June 15, 2007
"How to Help
Students Achieve"
Past Picks
Archive
Dr.
Gretchen Stone, Chair of the Department of Occupational Therapy, was
recently appointed a co-chair of the campus-wide QEP committee. This
committee has developed a Quality Enhance Plan as part of the university
re-accreditation process by the Southern Accreditation Council of Colleges and
Schools (SACS). The focus of the plan is Interprofessional Education, and has
been entitled "synergy". synergy is designed
to provide collaborative educational experiences for students in all schools on
campus. Dr. Stone, and other members of the committee, plan to meet with
faculty/staff and students from all schools to prepare for the SACS visit in
February 2008.
Two members of the SAHS faculty for
being featured in the UTMB Magazine, Fall 2007.
Professor Elizabeth Protas, dean of the School, and past chair of Physical Therapy, was featured in
an article describing a new $I million study funded by the NIH. It is
designed for people with Parkinson's disease, and trains them on a
treadmill rigged with a harness that prevents falls while training. The
goal is to reduced falls in everyday life.
Kurt Mossberg, associate
professor of physical therapy, has an NIH grant of $1,051,888 to examine
whether body-weight- supported treadmill training can help people with
traumatic brain injury walk better, think better, and enjoy a better
quality of life. His study subjects are being treated at the
Transitional Learning Center, a residential rehabilitation center in
Galveston.
More KUDOS
The SAHS is listed as 11th in NIH
funding among Schools of Allied Health for 2006. This puts us in the
top 10% of programs in the nation. We were 23rd in 2004 so this
represents a significant increase in funding.
SAHS, in partnership with the
College of Public Health and Health Professions at the University of Florida,
was awarded $ 4.98 grant to educate and train occupational and physical
therapy faculty to become independent researchers. The ranking does not include
this grant. Dr. Ken Ottenbacher is the Principal investigator.
A P01 grant, Translation
Research in Muscle Rehabilitation, was recently submitted to NIH. The grant
represents collaboration between SOM and SAHS faculty, and is also led by Dr.
Ottenbacher. Only 1 program project grant nationally has been awarded in
rehabilitation so this is a new endeavor for the Division of Rehabilitation
Sciences. Drs. Kurt Mossberg, Doug Paddon-Jones, Blake Rasmussen,
Physical Therapy, Drs. Glen Ostir, Elena Volpi, David Chinkes, Seal
Center on Aging, and Dr. Elisabet Borsheim, PMCH, and others are
investigators on the grant.
Faculty vigorous pursued new
Faculty Practice opportunities and dramatically increased practice income to
$160,000 during FY 07 from approximate $16,000 the previous year.
We had a
20% increase in enrollment for Fall 2007, attributable to
efforts of our Admissions and Recruitment Committees and hard work on the
part of faculty and staff.
The Scholarship
Committee awarded a record $164,000 in student scholarships, up
from $117,000 the previous year. Donors and recipients will be recognized
at the Scholarship luncheon October 23rd, and we will premiere our new DVD
"Investing in our Future."
The
Department of Respiratory Care received $50,000 from the Dorothy
Peek Currie and Laura Randall Schweppe Memorial Fund in Clinical Records.
This award will develop the DataArc system to track clinical practice
experience and disseminate best practices guidelines.
The Department of
Physical Therapy received 2 President's Cabinet Awards, one to
establish physical therapy services at St. Vincent's Clinic and another to
support student involvement in Rainbow Connection, a camp for children with
cancer and blood disorders and their siblings.
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Development Opportunities: |
"Grants for Lunch":
The purpose of the Grants-for-Lunch program is to develop the grantsmanship
skills of UTMB faculty and fellows and to promote networking within our UTMB
research community. These informal, interactive discussions cover grant
writing and research program management with a primary focus on NIH funding.
Each session is led by experienced research faculty and research administrators,
who make a short presentation on the given topic, then open the session for
questions and discussions. All faculty and fellows are encouraged to
attend. Grants for Lunch meets monthly
on the first Tuesday, from noon to 1:00 p.m. in Rebecca Sealy East, Room
4.302/4.304. Click
here for the "Grants for Lunch" schedule and more information.
HRSA Grant Reviewers:
Some of you may have already signed up on the HRSA database for grant
reviewers-others may not have done so. New and experienced grant reviewers
are needed with expertise in health professions training, HIV/AIDS, maternal and
child health, organ transplantation, primary care for underserved people, and
rural health. If your name is in the database you may be called upon by a
variety of bureaus within HRSA to review grants. You may add your name to
the database by visiting
https://grants.hrsa.gov/webReview/
The Sloan C International
Conference: Distance learning is one of
the most talked-about topics today in higher education and corporate training.
Asynchronous learning is the fastest-growing approach to distance learning. This
conference, which will provide the latest information on asynchronous learning
programs, processes, packages, and protocols, is geared to both experienced
professionals and interested newcomers to online learning who hail from a
variety of work sectors, including higher education, continuing education,
business, government, health care, professional associations, and nonprofit
organizations. Click here
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Recent news items from the Chronicle
of Higher Education |
| Click on
http://chronicle.com then scroll down on the
left to Chronicle in Print and click on back issues to read these
now. NOTE: Your institutional user name is medicallibrary and your
password is 8chana64. You may also use the user name and password found
on the Chronicle sleeve of your or your department's subscription. If you
get booted out, it's because others are simultaneously using the same password.
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| August 17,
2007 |
| "You Didn't
Get Tenure: What Now?" |
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| August 17,
2007 |
| "On the Other
Side of the Podium" |
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| August 3,
2007 |
| "Deregulating
Low-Risk Research" |
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| July 27,
2007 |
| "In Discussing
Disabilities, Are We Linguistically Disabled?" |
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| July 13,
2007 |
| "Let's Just Do
Our Jobs" - When we take on administrative responsibilities, we face
choices as to what kind of managers we will become |
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| July 6,
2007 |
| "Finding
Students Who Are Wise, Practical, and Creative" |
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| June 29,
2007 |
| "It's Not Easy
Being a Green Department" - A look at how one group of colleagues is
attempting to cut its consumption of paper and energy |
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| June 22, 2007 |
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"Credential Creep - Professional doctorates, which take less time than
the Ph.D., are spreading fast - as are concerns about the uneven
quality" |
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| June 1, 2007 |
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"Education
Researchers and Policy Makers Not in Sync, Scholars Say" |
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"What Color is an A? - Colleges take on a
persistent but rarely discussed issue: the poor grades earned by many
minority students" |
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"What Research Says About Race-Linked
Barriers to Achievement" |
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May 25, 2007 |
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"Teacher's Pet - Is it so wrong to offer
more attention to the student who seems to have the best chance of
success?" (Careers Section) |
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May 11, 2007 |
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"Remedial Civility Training - Just as we
help new students acquire writing skills, we must spend more time
teaching them how to behave in a classroom" (Careers Section) |
