CHCS Perspectives Winter 2014

PERSPECTIVES • WINTER 2014 – Page 47 Heather Hettrick, Ph.D., PT, CWS, CLT , who recently joined the NSU faculty as an associate professor, received her Master of Physical Therapy from Chapman University and her Ph.D. in Physical Therapy from Nova Southeastern Uni- versity in 2003. As a physical therapist, her clinical specialties include wound, burn, and lymphedema management. She is dual certified as a wound specialist and a manual lymph ther- apist and is nationally recognized as an integumentary dys- function specialist. Prior to Dr. Hettrick joining NSU, she was vice president of academic affairs and education for Gordian Medical, Inc., also known as American Medical Technologies. She also served as the chief creative officer for ACES (Applied Computer Educa- tion Services, Inc.)—an educational company that created di- dactic and interactive learning modules in a unique virtual environment through advances in technology. Dr. Hettrick also spent six years as a clinical assistant profes- sor in New York University’s Department of Physical Therapy and three years as an adjunct professor at Drexel University. Additionally, she was the program coordinator for Burn Reha- bilitation Research at the William Randolph Hearst Burn Cen- ter at NY Presbyterian Hospital and a master clinician at the Hospital for Joint Diseases at the Diabetic Foot and Ankle Cen- ter. She is a past president of the American Board of Wound Management and currently on the board of the Association for the Advancement of Wound Care (AAWC). Most recently, Dr. Hettrick has become involved in an initia- tive in Haiti to address the pervasive problem of lymphatic fi- lariasis. She will serve as the clinic director at Hospital St. Croix in Leogane, providing oversight and management while track- ing outcomes. In addition, she will be traveling to various places around the world providing wound and lymphedema education through the AAWC Global Alliance and Health Volunteers Overseas. She currently serves as chair of the U.S. Volun- teerism Task Force through the AAWC, identifying resource- poor areas in the United States that would benefit from wound education and training. Those initial efforts have led to collab- oration with the Indian Health Service. Although she will be actively engaged in teaching a variety of content in the NSU Physical Therapy curriculum, she will primarily focus on integument content. Suzana Simoes, D.P.T., PT , who graduated with a degree in physical therapy from a university in Brazil in 1993, moved to the United States in 1994 to work for the University of Miami, where she specialized in the treatment of neurological disorders. In 1998, she completed a postgraduate course in pro- prioceptive neuromuscular facilitation at Kaiser Hospital in Vallejo, California, before acquiring her master’s degree in Ex- ercise Physiology at the University of Miami in 2003 and Doc- tor of Physical Therapy degree at NSU in 2006. The biofeedback program Dr. Simoes worked with at the University of Miami eventually relocated to Miami Jewish Health Systems (MJHS), allowing her to manage the program and provide physical therapy for patients with neurological dis- orders from the United States and abroad. She also worked ex- tensively with patients who had spinal-cord injuries, traumatic brain injuries, cerebrovascular accidents, and cerebral palsy. Based on her success with the program, she was hired by the MJHS rehabilitation department to continue to provide neu- rologic rehabilitation to the patients receiving biofeedback. In 2006, Dr. Simoes left the rehabilitation department to be the leading therapist at the Program for All-Inclusive Care for the Elderly (PACE), where she worked until she came to NSU to work as a full-time faculty member. Prior to becoming a full- time NSU faculty member, she served as an adjunct faculty member beginning in 2004. While working at PACE, she developed a fall prevention pro- gram. She has also served as a consultant for the Miami Jewish Home’s hospice program at Douglas Gardens and for Season’s Hospice. Dr. Simoes will be actively teaching in the PT Depart- ment’s neuro courses as well as in geriatrics. Donald K. Shaw, Ph.D., D.Min., PT, FAACVPR , is now a full-time professor in the Physical Therapy Department. Prior to joining the NSU faculty, Dr. Shaw was a professor of physical therapy at Midwestern University. In 2002, he joined the phys- ical therapy faculty at Texas State University, where he devel- oped the Telehealth Program. His academic career began at East Carolina University’s Physical Therapy Department, where he served as associate professor. Clinically, he served as director of cardiac rehabilitation at Saint Thomas Hospital in Nashville, Tennessee, and as an adjunct assistant professor at Vanderbilt University. Dr. Shaw received his Bachelor and Master of Science de- grees in Physical Education from George Williams College in Chicago, Illinois, and his doctorate in Exercise Physiology from Kent State University in Kent, Ohio. He also received his Bach- elor of Science degree in Physical Therapy from Texas State University in San Marcos, Texas. Most recently, he received his D.Min. degree in Christian Apologetics from the Southern Evangelical Seminary in Matthews, North Carolina. In addition to his aforementioned credentials, Dr. Shaw is a Fellow and former national board member of the American Association of Cardiovascular and Pulmonary Rehabilitation. He has lectured and presented research in Argentina, Scot- land, Ireland, China, the Dominican Republic, Puerto Rico, and throughout the United States. Additionally, his published work has appeared widely in medical journals such as the Journal of Cardiopulmonary Rehabilitation , Respiratory Care , Medicine & Science in Sports & Exercise , Cardiopulmonary Physical Therapy Journal , Heart and Lung , Journal of Allied Health , and the American Journal of Cardiology . In his new role at NSU, Dr. Shaw will be primarily responsi- ble for cardiopulmonary content, which is threaded throughout the curriculum. PT Department Welcomes New Faculty Members Compiled by Debra F. Stern, D.P.T., D.B.A., PT, Associate Professor and Director of Clinical Education