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Peter Sprague, D.P.T.,
PT, OSC
, assistant professor
of osteopathic principles and
practice in the Department of
Sports Medicine, authored a
case report entitled “Function-
al Movement Pattern Train-
ing Improves Mechanics in a
Female Runner with External
Snapping Hip Syndrome,”
which was published in the
January issue of the
Inter-
national Journal of Athletic
Therapies and Training
.
Melissa Tabor, D.O.
,
assistant professor of sports
medicine and NSU team
physician, was featured on
the American Osteopathic
Association’s Web site in
October in a news release en-
titled “Ski Bunnies and Hikers
Beware.” The press informa-
tion highlighted the lecture
she presented on altitude-
related illness for the Ameri-
can College of Osteopathic
Family Physicians at the 119
th
Annual Osteopathic Medi-
cal Conference and Exposi-
tion held October 25-29 in
Seattle, Washington. During
the symposium, Dr. Tabor
also presented a lecture on
environmental illness for the
American Osteopathic Acad-
emy of Sports Medicine.
OMS-IV Miguel Villa-
corta
was awarded a Health
Professions Division research
grant for his Master of Pub-
lic Health project entitled
“Understanding Skin Cancer
Screening Behaviors, Tanning
Attitudes, and Sun Protective
Measures in a General Sample
Population Using Standardized
Skin Survey Items.”
OMS-I Aadil Vora
was
the recipient of a $500 New
Member Scholarship from the
Student Osteopathic Medical
Association (SOMA) Founda-
tion. Vora, who was one of
five students selected nation-
wide to receive the award,
earned the scholarship based
on an essay he was required to
write on the topic “Vision of
Osteopathic Medicine.”
Elaine M. Wallace,
D.O., M.S., M.S., M.S.
,
NSU-COM dean, who cur-
rently has a 4.0 average in
her Ed.D. in Organizational
Leadership degree program, is
a member of the Golden Key
International Honour Society—
the world’s premier collegiate
honor society that recognizes
those in the top 15 percent
of their class who are diligent
and committed to excellence
and scholastic achievement.
OMS-IV Michael Young
served as the first author of
a coauthored manuscript
on “The Role of Adjuvant
Radiotherapy Following Gross
Total Resection of Atypical
Meningiomas” that is being
published in an upcoming is-
sue of
World Neurosurgery
.
RESEARCH/SCHOLARY ACTIVITY - Faculty and Student Achievements
Sprague
Tabor
Villacorta
Vora
Wallace
Young
Faculty Members’ Research
Efforts Recognized at NSU
External Funding Reception
More than 120 NSU facul-
ty members were honored
at the NSU External Fund-
ing Recognition Reception
at Grand Oaks Golf Club
on October 21, which was
hosted by Ralph V. Rogers,
Jr., Ph.D., NSU’s executive
vice president for academ-
ic affairs and provost, and
Gary S. Margules, Sc.D.,
NSU vice president for research and technology transfer.
The event recognizes the extraordinary efforts of NSU fac-
ulty members who received external grant funding during
the previous fiscal year, which totaled over $68 million.
Thanks to the efforts of the following 30 NSU-COM-affiliated
individuals, ample amounts of external funding have been
received to sustain, enhance, or create various programs
and projects:
Cyril Blavo, D.O., M.S., M.P.H. and T.M., Gordon Broderick,
Ph.D., Nicole Cook, Ph.D., Kelley L. Davis, Ph.D., Joseph
De Gaetano, D.O., M.S.Ed, Michelle Doldren, Ed.D., Marti
Echols, Ph.D., M. Isabel Fernandez, Ph.D., Mary Ann Fletch-
er, Ph.D., Stephen G. Grant, Ph.D., T. Lucas Hollar, Ph.D.,
Kenneth Johnson, D.O., Nancy G. Klimas, M.D., Leonard
Levy, D.P.M., M.P.H., Jennie Q. Lou, M.D., M.Sc., Linda
Maurice, M.A., Mariana Morris, Ph.D., Deborah Mulligan,
M.D., Raymond Ownby M.D., Ph.D., M.B.A., Naushira Pan-
dya, M.D., CMD, Arif M. Rana, Ph.D., Ed.S., Cecilia Rokusek,
Ed.D., R.D., Janet Roseman, Ph.D., Irina Rozenfeld, M.S.N.,
Gustavo Saldias, M.P.H., Daniel Shaw, Ph.D., Elliot M. Sklar,
Ph.D., Jacqueline Thomas, D.O., Kamilah B. Thomas-Pur-
cell, Ph.D., Steven Zucker, D.M.D.
Dr. Ralph Rogers (left) presents Dr.
Lucas Hollar with his plaque.
