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COM Outlook . Spring 2014
Research/Scholarly Activity -
Faculty and Student Achievements
“Weight Loss in the Elderly” for
the Palm Beach County Health
Department Preventive Medi-
cine Residency in West Palm
Beach, Florida, on December
19. She also presented “Thyroid
and Parathyroid Disease,” “De-
mentia: Another Complication
of Diabetes,” and “The AMDA
Choosing Wisely” at the Ameri-
can Medical Directors Associa-
tion annual meeting held Feb-
ruary 28-March 1 in Nashville,
Tennessee. Additionally, Dr.
Pandya coauthored two papers,
one with
Elizabeth Hames,
D.O.
, assistant professor of
geriatrics, entitled “Effects of
Intrathecal Opioid Administra-
tion on Pituitary Function”
that was published in the
November 2013 issue of
Pain
Medicine
and “The Burden of
Sliding Scale Insulin,” which
was published in the November
2013 issue of the
Journal of the
American Geriatrics Society
.
OMS-I Kristi
Ray
and a
University
of Central
Florida (UCF)
College of
Medicine
first-year student won the
Conference Choice award at
UCF’s Third Annual Global
Health Conference held
February 1 in Orlando. Their
award-winning research
project entitled “How
Does Your Garden Grow?
An Interdisciplinary Study
of Sustainable Agriculture
Techniques in Developing
Countries” combines
environmental awareness with
public health initiatives. The
project, already successfully
implemented in St. Kitts and
Costa Rica, will be introduced
in Bali, Indonesia, this summer.
Cecilia Rokusek, Ed.D., RD
,
assistant dean for education,
planning, and research and
professor of public health,
family medi-
cine, and
disaster and
emergency
preparedness,
presented
two papers at
the Association for Gerontol-
ogy in Higher Education’s 40
th
Annual Meeting and Educa-
tional Leadership Conference
held February 27-March 2 in
Denver, Colorado. The titles
of her two papers were “Long-
Term Care Medicine: A Com-
parison Between European
Union Countries and the Unit-
ed States” and “Implementing
a 160-Hour Interprofessional
Faculty Development Program
in Geriatric Education and
Practice.” The second paper
was presented in collabora-
tion with
Stacey Pinnock,
M.S.W.
, interprofessional
education coordinator for the
college’s Geriatric Education
Center and the Center for
Interprofessional Education
and Practice. Dr. Rokusek also
presented a one-hour CME
program entitled “Childhood
Obesity: From Mouth to Gut”
to the Palm Beach Pediatric
Society in West Palm Beach on
January 16.
Janet Rose-
man, Ph.D.,
R-DMT
, assis-
tant professor
of medical
education,
completed
a video presentation entitled
“Honoring the Medicine:
Searching for the Embodi-
ment of Spiritual Commitment
and Philosophy for Student
Physicians” slated for pre-
sentation and publication at
the International Conference
on New Horizons in Educa-
tion to be held June 25-27
in Paris, France. She also
coauthored “A Qualitative
Study of Physicians’ Views on
Compassionate Patient Care
and Spirituality: Can Medicine
Be a Spiritual Practice?” and
the poster “Factors Impacting
Family Physicians’ Skills in
Addressing Patient’s Spiritual
Needs: A 10-Year Qualitative
Follow-Up Study” that was
accepted for presentation at
the 47
th
Society of Teachers
of Family Medicine Confer-
ence to be held May 3-7 in
San Antonio, Texas. She also
had her coauthored article
entitled “A Qualitative Study
of Physicians’ Views on Com-
passionate Patient Care and
Spirituality: Medicine as a
Spiritual Practice?” published
in the February edition of the
Rhode Island Journal of Fam-
ily Medicine
. In similar news,
Dr. Roseman’s article entitled
“Honoring the Medicine:
Searching for the Embodi-
ment of Spiritual Commitment
and Philosophy for Student
Physicians” was published in
the spring issue of
Advances
in Mind-Body Medicine
. In
funding news, Dr. Roseman
received a $5,000 grant from
the Gold Foundation for her
project entitled The Sidney
Project in Spirituality and
Medicine and Compassionate
Care™, which is an educa-
tional program for residents at
NSU-COM’s affiliated sites to
expand the areas of education
in compassionate medicine and
to create a strong awareness
of the emotional, physical, and
spiritual dimensions of both
patients and physicians.
Mark Sand-
house, D.O.,
M.S.
, associ-
ate professor
and chair of
the Depart-
ment of
Osteopathic Principles and
Practice, received his Mas-
ter of Science in Leadership
degree from NSU’s Abraham S.
Fischler School of Education in
December 2013.
Sweta
Tewary,
Ph.D.,
M.S.W.
, clini-
cal assistant
professor and
evidence-
based practice project director,
presented a lecture entitled
“Maximizing Data Management
Systems to Capture Educational
Program Performance: Three
Models of Qualitative and
Quantitative Data” at the 66
th
Annual Scientific Meeting of
the Gerontological Society of
America’s held November 20-24
in New Orleans, Louisiana. She
also coauthored an award-
winning poster with
Nicole
Cook, Ph.D., M.P.A.
, assistant
professor of public health, and
Naushira Pandya, M.D., CMD,
FACP
, entitled “Diabetes Foot
Education Program for Health
Care Professionals in Geriatric
Care: Results from an Interpro-
fessional Evidence-Based Train-
ing in Nursing Homes” that
was presented at the Florida
Medical Directors Association’s
22
nd
Annual Conference held
October 17-21 in Orlando
Florida. Dr. Tewary presented
a second poster in Orlando
entitled “Educating Caregivers
to Help Improve Sleep among
Persons with Dementia” with
Dr. Cook,
Linda Maurice, M.A.
,
director of the Lifelong Learning
Institute, and
Raymond Ownby,
M.D., Ph.D., M.B.A.
OMS-IV Erica
Turse
and
OMS-II David
Frankel
co-
authored and
presented
a clinical vi-
gnette poster entitled “Diag-
nosing Painless Hematuria—a
Tricky Case in a 50-Year-Old
Female” at the Florida Chapter
American College of Physi-
cians 2014 Residents and
Medical Students Meeting on
March 1 in Orlando.
