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Stephen M. Apatow
President
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Director
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CONTACT INFORMATION
Stephen M. Apatow
Founder, Director of Research and Development
Humanitarian Resource Institute
167 Cherry Street #260
Milford, Connecticut 06460
Telephone: (203) 668-0282
Email: s.m.apatow@humanitarian.net
OVERVIEW
Following the completion of two
national grassroots humanitarian projects across the United States
in 1990 and 1993, known today as Tour de America, Stephen M. Apatow
founded the nonprofit organization Humanitarian Resource Institute
in 1994. The focus of this organization was to serve as "a bridge
for unmet needs to untapped resources." The pathway was via optimization
of communications capability: prioritization of a focus issue, engagement
of the world top reference points in the particular focus area (in background
discussion groups), developing a strategic objective, gathering peer reviewed
supportive materials for web server/email level access and then facilitating
direct communication (email/telecommunications) to the decision making level
in the target demographic.
An objective to link the worlds top minds in every college and
university was accomplished through the formation of the Humanitarian
University Consortium that today serves as (1) an international community
of scholars, (2) a bridge between Humanitarian Resource Institute and the
international academic community, (3) a think tank in support of the United
Nations programs and (4) the promotion of higher learning through both
traditional and distance education.
His role as director of research and development encompassed oversight
of policy
development initiatives. While functionally working in the field, he
pursued independent study in medicine, veterinary medicine and law, with
requests for permission to sit United States Medical
Licensing Exam (USMLE), the North American Veterinary Licensing Exam
(NAVLE) and Multistate Bar Exam (MBE) in 2002.
Today, policy initiatives associated with humanitarian relief
and development encompasses a communications capability that reaches:
- newspaper,
radio and television, corporate, intergovernmental, non-governmental,
United Nations, community action and interfaith organizations in approximately
195 countries.
- grassroots networks (household level),
corporate, municipal, state and federal government, community action
and interfaith organizations in approximately 3100 United States Counties.
As
an international consultancy reference point, he is also the founder
of Pathobiologics
International, Sports Medicine & Science Institute,
and SMAMedia Communications.
As an artist, Stephen Michael Apatow is a member
of the Country Music Association and has orchestrated the formation
of the International Arts
Integration into Education initiative to promote the arts
as a vehicle for solution oriented strategic planning and development across
the globe. He is also a Member/Publisher: American Society of Composers,
Authors and Publishers (ASCAP), founder of the International Dancescience
Development Initiative and member of Dance-Tech.net (global reference point for Interdisciplinary
explorations on the performance of motion).
Distance Education: Humanitarian University Consortium
One Health (Medicine/Veterinary Medicine)
Sports
Medicine
Law
Professional
Memberships (Former/Current):
- American
Arbitration Association
- American Society of International Law
- American
Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers
- Federalist Society for Law and Public Policy Studies
- International Bar Association
- International Studies Association
- National Association of Scholars
CONSULTANCY
Pathobiologics
International
Url: www.pathobiologics.org
In the publication
"Biological
Threats and Terrorism, Assessing the Science and Response Capabilities:
Workshop Summary," the National Academy of Sciences has recognized
Humanitarian Resource Institute (HRI) as one of nine leading educational
and research institutions. These include:
- Center for
Nonproliferation Studies.
- Columbia University: Center for Public Health Preparedness.
- Harvard University John F. Kennedy School of Government:
Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs.
- Humanitarian Resource Institute.
- Johns Hopkins University: Center for Civilian Biodefense
Studies.
- Massachusetts Institute of Technology: Center for International
Studies.
- National Academy of Sciences.
- University of Maryland: Center for International and Security
Studies at Maryland.
- University of Minnesota: Center for Infectious Disease Research
and Policy.
Representative
Presentations, Workshops and Media
- Keynote Speaker: The Future of Biodetection
Systems - Final Workshop Analysis: The Future of Biodetection
Systems Workshop was held last year to bring together industry, academia,
national labs, and federal agency personnel in an interactive process,
to develop a roadmap for research and development investment in biodetection. Sponsored by Los Alamos National Laboratory,
September 26 & 27 2006. -- Overview:
BTACC Pathobiologics International. DNA-based
Detection Technologies: Powerpoint Presentation.
- Member of the scientific committee
of the World Health Organization Collaborating
Centre for Tourist Health and Travel Medicine, 2005: Fifth European
Conference on Travel Medicine.
