Genard Hajdini
26 November 2011
Dear Family & Friends, Colleagues, Students & Peers:
I enjoy building vision, strategy, leadership and organizational management skills. I like to train, teach, coach, mentor students, peers, and colleagues. I love building "right relationships" or righteousness with people, I am a people person! I am a problem-solver and peacemaker that gives his tithe and offering to orphans, widows, foreigners, and pastors; by caring first for the ones in my family, kin, neighbors, city of Tirana, country of Albania, European region, United States and the world.
I work full-time in the Institute of Public Health (IPH) in Tirana, Albania in the Department of Epidemiology and Health Systems, Unit of Research, Innovation and Partnerships. I also work in the higher education field as Adjunct Professor for Regent University (RU) in the Master of Arts in Organizational Leadership (MOL), while coordinating the MBA and MOL Albanian cohort programs online in my country. I also work as Secretary General of Inter-Religious Council of Albania (IRCA) and TELED International country representative.
I want to follow a three-way strategy: preaching: speaking in seminars and conferences (IRCA), teaching model lessons, programs, schools, universities (TELED Int'l & RU); and healing: body, mind, spirit and socially through public health policy & programs(IPH).
My personal philosophy is: "He who changes a life, changes an entire world; and He who saves a life, saves an entire world!"
We are together in the business of changing and saving lives!
Truly,
Genard Hajdini
Tirana, Albania.
Supervisors: Bruce E. Winston, Dail Fields, Doris Gomez, Gary W. Oster, and Corné Bekker
Phone: 00355.69.88.23.169
Address: Rruga: Ali Visha
Nd. 69, H. 1, Ap. 4
Tirana, Albania 1057
Dear Family & Friends, Colleagues, Students & Peers:
I enjoy building vision, strategy, leadership and organizational management skills. I like to train, teach, coach, mentor students, peers, and colleagues. I love building "right relationships" or righteousness with people, I am a people person! I am a problem-solver and peacemaker that gives his tithe and offering to orphans, widows, foreigners, and pastors; by caring first for the ones in my family, kin, neighbors, city of Tirana, country of Albania, European region, United States and the world.
I work full-time in the Institute of Public Health (IPH) in Tirana, Albania in the Department of Epidemiology and Health Systems, Unit of Research, Innovation and Partnerships. I also work in the higher education field as Adjunct Professor for Regent University (RU) in the Master of Arts in Organizational Leadership (MOL), while coordinating the MBA and MOL Albanian cohort programs online in my country. I also work as Secretary General of Inter-Religious Council of Albania (IRCA) and TELED International country representative.
I want to follow a three-way strategy: preaching: speaking in seminars and conferences (IRCA), teaching model lessons, programs, schools, universities (TELED Int'l & RU); and healing: body, mind, spirit and socially through public health policy & programs(IPH).
My personal philosophy is: "He who changes a life, changes an entire world; and He who saves a life, saves an entire world!"
We are together in the business of changing and saving lives!
Truly,
Genard Hajdini
Tirana, Albania.
Supervisors: Bruce E. Winston, Dail Fields, Doris Gomez, Gary W. Oster, and Corné Bekker
Phone: 00355.69.88.23.169
Address: Rruga: Ali Visha
Nd. 69, H. 1, Ap. 4
Tirana, Albania 1057
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The Institute of Public Health (IPH) in Tirana, Albania and its Department of Epidemiology of Non-Infectious Disease and Health Systems: Policy and Programs; received an overall average score of 2.94 from 3.2 that was in IBM Global CEO Study average of 756 interviewed managers. There were nine people who were interviewed, although the IPH has over 200 employees overall. Most of the people who were interviewed shared their concerns in some of the following anonymous comments: “More innovation is needed, publications, international cooperation. Healthcare is going in the bad direction; we need better management of it”. Another one says: “We are not interconnected, everyone does on his own head, and these do not serve in meeting the objectives.” The fourth person says: “We need to work hard in order to achieve results; this is done through cooperation of various institutions. Up to this moment the situation is dim”. One other person pointed out: “There is no transfer of knowledge and short-term, mid-term, and long-term plans. There is much to be done”. The seventh person who was interviewed made these remarks: “We need to seek deeper in the research and scientific development, there is place for innovation, creativity, entrepreneurship, and new foresight; despite from what we have achieved so far.” The last person said: “More incentives for innovation, more room for initiatives, as well as moral and material rewards”.
The IPH and the department in word have a very satisfactory score in collaboration and partnering with other institutions at their initiatives and programs. Although, they still need to work better at measuring their progress with an evaluation metrics system for Total Quality Management (TQM) to be achieved. Innovation is on the rise if steps are taken to reach it.
ACL myotoxin is a phospholipase A2 like protein. It lacks characteristic PLA2 enzymatic activity, but has similar structure and resultant necrosis after intramuscular injection. PLA2 myotoxins are split into two different groups, based on the presence or absence of an aspartic acid residue at position 49 (Fletcher et al. 1997). Position 49 is highly conserved among the more enzymatically active PLA2 molecules (Selistre de Araujo et al. 1996). When a lysine (K) is replaced for the aspartic acid (D) at position 49 it results in a large reduction, or elimination of the enzymatic activity of the protein (Fletcher et al. 1997). ACL myotoxin has substitution of D by K in position 49 (fig 3). Some other researchers say that this substitution completely stops enzymatic activity, and that any small amount of observed enzymatic activity can be contributed to contamination by D49 PLA2's in the same venom (Fletcher et al. 1997). Ca2+ is not present in the active site of the K49 substituted protein, which is in contrast to the D49 protein. It is also proposed that the K49 substitution hinders Ca2+ from binding to the active site of the protein. This inability to bind may be because of steric hindrance of K49, or the electrostatic repulsion of Ca2+, due to the same positive charge of the K.
ACL myotoxin is a phospholipase A2 like protein. It lacks characteristic PLA2 enzymatic activity, but has similar structure and resultant necrosis after intramuscular injection. PLA2 myotoxins are split into two different groups, based on the presence or absence of an aspartic acid residue at position 49 (Fletcher et al. 1997). Position 49 is highly conserved among the more enzymatically active PLA2 molecules (Selistre de Araujo et al. 1996). When a lysine (K) is replaced for the aspartic acid (D) at position 49 it results in a large reduction, or elimination of the enzymatic activity of the protein (Fletcher et al. 1997). ACL myotoxin has substitution of D by K in position 49 (fig 3). Some other researchers say that this substitution completely stops enzymatic activity, and that any small amount of observed enzymatic activity can be contributed to contamination by D49 PLA2's in the same venom (Fletcher et al. 1997). Ca2+ is not present in the active site of the K49 substituted protein, which is in contrast to the D49 protein. It is also proposed that the K49 substitution hinders Ca2+ from binding to the active site of the protein. This inability to bind may be because of steric hindrance of K49, or the electrostatic repulsion of Ca2+, due to the same positive charge of the K.