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COM Outlook . Fall 2013
Research/Scholarly Activity -
Faculty and Student Achievements
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sociate. The article, entitled
“Development and Initial
Validation of a Computer-
Administered Health Literacy
Assessment in Spanish and
English: FLIGHT/VIDAS,”
was published in the August
edition of
Patient Related
Outcome Measures
. Drs. Jacobs
and Ownby also coauthored
“Condom Use, Disclosure,
and Risk for Unprotected Sex
in HIV-Negative Midlife and
Older Men Who Have Sex
with Men” that was published
in the
American Journal of
Men’s Health
. Additionally,
Dr. Jacobs was appointed as
a member of the
Journal of the
Society for Social Work Research
Editorial Review Board and
served as reviewer for 10 sci-
entific journals, including
HIV/
AIDS—Research and Palliative
Care
,
Patient Preference and
Adherence
, and
Gerontology &
Geriatrics Education
.
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OMS-III Will Jaffe
had his
counterargument to OMS-III
Sam Armstrong’s published
piece on abortion published in
the July 11 issue of
in-Training
,
which is an online magazine
for medical students. Jaffe’s
opinion piece, entitled “Who
Counts, What Doesn’t: Refo-
cusing Armstrong’s Abortion
Perspective,” was in direct re-
sponse to Armstrong’s “Who
Counts, Who Doesn’t: Human
Value, Reproductive Freedom,
and the Abortion on Demand
Debate” that appeared in the
May 30 issue of
in-Training
.
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OMS-IV Milla Kviatkovsky
coauthored a case report
entitled “Asymptomatic
Anomalous Left Anterior De-
scending Artery Arising from
the Right Coronary Artery
with a Rare Anterior Course”
that was published in the
August edition of
British Medi-
cal Journal: Case Reports
. She
also coauthored an abstract
on “The Minimum Clinically
Important Improvement and
Patient Acceptable Symptom
State in BASDAI and BASFI
for Patients with Ankylos-
ing Spondylitis” and will
be presenting this research
during the American College
of Rheumatology/Associa-
tion of Rheumatology Health
Professionals Annual Meeting
being held October 26-30 in
San Diego, California.
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Leonard Levy, D.P.M.,
M.P.H.
, associate dean for
education, planning, and
research, was accepted by
the Council for International
Exchange of Scholars to serve
as a reviewer for the 2013-14
Fulbright Specialist Program
Public/Global Health Peer
Review Committee. He also
was selected to be a reviewer
for
Academic Medicine
, which
is the journal published by
the Association of Ameri-
can Medical Colleges that
includes all U.S. allopathic
medical schools.
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OMS-III Carisa Lippmann
was appointed as a student
representative to the Ameri-
can Osteopathic Association
Bureau of State Government
Affairs and has been accepted
for a second year as a member
of The President’s 64, which
comprises an elite 64-member
body of NSU student leaders
whose purpose is to strengthen
the relationship between Nova
Southeastern University and
its community. She also was
chosen to represent the Ameri-
can Association of Colleges
of Osteopathic Medicine’s
Council of Osteopathic Student
Government Presidents as
its national public relations/
Web site representative. In
addition, Lippmann, along
with
OMS-II’s Soo Jin Lee
and
Kelly Thiber
and
OMS-III
Weber Wu
, received a $600
grant from the International
Street Symposium to present
their research efforts regarding
how to improve access for stu-
dents who work with homeless
populations in local clinics.
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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 Informat-
ics Program, was invited in
August to become a member
of the prestigious Improv-
ing Methods for Conducting
Patient-Centered Outcomes
Research merit review stand-
ing panel. Dr. Lou also served
as a scientific reviewer for the
Patient-Centered Outcome
Research Institute in 2012-13.
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Oneka B. Marriott, D.O.,
M.P.H.
, assistant professor of
pediatrics and public health,
was selected to join the 20
th
class
of fellows in the Ohio Universi-
ty Heritage College of Osteo-
pathic Medicine Health Policy
Fellowship for the 2013-14 year.
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Christina Ortiz
, a student
in the Master of Science in
Disaster and Emergency Pre-
paredness program, authored
an article entitled “EM Students
Must Learn How to Improve
Public Awareness and Use of
Technology” in the July issue
of the
International Association of
Emergency Managers Bulletin
.
