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COM Outlook . Summer 2012
Research Highlights -
Faculty and Student Achievements
cine Residents and Medical
Students to be held July 26-28
in Kansas City, Missouri. The
poster contest is ultra-compet-
itive, which is evidenced by
the fact that only 16 posters
were accepted for presenta-
tion. Lowell also received an
AAFP $600 First-Time Student
Attendee Scholarship.
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OMS-III Jaclynn Moskow
presented a poster on March
17 entitled “Fasting Blood
Glucose May Predict Depres-
sion in Nondiabetics” at the
American Association for
Geriatric Psychiatry 2012 An-
nual Meeting. She was also
interviewed about the project
for an article that appeared in
the March 22 issue of
Med-
scape Medical News
.
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OMS-I David Packer
had his coauthored research
article entitled “H-NS
Regulation of IraD and IraM
Antiadaptors for Control of
RpoS Degradation” published
in the May 2012 issue of the
Journal of Bacteriology
.
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Naushira Pandya, M.D.,
CMD
, professor and chair of
the Department of Geriat-
rics, served as coauthor of
two posters on May 3 at the
American Geriatrics Society
Annual Scientific Meeting held
in Seattle, Washington: “A
Retrospective Study of Basal
Insulin Analogs in Elderly
Nursing Home Residents with
Type 2 Diabetes” and “Too
Many Finger Sticks for Noth-
ing? A Study of Sliding Scale
Insulin Use Among Elderly
Nursing Home Residents with
Type 2 Diabetes.”
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Cecilia Rokusek, Ed.D.,
R.D.
, professor of family medi-
cine and public health and
executive director of educa-
tion, planning, and research,
made several poster presen-
tations at the Public Health
Preparedness National Summit
in Anaheim, California, held
February 21-24.
She served as the sole author
of “An Examination of Elder
Resilience Post Disaster” and
coauthored “Implementing an
Integrated and Ongoing Disas-
ter Preparedness Training Pro-
gram for Community Health
Centers in Florida” with
Kristi
Messer, M.P.H., M.S.W.
, assis-
tant professor of public health
and assistant project manager
for the Institute for Disaster
and Emergency Preparedness.
In addition, she discussed
“Health Care Reform and
Impact on the Geriatric
Population” at the NSU-COM
Fifth Annual Interprofessional
Geriatrics Symposium held
March 2-3 on the NSU cam-
pus in Davie and presented a
four-hour training program
for the Florida Association of
Community Health Centers at
the Heart of Florida Commu-
nity Health Center in Miami
on February 29. She also
was named a member of the
Interprofessional Education
Collaborative-MedEdPORTAL
Advisory Committee, where
she will represent the Ameri-
can Association of Colleges of
Osteopathic Medicine.
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Elliot M. Sklar, Ph.D.
,
assistant professor of family
medicine and public health
and project manager of the
Homelessness in Osteopathic
Predoctoral Education proj-
ect, made several presenta-
tions at the American Society
on Aging Annual Conference
held March 28-April 1 in
Washington, D.C. Included
was an oral presentation on
“The Caregiver Teleconnec-
tion” and a poster presen-
tation entitled “Geriatric
Medical Education: The Ideal
Model for Interprofessional
Education” coauthored with
Dr. Cecilia Rokusek.
He also discussed “Screening
and Risk Assessment: A Deci-
sional Aid for Elder Abuse” at
the NSU-COM Fifth Annual
Interprofessional Geriatrics
Symposium held March 2-3
on the NSU campus. On
May 17, Dr. Sklar and
Kristi
Messer
presented their poster
entitled “Advancing Primary
Care Training in HCH” at the
National Health Care for the
Homeless Annual Conference
and Policy Symposium in
Kansas City, Missouri.
In addition, he had his research
project entitled “Screening and
Intervention Decisional Aid
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for Elder Abuse” accepted as
a poster presentation at the In-
ternational Federation on Age-
ing’s 11
th
Global Conference on
Ageing held May 28-June 1 in
Prague, Czech Republic.
Recent Grant
Proposals
“Community Initiative
for Primary Care Ac-
cess in Rural Environ-
ments (CIPCARE)”
Submitted
by
Cecilia Rokusek,
Ed.D., R.D.
, to the
Centers for
Medicare and Medicaid Services
Requested Amount
$8.6 million
Project Goal
The Community Initiative for
P r ima r y Ca r e Ac ces s i n
Rural Environments—Project
CIPCARE—is a new community-
based health care delivery model
that integrates interprofessional
and team-based coordinated care
that is provided to Medicaid and
CHIP recipients in Glades and
Hendry counties, which are two
of Florida’s poorest rural counties.
“Care and Reform for
Economic Stability
(CARES) – A CMS In-
novations Project”
Submitted
by
Elliot Sklar,
Ph.D.
, to the
Centers for
Medicare and Medicaid Services
Requested Amount
$26.2 million
Project Goal
Project CARES is a health care
delivery model for Medicare and
Medicare/Medicaid recipients in
two of Florida’s largest counties
designed around a new model
of community-based, culturally
appropr iate care prov ided
primarily in the home that is
focused on several areas,
including interprofessional care
coordinat ion and increased
access to care within the context
of the medical home.