Vital SignsCOLLEGE OF HEALTH SCIENCES ANNUAL CHECKUP • WINTER 2011–2012

Dear Friends,

I hope you enjoy reading about the wonderful accomplishments of the University of Wyoming College of Health Sciences’ professional, undergraduate, and graduate students; outstanding faculty and staff; and dedicated alumni and friends. It has been another great year for the college. The faculty, staff, and students continue to be very active in all the areas that contribute to the high quality health care education that has become the expected norm. We are proud of the college’s past and have great expectations for its future. As you will see, this has been a banner year.

Our mission has always been to provide an excellent education for the students enrolled in our various programs of study whether they be undergraduates starting their academic careers or residents or Ph.D. students nearing the end of their studies. All of the activities and accomplishments you will see here focus on one thing, student success, which includes research endeavors, international experiences, and clinical and other service activities.

We develop health care practitioners ready for the rigors of today’s practice environment—the one they will face in the future. The college has distinguished itself by being at the forefront of professional and graduate education. We are known for taking an innovative approach to teaching in the classroom, at clinical sites, and through distance learning. With the generous support of our alumni, friends, and state, we have been able to stay current with modern health care teaching in all of the divisions. Additionally, we continue to explore avenues of offering new health care programs to meet state shortages and provide opportunities for our students.

The college continues to meet its mission of education, scholarship, and service. There are four distinct areas of scholarship: discovery, integration, application, and teaching, and in this report, you will see that faculty members are heavily involved in all of them. Each year, Research Day in April showcases our students’ and faculty members’ excellence in this area. Dr. Porter’s food dignity research, Dr. Clark’s research in nanoparticles, and the cardiovascular research conducted by C-CRAM are highlighted in this issue but are only a few of the college’s many active research projects.

As you will also see, our students and faculty are committed to service. They provide needed care to citizens regardless of ability to pay. They reach out to the community

MESSAGE FROM DEAN JOSEPH STEINER

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through their involvement in health fairs. Several brigades of faculty and students travel to other countries to provide needed services and to learn in a different culture. You will learn that our dream of building a clinic in Agua Salada Honduras is taking shape.

I hope you enjoy reading this report. As a member of the college, you share in these accomplishments. The tradition of excellence continues with our current students and graduates, something of which I hope you, too, are proud. A big “Thank You” to all those who provided financial support: It makes a huge difference in the lives of our students. Please feel free to contact me to discuss any of the report contents or any concerns regarding the college.

Best wishes,

Joseph F. Steiner, Pharm.D.Dean and Professor

AdministrAtionJoseph F. Steiner, Pharm.D.Dean(307) 766-6556

David L. Jones, Ph.D.Associate DeanAcademic Affairs(307) 766-6427

Jun Ren, Ph.D.Associate DeanResearch(307) 766-6120

D. Paul Thomas, Ph.D.Associate DeanPlanning and Development(307) 766-5285

divisionsMary E. Burman, Ph.D.Dean/DirectorFay W. Whitney School of Nursing(307) 766-4291

Mark T. Byra, Ph.D.DirectorDivision of Kinesiology and Health(307) 766-5284

David A. Driggers, M.D.DirectorMedical Education(307) 766-2113

Rex E. Gantenbein, Ph.D.DirectorCenter for Rural Health Research and Education(307) 766-6544

William E. MacLean, Jr., Ph.D.Executive DirectorWyoming Institute for Disabilities(307) 766-2761

Matthew McEchron, Ph.D.DirectorWWAMI Medical Education Program(307) 766-2496

Ronald L. Malm, D.O.DirectorFamily Medicine Residency Program/Cheyenne(307) 777-7911

Victoria Murdock, Ph.D.DirectorDivision of Social Work(307) 766-6112

Beth C. Robitaille, M.D.DirectorFamily Medicine Residency Program/Casper(307) 233-6000

Lisa H. Shipley, M.A.ManagerStudent Affairs(307) 766-6704

Teresa A. Ukrainetz, Ph.D.DirectorDivision of Communication Disorders(307) 766-6427 John H. Vandel, R.Ph.Dean/DirectorSchool of Pharmacy(307) 766-6120

Vital SignS stAffEditor Virginia L. Cole, M.A., (307) 766-3695

Graphic Designer Elizabeth Ono Rahel

Contributing Editors Claire Hitchcock Chloe Jones Lisa Shipley, M.A.

