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By Kate Hunger School of Health Professions students created a program that brought the joy of dance to people with dementia and their caregivers. The idea for the Tango Together project grew out of the interest of some Physical Therapy students to develop a service project for a Community Service Learning grant, said the project’s student leader Laura Gandy, a first-year Physical Therapy student…
By Kate Hunger Faculty and students of the Speech-Language Pathology program in the Department of Communication Sciences and Disorders attended and presented at the Texas Speech Hearing Association annual convention in Houston in February. “For a new program, this convention was a great way for our students to come together and have a presence in the community of other speech-language pathology…
By Kate Hunger Two faculty members from the Department of Occupational Therapy are participating in an intervention program to help people with dementia and their caregivers. Administered through the Caring for the Caregiver program, Care of Persons with Dementia in their Environments (COPE) is a standardized, evidence-based program intended to help caregivers develop the skills needed to manage…
By Kate Hunger Respiratory therapists are crucial members of health care teams around the world treating patients with COVID-19. Setting up, adjusting and monitoring patients needing ventilators takes specialized training, noted School of Health Professions Dean David Shelledy, Ph.D., RRT, FAARC, FASAHP. Ventilators have become highly complex, a fact that is not broadly known, said Respiratory…
By Kate Hunger Lisa Le never considered herself to be an academically strong student, but she says something clicked when she began clinical rotations. In recognition of her performance during the clinical phase of her program, the third-year physical therapy student recently won the Student Clinical Excellence Award. “Human interaction is an art form and requires flexibility, adaptability, and…
By Kate Hunger Department of Physician Assistant Studies Admissions Chair and Assistant Clinical Professor Leticia Bland wasn’t sure about her path after graduating high school, so she decided to join the U.S. Air Force. When she asked the recruiter to recommend a career that paid well and offered transferrable skills to the civilian world, she was given assigned a medical laboratory science. “…
By Kate Hunger Learning that an article she co-authored is among the most read, cited and shared from the 2018-2019 international journal Spinal Cord gives Assistant Professor Ana Allegretti, Ph.D., OTR, hope that clinical care for patients with spinal cord injuries is improving. The article, “Predictors of pressure ulcer incidence following traumatic spinal cord injury: a secondary analysis of…
By Kate Hunger Occupational therapy first-year student Jennifer Sanchez decided she wanted to become an occupational therapist after her older brother suffered a spinal cord injury in a car accident. She was 13 years old. After the accident, her brother had limited function in one of his arms. Occupational therapy services helped him make huge progress and made a big impression on Sanchez. “He…
By Kate Hunger Five students from the Department of Physical Therapy presented research projects at the American Physical Therapy Association 2020 Combined Sections Meeting held in Denver in February. Second-year doctor of physical therapy students Cat Lira and Helen Valentine Fleck gave a platform presentation on their investigation to characterize the cardiometabolic profile of more than 5,000…
By Kate Hunger Assistant Professor Gerardo Ramos, MS, Ph.D. MLS (ASCP), F-ABFT, officially assumed the duties of Medical Laboratory Sciences program director on Jan. 1. “The first goal is to continue the legacy of excellence,” established by his predecessor, former Program Director and Associate Professor Cheryl Burns, M.S., MLS (ASCP), Ramos said. “She has done an amazing job.” Ramos’ other…