VCOM - Virginia 2016 Yearbook

FACULTY AND STAFF

Research Recognition Day; 2016 Feb 26; Blacksburg, Virginia The Effect of Required Academic Support Services on Academic Performance. Presented at the American Association of Colleges of Osteopathic Medicine Annual Conference; 2016 Apr 6-9; Washington, DC. FACULTY

Awarded the VCOM Certificate of Achievement for Excellence in Block 2 Musculoskeletal Anatomy Instruction

Book Reviewer on Contraception; Pharmacotherapy Self-Assessment Program (PSAP) through American College of Clinical Pharmacy. Selected to participate in American Society of Health-Systems Pharmacists Foundation Medical Home Traineeship with the experimental training at Fairview Pharmacy Services in Minneapolis, Minnesota

Skip Garner, PhD Appointed to the Governor’s commission on Bio Business for Virginia. Five journal publications (Visit vcom.edu for more information)

Michelle Napoli, MD Elected to VCOM Faculty Senate Served on the American Medical Society for

Brian Dickens, DO Participated in the SYNC (Community Leadership) Program in Richmond, Virginia Presented “Genetics in Primary Care” with Brian Hill, PhD, at the VOMA

Presentation at the Brazilian Society of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology in Finding and learning from ethical breaches by scientists, June 2016 Presentation at the Supercomputing 2015 meeting in Mining 8,000+ genomes for cancer diagnostics and drug targets, Austin, Texas, November 2015 Presentation at the Fourth World Conference on Research Integrity in Text analytics for ethical research, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, June 2015

Sports Medicine Ultrasound Committee Served on the American Medical Society for Sports Medicine Communications Committee Team Physician – Virginia Tech Presented ‘Return to Play Considerations in a Collegiate Soccer Player with Facial Trauma’ at the 2016 American Medical Society for Sports Medicine Annual Meeting Conference Attendee - 2016 American Medical Society for Sports Medicine Annual Meeting Conference Attendee - NYU’s 2016 Advanced Imaging of the Musculoskeletal System with Emphasis on Sports Injuries Conference

Fall Conference in Roanoke, Virginia Served on Promotion Board, Information Technology Committee and Global Health and Appalachian Outreach Committee Served on the LewisGale Montgomery Graduate Medical Education Committee Ex-officio Member of the Virginia Academy of Family Physicians (VAFP) Board Participated in the October Tegucigalpa, Honduras mission trip and April Santa Rosa, Honduras mission trip Participated in ECEs in Roanoke, Virginia; Stuart, Virginia; and Wytheville, Virginia Applied for a patent on the “Iron Grip” product

Julie Kidd, PharmD Golden Apple Teaching

Award for 2015-2016 Block 6 Golden Pear Award Poster presentation

(presented by Shaadi Elswaifi) at the International Association of Medical

Science Educators (IAMSE) Annual Meeting in Leiden, Netherlands titled ‘A Model for Integrating Material from Four Disciples for Teaching Infectious Disease Topics in the Medical Curriculum’; other authors: Megan Thomas, Arben Santo, Blaise Costa, Cathy Callahan Presented research project entitled “’2nd Year Osteopathic Medical Students’ Exposure to a Community Health Assessment and Implementation Project” at the APTR annual meeting in Albuquerque, New Mexico; other authors: Joseph Kidd, Alexis Stone, Mayra Rodriguez Completed a Patient Centered Medical Home Traineeship through the American Society of Health-Systems Pharmacists Foundation with the experiential training located at Fairview Pharmacy Services in Minneapolis, Minnesota

Selen Olgun, MD, PhD

Ashleigh Prince Dunn, DO Conference participant at the 2016 AACOM Annual Conference in Washington D.C.

Awarded Best Teacher of the Year by Graduate Certificate Premedical Program Students, May 2015 Awarded Certificate of Achievement for Excellence in Block-3 Instruction, June 2016

Poster presentation, “From Cadavers to Cases: Using Adult Learning Theories to Enhance the Laboratory Environment,” at the 2016 AACOM Annual Conference in Washington D.C. Board member for Brain Injury Services of Southwest Virginia VCOM admissions committee member VCOM Student DO of the Year selection committee member

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