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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.
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Health Professions News
Laboratorians: Behind the Scenes Detectives
The TMC News quoted Dr. Vicki Freeman, 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."
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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.
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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."
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Dr. Giacino named 2017 Robert L. Moody Prize recipient
Joseph Giacino, PhD was named the 2017 recipient of the Robert L. Moody Prize for Distinguished Initiatives in Brain Injury Research and Rehabilitation. Dr. Giacino was presented with the $10,000 prize and Tiffany pyramid at the Galveston Brain Injury Conference on May 4th. Dr. Giacino is the Director of Rehabilitation Neuropsychology and Research Associate in the Department of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation at Spaulding Rehabilitation Hospital in Boston. He is also an associate professor at Harvard Medical School. Pictured above is Dr. Giancino with the dean. The second photo is all of the Moody Prize recipients who were present at the conference with the dean (far right) and Jim Lovelace, President and CEO of the Transitional Learning Center (far left).
Dr. Monique Pappadis selected to participate in NIA Scholars Program
Congratulations to Rehabilitation Sciences' Monique Pappadis, PhD, who was recently selected to participate in the National Institute on Aging (NIA) Butler-Williams Scholars Program.
This is an intensive 5 day program geared towards emerging aging researchers and those with limited involvement in research on aging to learn more about research on aging and to further develop their interested in this challenging and important area.
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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.
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