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By Kate Hunger Occupational Therapy doctoral students this summer learned how to use telehealth to deliver therapy services. Occupational Therapy Associate Professor Karin Barnes, Ph.D., OTR, FAOTA, created the telehealth assignment as part of the Pediatric Service Delivery course she teaches for second-year OTD students. Forty-two students participated in the assignment. Telehealth can help…
By Kate Hunger Second-year Speech-Language Pathology graduate student Joy-Alexandra Sabattus was diagnosed with juvenile idiopathic arthritis at the age of 17. “I wanted nothing to do with this disease,” she said of her initial response to her diagnosis. “I was very hard-headed and would push myself harder in a lot of ways.” With time, Sabattus realized she needed to connect with others going…
By Kate Hunger Raised in a military family, Michael Sippel moved frequently growing up. When he graduated high school, he wasn’t enthused about jumping into a four-year college setting. So he took his dad’s advice and enrolled in an emergency medical technician program at UT Health San Antonio. When he realized he was interested in studying medicine, he enrolled in the paramedic program. That…
By Kate Hunger The Speech-Language Pathology master’s program welcomed a new faculty member in June. Assistant Professor Casey Taliancich-Klinger, Ph.D., CCC-SLP, grew up bilingual in South Texas. “I’ve always had an interest in language and communication, so I felt this was the right field for me,” she said. Taliancich-Klinger earned a Ph.D. and master’s degree in Speech Language Pathology, as…
By Kate Hunger Two UT Health San Antonio physical therapy professors and two alumnae of the Doctor of Physical Therapy program have published an article in a national journal on the attitudes of students toward the homeless. The article, “Attitudes of Physical Therapy Students Toward the Population Currently Experiencing Homelessness,” appeared in the fall issue of the Journal of Allied Health…
By Kate Hunger Janna Roberts wants students in the School of Health Professions to know they are welcome to volunteer with Frontera de Salud, an interprofessional, student-run organization that provides preventive health services and education to the medically underserved in San Antonio and South Texas. A second-year occupational therapy doctoral student, Roberts is the School of Health…
By Kate Hunger Emergency Health Sciences Assistant Clinical Professor and Civilian Training Officer Matt Short is leading a project to create a validated tool to identify victims of human trafficking encountered by emergency responders. Short, the continuing education instructor for the San Antonio Fire Department, saw the need for such a tool after noticing gaps in several continuing education…
By Kate Hunger Second-year Respiratory Care students practiced their preclinical competencies this summer before beginning internships in intensive care settings this fall. The purpose of the preclinical competency checks is to ensure students are familiar with various types of ventilators and other equipment. “Over the past three years I have each semester really found a better way to improve…
By Kate Hunger The Department of Physician Assistant Studies trains students how to stop uncontrolled bleeding during trauma situations before the arrival of emergency responders. The Stop the Bleed campaign, part of a national initiative, aims to give people with the skills to effectively apply tourniquets to stop bleeding resulting from trauma such as car accidents or mass violence, said…
By Kate Hunger “I was a swimmer and triathlete for years and my knee got bad,” he said. “I went to do physical therapy myself after knee surgery and I just fell in love with the profession. Then, I went to investigate what the students do, what they have to go through, and I said, ‘That’s it.’” Almeida joined the Department of Physical Therapy in June. He is course director for Exercise…