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Delia Celestine, Ed.D.,
M.P.H.
, assistant professor of
public health and director of
graduate medical education,
presented a poster on April 18
at the National Rural Health
Association’s 35
th
Annual Con-
ference in Denver, Colorado.
Her poster was entitled “Nur-
turing Passion: A Grounded
Theory of D.O. Graduates’
Perceptions Regarding Impact
of Clinical Rotations in Rural
and Underserved Areas on
Career Choices.”
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Hilda De Gaetano, D.O.,
FAAP, FACOP
, associate
professor of pediatrics and as-
sistant dean of preclinical edu-
cation, presented a lecture on
“Current Recommendations
for Pediatric Immunizations”
at the Monroe Osteopathic
Medical Association’s 29
th
Annual Osteopathic Medical
Conference held May 30-June
3 in Key Largo, Florida.
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Robert Hasty, D.O., FACOI
,
assistant professor of internal
medicine and program director
of the Palmetto General Hospi-
tal Internal Medicine Residen-
cy Program, presented lectures
on “Drugs for Bugs: Novel An-
tibiotics for Infections” and “C
Diff Infections” at the Monroe
Osteopathic Medical Associa-
tion’s 29
th
Annual Osteopathic
Medical Conference held
May 30-June 3 in Key Largo,
Florida. He also was quoted
in an article entitled “If You
Don’t Have an iPad, Go to the
Medical Library and Borrow
One” that was published in
April on
iMedicalApps.com
.
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T. Lucas Hollar, Ph.D.
,
assistant professor of public
health, had a book chapter on
the topic “Moving Clinic- and
Community-Based Practice
into Policy to Address Child
Healthy Weight (and Vice-
Versa)” published in
A Compre-
hensive Overview of Pediatric
Metabolic Syndrome and Related
Health Consequences
. He also
made an oral presentation on
“Competing Narratives Within
Health Policy: Professional,
Organizational, and Political
Borders’ Effects on Identify-
ing and Responding to Issues
of Public Health” at the 25
th
Annual Meeting of the Public
Administration Theory Net-
work held May 17-20 in South
Padre Island, Texas. During
the National Health Promotion
Summit held April 10-11 in
Washington, D.C., Dr. Hol-
lar presented his coauthored
poster on “A Comparison of
Citizens’ Perceptions of Their
Countries’ Health Insurance
Research Highlights -
Faculty and Student Achievements
Systems: Canada, France, the
United Kingdom, and the
United States of America,”
which was coauthored with
Cyril Blavo, D.O., M.P.H.
and
T.M.
, and
Rushita Shaw,
M.P.H., M.S.
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Robin J. Jacobs, Ph.D.,
M.S.W.
, assistant professor
of psychiatry and behavioral
medicine, preventive medicine,
and biomedical informatics,
made a number of solo and
coauthored poster presenta-
tions over the past several
months. As a solo author, Dr.
Jacobs presented her research
on “Sexual Risk Behaviors and
HIV Testing in Racial/Ethnic
Minority MSM Aged 40 and
Older” and “HIV Sexual Risk
and Protective Behaviors in
Lesbians and Bisexual Black
Women in the United States”
on May 24 at the 24
th
Annual
National Conference on Social
Work and HIV/AIDS in Mi-
ami, Florida. In addition, she
presented a poster on “Erec-
tion Difficulties, Disclosure,
and Risk for Unprotected Sex
in HIV-Negative Midlife and
Older MSM” on March 13 at
the National STD Prevention
Conference in Minneapolis,
Minnesota. She also presented
four coauthored posters on
June 4 at the Seventh Inter-
national Conference on HIV
Treatment and Prevention
Adherence in Miami, Florida,
on the following topics:
“Adaptation of a Computerized
Tailored Information Intervention
to Improve Health Literacy and
Adherence in Spanish-Dominant
Hispanics Living with HIV”
with
coauthors
Raymond Ownby,
M.D., Ph.D., M.B.A.
, Joshua
Caballero, Pharm.D., BCPP,
Amarilis Acevedo, Ph.D., and
OMS-III Cristy Avila
“A Computerized Tailored Infor-
mation Intervention to Improve
Health Literacy and Adherence
in Persons with HIV Infection”
with
Dr. Ownby
, Dr. Caballero,
and Dr. Acevedo
“Sleep Quality Is Related to
Medication Adherence in Persons
Treated for HIV Infection”
with
Dr. Ownby
, Dr. Caballero, and
Dr. Acevedo
“Development and Validation of
a Brief Computer-Administered
HIV-Related Health Literacy Scale
(HIV-HL)”
with
Dr. Ownby
,
Patrick Hardigan, Ph.D., Dr.
Caballero, and Dr. Acevedo
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OMS-III Anna Lowell
(pic-
tured above)
and
OMS-IV Emily
Young, M.A.T., M.P.H.
, had
their research poster entitled
“The Youth Shelter Medical
Internship: Improving Adoles-
cent Health Care in a Com-
munity Shelter with Onsite
Medical Student Leadership”
accepted for presentation at the
American Academy of Family
Physicians’ (AAFP) National
Conference of Family Medi-
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