Hoofprints A Monthly Newsletter from UW’s College of Health Sciences 102 nd Edition July 19, 2010 A Message from Dean Steiner Dean Joseph F. "Joe" Steiner
Dec 24, 2014
HoofprintsA Monthly Newsletter from
UW’s College of Health Sciences
102nd EditionJuly 19, 2010
A Message from Dean Steiner
Dear Friends,
Dean Joseph F. "Joe" Steiner
You will read below about a current College of Health Sciences’ student
attending the National Conference for College Women Student Leaders. I
am very pleased to tell you that of the 15 UW women at the conference, four
were CHS students. Scholarships funding attendance at the conference
were awarded through a competitive process. The college was able to
support one student, while the other three received outside sponsorship.
I am gratified to hear that our students are interested in developing
their leadership potential. Now more than ever, we need people to aspire to
leadership positions in the health care professions. I have often seen many
desirable management positions go unfilled for long periods of time despite
active recruitment efforts. A few years ago, for instance, I was amazed to
see a well-paid position as director of a hospital department go unfilled for
over a year. This disturbing trend can also be seen in academics.
I am sure there are multiple reasons people avoid leadership
opportunities, and I will not attempt to discuss them here. There are several
things, however, we can address at the college level. These include instilling
an interest in leadership, encouraging students to develop their leadership
capabilities, and providing the resources for early leadership development.
For the past year, representatives from each of the college’s divisions have
been working on “a program to encourage, promote, and nurture
scholarship, leadership, and professionalism in our future physical and
mental health care professionals.” This program is called ASPIRE, and I am
giving it my full support. It is my hope that we can identify promising
students and ask them to participate in a curriculum that will develop their
management skills. I am also exploring the possibility of a minor in health
care leadership that will be open to all CHS students. However, I do not
want that to be the only avenue for interested, motivated students; the
courses should be open to all students. I will also seek outside funding to
stimulate and promote the program.
As you can tell, this idea is in its infancy, and I would appreciate any
thoughts, concerns, or suggestions. You can contact me at
Regards,
Joe
Student News
Maya Martinez, a social work student from Cheyenne, is very enthusiastic
about the National Conference for College Women Student Leaders
(NCCWSL) she recently attended at the University of Maryland. According
to Maya, “Everyone I met had a positive, upbeat, empowering attitude. I
learned that nothing is impossible through goals and perseverance.” Maya
and the 14 other UW women students who attended would like to share
their interest in the conference and its message by promoting leadership
and establishing a Women’s Leadership Conference or other activities at
UW.
Congratulations are in order for speech, language, and hearing sciences
students Brooke Bodar from Dubois and Aaron Richardson from Kemmerer
who received John L. Kemmerer, Jr. Scholarships. The scholarship program
was established in 1992 by the Kemmerer family to help young, motivated
students from the Kemmerer area who demonstrate academic achievement
and leadership through extracurricular activities.
Senior nursing students Danielle Gifford from Kimball, Nebraska, and
Sara Teeters from Lingle, Wyoming, have been
accepted to join a medical mission to Africa this
month. The mission, which is sponsored by
Intervarsity and Nurses Christian Fellowship,
will take the two to Uganda to work with the
country’s college students in an outreach to
children, visit the national nursing council, work
with local AIDS prevention and support groups,
visit Mulago and Kagondo Hospitals, and work
Senior nursing students Danielle Gifford (left) and Sara Teeters (right) are members of a medical mission to Uganda.
with Ugandan nursing students. Danielle and Sara plan to build on this
international experience by joining a clinical trip by the Fay W. Whitney
School of Nursing (FWWSON) to Agua Salada, Honduras, in November.
(Please see the related article in Service, below.)
Research
The Center for Cardiovascular Research and Alternative Medicine
(CCRAM), a multidisciplinary research group based in the School of
Pharmacy (SOP), is having an extraordinarily successful 2010. Members
have published over 40 articles in major national and international journals
and have been invited participants for meetings and symposia across the
country and around the world, speaking on key subjects such as
cardiovascular health, diabetes treatment and prevention, and physiological
conditions associated with obesity. Founding directors Jun Ren and Bruce
Culver and current administrator Sreejayan Nair of the SOP are justly
proud of CCRAM’s efforts to put UW on the national research “map.”
Program Updates
During a ceremony at the governor’s residence, the Family Medicine
Residency Program at Cheyenne (FMRP/Cheyenne) recognized Michael D.
