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COM Outlook . Winter 2014
Research/Scholarly Activity -
Faculty and Student Achievements
followed by a hands-on OMT
instruction for the American
Academy of Osteopathy lecture
series. The second lecture,
“OMT for Parents,” was pre-
sented to the American College
of Osteopathic Pediatricians.
Dr. Newman also participated
in the American Academy
of Osteopathy’s Leadership
Conference held September
28 in Las Vegas, Nevada. The
conference, held every three to
five years, was attended by 40
of the top leaders in the special-
ty college, who discussed the
organization’s future direction.
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Elizabeth Oviawe, M.Sc.,
M.M.I.S., M.S.B.I, NCP
,
adjunct professor of public
health and assistant director
of data analysis, development,
and simulation in the Depart-
ment of Medical Education,
authored an article entitled
“NSU Medical School Profes-
sors Create Virtual World to
Enhance Students’ Experience”
that was published in the
November 2013 issue of
South
Florida Hospital News
.
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Edward E. Packer, D.O.,
FAAP, FACOP
, chair and
professor of the Department
of Pediatrics, gave a lecture on
“Anticipatory Guidance” at the
American College of Osteo-
pathic Pediatricians conference
held September 30-October
3 in Las Vegas, Nevada. In
addition, he was elected to
the American Osteopathic
Association’s Guardians of the
Profession honor roll.
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OMS-III Andrea Pal-
estro
presented a coauthored
research poster on October 10
entitled “Malformations Love
Company: Intracranial Vascu-
lar Lesions in Multiple” at the
Palm Beach County Medical
Society’s Future of Medicine
Summit at the Kravis Center in
West Palm Beach, Florida.
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Naushira Pandya, M.D.,
CMD, FACP
, professor and
chair of the Department of
Geriatrics, has been appointed
as a reviewer for the
Journal of
Health and Nutrition in Aging
and became an editorial board
member for the
Journal of Ge-
riatrics and Palliative Care
. She
also participated in a presenta-
tion entitled “An Interprofes-
sional Approach to Optimal
Care Transitions” at the
Florida Medical Directors As-
sociation meeting held October
19 in Orlando, Florida.
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Cecilia Rokusek, Ed.D.,
RD
, professor of family medi-
cine, public health, disaster
and emergency preparedness,
and assistant dean for educa-
tion, planning, and research,
made a presentation entitled
“Interprofessional Education
and Practice: Challenges, Op-
portunities, and Realities for
it in the European Union” at a
conference on interprofession-
al long-term care held Septem-
ber 27-October 2 in Budapest,
Hungary. The conference was
the first to bring together the
highest representatives of
both the Ministry of Health
and Social Affairs to discuss
long-term, cooperative care in
geriatrics and social services.
Dr. Rokusek also presented
a paper entitled “Interpro-
fessional Practice—Key to
Patient-Centered Care” at the
annual meeting of the Asso-
ciation for Behavioral Science
and Medical Education held
October 17-19 in Newport,
Rhode Island. In addition, she
presented a poster entitled
“Interprofessional Educa-
tion and Practice—Links to
the Patient Protection and
Affordability Health Care
Act” at the annual meeting
of the Geriatrics Society of
America held November 20-24
in New Orleans, Louisiana.
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Janet Roseman, Ph.D.,
R-DMT
, assistant professor of
medical education, is slated to
present the topics “Asclepius
and the Wounded Healer”
and “Gifts of Silence” for the
Narrative Bridge: Connecting
Through the Health Hu-
manities conference being held
February 23-25 at the Medical
University of South Carolina in
Charleston, South Carolina.
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Elliot M. Sklar, Ph.D.,
M.Sc.
, assistant professor of
public health, family medi-
cine, and disaster and emer-
gency preparedness, and
Kristi Messer, M.S.W., M.P.H.
,
assistant professor of public
health and disaster and emer-
gency preparedness, presented a
paper on “Barriers to Reducing
Health Disparities in a Pri-
mary Care Curriculum for the
Underserved” at the American
Public Health Association’s 141
st
Annual Meeting held November
2-6 in Boston, Massachusetts.
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Melissa Tabor, D.O.
, as-
sistant professor of osteopathic
medicine and NSU team
physician, presented a lecture
on “The Role of the Team
Physician in the Emergency
Action Plan” for the Ameri-
can Osteopathic Academy of
Sports Medicine at the 118
th
Annual Osteopathic Medical
Conference and Exposition
(OMED 2013) held September
30-October 4 in Las Vegas,
Nevada. She also published an
article entitled “An Alternative
Diagnosis of Shoulder Pain
Visualized on Musculoskeletal
Ultrasound: Deltoid Inser-
tional Tendinopathy” in the
October edition of the
Journal
of Athletic Enhancement
.
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