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STUDENT NEWSCATHERINE “CATTIE” BROWN: MISS WyOMING 2011Catherine “Cattie” Brown, who earned her master’s degree in speech/language pathology in 2011, served as Miss Wyoming 2011. During the talent portion of the Miss America pageant, Cattie performed a pop vocal/American Sign Language interpretation, and during her reign, she traveled around the state promoting her “platform”—traumatic brain injury awareness. Thank you, Cattie, for your outstanding representation of the state, the university, the College of Health Sciences, and the Division of Communication Disorders!

ELLBOGEN OUTSTANDING GRADUATE ASSISTANT

Jadrian Rawlings, a graduate family nurse practitioner student and Fay W. Whitney School of Nursing (FWWSON) graduate assistant from Laramie, received the John P. Ellbogen Outstanding Graduate Assistant Teaching Award, UW’s highest award for student teacher

excellence. According to Mary Burman, Dean of the FWWSON, “Jadrian’s enthusiasm for teaching and her background in clinical practice have benefitted her greatly as a teacher.” Holly Miller, Senior Lecturer of Nursing and Rawlings’ faculty supervisor, added, “She is patient, energetic, organized, thorough, efficient, and knowledgeable….I continually hear wonderful feedback from each and every one of her students. She is everything we want in a clinical instructor!”

K&H STUDENT RECEIvES DIvERSITy AWARDSydney Ezell, a kinesiology and health promotion major from Cheyenne, received the 2011 Willena Stanford Commitment to Diversity Award. According to coordinator John Nutter, “The award, created by the Martin Luther King, Jr. March and Days of Dialogue Steering Committee, recognizes a student who has made significant contributions to increase awareness of diversity and the richness it brings to the UW community.” Ezell is a past president of the Associated Black Student Leaders and a member of Movimiento Estudiantil Chicanos de Atzlan, a national organization that seeks to promote Chicano unity and empowerment through education and political action. One of Ezell’s nominators noted, “What is most striking to me is Sydney’s genuine interest in and curiosity about all cultures, which would seem to me to be the true aim of diversity education—understanding respect. Sydney truly lives in a way that values the many different cultures and beliefs within our university community.” Another nominator wrote, “She strives every day to expose others to diversity. She invites people to programs and shares her experience as a young African American woman growing up in Wyoming.”

NATHAN FULLER: CHAMPION SWIMMERPharmacy student Nathan Fuller from Brighton, Colorado, was named to the All Mountain West Conference (MWC) swimming and diving team in recognition of his performance in the 200 backstroke during the MWC Swimming and Diving Championships. Bruce Culver, Professor

Jadrian Rawlings, Elbogen Outstanding Graduate Assistant

Sydney Ezell (right), winner of the 2011 Willena Stanford Commitment to Diversity Award

Nathan Fuller, All Mountain West Conference swimmer

“Cattie” Brown (center) with Communication Disorders Professors Mary Hardin-Jones and David L. Jones

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of Pharmacology, says, “I value Nathan as both a lab assistant and a TA. He is an excellent worker and has made significant contributions to our group. I hope he can continue to work with us. I look forward to watching Nathan progress as a pharmacy student and hope he continues to achieve success in his academic career.”

SHERIEDAN GRANNAN HONORED FOR COMMITMENT TO PUBLIC HEALTHSheriedan Grannan, an Accelerated Bachelor of Science in Nursing (BRAND) student from Cheyenne, was awarded the Wyoming Public Health Association Memorial Student Scholarship for an Outstanding Student in Public Health. The award, which was formerly known as the Raella Gustafson Award, was established in 2005 by the Wyoming Public Health Association to honor individuals pursuing higher education and distinguishing themselves through their leadership, commitment, and contributions to public health.

AMERICAN KINESIOLOGy ASSOCIATION NATIONAL UNDERGRADUATE SCHOLARNicole Strom, a kinesiology and health student from Rock Springs, was selected as an American Kinesiology Association (AKA) National Undergraduate Scholar for 2011. The award honors a select number of students with distinctive academic and leadership records. Nominated by faculty, recipients have demonstrated an exceptional interest in the field of kinesiology by undertaking independent or guided research, assuming leadership positions, and volunteering to serve in various kinesiology-related endeavors. According to AKA President T. Gilmour Reeve, Strom is “an outstanding young professional who is dedicated to improving the lives of individuals with disabilities. Her selfless caring and involvement in this area of our profession will no doubt have a lasting impact on both the individuals with whom she works and our field, as well.”

