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Jennie Berkovich
,
Leah
Marron
,
and
Matthew Uhde
(
fourth-year students) present-
ed a poster entitled “The Effects
of Obesity on Obstructive Sleep
Apnea in Pediatric Patients” at
the Obesity Society Annual Sci-
entific Meeting in San Antonio,
Texas, on September 22.
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Nicole Cook, Ph.D.
,
and
Lucas Hollar, Ph.D.
,
who are
both assistant professors of
public health, presented the
results of a yearlong study
entitled “Understanding Fac-
tors of Provider Productivity
Amidst Practice Transforma-
tion Activities” to the Health
Choice Network, Inc. Clinical
Committee on July 18. This
mixed-methods study aimed
to: understand current state
physician productivity across
eight community health
centers in Florida; describe
the impact of electronic health
records, meaningful use,
and patient-centered medi-
cal home on productivity;
and identify opportunities
for promising practices and
future areas of research.
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OMS-II Kevin M. Donohue
,
class of 2015 president, had
his coauthored article entitled
“
Pigment-Independent cAMP-
Mediated Epidermal Thicken-
ing Protects Against Cutaneous
UV Injury by Keratinocyte
Proliferation” accepted for pub-
lication in an upcoming issue of
Experimental Dermatology
.
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Jay Fleisher, Ph.D.
,
associ-
ate professor of public health,
presented a poster entitled
“
On Rapid Assessment Meth-
ods Using Statistical Modeling:
Multiple Least Squares Regres-
sion Vs. Logistic Regression” at
the Oceans and Human Health
Gordon Research Conference
held June 3-8 at the University
of New England in Biddeford
Maine. He also accepted an in-
vitation to serve as a reviewer
for the Patient-Centered
Outcomes Research Institute,
which is an independent
organization that helps people
make informed health care
decisions and improves health
care delivery. In addition, he
serves as an SAS customer
advisory panel member.
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Robert Hasty, D.O., FACOI
,
associate professor and vice
chair of internal medicine
and program director of the
Palmetto General Hospital
Internal Medicine Residency
Program, along with Palmetto
internal medicine resident
Vincenzo Barbato, D.O.
(
a
2011
NSU-COM alumnus),
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Faculty and Student Achievements
authored a chapter on “Ery-
thema Induratum” that was
published in the
5-
Minute
Clinical Consult 2013
on its on-
line site
.
com/
.
He also was quoted in a
June 6
Sun-Sentinel
article en-
titled “Surgeon: Left Without
a Face, Victims All Say ‘I’ve
become a monster’” and in the
August 21 article “Transplant
Options Grow.”
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Robin J. Jacobs, Ph.D.
,
as-
sociate professor of psychiatry
and behavioral medicine, pre-
ventive medicine, and biomedi-
cal informatics, coauthored
two research papers that were
presented at the XIX Interna-
tional AIDS Conference held
July 22-27 in Washington, D.C.
The projects, entitled “Proyecto
SOL: A Resilience-Based HIV
Prevention Intervention for
Latino MSM” and “Proyecto
SOL: A Risk-Reduction Inter-
vention for Hispanic MSM,”
were coauthored by
M. Isabel
Fernández, Ph.D.
,
and
Patrick
Hardigan, Ph.D.
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Leonard A. Levy, D.P.M.,
M.P.H.
,
professor of family
medicine, public health, and
biomedical informatics and
associate dean for education,
planning, and research, was
named 2011-12 NSU-COM
Professor of the Year in
August. The award is con-
ferred upon a full-time faculty
member who has served the
university for at least 10 years,
has achieved national and/or
international prominence, and
has earned a distinguished
reputation through significant
contributions to research and
scholarship and exceptional
instruction. To commemorate
his achievement, Dr. Levy will
receive a $2,000 university
honorarium as well as a one-
year membership to the NSU
Faculty Club. In unrelated
news, Dr. Levy was selected to
be a reviewer for the Patient-
Centered Outcomes Research
Institute, which is an indepen-
dent organization created to
help people make informed
health care decisions and im-
prove health care delivery.
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OMS-II Ryan Moorhouse
coauthored an article entitled
“
The Role of Context in the Vi-
sual Identification of Objects”
that was published in the June
2012
edition of
Medical Data
.
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Naushira Pandya, M.D.,
CMD
,
professor and chair
of the Department of Geri-
atrics, maintained an active
presentation agenda over
the past several months that
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