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♦ Volunteer Opportunities
♦ Commencement Information
♦ Galveston Art Walk-SHP Artist
♦ Synergy News
♦ Honor Pledge Awards
♦ SHP’s New SGA Student Senators
♦ Student Scoop
♦ UTMB Alerts
♦ American Red Cross Organization
♦ CLS Fun!
♦ 2011 SHP Scholarship Luncheon
♦ PA Week
♦ SOTA Fun!
♦ DPT Fun!
♦ RC Week
♦ PA’s Fall Activities
♦ Holiday Fun
♦ The Syndrome Call for Volunteers
♦ Electronic Suggestion Box
♦ The Office of Academic and Student
Affairs (ASA)
Special Holiday Edition
December 2011
Happy Holidays!
From home to home, and heart to heart, from one place
to another, the warmth and joy, brings us closer to each
other. The joy of brightening other lives, bearing others'
burdens, easing other's loads and filling empty hearts
and lives with generous gifts becomes for us the magic
of the holidays.
SHP Department Web Links
Academic and Student Affairs
Alumni Affairs Relations
Clinical Laboratory Sciences
Dean's Office
Interdisciplinary Studies
Occupational Therapy
Holiday Volunteer Opportunities with the
Salvation Army of Galveston
1. Adopt a Red Kettle & Ring the Bell
2. Assist with Gift Distribution Center
Physical Therapy
3. Serve Holiday Dinners in Galveston
Physician Assistant Studies
4. Conduct Food or Toy Drive
Rehabilitation Sciences
Respiratory Care
“Find the Mouse with the Santa hat hidden in
this newsletter! Be the first student to tell me
in my office (4.218) where it’s located in the
newsletter and win a gift card from
Academic and Student Affairs!”
If you are interested in volunteering for any of these events,
please contact:
Jan Porter (Donor Relations)
Galveston Command 2228 Broadway, Galveston, TX 77550
Phone: 409-763-1691 or Cell: 409-559-2315
Preferred Method of Contact is Phone Call
Pi Theta Epsilon-National Honor
Society-Occupational Therapy
The mission of Pi Theta Epsilon is to support
the development of occupational sciences and
the practice of authentic occupational therapy
by promoting research and other scholarly
activities by its members. In this way, the
organization serves not only the profession,
but helps to insure quality health care services
for the general public.
Attention December Graduates 2011
December Commencement is in 2 weeks!
When: December 16, 2011
Where: Levin Hall Main Auditorium
Time: Ceremony 4:00 pm
Click on this Commencement Website for more information
Respiratory Care Student
Association
Galveston/St. Vincent’s Clinic
ArtWalk
The mission of the Respiratory Care
Student Association (RCSA) is to promote
awareness of the respiratory therapy
profession, participate in educational activities
and raise funds to support goals of advancing
the education of students. A further mission of
UTMB’s RCSA is to provide an environment
that is friendly and supportive to its current
and prospective students.
For over 20 years the Galveston Arts Center has organized
and produced ArtWalk, occurring
every six to eight weeks on
Saturday nights in the heart of
Galveston's historic district. Not a
street festival, ArtWalk takes place
in existing galleries and non-profit
spaces and also what are called
"other walls," for example,
restaurants and retail stores.
SGA Student Government
Association
Click here for the August 16th minutes
If you have any questions or concerns, please
feel free to contact the Student Government
Association at:
Student.Government.Asso@utmb.edu
SHP Student Ambassador Society
An organization committed to providing
service to UTMB School of Health Professions
alumni (Past), current students (Present), and
incoming students (Future). We would like to
establish an organization of enthusiastic
student representatives who can give tours
around campus, provide service to the
surrounding community of Galveston County,
Alumni Affairs and Prospective Student
Recruiting efforts.
Art by Boone Allen, PA Studies
Student Organization of
Clinical Laboratory Sciences
(SOCLS)
To formulate academic achievement and
clinical excellence in the student body of the
CLS program.
Click on Rudolph
ArtWalk promotes visual
art and artists, extends alternative
places to see and learn about art
and hopes to bring newcomers, as
well as welcome return visitors to
the art community on the island.
Recently, St. Vincent’s Clinic had
their ArtWalk and displayed some
beautiful pieces of art by UTMB
students who volunteer there.
Campus Services Web Links
Enrollment Services
Student Services
Student Health and Counseling
Student Life
Alpha Eta
Alpha Eta is the national honor society for allied
health professionals. The society recognizes
those allied health professionals who have
excelled in their field. This recognition is
extended to students, alumni, and faculty
members. The society promotes both
scholarship and fellowship among its members.
This commitment to collaboration is reflected in
the motto of the society: Together We Serve.
American Academy of Physician
Assistants - AAPA – Student Society
Promotes the professional growth, personal
excellence, and recognition of physician
assistants, and to support their efforts to enable
them to improve the quality, accessibility, and
cost-effectiveness of patient-centred health
care.
