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COM Outlook . Winter 2014
Research/Scholarly Activity -
Faculty and Student Achievements
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Seminar and Poster Session
of the Bureau of International
Osteopathic Medicine. The
poster, entitled “Osteopathic
Medical Leadership Training
Through International Medical
Outreach Trips,” was recog-
nized at the 118
th
Annual Os-
teopathic Medical Conference
and Exposition (OMED 2013)
held September 30-October 4
in Las Vegas, Nevada.
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Robin J. Jacobs, Ph.D.,
M.S.W.
, associate professor
of psychiatry and behavioral
medicine, preventive medicine,
biomedical informatics, and
public health, and director
of international medicine,
recently authored the article
“Perceptions About Home-
lessness in Elders and Com-
munity Responsibility” in
Educational Gerontology
. She
also coauthored two articles
that appeared in
ICERI2013
Publications: Proceedings from
the 6
th
International Conference
of Education, Research, and
Innovation
. The first, entitled
“Development of a Linguisti-
cally Appropriate and Cultur-
ally Relevant Intervention to
Increase Health Literacy in
HIV-Positive Spanish-Speak-
ing Hispanics in the United
States,” was coauthored with
Raymond Ownby, M.D., Ph.D.,
M.B.A.
, professor and chair of
the Department of Psychiatry
and Behavioral Medicine. The
second article, entitled “Nurs-
ing Students’ Attitudes and
Intentions Toward Providing
Care to the Underserved,” was
coauthored with
Arif M. Rana,
Ph.D., Ed.S.
, assistant profes-
sor of biomedical informatics
and medical education and
director of faculty develop-
ment programs.
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OMS-III Carisa Cham-
pion Lippmann
represented
osteopathic medical students
at the American Osteopathic
Association’s (AOA) Health
Policy Forum held September
13 in Washington D.C., where
she discussed issues such as
payment and delivery innova-
tion, practice models, and the
Affordable Care Act. Champi-
on Lippmann was also selected
as a national competitor in the
L. Edward Bryant Jr., National
Health Law Transactional
Moot Court Competition. In
addition, she was invited to
lobby with the AOA in Decem-
ber for the sustainable growth
rate—an issue addressed in her
research papers.
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Nancy Klimas, M.D.
, direc-
tor of the college’s Institute for
Neuro-Immune Medicine, was
featured as an expert source for
a story about chronic fatigue
syndrome that appeared on
ABC News’
Good Morning
America
on October 30.
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OMS-III Angela Kuehn
was recently elected as chair of
the Graduate Medical Educa-
tion Committee of the national
student chapter of the Ameri-
can College of Osteopathic
Emergency Physicians.
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Jennie Q. Lou, M.D.,
M.Sc.
, professor of biomedical
informatics, public health, and
internal medicine and director
of the Biomedical Informatics
Program, made a presentation
entitled “Engaging People with
Chronic Conditions Through
the Use of Health Information
Technology” at the American
Diabetes Association’s 22
nd
An-
nual Conference on Diabetes,
which was held November
1-2 at the Seminole Hard Rock
Resort in Hollywood, Florida.
Dr. Lou’s presentation focused
on the emerging roles of mobile
health in engaging people with
chronic conditions such as dia-
betes and the impact of social
media on today’s health care.
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Kristi Messer, M.S.W.,
M.P.H.
, assistant professor
of public health and disaster
and emergency preparedness,
Nadine Chipon-Schoepp,
D.O.
, assistant professor of
family medicine, and
Elliot M.
Sklar, Ph.D., M.Sc.
, assistant
professor of public health, fam-
ily medicine, and disaster and
emergency preparedness, dis-
cussed “Project HOPE: An In-
novative Approach to Home-
less Health Care Education” at
the Ninth Annual International
Street Medicine Symposium
held October 23-26 in Boston,
Massachusetts. Presenters had
the opportunity to participate
in primary care street outreach
to the homeless with staff from
the oldest and largest health
care for the homeless facility
in the United States—Boston
Health Care for the Homeless.
Attendees traveled from areas
such as Nigeria, Iceland, Ne-
pal, the United Kingdom, Den-
mark, India, Spain, Ethiopia,
and the Netherlands to learn
more about and participate in
the street medicine movement.
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Doris Newman, D.O.
, as-
sociate professor of osteopathic
principles and practice and
director of the Department
of Rural Medicine, delivered
two lectures at OMED 2013 in
Las Vegas, Nevada. In the first
lecture, she discussed “OMT in
the Child with Growing Pains,”