- EHPNET: Humanitarian
Resource Institute Emerging Infectious Disease Network: Environmental
Health Perspectives (EHP), an online publication by the Public Health
Service, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, National Institutes
of Health, National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (NIEHS),
Volume 112, Number 1, January 2004.
- Keynote Speaker:
8th annual meeting of the Association of Veterinary Biologics Companies
(AVBC), 5 November 2003.
- 2002 Award for Excellence
in Outbreak Reporting on the Internet: International Society for
Infectious Diseases, ProMED-mail.
- U.S. Representative for Agricultural
Security: U.S.
Medicine Institute for Health Studies Forum "Food, Air, Water, and Terrorism: Assessing
the Risk," sponsored by the Department of Defense, Global Emerging Infections
System and Annapolis Center. 29 January 2002. The paper "Agricultural Security and Emergency Preparedness: Protecting
One of America's Infrastructures," Stephen M. Apatow, Humanitarian Resource
Institute, was a reference point for agricultural security.
Sports
Medicine & Science Institute
Url: www.esportsmedicine.org
Sports Science: Professional and Academic Experience
- Academic: Exercise Physiology, Sports
Medicine, Sabbatical 1984.
- 1984-90: Full time training for ultra
distance running, ultra-distance cycling, national & international
level competition in cross country skiing and rowing.
- 1985: Accepted to the national development camp for cycling, Olympic Training Center,
Colorado Springs, Colorado.
- 1986-89: Through the help of
Tony Johnson, heavyweight rowing coach at Yale, began cross training
sweep rowing and sculling with the New Haven Rowing Club.
- Studied modern, jazz and ballet training
at the Lee Lund Academy from 1985-88 and the Soviet System of
Ballet Training at the Nutmeg Ballet Company
from 1988-91.
- 1987: Presentation at Rossignol Cross
Country Ski Clinic, speakers included Bill Koch and Lyle Nelson
coordinated by Mike Gallagher, (former Olympian and Olympic Cross-Country
Ski Coach), Mountain Top Inn, Chittenden, Vermont.
- Martial Arts: As a participant in
the study of martial arts for over 20 years, classical ballet
training provided a scientific method (utilizing a similar approach
used in eastern bloc development programs) to optimize speed, strength,
leverage mechanics, force generation and technique. Current training
emphasis is Judo/Jujitsu. Founder: JudoSport International.
- Technical consultant for Cheryl
Madeux, Finalist, Lausanne International Ballet Competition
in 1990.
- Technical consultant for U.S. National
Team athletes from Harvard University, members of World and Olympic
Festival Teams. Sports applications include professional football,
national level wrestling, hockey cross-country and downhill skiing,
skating and martial arts.
- Speaker at 1990 Coaches Association
Meeting for Sport Canada at the Olympic Complex in Ottawa, Canada.
- Upon request, applications of the
analysis correction and retraining procedures to enhance the
joint flexibility and technical performance for classical ballet
training have been applied to musculo-skeletal disorders that
include entrapment neuropathies,
Scoliosis, Rheumatoid Arthritis, Asthma, Fibromyalgia, Frederick's Ataxia and Multiple Sclerosis. One
of our cases with Rheumatoid Arthritis was submitted to the National
Arthritis Foundation Peer Review Board in 1990. Analysis and corrective
procedures have been adapted to help spinal herniations for physicians
at Yale Medical School.
- Small animal veterinary application
of human biomechanics procedures leads to work with hundreds of
horses in dressage, hunter-jumper and western training programs.
(See: Expanding
Human to Veterinary Biomechanics Applications)
- 1994-98: Corrective procedures developed
to enhance the technical ability of the international level dancer
in ballet were adapted into dressage and hunter-jumper specific
training programs for both horse and rider. This work was formally
introduced as an equestrian
development program at the USDF Adult Camp in Boise,
ID in 1997. In 1998, the USDF Region V Adult Camp in Jackson Wyoming
provided USDF University Credit for the lecture presentation on "Biomechanics
and Structural Analysis of Both Horse and Rider."
- 1999: Presenter at Society of State
Directors of Health, Physical Education, and Recreation Annual
Meeting, Boston, Massachusetts.
- 1999 - Present: Research and development
of programs associated with the optimization of classical ballet
training, Olympic development programs and specialized orthopedic
applications.
