Truth Doesn’t Have a Side: My Alarming Discovery About the Danger of Contact Sports
By Bennet Omalu, volunteer associate clinical professor at UC Davis Health; and Mark Tabb; with a forward by Will Smith, who portrayed Omalu in the 2015 movie Concussion, about Omalu and his discovery of chronic traumatic encephalopathy. Now the pathologist tells his own story, from his childhood in war-torn Nigeria, to America and the autopsy where he first saw CTE; and through his struggles, personal and professional (fighting the NFL, for example), and always with God beside him. (Zondervan/Aug. 8, 2017)
Computerized Maintenance Management Systems for Healthcare Technology Management
Third edition, co-authored by Ted Cohen, a clinical engineer with UC Davis Health for nearly 40 years. He’s a fellow of the American College of Clinical Engineering, and he’s co-authored all three editions of this book (working this time with Matthew F. Baretich). The book offers a foundation for working within a CMMS, which is essential to the success of every HTM department. (Association for the Advancement of Medical Instrumentation/May 1, 2017)
Words That Occur in the Absence of Love
Charron Andrus, technical project manager (regulatory initiatives and financial reporting), IT Applications, UC Davis Health, self-published this poetry chapbook (her first) in 2013, exploring heartbreak and its aftermath. “Poetry is all about love,” she says. “But what happens when love is absent?” She offers the love-torn a volume of 13 pieces that move the reader from the newly heartbroken “Living Without” to the heartbreak survivor “Broken.” (CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform/November 2013)