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By Kate Hunger Pauline Castro is soaking up every minute as a third-year physical therapy student, finding daily opportunities to learn from mistakes and grow. When asked what she is focusing on in her final year, Castro doesn't hesitate. "Building upon my skills, confidence, and learning to accept whatever mistakes I make in the clinic and learning to be better from them," she said. "Every day…
By Kate Hunger Five physical therapy students and two faculty members traveled to the Dominican Republic in late May to offer mobile health clinics for sugar cane plantation laborers who lack regular access to health care. The trip marked the first time physical therapy students have joined Project Hispanola, a team of medical students and faculty advisors from UT Health San Antonio which has…
By Kate Hunger Wheelchair users visiting the new accessible splash park at Morgan's Inspirational Island are able to enjoy water activities without fear of damaging their own equipment, thanks to specially designed waterproof wheelchairs available for use by the guest. Ana Allegretti, Ph.D., OTR, assistant professor of occupational therapy, led the training sessions on fitting the chairs the…
By Kate Hunger School of Health Professions students will soon have a new tool for learning anatomy available around the clock — the Anatomage Table. Training on the Anatomage Table was held on June 22. Paul Allen, Sr., DSc, MPAS, PA-C, assistant professor and chair of the physician assistant studies department, said the table will be an adjunctive tool to anatomy education and will not…
By Kate Hunger The School of Health Professions welcomed the director of its new Master Science in Speech-Language Pathology program on June 1. Fang-ling Lu, Ph.D., CCC-SLP, comes to the UT Health San Antonio School of Health Professions from the University of North Texas, where she joined the faculty in the Department of Audiology and Speech-Language Pathology in 1997. While at UNT, Dr. Lu…
By Kate Hunger Ricky Joseph, Ph.D., OTR, received the School of Health Professions 2017 Spectrum Award in May. The Spectrum is the School's highest award, recognizing excellence in the areas of teaching, service, leadership and scholarship. "Dr. Joseph is a kind and generous colleague who maintains a positive attitude in all that he undertakes. Dr. Joseph tirelessly supports the mission of the…
By Kate Hunger Selina Morgan, PT, DPT, adjunct Instructor at the School of Health Professions has been selected by the Texas Consortium for Physical Therapy Clinical Education to receive it's 2017 Dorn Long Outstanding Clinical Educator Award. Morgan will receive the award in October at The Texas Physical Therapy Association's annual conference in Corpus Christi. "There are hundreds of clinical…
By Kate Hunger The Department of Occupational Therapy has announced the creation of The Karin J. Barnes Leadership Endowment, which will support occupational therapy students with a commitment to leadership. Karin J. Barnes, Ph.D., OTR, associate professor, is a founding faculty member of the Department of Occupational Therapy and served as chair of the department a decade before returning to…
By Kate Hunger A: A team of medical laboratory science students from the School of Health Professions. Q: Who won the Academic Student Bowl competition at the annual meeting of the Texas Association for Clinical Laboratory Science? Think Jeopardy with a laser focus on clinical laboratory science and you’ll have a pretty clear idea of the format of the competition, held during the March 29 to…
By Kate Hunger Several faculty members and residents from UT Health San Antonio traveled to Vietnam in April to participate in a national EMS conference held by the Vietnamese Society for Emergency Medicine. David Wampler, Ph.D., assistant professor of emergency health sciences ,was scheduled to give a lecture on the myths of EMS and teach a workshop on vascular access. Craig Cooley, M.D., MPH,…