- 2002 International Sports Science
Association Fitness Therapist Review: The Science and Practice
of Rehabilitative Exercise integrate theory and practice in the
health care arena. This specialized field utilizes information from
the world of rehabilitation, pathology, functional anatomy and physiology
and blends it with the world of fitness training dealing with aerobic
conditioning strength training, skill development, exercise progression
and prescription for special population groups.
- 2003: "Optimization of Classical Ballet
and Sports Development Programs" workshop was introduced at the 11 state
American Alliance for Health, Physical Education, Recreation and Dance (AAHPERD)
Combined Convention on February 12, 2003 in Reno-Sparks, Nevada.
- Director, Dancescience Development Program:
International medical, scientific, and
educational resource center.
Testimonials
- "I can only say that Mr. Apatow's technique seemed to work
in this case (C5,6 entrapment neuropathy) more efficiently
than any other method tried, including both medicinal and physical
therapy." Richard E. Kaufman, M.D.,
P.C., Yale Medical School.
- "As a 52 year old sufferer of various severe sports related
injuries for most of my adult life. i.e. back, neck, shoulder, etc.
I have been treated by neurologists, orthopedics, psychotherapists,
and chiropractors using most forms of conventional therapy and
medicinal procedures. From this experience, I can state that Steve
Apatow's special treatment of joint injuries has proven the most
effective procedure, from both a short-term and long-term standpoint."
Richard Norris, Research and Development Engineer
- opened discussion at MIT for the development of a CAD analysis system
that could be used with Cat Scan or MRI.
- "This type of training will be a major thing of the
future." Sharon Dante, Nutmeg Ballet Company (Gold medalist coach,
1984 International Ballet Competition, New York City).
Professional Memberships (Former/Current)
- American College of Sports Medicine
(ACSM)
- International Sport Science Association
(ISSA)
- American Alliance for Health, Physical
Education, Recreation and Dance (AAHPERD)
- International Society of Biomechanics
in Sports (ISBS)
- National Dance Association (NDA)
- American Association for Health Education
(AAHE)
- National Association for Sport &
Physical Education (NASPE)
SMAMedia Communications
U.S. & International Projects
1990: National Clearinghouse for
Alcohol & Drug Information Project
www.cycleacrossamerica.org
- Initiative opens the first the toll free
hotline (1-800-Say-No-To-Drugs) providing public access to the Federal
Resource for Drug & Alcohol Information.
- Strategic planning and development of the
6000 mile transcontinental campaign through 270 cities in 17 states.
- Grass roots networking encompassed federal,
state and local elected officials, municipalities, state and county
education departments, youth programs, interfaith community and media.
- Coordination of press conferences and media
events.
- The initiative is the largest touch outreach
campaign ever coordinated through the Office for Substance Abuse Prevention.
1991: U.S.A. Education/Prevention
Resource Campaign
- Strategic planning of pilot project coordinated
in cooperation with the New York State Division of Substance Abuse
Services to develop "Guidelines for the dissemination of Substance Abuse
Information and Materials."
- The guideline was developed to help programs
effectively network public health information down to the household
level through multiple communication pathways that already exist in
communities.
1993: Run Across America
www.runacrossamerica.org
- Initiative targets humanitarian relief efforts
in the United States.
- Strategic planning and development of the
3000 mile transcontinental campaign through 133 cities in 11
states.
- Grass roots networking encompassed federal,
state and local elected officials, municipalities, state and county
education departments, youth programs, interfaith community and media.
- Coordination of press conferences and media
events.
1999: USA Gymnastics U.S. Classic
- Strategic planning and media development
for the U.S. Women's Championships and qualifier for the 1999 World Championship
in China.
1999: Year
2000 Conversion Global Campaign
- Strategic Planning and development of an
international education initiative to provide research reports,
infrastructure risk statistics and resources relating to contingency
planning for the Year 2000 conversion.
- Communication networks included corporate
and inter-governmental programs, newspaper, radio, television and media
networks in approximately 195 countries.
1994-Present: Humanitarian Resource
Institute: Strategic planning, research and project
development for all U.S. and International initiatives in cooperation
with the Federal Emergency Management Agency, United States Department
of Agriculture, American Red Cross, National 4-H, U.S. Chemical and Hazard
Safety Investigation Board and United Nations programs.
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