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in October. In November, she
also was invited to serve as a
peer reviewer for the Journal of
Applied Clinical Informatics.
11 OMS-III Anna M. Lowell
and OMS-IV Emily Young
presented their award-winning
poster entitled “The Youth Shel-
ter Medical Internship: Improv-
ing Adolescent Health Care in a
Community Shelter with Onsite
Medical Student Leadership”
at the American Academy of
Family Physicians Scientific
Assembly held October 17-20 in
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
12 Raymond Ownby, M.D.,
Ph.D., M.B.A. , professor and
chair of the Department of
Psychiatry and Behavioral
Medicine, along with Robin
J. Jacobs, Ph.D., M.S.W.,
presented two papers entitled
“Development of a New
Measure of Health Lit-
eracy: FLIGHT/VIDAS” and
“Knowledge, Abilities, and
Skills as Predictors of Health
Literacy” at the Workshop on
Interactive Systems in Health-
care held November 3-4 in
Chicago, Illinois. In addition,
Dr. Ownby recently coau-
thored a number of published
articles, including “Why
Is Health Literacy Related
to Health? An Exploration
Research Highlights - Faculty and Student Achievements
Among U.S. National As-
sessment of Adult Literacy
Participants 40 Years of Age
and Older” in Educational
Gerontology, “The Relations
Between Cognitive Status
and Medication Adherence in
Patients Treated for Memory
Disorders” in Ageing Research,
“Tailored Information and
Automated Reminding to
Improve Medication Adher-
ence in Spanish- and English-
Speaking Elders Treated for
Memory Impairment” in the
Clinical Gerontologist, and
“Thyroid Function and De-
pression in HIV-1 Infection” in
the World Journal of AIDS.
13 Yasmin Qureshi, D.P.T.,
M.H.S., M.P.S., assistant pro-
fessor of osteopathic principles
and practice, coauthored an
article entitled “Unilateral
Shoulder Bags: Can They Be
Worn in a Way to Reduce Pos-
tural Asymmetry?” that was
published in the October issue
of The Internet Journal of Allied
Health Sciences and Practice.
14 Naushira Pandya, M.D.,
CMD, professor and chair of
the Department of Geriatrics,
presented a lecture on “Dia-
betes in Long-Term Care” at
the Pennsylvania Medical
Directors Association Annual
Symposium held October 26-27
in Hershey, Pennsylvania. In
addition, she coauthored an
article entitled “Falls in Nurs-
ing Home Residents Receiving
Pharmacotherapy for Anemia”
that was published in the Au-
gust 29 issue of Clinical Interven-
tions in Aging and authored an
article entitled “Glucose Targets
in Older Adults with Diabe-
tes: An Evolving Landscape,”
in the November issue of the
Journal of the American Diabetes
Association. She also presented a
lecture on “Diabetes: A Patient-
Centered Approach” at the
Florida Osteopathic Medical
Association Mid-Year Seminar
held September 21-23 in Tampa
and had the results of a diabe-
tes skin water-content project
on which she collaborated
entitled “Skin Tissue Water
Assessed via Tissue Dielectric
Constant Measurements in
Persons with and Without Dia-
betes Mellitus” published in a
recent issue of Diabetes Technol-
ogy and Therapeutics.
15 Arif M. Rana, Ph.D.,
M.Ed. , assistant professor
of biomedical informatics,
presented a paper entitled
“Quality of Health Service for
the 911 Call Center Patients at
Newark, New Jersey, USA” at
the International Conference
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Have Sex with Men” in the
American Journal of Men’s Health
with Raymond Ownby, M.D.,
Ph.D., M.B.A.; “Correlates of
Loneliness in Older Gay and
Bisexual Men” in the Journal
of Gay & Lesbian Social Services;
“Perceptions of the Humanness
of Religious Leaders Among
University Students” in the
Journal of Spirituality and Mental
Health; and “Perceptions of
Religious Leaders’ Culpability
in the United States” in Mental
Health, Religion & Culture.
She also coauthored a paper
with Dr. Raymond Ownby
entitled “Cultural Adaptation
of a Computerized Tailored
Health Literacy Intervention
to Improve HIV Medication
Adherence in HIV+ Spanish-
Language Dominant Hispan-
ics,” which was presented at
the Health Literacy Annual Re-
search Conference held October
22-23 in Bethesda, Maryland.
10 Jennie Q. Lou, M.D.,
M.Sc., professor of biomedi-
cal informatics, public health,
and internal medicine and
director of the biomedical
informatics program, was
selected to serve as a reviewer
for the Health Resources and
Services Administration’s
Preventative Medicine and
Public Health Training Grant