WAL-MART SCHOLARPharmacy student Sara Lookabill from Laramie is one of 75 national recipients of the American Association of Colleges of Pharmacy (AACP) Wal-Mart Scholars Awards. The goal of the scholarship is to strengthen “the recipient’s skills and commitment to a career in academic pharmacy through participation in the programming and activities at the 2011 AACP Annual Meeting and Seminars.” With their $1,000 travel awards, Lookabill and her mentor Suzanne Clarke, Assistant Professor of Pharmacology, attended the AACP meeting held in San Antonio. According to Clarke, Lookabill is “an outstanding student and a very good recipient of the award that helps bright, hard-working students consider academics.”

WILLITS AWARD WINNERSPharmacy students Juanita Lynette Bonner and Jessica Hopper from Laramie and their mentor Penelope Caldwell, Assistant Lecturer of Nursing, received the first Willits Ethics Summer Independent Study Awards from UW’s Department of Philosophy. The award was established to encourage and assist students in any UW discipline to pursue a research or creative activity that includes a substantial ethics component. Bonner, Hopper, and Caldwell used their $3,000 stipends to continue their medical mission work with UW’s “Shoulder to Shoulder” Honduras Brigade. Since spring of 2007, the brigade has been delivering quality health care to the local people of Agua Salada, Honduras, people who otherwise would have none. Since its establishment in 2007, the task force has steadily grown and presents valuable experiences that have challenged students on many levels and made lasting impressions on their lives and careers as they have worked to improve medical care in the isolated Honduran village. Ed Sherline, Associate Professor and Head of the Department of Philosophy, congratulated the group for their “very strong project”—“Ethics and Medical Mission Work in Honduras.”

Sheriedan Grannan, Outstanding Student in Public Health Wal-Mart Scholar Sara Lookabill

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RESEARCHFOOD DIGNITy: DREAMING BIG , DIGGING DEEPChristine M. Porter, Assistant Professor of Public Health, Food Systems, Ethics, and Community-based Participatory Research in the Division of Kinesiology and Health (K&H), is actively pursuing her dream—“Food Dignity: Action Research on Engaging Food Insecure Communities and Universities in Building Sustainable Community Food Systems”—a $5-million, multi-state project funded by the US Department of Agriculture’s Agriculture and Food Research Initiative Competitive Grant Program. The project’s extension portion includes five community food initiatives—two in Wyoming, one in California, and two in New York. Simply stated, the project investigates the premise that “we can grow, process, and sell our own food. The more we localize food systems, the more local jobs we create and the fresher our food is when it reaches our plates.” In addition to the extension portion, the project also involves research focusing on what each community has already done and what factors influence their successes and failures. The third portion—education—aims to create new cross-disciplinary undergraduate minors in sustainable food systems at UW and Cornell University. Managing the three parts requires coordination and persistence, two of Porter’s stellar qualities as she and her colleagues seek to establish preliminary research showing that medium-sized agricultural producers are more productive than industrial-scale farms and tend to be more attentive to ecological and community sustainability. For updates, please visit www.foddignity.org.

C-CRAM: EIGHT yEARS OF OUTSTANDING RESEARCHThe Center for Cardiovascular Research and Alternative Medicine (C-CRAM) was founded in April 2004 with the purpose of fostering greater interdisciplinary activities in the fields of alternative and cardiovascular medical research at UW. Since its beginning, C-CRAM, with the College of Health Sciences as its home college, has established solid relationships with the college’s divisions and with UW’s departments of animal sciences, zoology and physiology, and molecular biology. Its team approach has truly paid off with its recruitment of research funding for breakthrough studies of hypertension, cancer treatment, and diabetes control. Sreejayan Nair, Associate Professor of Pharmacology, is the center’s director. Members of the group have published articles in hundreds of national and national medical and pharmaceutical journals and presented results of their research at numerous prominent national and international conferences and seminars. C-CRAM also successfully recruits extramural funding and fellowships to foster students’ careers, education, teaching, and scholarly exchange.

