finance and director
of the Center for Institutional Investment Management
at the School of Business was quoted in the Oct.
25 issue of Forbes magazine
on the impact of the rising cost of energy
on the U.S. economy in the article, "Where's the Money?" The
article noted, "Petroleum exporters may look
elsewhere than traditional U.S. markets." Shawky
was quoted as saying, "It's no secret
not everybody in the world loves the U.S. I'd
guess Europe is attracting about half the money
that came to America back in the last oil boom.
Political considerations are shaping investment
decisions."
- Distinguished Professor of Health Policy, Management,
and Behavior Ed Hannan of the School of Public
Health was quoted in an Oct. 24 story in New
York Magazine about New York heart surgeons
turning away needy patients in order to manipulate
the mortality rates by which they are measured.
The article noted that if you come to the hospital
in shock having a heart attack in Michigan,
which does not have surgeon report cards, you
are four times more likely to have angioplasty
doctors operate on you than if you were in
New York. Hannan, considered the "godfather" of New York's
current mortality
rating system, "continues to be a part of
the counterefforts to keep surgeons from gaming
the system, overseeing the risk-adjustment formulas
as a department chair at the SUNY – Albany
School of Public Health." Hannan considers
the report cards a work in progress. He was quoted
as saying, "Some of the cardiologists say
that shock patients should be omitted from public
scrutiny for angioplasty," he said. "I
think that's worthy of continued examination."
- Distinguished Professor of Chemistry Eric Block,
Professor of Sociology Richard Lachmann, and
Professor of Art Phyllis Galembo were quoted
on Halloween-themed issues in the Fort Worth Star-Telegram,
the Newark
Star Ledger, the San Francisco Chronicle,
the Daily
Record (N.J.), the Denver
Post, and for Scripps-Howard
News Service. Topics included irrational Halloween
fears, the growth of the holiday, the ancient
traditions of garlic, and how costumes were
originally intended to bring together the living
and the dead for one dark night.
