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behavioral medicine, biomedical
informatics, and public health and
director of international medicine,
received her M.S. in Biomedical
Informatics degree in August.
She also coauthored a paper with
Jennie Lou, M.D., M.Sc.
,
entitled “A Systematic Review of
eHealth Interventions to Improve
Health Literacy for Better Health
Outcomes,” which was published
in the
Health Informatics Journal
.
In addition, Dr. Jacobs served as a
scientist reviewer for the Patient-
Centered Outcomes Research
Institute on August 11-12 in
Washington, D.C.
Nancy Klimas, M.D.
, chair
of the Department of Clinical
Immunology and director of
the Institute for Neuro-Immune
Medicine (INIM), and
Gordon
Broderick, Ph.D.
, director of
the INIM Clinical Systems Biology
Group and a professor at NSU’s
Center for Psychological Studies
and College of Pharmacy, coau-
thored an article entitled “Theory-
Driven Models for Correcting
‘Fight or Flight’ Imbalance in Gulf
War Illness” that is highlighted on
the U.S. Department of Defense’s
Congressionally Directed Medical
Research Programs Web site.
OMS-III Daniel F. Leiva
coauthored the American College
of Preventive Medicine’s position
statement entitled “Preventing
Texting While Driving: A State-
ment of the American College of
Preventive Medicine” that was
published in the November 2014
issue of the
American Journal of
Preventive Medicine
.
Oneka B. Marriott, D.O.,
M.P.H., FACOP, FAAP
, as-
sistant professor of pediatrics and
public health and assistant director
of medical education for the NSU-
COM/Palm Beach County Health
Department Preventive Medicine
Residency Program, received her
certificate of completion for the
NYIT-COM/AOA Health Policy
Fellowship in September. In addi-
tion, she was awarded the second-
place prize for her health policy
poster entitled “Foreign Medical
Schools: A Good Investment or
Bad Medicine for Taxpayers” that
was presented at OMED 2014,
which was held October 25-29 in
Seattle, Washington.
Doris Newman, D.O., FAAO
,
associate professor of osteo-
pathic principles and practice
and director of the Department
of Rural and Urban Underserved
Medicine, was nominated by
Robert Juhasz, D.O., president
of the American Osteopathic
Association (AOA), to serve on
the Nominating Task Force for the
Osteopathic Principles under the
Accreditation Council for Gradu-
ate Medical Education in the new
single accreditation system. She
also was an invited lecturer at
the AOA’s Osteopathic Medical
Education conference (OMED)
held October 25-29 in Seattle,
Washington, for the joint lecture
series of the American Academy
of Osteopathy and the American
College of Pediatricians. In July,
she was selected to serve as
alternate delegate to the American
Osteopathic Association’s House
of Delegates, held July 15-20 in
Chicago, Illinois, for the American
Academy of Osteopathy.
Yasmin Qureshi, D.P.T.,
M.H.S., M.P.T.
, associate pro-
fessor of osteopathic principles
and practice,
Andrew Kusien-
ski, D.O.
, assistant professor
of osteopathic principles and
practice and chair of the Depart-
ment of Sports Medicine, and
OMS-IV Julienne L. Bemski
coauthored an article entitled
“Effects of Somatic Dysfunction
on Leg Length and Weight Bear-
ing” that was published in the
August issue of the
Journal of the
American Osteopathic Associa-
tion
. Dr. Kusienski also served
as a volunteer physician for the
United States Olympic Com-
mittee at its training facility in
Colorado Springs, Colorado, from
July 21 to August 5.
Arif M. Rana, Ph.D., Ed.S.,
M.S.
, assistant professor of bio-
medical informatics and medical
education and director of faculty
development, coauthored a peer-
reviewed paper entitled “Develop-
ment and Implementation of a
Clinical and Business Intelligence
System for the Florida Health Data
Warehouse” that was published
in the October issue of the
Online
Journal of Public Health Informat-
ics
. He coauthored the article with
Raed H. AlHazme, M.S.B.I.
(‘12) and
Michael De Lucca,
M.H.M.
, a public health clinical
faculty member who serves as
president and chief executive offi-
cer of the Broward Regional Health
Planning Council. On August 9,
Dr. Rana received the Meritori-
ous Service Award from Interna-
tional Health Initiatives, which is
a nonprofit organization whose
mission is to promote, develop,
and support health promotion and
disease prevention initiatives for
underserved populations domesti-
cally and internationally.
OMS-II Kristi Ray
served as a
platform presenter during Colum-
bia University’s teleconference on
International Sustainable Develop-
ment, where she presented her
research on sustainable agriculture
and malnutrition indicators that
was conducted in Bali, Indonesia,
this past summer. Her project,
entitled “United Nations Millen-
nium Goal: Health for All,” was
presented to more than 100 United
Nations representatives that par-
ticipated in the teleconference. She
also received first-place honors in
the Best Care Practices in the Geri-
atrics Continuum conference held
October 16-19 in Lake Buena Vista,
Florida, for her coauthored poster
entitled “Primary Aldosteron-
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