SYNERGY NEWS
Synergy is designed to provide collaborative educational experiences for
students in the School of Nursing, the School of Health Professions, the
School of Medicine, and the Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences. UTMB
will build on the Institute of Medicine's vision for improving the quality of
health care delivered by inter-professional teams. Click on Synergy News
to learn more.
1. Knowledge Acquisition
SYNERGY GOALS
2.
3.
4.
5.
Observational Learning
Participatory Learning
Innovational Development
Leadership Building
EXCELLENCE IN PROFESSIONALISM
AWARD FOR SEPTEMBER
Texas Academy of Physician
Assistants-TAPA
Texas Academy of Physician Assistants is the
premier PA organization in Texas. The mission
of TAPA is to represent and serve PAs statewide
and promotes the PA profession through
education, quality services and advocacy of
optimal healthcare.
Pi Alpha Honor Society for
Physician Assistants
Pi Alpha is the national physician assistant
honor society organized for the promotion and
recognition of significant academic achievement,
leadership, research, community & professional
service, and related activities, and the
encouragement of a high standard of character
and conduct among both physician assistant
students and graduates.
Physical Therapy Class of 2011
Physical Therapy is a profession that seeks to
return patients to the highest possible degree of
personal independence. The physical therapist
(PT) works with patients with disabilities of the
muscular, skeletal, neurological, circulatory, and
respiratory systems. Physical therapists are
also involved in prevention programs to assist
people of all ages in maintaining health and
physical fitness.
Lambda Tau CLS Honor Society
To join with the Clinical Laboratory Sciences
National Society to develop a spirit of
cooperation and unity among students
entering any of the fields encompassed by
medical technology; to interest other students
in these fields, and to be a service organization.
AMBER PRAILEY
DPT
“Amber has taken an active role in the Baptist Student Ministry. She is the
physical therapy student representative and provides all physical therapy
students with information on the Hands and Feet Mission trips. In this
role she has shown to be a leader for other students by encouraging them
to step out of their role as a student to take time and give back to others.
She has participated in many mission trips to Laredo and even a trip to
Peru. On these trips she demonstrates compassion for every patient. She
loves and cares for each person and looks beyond their physical needs to
care for each person as a whole. Amber is a loving, caring, and motivating
student. She works hard to help others and gives back to the community.”
Congratulations to all SHP students
nominated for
September and October!
Bency Abraham (SHP-RC)
Melissa Quintanilla (SHP-RC)
Danielle Stowers (SHP-CLS)
Steven Fierro (SHP-CLS)
CONGRATULATIONS TO OUR NEW
SHP STUDENT GOVERNMENT SENATORS!
GURJEET BASRA
PA Studies
JONATHAN RUZICKA
DPT
JAMIE STEWART
PA Studies
DANE RASMUSSEN
MOT
(Alternate)
Student Scoop!
Find the latest announcements and urgent messages! Find forms, UTMB
useful links, the dean’s list, scholarship information, compliance training,
the latest bulletin, past issues of Splash Page, and other student interests.
UTMB Alerts!
Don’t miss the boat! Make sure you are on the phone and email list to
receive the most urgent messages and warnings from UTMB. Click on
UTMB Alerts! and sign up.
Student Occupational
Therapy Association-SOTA
The Student Occupational Therapy Association
(S.O.T.A) advances quality, availability, use and
support of occupational therapy through
education, promotion, service, and fundraising
Professional Journals
Clinical Laboratory Sciences
Occupational Therapy
Physical Therapy
Physician Assistant Studies
Respiratory Care
SHP Upcoming Events Calendar
The UTMB American Red Cross Student Organization helps to
conduct activities to keep students prepared to respond to
disaster and personal emergencies.
Activities of the organization include blood drives, CPR training,
emergency response training, and educating elementary school
students.
This student organization is the first SHP student organization
with inter-school, inter-professional sponsorship. For more
information on joining this organization contact:
Shama Shaukatali
shshauka@utmb.edu
SHP-CLS Class of 2012
American Red Cross Student Organization President
DECEMBER 2011
5-Study Day—No Classes
6-Final Exam Day
7-Final Exam Day
8-Final Exam Day
9-Last Day of Class for Fall 2011
16-Commencement
30-Registration & Fee Payment
Deadline (All Students)
JANUARY 2012
4-Back to school
16-MLK’s Birthday (School Closed)
17-Classes Resume
19-Last day to Add or Drop a Course
19-Online Registration Closes
FEBRUARY 2012
20-President’s Day (School Closed)
21-Classes Resume
MARCH 2012
12-16 SPRING BREAK!
