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COM Outlook . Summer-Fall 2014
Research/Scholarly Activity -
Faculty and Student Achievements
Gabriel
Suciu, Ph.D.,
M.S.P.H.
,
associate
professor of
public health,
coauthored
an article with a number of
NSU-COM alumni and resi-
dents entitled Wikipedia Vs.
Peer-Reviewed Medical Litera-
ture for Information About the
10 Most Costly Medical Con-
ditions” in the May issue of
the
Journal of the American
Osteopathic Association
.
Elliot Sklar,
Ph.D., M.S.
,
director of
Project HOPE
(Homeless-
ness in
Osteopathic
Predoctoral Education),
Kristi Messer, M.S.W.,
M.P.H.
, executive director of
Project HOPE, and
Nadine
Chipon-Schoepp, D.O.
, as-
sistant professor of family
medicine, presented “Chronic
Disease Management Strate-
gies in Persons Experiencing
Homelessness for Student
Providers” at the National
Health Care for the Home-
less Conference and Policy
Symposium held May 28-30 in
New Orleans, Louisiana.
OMS-II
Khasim Syed
presented
his poster
entitled
“Impaired Akt
Phosphory-
lation in Response to High
Insulin in Human RPE Cells”
at the Association for Research
in Vision and Ophthalmology
Annual Meeting on May 4 in
Orlando, Florida.
Oneka B. Marriott, D.O., M.P.H.
, as-
sistant professor of pediatrics and public
health and assistant director of medical
education for the NSU-COM/Palm Beach
County Health Department Preventive
Medicine Residency Program, and
Kamilah
B. Thomas-Purcell, Ph.D., M.P.H., CHES
,
director of the Interprofessional Primary
Care Education Program and assistant pro-
fessor of public health, received the 2014-15
NSU-COM Kenyon Cancer Research Grant.
Dr. Marriott will conduct a study en-
titled “Situational Analysis and Needs As-
sessment in Children’s Cancer in Rwanda,”
while Dr. Thomas-Purcell will assess “Gre-
nadian Women’s Perspectives on Screen-
ing for Breast and Cervical Cancer.”
Since 2001, NSU-COM has offered the
Kenyon Cancer Research Grant, which is
provided by an endowment created by the
late Franklin Kenyon and Frances Kenyon
Agneski. The program helps support fac-
ulty members who engage in primary care
cancer-related research with an award of
up to $15,000 for one year.
Dr. Thomas-Purcell also received a
$5,000 grant from the American Associa-
tion of Colleges of Osteopathic Medicine
to conduct a study with
Cyril Blavo, D.O.,
M.P.H.
and
T.M., FACOP
, director of the
college’s Master of Public Health Program,
entitled “Interprofessional Education:
Impact of M.P.H. training on D.O. Inter-
professional Collaboration.”
Pictured (above from left) are Dr.
Thomas-Purcell, Leonard Levy, D.P.M.,
M.P.H., associate dean for education,
planning, and research, and Dr. Marriott.
Drs. Marriott, Thomas-Purcell
Receive Kenyon Cancer Research Grant
