Supporting our supervisors: sending out an SOS

Timeline: Sending Out an SOS

Sending Out an SOS: Mitochondria as a Signaling Hub

Normal cellular physiology is critically dependent on numerous mitochondrial activities including energy conversion, cofactor and precursor metabolite synthesis, and regulation of ion and redox homeostasis. Advances in mitochondrial research during the last two decades provide solid evidence that these organelles are deeply integrated with the rest of the cell and multiple mechanisms are in pla...

A passage to India's HIV epidemics: sending out an SOS.

The official view is that India's epidemics are driven, directly and indirectly, by heterosexual prostitution. Review of available evidence by researchers in India undermines this weakly supported orthodoxy and suggests that correcting weaknesses in its AIDS surveillance system can lead to a more reliable picture of HIV propagation and hence to evidence-based interventions. Contenders for leadi...

Our future roles as supervisors, are we ready?

In the recent article “Brief or New— Supervisory Preparedness of Occupational Therapists” (AJOT, 54[1], pp. 97–98), the Johnson, LamereWallace, and Gardner reported findings from a survey of occupational therapists in Maine in which they examined the knowledge base and comfort level of practicing occupational therapists when supervising occupational therapy assistants. “A common partnership in ...

Collegial Ethics: Supporting Our Colleagues

The goal of collegial ethics is to actively support our colleagues and to develop the skills needed to do so. While collegial interactions are key for our careers, there is little or no training in this. Many of our actions and reactions with our colleagues are instinctive. Human nature has evolved to be self-protective, but many evolved and automatic responses to others are not always in the b...