19-Classes Resume
26-Last Day to Withdraw from
Courses with a “W”
APRIL 2012
9-Online Registration Opens
16-Study Day (No Classes)
17-20 FINAL EXAM WEEK
20-Last Day of Class for Spring 2012
30-Classes Begin—Summer 2012
American Red Cross Student Organization
Front Row L to R: Drona Pandeya, Jennifer Rodgers, Sarah
Burnett, Donna Stangeland-Faculty Sponsor, Kajal Patel (front),
Sunitha Abraham, Juan Trujillo. Back Row L to R: Mark Lay,
Shama Shaukatali, Sarah Stover, Callie Giffin, Sehreen Ali,
Navin Parajuli, Charles Chesson
Professional-Looking Clinical Laboratory Sciences Students in the Lab.
Smile! Hold the pose.
Okay—Relax!
Student Organization of Clinical Laboratory Sciences (SOCLS)
BAKE SALE and Henna Body Art Fundraiser
Shama
Shaukatali
and former
CLS student
Nishan Takele
2011 SCHOLARSHIP LUNCHEON
On October 25, the School of Health Professions held its annual scholarship
luncheon at Levin Hall. Dean Betty Protas presided over an event at which
more than $287,000 in scholarships were awarded to existing and incoming
students; 190 students in all. Students, donors, staff and faculty members all
came together to celebrate this wonderful event. Dr. Callender attended and
offered his best wishes to everyone there.
Some of the 190 Scholarship Recipients
L to R: Frieda Davis-University Federal Credit
Union, Andy Kazantsev-CLS, Jill Kaiser-UFCU
Donor and Camellia St. John-CLS
Joanne Davis-Donor, Dana McClain-PA
Studies, & Harry Davis-Donor
CLS Recipients
L to R: Sehreen Ali, Juan Trujillo, Shama Shaukatali,
Hayley Fritsche, Navin Parajuli
CELEBRATING NATIONAL PA WEEK!
Dear School of Health Professions,
Organizing Physician Assistant Week for UTMB was an honor this year. I was super excited about all the
upcoming activities and spreading the word about the PA profession. As such a new profession, PA Week has
played a critical role in educating our community about the importance of physician assistants in the world of health
care.
This year was all about spreading the word. I began by creating a Facebook Page devoted to Texas PA
Week and invited all my friends to join and invite all of their friends. The goal was to unite all the PA Programs and
share our activities with each other and create a resource for future TAPA representatives who will be charged with
organizing PA Week.
https://www.facebook.com/pages/Texas-PA-Week/261643730533929
Check out the article
in the October issue of
IMPACT
PA WEEK 2011
More publicity came in the form of contacting the Galveston Daily News, the local paper, and writing a
letter to the editor about PA Week to be featured on October 6th. The letter, titled “Thank a PA today,” discussed the
importance of the PA profession and the extension of healthcare to underserved areas due to PA dedication and
compassion for patient well-being. We were also able to contact our school publication, Impact, to broadcast PA
Week on the front page of our website as well as through campus email. The faculty also pooled funds to purchase a
huge banner to hang outside of the School of Health Professions (SHP) building advertising PA Week to other
students throughout campus. The SHP building was also covered with smaller posters announcing PA Week.
On Monday, a group photo was taken in front of Old Red on campus with all the PA students with the PA
Week banner. On October 6th, at noon, the newest PA students distributed PayDay (“PA Day”) candy bars at Jamail
and the SHP lobby to inform others about PA’s. The students also hosted a canned food drive benefiting The Jesse
Tree which is a “faith-based, non-profit organization that connects people with the healthcare, social services and
ministerial resources they need to rebuild their lives and uplift their spirits.” This contribution illustrate’s the
compassionate nature of PA’s as a whole.
Finally, personalized thank-you letters were hand written and distributed to each of the UTMB practicing
PA’s and an email with the group photo was also sent out.
Overall, I think this was a very successful PA Week and I can’t wait to help plan more activities for next
year. I hope we can host a PA health clinic for the community for blood pressure and glucose screening and patient
education. The other goal is to organize a PA Week 5K (PAssionate about our Patients) that will become an annual
activity.
Tamra Dee Warner tdwarner@utmb.edu
PA-S University of Texas Medical Branch
Texas Academy of Physician Assistants 2010-2011 Representative
PA CLASSES CELEBRATE ON CAMPUS!
S
L to R: Marybeth Sparks-Bauer, Maggie Harrison,
Sarah Kalina, Anna Clark, and Mindy Li
O
L to R: Stephanie Parlangeli and Nereida Martinez
T
L to R: Calli Liamis, Nhi Nguyen, and Laura Ruis
A
L to R: Jamie Kifer, Danielle Pegues, Colley Scott,
Laura LaRue, Rachel Glasser, and Veronica DiLullo
L to R: Carmen Owen, Kate Christy, and Kristen Hoffmann
SKYBar FUNdraiser!
