MELVILLE, N.Y.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Apr 23, 2024--
Henry Schein Medical, the U.S. medical business of Henry Schein, Inc. (Nasdaq: HSIC), announced today that Aline Valiengo, Head Athletic Trainer and Director of Sports Medicine for Coconut Creek High School in Florida, is the winner of the fourth annual Henry Schein Medical Athletics and Schools Rising Star Award. The award celebrates emerging athletic trainers with one to five years of experience in the Sports Medicine industry.
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Ms. Valiengo developed Coconut Creek High School’s first sports medicine program and teaches all three courses within it. Additionally, she established the school’s first athletic training program, and has conducted presentations for high school athletic trainers within Broward County and West Palm Beach County, offering insights into building successful athletic training programs at the high school level. Often working outside her required hours, Ms. Valiengo is passionate about helping her students grow, providing career and educational guidance. Graduates of her athletic training student program have attained college scholarships and secured entry-level jobs immediately after high school in clinical settings because of the skills learned during their time in the program.
“Congratulations to Aline Valiengo and each of the finalists for already making a positive impact within their communities and the athletic training profession,” said Eric Kearns, Director, Henry Schein Medical’s Athletics and Schools business. “Our team is dedicated to elevating the important work athletic trainers do, and our Rising Star campaign is the perfect way to shine a spotlight on the individuals who are many times on the sidelines. We thank all athletic trainers for continuing to keep athletes healthy and in the game.”
The Rising Star Award recognizes recently graduated athletic trainers who have not yet reached a senior chief-level position but have a strong career trajectory with the potential of forward advancement and appointment at the highest levels of the profession. This year’s recipient was selected based on the number of votes from the public.
“Winning the 2024 Rising Star Award is more than just recognition, it's a validation of my effort, dedication, and passion I have for this profession,” said Ms. Valiengo. “I am filled with gratitude as I am profoundly thankful for my incredible community and unwavering support system. This achievement is as much theirs as it is mine, and I am forever grateful for everyone who has stood by me. This recognition serves as a reminder to continue pushing boundaries, embracing challenges, and never settling for anything less than extraordinary.”
Ms. Valiengo was among the following finalists who demonstrated ongoing achievements and contributions to their organizations and the profession:
The finalists were nominated by peers and selected by a Recognition Committee that included athletic trainers and industry experts in the field. Together, the committee members have experience from an athletic training perspective of a broadly diverse size, type, and geographic distribution.
As the winner, Ms. Valiengo will receive an athletic trainer’s kit filled with recovery products including Hyperice’s Hypervolt 2 Pro percussion massager, Normatec 3 leg compression system, and Defibtech's Lifeline automated external defibrillator (AED).
The Rising Star Award program began in 2021 with winner Darlene Eckhardt, Head Athletic Trainer at the Buffalo Beauts, a professional women's ice hockey team, becoming Henry Schein’s first Rising Star. In 2022, Caitlin Hart, Head Athletic Trainer at Newberry High School in Newberry, South Carolina, received the recognition. And, in 2023, Gina Harris, Head Athletic Trainer at Bellport High School in Brookhaven, New York, won the award.
For more information about the Rising Star Award, click here. To learn more about Henry Schein Medical’s Athletics and Schools business, click here.
About Henry Schein, Inc.
Henry Schein, Inc. (Nasdaq: HSIC) is a solutions company for health care professionals powered by a network of people and technology. With more than 25,000 Team Schein Members worldwide, the Company's network of trusted advisors provides more than 1 million customers globally with more than 300 valued solutions that help improve operational success and clinical outcomes. Our Business, Clinical, Technology, and Supply Chain solutions help office-based dental and medical practitioners work more efficiently so they can provide quality care more effectively. These solutions also support dental laboratories, government and institutional health care clinics, as well as other alternate care sites.
Henry Schein operates through a centralized and automated distribution network, with a selection of more than 300,000 branded products and Henry Schein corporate brand products in our distribution centers.
A FORTUNE 500 Company and a member of the S&P 500® index, Henry Schein is headquartered in Melville, N.Y., and has operations or affiliates in 33 countries and territories. The Company's sales reached $12.3 billion in 2023, and have grown at a compound annual rate of approximately 11.5 percent since Henry Schein became a public company in 1995.
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L to R: Aline Valiengo, Donjanae Chamberlain, Christopher Freeborough, Brittany Iaiennaro, and Victoria Simpson. (Photo: Business Wire)
NEW YORK (AP) — Police ordered pro-Palestinian protesters to abandon a tent encampment at New York University early Friday, following weeks of demonstrations and police crackdowns at college campuses nationwide that have resulted in more than 2,300 arrests.
