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13 COM Outlook . Winter 2013
Research Highlights - Faculty and Student Achievements
on Global Trends in Biomedi-
cal Informatics hosted by the
University of Medicine and
Dentistry of New Jersey on
November 15 in Newark,
New Jersey. He also was
selected to become a peer
reviewer for the Journal of
Invitation Theory and Practice.
16 Cecilia Rokusek, Ed.D.,
R.D., professor of family
medicine and public health
and assistant dean of educa-
tion, planning, and research,
joined other faculty members
from NSU’s Health Professions
Division to present a national
training session to the Commis-
sion on Accreditation of Allied
Health Education Programs.
The session, entitled “Inter-
professional Faculty Devel-
opment: Effective Strategies
and Lessons Learned,” was
offered in October in Atlanta,
Georgia. She also presented a
national teleconference entitled
“Integrating All-Hazards
Preparedness into the Health
Professions Curriculum” for
the North Carolina Association
of Medical Assistant Educators
meeting for the medical assis-
tant program held at Miller-
Motte College in Tennessee on
October 19. In addition, she
was recognized by the Ameri-
can Osteopathic Association
for the knowledge, skills, and
time she volunteered to review
the grants, fellowships, and/or
abstracts that were assigned in
2012 for the American Osteo-
pathic Association Council on
Research and the Division of
Research Development. Dr.
Rokusek’s commitment helped
many, including OMS-IV Emily
Young , who was a Student Os-
teopathic Medical Association
Research Application awardee
for her poster entitled “The
Reproductive Health Seminar
Program: Evaluating its Impact
on Educators and the Youth
They Serve.” Dr. Rokusek also
served as a visiting professor
at the University of Zilina in
Slovakia in October, where she
delivered four lectures during
her weeklong stay. During her
visit to Slovakia, Dr. Rokusek
met with the vice dean of the
College of Medicine at Come-
nius University in Bratislava
to finalize plans to implement
the NSU-COM online M.P.H.
Program. The inaugural class
will begin in the fall of 2013.
17 Janet Roseman, Ph.D.,
assistant professor of medical
education, authored an article
entitled “Unlikely Compan-
ions: Grief, Dance, and Mysti-
cism” that was published in the
August issue of the Journal of
Dance and Somatic Practices .
18 Nadine Chipon Scho-
epp, D.O., assistant professor
of family medicine, made
opening remarks, introduced
NSU-COM’s Project HOPE
(Homelessness in Osteopathic
Predoctoral Education), and
presented a workshop on
“STD Prevention, Screen-
ing, and Treatment” at the
National Health Care for the
Homeless Regional Training
Conference held November
1-2 in Orlando, Florida.
19 Elliot Sklar, Ph.D., as-
sistant professor of family
medicine and public health
and Project HOPE project man-
ager, along with Dr. Cecilia
Rokusek, presented the topic
“Body Image: A Matter of Im-
portance to Male Health” dur-
ing the Men’s Health Caucus
at the American Public Health
Association’s 140th Annual
Meeting and Exposition held
October 27-31 in San Francisco,
California. As a result of his
talk, Dr. Sklar was invited to
submit a manuscript on “The
Issue of Men’s Body Image and
Self-Concept” to the American
Journal of Lifestyle Medicine
in the summer of 2013.
20 Sweta Tewary, Ph.D.,
M.S.W., assistant professor of
geriatrics and evidence-based
practice project coordinator,
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presented a poster coauthored
with Dr. Naushira Pandya
and Dr. Nicole Cook entitled
“Assessing the Morbidity of
Foot Problems Among Nursing
Home Patients with Diabetes”
at the Florida Medical Directors
Association annual conference
in Orlando in October. Follow-
ing the presentation, the afore-
mentioned poster received an
award of merit in the research
study category. Dr. Tewary
also presented a research
poster entitled “Marital Quality
and Self-Efficacy: Influence on
Disease Management Among
Individuals with Rheumatoid
Arthritis” at the Gerontological
Society of America’s 65th An-
nual Scientific Meeting in San
Diego, California, held Novem-
ber 14-18.
21 OMS-IV Emily Young
coauthored an article entitled
“Unintended Consequences:
Abortion Training in the
Years After Roe v. Wade” that
was published in the January
2013 issue of the American
Journal of Public Health.
In November, Dr. Arif M.
Rana, Raed A. AlHazme, a
student in theMaster of Science
in Biomedical Informatics
program, and Michael De
Lucca, M.H.M., president and
chief executive officer of the Broward Regional Health Planning Council,
led a public health seminar discussion entitled “Using Business Intelligence
Systems in Health Care: Implementation Project at Broward Regional
Health Planning Council” on November 6. Their presentation was based
on the business intelligence solution they developed and implemented to
disseminate health care data and increase connectivity between hospital
administrators and decision makers in Broward County. Pictured (above
from left) are Raed AlHazme, Michael De Lucca, and Dr. Rana.