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COM Outlook . Summer-Fall 2014
Research/Scholarly Activity -
Faculty and Student Achievements
Linda Mau-
rice, M.A.
,
director of
the Lifelong
Learning Insti-
tute, recently
completed
her master’s degree in cross-
disciplinary studies at the NSU
Graduate School of Humani-
ties and Social Sciences. At the
American Society on Aging’s
Annual Aging in America Con-
ference held March 11-15 in
San Diego, California, she pre-
sented a roundtable discussion
entitled “It’s Not Your Grand-
parents’ Retirement—The New
Reality of ‘Mature’ Adults.”
Heather C.
McCarthy,
D.O.
, assistant
professor
of medical
education
and osteo-
pathic principles and practice,
director of the Simulation/
Standardized Patient Lab, and a
faculty member of the National
Board of Osteopathic Medical
Examiners, recently partici-
pated in the Level 2 Final Exam
Review meeting held June
16-17 in Chicago, Illinois. In
July, she was involved with the
key validation of items for the
COMLEX-USA Level 2-CE.
Mariana Mor-
ris, Ph.D.
,
professor
and director
of Gulf War
research at
NSU-COM’s
Institute for Neuro-Immune
Medicine, was recently ap-
pointed to the review panel
for the National Institutes
of Health’s (NIH) National
Research Mentoring Network.
The network is a new and im-
portant initiative from the NIH
Common Fund’s “Enhancing
Diversity in the NIH-Funded
Workforce” program aimed
at supporting innovative and
transformative approaches to
increase the diversity of the
biomedical workforce.
Deborah A.
Mulligan,
M.D., FAAP,
FACEP
, direc-
tor of NSU’s
Institute for
Child Health
Policy and clinical professor of
pediatrics, spoke at the Ameri-
can Academy of Pediatrics
Annual Leadership Forum held
March 13-16 in Chicago, Il-
linois. The forum was attended
by 250 executive leaders who
support the Human Trafficking
Education as a Component of
Medical Education and Pediat-
ric Training Resolution.
Doris New-
man, D.O.,
FAAO
, associ-
ate professor
of osteopath-
ic principles
and practice
and director of the Depart-
ment of Rural and Urban
Underserved Medicine, suc-
cessfully completed all the
requirements to become a
Fellow of the American Acad-
emy of Osteopathy (FAAO).
This honor, which makes her
the 81
st
living FAAO, was con-
ferred during the AAO’s Con-
vocation held March 19-23 in
Colorado Springs, Colorado.
She also presented a two-day
pre-convocation workshop for
the AAO entitled “The Osteo-
pathic Approach to Common
ENT Complaints in Children,”
was invited to judge the
Louisa Burns Osteopathic
Research Poster Competition,
and was designated as presi-
dent elect of the AAO.
OMS-III Andrea Palestro
pre-
sented a case report entitled
“Dying to Be Thin: Superior
Mesenteric Artery Syndrome
Caused by
Adolescent
Anorexia
Nervosa” as
a research
poster pre-
sentation at
the American College of Os-
teopathic Pediatricians Spring
Conference held April 25-27
in Kansas City, Missouri.
OMS-III
Alexandros
Pappas
pre-
sented his re-
search poster
entitled
“Success of
Intraocular Pressure Control
in Glaucoma Patients Under-
going Canaloplasty with and
Without Cataract Extraction
in a Single Center Setting” at
the Association for Research
and Vision in Ophthalmology
(ARVO) Annual Meeting in
Orlando, Florida on May 6. He
was awarded the ARVO/Vision
Research Minority Fellowship
Award and Travel Grant to
present at the meeting.
OMS-III Eliza-
beth Potter
was selected
as the East
Florida Physi-
cians Alli-
ance Scholar,
which came with a $2,500
scholarship for her to attend
the 66
th
American Academy of
Neurology (AAN) Annual Meet-
ing on April 26 in Philadelphia,
Pennsylvania. Potter was se-
lected because of her educa-
tional goals, leadership skills,
and academic potential. She
also was among a hand-picked
group of individuals who were
invited to attend the AAN’s
Women in Leadership course.
Arif M. Rana, Ph.D., Ed.S.,
M.S.
, assistant professor of
biomedical informatics and
medical education, coau-
thored a
response ar-
ticle entitled
“Serious Ara-
bic Meaning,
Grammatical,
and Study
Design Flaws in the study
“Faxed Arabic Prescriptions:
A Medication Error Waiting
to Happen?” with
Raed H.
AlHazme, M.S.B.I.
(’12) and
a College of Pharmacy student
that was published in the June
issue of the
International
Journal of Medical Informat-
ics
. Dr. Rana also received his
Master of Science degree in
Medical Education from NSU’s
Abraham S. Fischler School of
Education in May.
Robin I.
Shecter,
D.O., FACOD
,
clinical assis-
tant professor
of dermatol-
ogy and resi-
dency director at West Palm
Hospital in West Palm Beach,
Florida, has created a new and
innovative children’s cotton
candy-scented sunscreen gel
named Lickady-Split. Fueled
by the need for a safe and
protective product that kids
will want to use, Dr. Shecter
spent two years developing
the product with a chemist.
Peter A.
Sprague,
D.P.T., PT,
OCS
, assistant
professor of
osteopathic
principles
and practice in the Depart-
ment of Sports Medicine,
authored a paper entitled
“Changes in Functional Move-
ment Screen Scores Over a
Season in Collegiate Soccer
and Volleyball Athletes” that
was published in the June edi-
tion of the
Journal of Strength
and Conditioning Research
.
