CHCS - Perspectives Winter/Spring 2016

18 • NOVA SOUTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY New Faculty Member Joins CHCS BY LISA FARACH, M.S., R.N., RRT, CHAIR K. Todd King, Ph.D., M.A., RRT, CPFT, CHES, who recently joined the Respiratory Therapy Program, is an Atlanta, Georgia, native who lived in Pennsylva- nia for about 10 years. Prior to joining the CHCS faculty, he worked at Johns Hopkins Bayview Medical Center in Baltimore, Maryland, as the coordinator of respiratory therapy education and advanced cardiac life support. In addition to working within the respiratory therapy department, he also participated in hospital-wide and interdepartmental educational processes that were developed and implemented to train the staff members and benefit the patients served at Bayview. King also taught at Towson University in Baltimore, Maryland, for the Department of Health Sciences and at Harrisburg Area Community College’s York Campus. During his extensive respiratory therapy career, King has worked in some of the nation’s top trauma facilities. Prior to entering graduate school, he worked as a traveling respiratory therapist in more than 10 different states and protectorates. He earned his M.A. and Ph.D. degrees from the University of Alabama—Birmingham School of Education. ■ K. Todd King, Ph.D., M.A., RRT, CPFT, CHES, joined NSU’s Respiratory Therapy Program in the Department of Cardiopulmonary Sciences. Cardiopulmonary Sciences PALM BEACH