Abrahams, M.D., Jody A. Cousins, M.D., Peter Hanna, M.D., Lorraine H.
Manciet, M.D., Behice Ozbay, M.D., and Anna R. Wilkins, M.D., for
successfully completing the program’s residency requirements. The happy
graduates were congratulated during a reception following the ceremony.
Casper’s FMRP also recognized its graduates: Maria Cornelius, M.D.;
Caroline Kirsch-Russell, D.O.; Kathy Lynch, M.D.; Kelly McMillin, M.D.;
Matthew Moore, M.D.; Rachel Myers, M.D.; and Rachel Otto, M.D.
The Wyoming Institute for Disabilities (WIND) Resource Library
received $1,000 from the Association of Specialized and Cooperative
Library Agencies for its award-winning project “Disability Etiquette and
History Infusion Units: Changing Attitudinal Barriers at the University of
Wyoming Oct. 2008-Oct. 2009.” During the project, 850 UW students
learned basic disability history and conversation tips, as well as an
understanding of the Americans with Disabilities Act. The library is just one
of WIND’s many services that make the institute Wyoming’s source for
disability education and assistance.
The SOP’s Sterile Products Lab offers students hands-on training in
the complicated techniques used to prepare,
dispense, and administer parenteral
(intravenous) admixtures, nutrition,
chemotherapy, and opthalmics. The College of
Health Sciences continues to be UW’s
pacesetter for
preparing students
for workplace challenges before they encounter
patients and clients.
WIND’s Assistive Technology Resources
(WATR) recently hosted
the Vendor Venue at UW’s
Outreach Center in Casper. During the two-day
session, vendors spoke about and demonstrated assistive technology (AT)
devices for daily life and the
classroom. AT can greatly improve
achievement for individuals in Wyoming on vocational, educational, and
personal levels. If you or someone you know might benefit from AT services,
please contact WATR ([email protected]) or visit http://uwyo.edu/wind/watr.
WIND has made two more booklets of useful information available to
individuals and agencies working with individuals with disabilities. “What
You Need to Know about the National Instructional Materials Accessibility
Standard (NIMAS) and Accessible Instructional Materials (AIM): A Guide
for Decision-making Teams” contains sections defining AIM and print
disability, legal obligations, decision-making team considerations, and
acquisition options for WINDS’ accessible media and materials. “Wyoming
WIND's WATR program reaches individuals with disabilities in the classroom and in their daily lives.
Pharmacy's Glaucia Teixeria (left) instructs a student in the proper techniques for administering intravenous medications.
Procedures for Providing Accessible Instructional Materials (AIM)”
discusses the establishment of the Individuals with Disabilities Education
Improvement Act, the implementation of NIMAS in Wyoming,
responsibilities of state and local education agencies, and procedures for
determining student need for AIM. For more information and/or copies of
the brochures, please contact Kathy McWhorter (307-766-5770 or
New Programs
The FWWSON will change its Nursing Career Fair to a Health
Professions Career Fair so students and vendors from other health
disciplines can participate on Friday, November 5th from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. in
the Wyoming Student Union Ballroom and meet health care employers and
representatives. All health sciences divisions are asked to encourage their
students to attend and to give lists of interested vendors to the Center for
Advising and Career Services (CACS). For more information, please contact
CACS’s Linda Brooks ([email protected]).
Service Two or three times a year, a brigade of
UW nursing and medical students and
Wyoming physicians, pharmacists,
engineers, and psychologists visits the
rural Honduran town of Agua Salada to
provide quality health care to the local
villagers. Through community surveys and
close relationships with town leaders, the
group has identified and overcome barriers
to health care by providing clinical services, medications, health education,
nutritional support, and home visits. To create a sustainable health care
program offering on-going access to health care for the community and
great clinical and research opportunities for UW students, the building of a
clinic is now a necessity To support the building project, a fundraising
Wyoming students and health care professionals have established personal and medical ties to the people of Agua Salada, Honduras.
dinner will be held at the Whitney ranch in Wheatland on August 22nd. For
more information about the brigade and the dinner, please contact Penelope
Caldwell ([email protected]).
The FWWSON sponsored a workshop led by authors of the best-selling
resource Evidence-based Practice (EBP) in Nursing and Healthcare.
