Working together to work wonders by educating tomorrow's healers through groundbreaking research and excellent patient care.
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 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.
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Physician Assistant Studies
The Physician Assistant Studies program has moved over to the School of Medicine. For more information, please visit the UTMB SOM Physician Assistant Studies web site.
Student Emergency Operations
Emergency situations can arise for all kinds of reasons. The key is to know what your options are when they do.
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Health Professions News
SHP Welcomes New Senior Vice President and Dean of the School of Health Professions
We are pleased to announce that David A. Brown, PT, PhD, FAPTA, will join UTMB Health as Senior Vice President and Dean for our School of Health Professions, effective March 1, 2019. Dr. Brown is known for his outstanding expertise in leadership, innovation and excellence in education, his commitment to research, and his success as an entrepreneur. Dr. Brown is a leader in the Rehabilitation Science community at the institutional, national, and international levels, with a reputation for cutting-edge research and impact on individuals with neurological dysfunction.
Dr. Brown joins us from The University of Alabama at Birmingham, where he served as Professor in Physical Therapy, Director of the PhD in Rehabilitation Science Program, and co-Director of the UAB University-wide Research Center on Disability Health and Rehabilitation Science. Dr. Brown earned his PhD in Exercise Science from the University of Iowa, MS in Physical Therapy from Duke University and BA in Physics from the University of Rochester. He received post-doctoral research training at Stanford University and the Veterans Affairs Medical Center in Palo Alto, CA.
Please join us in thanking Dr. Vicki Freeman for her outstanding service as interim Dean of the School of Health Professions and in welcoming Dr. Brown to UTMB.
Read More: Dr. David Brown
SHP Celebrates their 50th Anniversary
It has been a pleasure to serve as Interim Dean this year during The School of Health Professions 50th Anniversary. Many activities took place including the Kickoff Celebration back in November 2017 with current students, faculty and students in Levin Hall. This summer, our SHP departments hosted a lecture series pertaining to their fields of study in partnership with the Sealy Center on Aging and the SHP Dean's Office.
The Office of Alumni Relations helped us organize the Dean’s reception. It was great to be able to connect with alumni and reminisce about the changes that have taken place in the school in the last 50 years. Our distinguished alumnus, Marco Rodriguez, gave an inspirational presentation on how we should pursue our passion.
We celebrated its 50th Anniversary on Saturday, October 20, 2018 at both the UTMB Campus and at the Galveston Island Convention Center at the San Luis Resort. During the Open House, our departments' faculty and students welcomed approximately 75 guests into their laboratories, giving them an opportunity to get a first-hand look at the University’s progress. I know that the alums appreciated being able to see how we are teaching now and to reconnect with their program.
In the evening, special guests, University President, Dr. Callender, and Past Dean, Dr. Christiansen, spoke about SHP, its history and current activities with Kevin Haslam serving as our Emcee. We are grateful to the Mayor Pro Tem and District 2 Councilman, Dr. Craig Brown, for issuing a Proclamation designating October 20, 2018 as The UTMB School of Health Professions Day (thanks to Hank Thierry for organizing it). Wasn’t it nice that we were able to celebrate the school’s 50th Anniversary in such a spectacular way? When I walked in to our celebration, the room felt "magical". From the decorations to the dinner and then on to the dancing, it was a great event.
A BIG Thanks goes out to everyone who worked to make this a fantastic event, in particular to Michelle Conley who organized it all and to the staff in the departments and the Dean's Office who assisted her. As we all know, it takes a team to pull off these occasions.
Sincerely,
Vicki Freeman, PhD, MASCP, MLS (ASCP)cm SCcm, FACB
Interim Dean, School of Health Professions
Associate Dean for Faculty Development
Professor (tenured), Department of Clinical Laboratory Sciences
University of Texas Distinguished Professor
SHP Faculty Researcher Spotlight - October 2018
Dr. Lynne Hughes joined the SHP faculty in 2014 to teach in the Bridge PTA to DPT program. Her current research interest is incorporating manual therapy as an appropriate and effective intervention for older persons. Dr. Hughes utilizes mixed methods design to provide both quantitative and qualitative views of participant outcomes.
Read More: SHP Faculty Researcher Spotlight
SHP Faculty Researcher Spotlight - August 2018
Dr. Christopher Fry is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Nutrition and Metabolism.
His research focuses on elucidating the mechanisms that regulate skeletal muscle plasticity to establish interventions to maintain muscle mass and strength during conditions of muscle wasting. Muscle strength is compromised in a variety of acute and chronic health conditions, contributing to reductions in quality of life and functional recovery.
Read More: SHP Faculty Researcher Spotlight
Student Accomplishments
Kudos to Dr. Adrianna Laprea and to the PT students that participated in the Inaugural Land and Sea Adaptive Sports Challenge this past weekend. The students include, Samuel Callia, Gregory Conner, Paxton Cook, Emarchele De Villa, Jordaine-Faith Enriquez, Jacob Erickson, Elaine Gattenby, Jacqueline Gracia, Miriah Hadley, Ellen Hermes, Sara Holland, Melanie Hummert, Elizabeth Kunder, Matthew Lee, Anna Ng, Kierra Patton, Hannah Powell, Erin Rose, Nisha Sanchez, Leslie Snider, Nithin Thaimuriyil, Chelsea Vasquez and Justin Yeh.
Activity was captured by the Galveston Daily News
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Education Technology Information
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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.
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