Student Occupational Therapy
Association held it’s annual fundraiser at
SKYBar in September. They had a great
time with friends and eating sushi!
L to R: Courtney Annis, Rory Autry and Michelle Lindsey
DOCTORATE OF PHYSICAL THERAPY STUDENTS GETTING INVOLVED
DPT - Intramural Soccer Team
L to R: Matt Nguyen, Alex Kurian, Reju Matthew
and Jaisie Stevens
Ronald McDonald House—Kids Face Painting Fun!
L to R: Marco Hernandez, Kristen Cox and Kevin Villarreal
Intramurals Flag Football
The “Lumbricals” Team!
L to R: Chuck Ihli, Tad Scott, Lauren Priestly, Marco Hernandez,
Matt Nguyen and Thad Thibodeaux
DPT Class of 2014 (maybe)
Student Conclave—Annual TPTA Conference
L to R: Danielle Botel, Emily Valdes, Whitney Clancy, Dr. Jennifer
Ellison, Dr. Michael Furtado, Jenna Ruder and Lydia Montes
DPT Students at TPTA Conference
L to R: Ashley Childress, Dawn New-Weeks,
Ashley Grahmann and Danielle Botel
RESPIRATORY CARE WEEK!
October 24, 2011, a few senior Respiratory Care students decided to go to a local high school and
talk about the practice of Respiratory Care. The high school they visited is located in the center of
all the refineries in Texas, Sam Rayburn High School in Pasadena. The senior students
demonstrated what tools RT's use on a daily basis, therapy devices, a LTV 1200 Ventilator, and
healthy lungs vs. damaged lungs. The senior students also shared some of their stories from clinical
rotations. They talked about what units they've worked in, what type of tools they've used and
where they've completed rotations in the Texas Medical Center.
October 26, 2011, two senior students set up an information booth in the cafeteria at John Sealy
Hospital to spread the word about Respiratory Care Week. They had several visitors who asked
about the program and to get their pulse ox reading!
Priya Patel with students
Anika Patel with students
Bency Abraham with students
Melissa Quintanilla with high school students
Anika Patel and Melissa Quintanilla at John Sealy
Cafeteria promoting Respiratory Care
Physician Assistants Fall Semester Extra-Curricular Activities !
PA
Flag
Football
Team
“NECROSIS
FACTOR”
Class of
2013
won its first
match on
October 23rd.
The PA Class of 2013 celebrated Veteran’s Day in style by throwing their first fundraiser
party of the year. A BIG thank you to everyone who came and supported the class!
The PA class of 2013 celebrated Thanksgiving with a potluck luncheon.
Click here to play
holiday games!
YUMMY COOKIE RECIPE’S
Super Chunky Cookies
Homemade Samoas (Caramel de-Lites)
Chocolate Caramel Thumbprint Cookies
Happy Kwanzaa!
Quick Holiday Cookie Bars
Happy Yule!
Chocolate Cheesecake Candy Cane Bars
Oatmeal Cream Cheese Butterscotch Bars
We thought it might be fun for you to read how other
countries around the world celebrate the holidays
with their decorations, traditions and favorite holiday
food recipes! Click on the stockings to explore...
The legend of the poinsettia arises from the
16th century, back to a Christmas Eve in
Mexico. The legend tells the story of a little girl
who was too poor and did not have a gift to
present to Christ. Encouraged to give a humble
gift; she gathered some weeds from the side of
the road. As she arrived at church and
approached the altar, a Christmas miracle
occurred; the weeds bloomed into beautiful red
and green flowers. The flowers were then given
the name Flores de Noche Buena, meaning
"flowers of the holy night."
Other associations tie the poinsettia to
Christmas. It is said that Franciscan friars in
Mexico began using poinsettias as part of their
Christmas celebrations during the 17th
century. It is also believed by many that the
star-shaped leaf pattern on the plant symbolizes
the Star of Bethlehem, and the deep red colors
of the leaves represent the blood of Christ.
Click on the car if you love Hanukka!
The Syndrome yearbook staff is looking for students to help with the 20112012 yearbook! If you are interested in joining the 2012 yearbook staff,
please RSVP to Ericka Hailey at
ekhailey@utmb.edu.
We encourage all SHP Student Organization Historians and
student groups to join.
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campus experience in the School of Health Professions. We welcome your suggestions and your
honest feedback because it identifies areas for improvement or it could be a new idea you would
like to share. Your suggestions will be discussed by our office staff and our SHP Student Advisory
Council.
Won’t you please take a minute and give us your feedback?
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Top row : Darlene Bordelon, Dr. Henry Cavazos and Sherri Walker
Bottom row: Michelle Conley and Mary Ellen Beaupre
Contact The Editor
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Office of Academic and Student Affairs
Phone: (409) 772-3030
Fax: (409) 772-1550
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