35
COM Outlook . Spring 2015
Low-Income Seniors in South
Florida” in the
Journal of
Cross-Cultural Gerontology
.
Robin J. Jacobs, Ph.D.,
M.S.W., M.S.
, associate pro-
fessor of biomedical informat-
ics, psychiatry and behavioral
medicine, and public health
and director of international
medicine, presented “Training
Osteopathic Students to Be
Physician-Scientists Through
Meaningful Student Involve-
ment” at the Health Professions
Educational Research Sympo-
sium held January 24 at NSU.
Dr. Jacobs also coauthored an
article entitled “Identification
of Musculoskeletal Disorders
in Medically Underserved
Regions of South America and
Vietnam” in the January issue
of the
Journal of the American
Osteopathic Association
with
Arif M. Rana, Ph.D.,
Ed.S., M.S.
, and
Elaine
M. Wallace, D.O., M.S.,
M.S., M.S.
In addition, she
coauthored an article with
Raymond Ownby, M.D.,
Ph.D., M.B.A.
, entitled
“Development of a Culturally
and Linguistically Appropriate
Computer-Based Health Lit-
eracy Intervention for Spanish-
Dominant Hispanics Living
with HIV” that appeared in the
November 2014 issue of
BMC
Medical Informatics and Deci-
sion Making
.
OMS-II Adrienne Law
coauthored an article entitled
“A Survey of Anesthesiologists’
Role, Trust in Anesthesiolo-
gists, and Knowledge and Fears
About Anesthesia Among Pre-
dominantly Hispanic Patients
from an Inner-City Preopera-
tive Clinic” that was published
in the February issue of the
Journal of Clinical Anesthesia
.
Leonard Levy, D.P.M.,
M.P.H.
, associate dean
of research and innovation,
was invited by the Council
for International Exchange
of Scholars to continue as
a reviewer for the 2014-15
Fulbright Specialist Program
Public/Global Health Peer
Review Committee.
Doris Newman, D.O.,
FAAO
, associate profes-
sor of osteopathic principles
and practice and executive
director of clinical education,
was inducted as president of
the American Academy of
Osteopathy at the annual con-
vocation banquet held March
14 in Louisville, Kentucky.
In addition, she attended the
Comprehensive Osteopathic
Medical Achievement Test
item-writing workshop held
February 19-20 in Chicago,
Illinois. Dr. Newman also
presented a lecture and led
a workshop entitled “OMT
in the Child and Adolescent
Psychiatry Patient: Homeo-
stasis and Cytokine Response
to OMT” at the 112
th
Annual
Florida Osteopathic Medical
Association Convention.
Naushira Pandya, M.D.,
CMD, FACP
, professor and
chair of the Department of
Geriatrics and project director
of the Florida Coastal Geriat-
ric Resources, Education, and
Training Center, was invited
to make a presentation on
long-term care and participate
on a panel at the inaugu-
ral Regional Forum for the
White House Conference on
Aging in Tampa, Florida, on
February 19. Dr. Pandya was
also elected president of the
AMDA—the Society for Post-
Acute and Long-Term Care
Medicine Board of Directors.
OMS-II Kristi Ray
was
awarded a Student Osteo-
pathic Medical Association
Foundation International
Medical Relief/Medical Mis-
sion Scholarship to assist with
transportation, room, board,
and essential expenses related
to her trip to the Dominican
Republic this summer, where
she will teach emergency
preparedness and help to set
up health clinics.
Cecilia Rokusek,
Ed.D., R.D.
, assistant
dean of research and innova-
tion and executive director
of the GREAT GEC, was
the keynote speaker at the
Second Annual Interprofes-
sional Geriatric Conference
sponsored by the Hungar-
ian Ministry of Health held
December 8-12 in Budapest,
Hungary. She was also one
of five U.S. representatives
of the Gerontological Society
of America that discussed
the impact of global aging
at the inaugural Hong Kong
Symposium held January
3-6. In addition, Dr. Rokusek
presented two posters at the
41
st
Annual Meeting of the
Association for Gerontology
in Higher Education held
February 26-29 in Nashville,
Tennessee. The titles of her
presentations were “Profes-
sional Education for Alzheim-
er’s Resources and Leadership
(Project PEARL): A Model
Program of Professional and
Care Partner Education”
and “Integration of Geriatric
Education Throughout Health
Profession Education Cur-
riculum Through Emphasis on
Interprofessional Education: A
Global Initiative.”
Janet Roseman, Ph.D.,
M.S., R-DMT
, assistant
professor of medical educa-
tion, was invited to write a
chapter for the book entitled
Soulful and Spiritual Research
in Dance Studies: Bodily In-
scription, Self-Narrative, and
Auto-Ethnography
by Intel-
lect Publishing. In March,
Dr. Roseman’s book entitled
If Joan of Arc Had Cancer:
Finding Courage, Faith, and
Healing from History’s Most
Inspirational Woman War-
rior
was published by New
World Library. She also
edited a special spring issue
of the
Journal of Alternative
and Complementary Therapies
that centered on the theme
of sacred space: spirituality in
the medical encounter.
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