Bernadette Melnyk, Ph.D., Dean of the Arizona State University (ASU)
College of Nursing, and Ellen Fineout-Overholt, Ph.D., Clinical Professor at
ASU, shared their insights regarding evidence-based practice and led
workshop participants through the process of critical appraisal and
integration of EBP into courses. The text will be used in fall nursing
courses.
Faculty News As the college welcomes David A. Driggers, M.D., as its
new Director of Medical Education, we extend a hearty
“thank you” to W. G. “Jerry” Saunders, M.D., who initiated
the position when he joined the college in 2007. Dr.
Saunders left five years of retirement after 27 years as an
obstetrician/gynecologist in Sheridan to coordinate and
oversee the family medicine residency programs in
Cheyenne and Casper and teach clinical techniques to
Wyoming’s first-year WWAMI students. Having served on
the university’s board of trustees and given time and
experience to training physicians in Afghanistan, Dr. Saunders brought a
wealth of experience to the college and its students. He has been aptly
called “a doctor’s doctor”; we will miss him but wish him well.
Mary Anne Purtzer, Assistant Professor of Nursing, was honored with
the FWWSON’s Communication of Wisdom Award in recognition of her
2009 Western Journal of Nursing Publication article “Processes Inherent in
Mammography-Screening Decisions of Rarely or Never-Screened Women.”
Mary Anne received the award during the school’s Nightingale Center for
The college says "Thank you" to Dr. W. G. "Jerry" Saunders.
Nursing Scholarship’s annual scholarship celebration to encourage and
show support to nursing faculty and their research.
Faculty in the Division of Kinesiology and Health are having another
successful year as they publish their research results in national and
international journals. Jayne Jenkins, Associate Professor, anticipates the
publication of “A Qualitative Analysis of Individual Interest in Middle School
Physical Education: Perspectives of Early-adolescents” in Physical
Education and Sport Pedagogy and “Task Progression in Early Field
Teaching Experiences,” which she wrote with John Haefner, Instructor, for
Journal of Physical Education, Recreation, and Dance. Jayne and Tami
Benham-Deal, Associate Professor, published “Change in Parental Influence
on Children’s Physical Activity over Time” in Journal of Physical Activity and
Health and “The Impact of Professional Development to Infuse Health and
Reading in Elementary Schools” in American Journal of Health Education.
Furthermore, Principal published Tami’s article “The Road to Health
Literacy—Principals Take the Wheel.” Tristan Wallhead, Assistant
Professor, and Mark Byra, Professor and Division Director, look forward to
the publication of “A Didactic Analysis of Student Content Learning during
the Reciprocal Style of Teaching” in Journal of Teaching in Physical
Education, and Tristan and Jayne published “Influence of High School
Physical Education on University Students’ Physical Activity” in European
Physical Education Review. Tristan and Derek Smith, Associate Professor,
anticipate the publication of their “Sport Education and Extra-curricular
Sport Participation: An Examination Using the Trans-contextual Model of
Motivation” in Research Quarterly for Exercise and Sport. Circulation will
publish “Role for an Age-dependent HIF-α Defect in Impaired MIF-“AMPK
Activation and Ischemic Recovery in the Senescent Heart” by D. Paul
Thomas, Professor, and Toxicology Letters published Paul’s “Intra-
myocardial Delivery of Mesenchymal Stem Cells Ameliorates Left
Ventricular and Cardiomyocyte Contractile Dysfunction Following
Myocardial Infarction.” Journal of Applied Physiology published a series of
articles—“The Biological Limits to Running Speed Are Imposed from the
Ground Up,” Point: Artificial Limbs Do Make Artificially Fast Running
Speeds Possible,” “Rebuttal: Artificial Limbs Do Make Artificially Fast
Running speeds Possible” –by Matthew Bundle, Assistant Professor, and
Biomedical Sciences Instrumentation Journal published Matt’s
“Instrumentation Array for Biomechanical Reproducibility.” Journal of
Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance will publish
“Hefting to Perceive the Affordance for Long Distance Throwing: Smart
Mechanism or Function of Learning” by Qin “Arthur” Zhu, Assistant
Professor.
Penelope Caldwell, Assistant Lecturer of
Nursing, received one of three Visual Arts
Fellowships presented by the Wyoming Arts Council
in Casper. Artists from Ohio, Maryland, and Arizona
judged the entries. Each winner received a $3,000
cash award and will be featured in the 2010-2011
Fellowship Biennial Exhibition.
Penelope Caldwell, recipient of a 2010 Visual Arts Fellowship from the Wyoming Arts Council