that was presented at the annual
interprofessional conference held
October 11-12 at Thomas Jef-
ferson University in Philadelphia,
Pennsylvania. Dr. Rokusek also
presented a weeklong program
focused on international collabo-
ration at Comenius University
School of Medicine in Bratislava,
Slovakia, on July 1-8. In addition,
she was appointed to the Health
Resources and Services Adminis-
tration Alzheimer’s Disease and
Related Dementia Uniform Cur-
riculum Advisory Panel.
OMS-II Julia Skettini
re-
ceived a third-place award for her
research project entitled “Long-
Term Evaluation of Standing
Systolic Blood Pressure Using
24-Hour Ambulatory Blood
Pressure Monitoring in Patients
with Parkinson’s Disease and
Symptomatic Neurogenic Ortho-
static Hypotension Treated with
Droxidopa.” She presented her
research at the Best Care Prac-
tices in the Geriatrics Continuum
conference held October 16-19 in
Lake Buena Vista, Florida.
Peter Sprague, D.P.T.,
PT, OSC
, assistant professor
of osteopathic principles and
practice in the Department of
Sports Medicine, authored an
article entitled “The Relation-
ship Between Glenohumeral Joint
Rotational Range of Motion and
the Functional Movement Screen
Shoulder Mobility Test” that was
ism in a Patient with Refractory
Hypertension.” Ray coauthored
the project with
PGY-2 Sushil
Deshmukh, D.O.
,
Elizabeth
Hames, D.O.
, and
Naushira
Pandya, M.D., CMD, FACP
.
In addition, Ray and
OMS-II
Caitlin Leclair
presented at
the OMED-BIOM international
research seminar held in Seattle,
Washington, at the end of Octo-
ber on the topic “Sustainable De-
velopment: Nutrition and Health
Care in a Developing World.”
Janet Roseman, Ph.D.,
R-DMT
, assistant professor of
medical education, was named a
Humanistic Clinician by the
Jour-
nal of Pain and Symptom Manage-
ment
and was invited to publish
her research on the pilot program
for the Sidney Project in Spirituality
and Medicine and Compassion-
ate Care™. In addition, her article
entitled “Can We Talk? Can We
Give Voice to the Taboo Topics
That Are Usually Not Embraced
in Residency Medical Education?”
appeared in the September edition
of the peer-reviewed journal.
Cecilia Rokusek, Ed.D.,
R.D.
, assistant dean for educa-
tion, planning, and research,
coauthored a paper entitled
“Creating an Ongoing Sustain-
able Culture of Interprofessional
Education and Practice” with
Kamilah B. Thomas-Pur-
cell, Ph.D., M.P.H., CHES
,
and
Stacey Pinnock, M.S.W.
,
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published in the October issue of
the
International Journal of Sports
Physical Therapy
. He also coau-
thored a study entitled “Changes
in Functional Movement Screen
Scores Over a Season in Col-
legiate Soccer and Volleyball
Athletes” that was published
this fall in the
Journal of Strength
and Conditioning Research
. In
addition, Dr. Sprague was invited
to serve as a peer reviewer for the
journal
Physical Therapy in Sport.
Sweta Tewary, Ph.D.,
M.S.W.
, clinical assistant profes-
sor and evidence-based practice
project director, coauthored a book
chapter entitled “Research in Ad-
vance Dementia: Lessons Learned
from the Community” that was
Roseman
Rokusek
Skettini
Sprague
Tewary
Thomas-Purcell
published in the book
Dementia:
Prevalence, Risk Factors, and
Management Strategies
in August
2014. Additional coauthors were
Nicole Cook, Ph.D., M.P.A.
,
Naushira Pandya, M.D.,
CMD, FACP
, and
Cecilia
Rokusek, Ed.D., R.D.
Kamilah B. Thomas-Pur-
cell, Ph.D., M.P.H., CHES
,
assistant professor of public
health and director of interprofes-
sional primary care education,
discussed the topic “Evaluation of
Pathways: An HIV Risk Reduction
Educational Program for MSM in
Grenada, West Indies” at AIDS
2014—the 20
th
International Con-
ference on HIV/AIDS held July
21-25 in Melbourne, Australia.
Slovakian Symbiosis
During the past several months, three medical students from
Slovakia studied at NSU-COM to enhance their learning experiences.
Lucia Kukulova and Zuzana Malisova from Comenius University in
Bratislava did a one-month rotation in the NSU-COM clinics, while
Jana Rusinkova, a Ph.D. student from the University of Zilina in Slo-
vakia, spent five months conducting research for her dissertation that
examines e-learning in Slovakia and the United States.
Pictured (above
from left) are Jana Rusinkova, Lucia Kukulova, Dr. Anthony Silvagni,
Zuzana Malisova, Dr. Cecilia Rokusek, and Dr. Leonard Levy.
