The summit was organized by Silo City IT of Buffalo, Acme Business of Olean, and Greater Olean Area Chamber of Commerce in honor of National Cybersecurity Awareness Month.

Joining Neville on the event’s Cyber Attack Prevention Panel was Jay Wiley, deputy chief information security officer for M&T Bank; and Scott Morris, chief information security officer for Blue Cross Blue Shield of WNY.  The discussion covered:

• Resource commitment to cyber attack prevention
• How organizations can ensure they are prepared for a cyber attack
• How organizations can take steps to protect customer information
• How to protect against ransomware attacks
• How should an organization prioritize its prevention efforts?
• The effect of governmental regulations
• What should be an organization’s primary focus in defensive preparation?

Prior to the panel, attorney Daniel Greene of Beckage Law Firm gave a keynote address on the legal aspects of a cybersecurity incident investigation. He was followed by Special Agent Tiffany Loar, cyber security forensics specialist for the United States Secret Service, who presented on the various aspects of cybersecurity incident response, including establishing a chain of evidence and the role of first responders.

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Presentation is Monday, May 6

Ģ����ý  Vice President for Academic Affairs Dr. Allyson Lowe and Sandi DiMola, J.D., Chair,  Programs in Government and Management at Carlow University, will present “The Use of Service-Learning in Teaching Conflict” on Monday, May 6. This event will take place in the Mary Clare Development Center (Main Campus Room 460) from 2-3:30 p.m., and all are invited to attend.

Lowe and DiMola wrote about the presentation topic in a chapter of “”

“A frequent criticism of field-based learning is that what students are learning, as well as how they are learning it, differs so much from their other courses that it feels like a one-off occurrence. In designing two different service learning experiences, we were intent on using the field experiences to augment what students of political science were learning about conflict,” the authors explain in the book’s introduction.

“Their courses were designed to involve students in deliberative democracy and community conflict resolution and to connect these experiences directly to theory and case studies on the topic. At the same time, the service aspect of the courses reflects the commitment of the universities to civic engagement and community service understood through both secular and religious lenses.”

Both Trocaire and Carlow University were founded by the Sisters of Mercy, whose include nonviolence, anti-racism, earth, women and immigration.

“The May 6 session will spotlight Lowe and DiMola’s research and publication, which demonstrates scholarship rooted in the Sisters of Mercy values,” said Dawne Bost, MCDC faculty success coordinator.

Please contact Bost with any questions.

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Trocaire’s Commencement Committee is proud to announce that Dr. Christopher Kerr, MD, Ph.D., will serve as speaker for the college’s December Commencement on Dec. 17, 2018. Dr. Kerr serves as ‘s CEO and Chief Medical Officer.

“We believe that Dr. Kerr’s knowledge and experience is a perfect fit to motivate and educate our December 2018 graduates,” the committee said in a statement.

Dr. Kerr joined Hospice Buffalo in 1999 as medical director for its 22-bed inpatient unit and served in that capacity until 2011, when he was appointed Chief Medical Officer.

Dr. Kerr was born and raised in Toronto, Canada and comes from a long line of physicians, of which he is now the fifth generation. He has an undergraduate degree in psychology, a doctorate of medicine, a PhD in neurobiology and completed his residency in Internal Medicine at the University of Rochester. Dr. Kerr received numerous awards throughout training that recognized his clinical performance, as well as his success as an educator and scientist.

According to the Hospice Buffalo website, Dr. Kerr’s background in research has evolved towards the human experience of illness as witnessed from the bedside, specifically patient’s dreams and visions at the end of life. The results of his studies generated enormous response in the non-medical community, both nationally and internationally, through coverage that has included the New York Times, Huffington Post, The Atlantic, BBC, Scientific American and Psychology Today.

Dr. Kerr has overseen the integration and expansion of palliative care into local hospitals and developed one of the nation’s largest home-based palliative care programs, Home Connections, and Essential Care for Children. He has also lectured and published on innovative program models that are designed to better align patient/family services to the complexity of needs inherent to advanced illness.

“It is a privilege to lead the dedicated employees and volunteers of this organization who bring such outstanding care and compassionate support to literally hundreds of people in our community each and every day,” he states on the website.

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