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Welcome
For over a century, the University of Texas Medical Branch has dedicated its efforts toward improving the health of society - in Texas and beyond. Today the SHP offers Baccalaureate degrees in Clinical Laboratory Sciences and Respiratory Care, master's degrees in Clinical Laboratory Sciences, Occupational Therapy, Health Professions, Nutrition & Metabolism and Physician Assistant Studies, and a professional doctorate in Physical Therapy.
In addition to designing and implementing innovative ways to deliver instruction to students at distant locations, the school continuously explores opportunities to expand its program offerings and interprofessional learning.
Take The First Step - For more information about getting your education at UTMB, please contact the SHP Office of Academic and Student Affairs by phone at 409.772.3030 or by email at shp.recruiting@utmb.edu.
Health Professions News
SHP Welcomes New Interim Dean Dr. Vicki Freeman
Dr. Vicki S. Freeman has been appointed Interim Dean for the School of Health Professions, effective September 18, 2017 by Dr. Danny Jacobs, Executive Vice President and Provost.
Dr. Freeman is currently the Associate Dean of Faculty Development in SHP and tenured Professor in the Department of Clinical Laboratory Sciences. She also holds faculty appointments in the School of Medicine and Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences. Dr. Freeman is a University of Texas Distinguished Teaching Professor, a Minnie Stevens Piper Professor and received a UT System Regents' Outstanding Teaching Award in 2014.
Dr. Freeman leads UTMB's Clinical Laboratory Sciences program, one of the largest and most dynamic in the country. In 2016, she established the Doctorate in Clinical Laboratory Sciences degree program, the second of its kind in the nation. Dr. Freeman's efforts have been funded by the Departments of Education, Labor, and Health Services through the American International Health Alliance Twinning Partnership Program.
Dr. Freeman received her Doctor of Philosophy degree in Community and Human Resources and Master of Arts degree in Adult Education from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. She earned a Bachelor of arts degree in Biochemistry and a Bachelor of Science in Medical Technology from the University of Texas at Austin.
SHP Bids Farewell to Dr. Elizabeth Protas
A retirement reception was held for Dr. Elizabeth Protas, PT, PhD, FACSM, FAPTA on September 13. She dutifully served as the Dean of the School of Health Professions since 2006 and has been named Senior Vice President, George T. Bryan Distinguished Professor, Ruby Decker Endowed Professor, and Senior Fellow of the Sealy Center on Aging during her tenure.
A good time was had by all and she will be truly missed. We wish Dr. Protas the very best on her new phase in life and thank her for her service and dedication.
Read More: Past SHP Deans
Laboratorians: Behind the Scenes Detectives
The TMC News quoted Dr. Vicki Freeman, Former Clinical Laboratory Sciences Chair and Professor, on Aug 4.
"The people we educate are the ones that work in the labs processing specimens that come to them from patients," Dr. Freeman said. "They perform the tests that go back to physicians, allowing them to make decisions on how to treat patients."
Read More: Laboratorians: Behind the Scenes Detectives
Read More: Training for the Future
Respiratory Care Students Utilize Makerspace Technology for Enhanced Learning
Dr. Jose Rojas, associate professor and chair of the SHP Respiratory Care program was quoted in an article titled, Makerspace in August 2017.
Last year, Dr. Rojas decided to begin incorporating the makerspace into his class rotations and sees how it can help students with diverse experiences to create endless possibilities.
Read More: Respiratory Care Students Utilize Makerspace Technology for Enhanced Learning
The Exercise Antidote
Nutrition and Metabolism faculty focus on how exercise causes good health.
SHP Nutrition and Metabolism faculty shed light on their $6.6 million grant, the Molecular Transducers of Physical Activity Consortium (MoTrPAC). The grant allows UTMB to join forces with other institutions to examine and provide understanding on how physical activity improves health over a five-year period.
Article Excerpt: "There is little dispute that exercise is good for us. Getting fit is consistently one of the most New Year's resolutions and many Americans commit - and recommit - to a new workout routine more than once a year. Numerous scientific studies link exercise to a host of benefits for your body, from boosts of serotonin levels to lowering risk for heart disease."
Read More: The Exercise Antidote
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Help Information
Orientation PowerPoint - This PowerPoint contains all Academic Computing information that was presented in the orientation.
UTMB Information Services - Assistance, Equipment & Services, Applications, Access, Management, Information Security, Clinical IS, IS Operations, IT Priorities
Faculty Development (UTMB Faculty Affairs) - The Faculty Development page contains sections of information pertaining to faculty development at UTMB, technology development, and development information for individual schools.
Media Authorization Form FAQs - See for questions pertaining to Media Authorization.
Media Authorization Form - can be used to obtain the appropriate permissions when using a patient, employee or student name and/or image in a promotional project, such as student or employee recruitment or fundraising.
iSpace (Xythos) - This PowerPoint contains various information on iSpace.
Having trouble accessing ELM from an off-campus network? - Contains instructions for using Citrix to access ELM from off-campus networks. Utilized for compliance training and more!
Education Technology Information
Microsoft Lync - Lync will help you communicate to other faculty, students or the UTMB community via online conferencing, IM, and much more! This page contains information, installs, video tutorials and documents for Lync at UTMB. This includes both Windows and Mac versions.
Blackboard - This page contains announcements, information and more for UTMB Blackboard. Including the latest upgrades!
SoftChalk Cloud - SoftChalk Cloud is an eLearning content authoring tool in the cloud which allows you to develop learning modules and host your content. SoftChalk lets you take content you already have (Word documents, PowerPoint presentations, and PDFs), combine it with resources from the web (such as video) and turn it into easy-to-navigate, professional, web-based modules for online learning. SoftChalk automatically generates mobile-friendly content so your eLearning content works anywhere.
Respondus - This contains the latest exam building software, lockdown browser and additional help info for Respondus.
VoiceThread - Instructions - This document will help walk you through adding VoiceThread to your Blackboard course and creating your Voicethread presentation utilizing your PDFs, Word docs, PowerPoint slides, record audio directly to slides, add audio files, add video files, etc.
VoiceThread - Viewing - This document will show how to view presentations in Blackboard created by VoiceThread.
Tegrity - Getting Instructors Started - This webpage contains instruction that will help get you started on making a Tegrity recording. Tegrity for UTMB is located at https://utmb.tegrity.com/.
Tegrity - Update Enhanced Editor - This video contains information on enhanced updates to the Tegrity editor.
TurningPoint 5 - Download Instructions - This document will gives instructions for downloading and running TurningPoint 5. Especially the Non-Install PC Version that can be put on a flash drive and used to play your presentation from any PC.
Kick-Off Celebration
November 7, 2017
12:00 noon
Levin Hall Main
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