About a dozen protesters who refused police orders to leave were arrested and about 30 more left voluntarily, according to NYU spokesperson John Beckman. The school asked the New York Police Department to intervene “to minimize the likelihood of injury" and disruption, Beckman said.
Classes will proceed as scheduled on Friday, he said. A larger NYU encampment was dismantled on April 22, when more than 130 protesters were arrested.
Tent encampments of protesters calling on universities to stop doing business with Israel or companies they say support the war in Gaza have spread across U.S. campuses in a student movement unlike any other this century.
Israel has branded the protests antisemitic, while Israel’s critics say it uses those allegations to silence opposition. Although some protesters have been caught on camera making antisemitic remarks or violent threats, protest organizers — some of whom are Jewish — call it a peaceful movement to defend Palestinian rights and protest the war.
President Joe Biden has defended the students’ right to protest peacefully but decried the violence and disruption of campus life.
NYPD officers on Friday also cleared an encampment at The New School in Greenwich Village, where students were not able to attend classes in at least two buildings because of the protesters. Deputy Commissioner of Operations Kaz Daughtry posted on the social platform X that the school asked the department to disperse the protesters.
Video posted by Daughtry shows dozens of helmeted officers massed outside the school. No arrests were announced.
Authorities said a further 133 protesters were arrested when police broke up a pro-Palestinian encampment at the State University of New York at New Paltz starting late Thursday, while nine protesters were also arrested at the University of Tennessee. Chancellor Donde Plowman said Friday that seven of those arrested are students who will also be sanctioned under the school's code of conduct.
The student protest movement began April 17 at Columbia University, where student protesters built an encampment to call for an end to the Israel-Hamas war. More than 34,000 Palestinians have been killed in the conflict in the Gaza Strip, according to the Health Ministry there. Israel launched its offensive in Gaza after Oct. 7, when Hamas militants killed about 1,200 people, mostly civilians, and took roughly 250 hostages in an attack on southern Israel.
More than 100 people were arrested late Tuesday when police broke up the Columbia encampment. One officer accidentally discharged his gun inside Hamilton Hall during that operation, but no one was injured, NYPD said late Thursday. He was trying to use the flashlight attached to his gun but instead fired a single round that struck a frame on the wall, police said.
At University of California, Los Angeles, more than 200 people were taken into custody early Thursday, after hundreds of protesters defied orders to leave, some forming human chains as police fired flash-bangs to break up the crowds. Police tore apart a fortified encampment’s barricade of plywood, pallets, metal fences and dumpsters, then pulled down canopies and tents.
UCLA Chancellor Gene Block told alumni on a call Thursday afternoon that administrators tried to find a peaceful solution and that things had been stable on campus until counterdemonstrators attacked the pro-Palestinian encampment late Tuesday.
Campus administrators and police did not intervene or call for backup for hours. No one was arrested that night, but at least 15 protesters were injured.
By Wednesday, the encampment had become “much more of a bunker” and there was no other solution but to have police dismantle it, Block said. Officers warned over loudspeakers that there would be arrests if the crowd did not disperse. Hundreds left voluntarily, while another 200-plus remained and were arrested.
Arrests have been made during at least 58 crackdowns on protesters at 44 colleges or universities since April 18, according to figures based on Associated Press reporting and statements from universities and law enforcement agencies.
University of Minnesota officials reached an agreement with protesters not to disrupt commencements, and similar compromises have been made at Northwestern University in suburban Chicago, Rutgers University in New Jersey and Brown University in Rhode Island.
Watson reported from San Diego and Keller from Albuquerque, New Mexico. Associated Press journalists around the country contributed to this report, including Carolyn Thompson, Kavish Harjai, Krysta Fauria, Leslie Ambriz, John Antczak, Lisa Baumann, Jae C. Hong, Colleen Long, Sarah Brumfield, Philip Marcelo, Steve Karnowski, Cedar Attanasio and Gene Johnson.
Police officers stand guard outside Columbia University, Thursday, May 2, 2024, in New York. (AP Photo/Yuki Iwamura)
Police officers stand guard at the gate of Columbia University, Thursday, May 2, 2024, in New York. (AP Photo/Yuki Iwamura)
A car that attempted to drive through a crowd of pro-Palestinian protesters on the Portland State University campus is seen parked and damaged on a campus walkway on Thursday, May 2, 2024, in Portland, Ore. After the driver fled on foot the protesters damaged the car. (AP Photo/Jenny Kane)
Ellie Crane unfurls a Palestinian flag on the quad outside the J.D. Williams Library at the University of Mississippi in Oxford, Miss., during a pro-Palestinian protest on campus, Thursday, May 2, 2024. (HG Biggs/The Clarion-Ledger via AP)
A pro-Palestinian protester jumps on fencing outside a library on the Portland State University campus on Thursday, May 2, 2024, in Portland, Ore. The fencing was placed by police after they cleared out the library that had been occupied by protesters since Monday. Officers said they made 22 arrests Thursday. (AP Photo/Jenny Kane)
An officer walks towards pro-Palestinian protesters as officers block off an area on the Portland State University campus Thursday, May 2, 2024, in Portland, Ore. Portland police cleared out a library on campus earlier that had been occupied by protesters since Monday. (AP Photo/Jenny Kane)
A group of pro-Palestinian protesters try to block a van carrying people detained by Portland police on Thursday, May 2, 2024, in Portland, Ore. Portland police cleared out a library on campus that protesters had occupied since Monday. Officers said they made 22 arrests Thursday. (AP Photo/Jenny Kane)
Officers stage near the site of a pro-Palestinian encampment, cleared by police overnight, on the UCLA campus Thursday, May 2, 2024, in Los Angeles. (AP Photo/Mark J. Terrill)
Two people argue opposing views near the site of a pro-Palestinian encampment, which was cleared overnight by police, on the UCLA campus Thursday, May 2, 2024, in Los Angeles. (AP Photo/Mark J. Terrill)
A demonstrator is escorted out of a pro-Palestinian encampment on the UCLA campus Thursday, May 2, 2024, in Los Angeles. (AP Photo/Jae C. Hong)
Pro-Palestinian demonstrators watch police activity behind a makeshift barricade on the UCLA campus Wednesday, May 1, 2024, in Los Angeles. (AP Photo/Jae C. Hong)
Police enter an encampment set up by pro-Palestinian demonstrators on the UCLA campus Thursday, May 2, 2024, in Los Angeles. (AP Photo/Jae C. Hong)
Police advance on pro-Palestinian demonstrators in an encampment on the UCLA campus Thursday, May 2, 2024, in Los Angeles. (AP Photo/Jae C. Hong)
Police face off with pro-Palestinian demonstrators inside an encampment on the UCLA campus Thursday, May 2, 2024, in Los Angeles. (AP Photo/Jae C. Hong)
A sign is removed at the site of a pro-Palestinian encampment which was cleared by police overnight on the UCLA campus Thursday, May 2, 2024, in Los Angeles. (AP Photo/Ashley Landis)
Tents and trash are left behind at the site of a pro-Palestinian encampment which was cleared by police overnight on the UCLA campus, Thursday, May 2, 2024, in Los Angeles. (AP Photo/Ashley Landis)
People hold blankets and take down the final tents standing at an encampment in support of Palestinians at the University of Minnesota in Minneapolis, Minn., on May 2, 2024. Earlier in the day, University of Minnesota officials announced an agreement with protesters to end the encampment on the Minneapolis campus. (AP Photo/Trisha Ahmed)
A tent is removed at the site of a pro-Palestinian encampment which was cleared by police overnight on the UCLA campus Thursday, May 2, 2024, in Los Angeles. (AP Photo/Ashley Landis)
Cleanup continues on the site of a pro-Palestinian encampment, cleared by police overnight, on the UCLA campus Thursday, May 2, 2024, in Los Angeles. (AP Photo/Mark J. Terrill)
A man power washes the ground as the cleanup continues on the site of a pro-Palestinian encampment, cleared by police overnight, on the UCLA campus, Thursday, May 2, 2024, in Los Angeles. (AP Photo/Mark J. Terrill)
Trash is piled up at the site of a pro-Palestinian encampment which was cleared by police overnight on the UCLA campus, Thursday, May 2, 2024, in Los Angeles. (AP Photo/Ashley Landis)
Police advance on pro-Palestinian demonstrators on the UCLA campus Thursday, May 2, 2024, in Los Angeles. (AP Photo/Ethan Swope)
Pro-Palestinian demonstrators embrace while charging devices at an encampment on the UCLA campus Wednesday, May 1, 2024, in Los Angeles. (AP Photo/Ethan Swope)