SUzANNE CLARK TO WORK WITH URANIUM RESEARCH PROGRAMSuzanne Clark, Assistant Professor of Pharmacology, was awarded $100,000 to investigate the use of cupric oxide nanoparticles to remove arsenic from production

Alexa Naschold admires cabbages in a community garden in Ithaca, New york

C–CRAM faculty and students take a well-deserved break from their intense research and scholarship

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bleed water in the In-Situ Recovery (ISR) of Uranium Research Program. The program will seek to predict the degree of natural attenuation of uranium and other constituents of concern as groundwater migrates down gradient from Cameco Resources’ Smith Ranch-Highland near Douglas, the largest uranium production facility in the United States. The ISR method of extracting uranium is the most widely used technique in the U.S. today. According to Paul Goranson, President of Cameco Resources, the involvement with and support of the Wyoming legislature demonstrates that “Wyoming is demonstrating it is committed to strong, responsible economic growth that protects our natural resources.”

Satellite photo of Smith Ranch Wellfield

PROGRAM UPDATESMINOR IN AGING STUDIESThe field of geriatric health is developing rapidly as the number of Wyoming’s and the nation’s older adults continues to grow. According to the Department of Health and Human Services, Administration on Aging, nearly a quarter of Wyoming residents will be aged 60 and over by 2015, and that ratio is projected to reach 32% by 2030. In response to the scope of the needs of this sector of the population and the number and variety of professionals required to adequately meet those needs, a minor in aging studies is offered through the College of Health Sciences (CHS) to all UW students. According

to Kelly Hubbell, a lecturer with the WWAMI Medical Education Program, “In addition to those students already pursuing health sciences careers, this minor will be relevant to students in other degree programs such as structural design, mechanical and civil engineering, art, music, agriculture, and business.” Deb Fleming, Director of the Wyoming Geriatric Education Center, adds, “We are excited to see the CHS show leadership in the area of aging studies. There is tremendous personal and professional satisfaction associated with working with older adults.” The required core courses for this rewarding minor are Medical Terminology, Fundamentals of Aging, and an Internship, but the electives range from courses in psychology to sociology and pharmacy to philosophy. (Please see the related articles: “Improving Health Literacy in Older Adults” in the New Programs section and “Alzheimer’s Disease Training,” “Understanding Aging,” and “WyGEC’s “Gray Matters” in the Service section.)

A HEALTH CLINIC FOR HONDURASThe University of Wyoming seeks to serve the people of Agua Salada, Honduras, by building a sustainable health care system for the isolated community. The goal is to provide a unique and valuable cross-cultural, interdisciplinary, service-learning experience for students from the health sciences disciplines and others throughout the UW community. The vision is to improve health outcomes among the people in this

Deb Fleming (right, WyGEC Director) speaks to first-year health professions students about myths and stigmas affecting older adults

remote and mountainous region of South America by providing health care, public health, dental care, nutrition, and education, with efforts in partnership with Shoulder-to-Shoulder, a private, non-profit, non-governmental organization that has been well established in Honduras since 1990. The goal and vision are lofty, but real, down-to-earth progress has been made: brigade visits are becoming more numerous, the volunteers continue to increase in number and professional expertise, construction of the building has begun, and the local people work diligently with brigade members and fellow villagers to make their dream a reality. It is difficult to avoid hyperbole when discussing and describing this outreach, but the physical and emotional/spiritual results cannot be overstated.

Nothing about the project is easy. Getting to the site requires two full days and nights of travel—first by air, then by bus, and finally by truck over rugged terrain with few or no physical amenities. When the volunteers arrive, usually in the middle of the night, they must pitch their tents, sleep on the ground, and get up and to work when inhabitants and livestock rise early to begin their day. (There is no “Week of Welcomes”!) Other institutions and universities have similar missions to similar sites, but many of those groups live in dormitories. The philosophy of UW’s group is quite different: members become part of the local community they serve and share the indigenous social and professional life. This explains in part, perhaps, the pleasure with which UW’s contingent is greeted each time it returns. It must also be a principal incentive inspiring the volunteers to treat an

average of 600 patients of all ages during their average four-and-a-half-day stays.

CRHRE RECEIvES FCC FUNDINGWith grant funding from the Federal Communications Commission (FCC), the Center for Rural Health Research and Education (CRHRE) will bolster high-speed Internet connections in 37 Wyoming hospitals and mental health clinics. The expanded service is a joint project of CRHRE and the Wyoming Telehealth Consortium. According to CRHRE Director Rex Gantenbein, the project “opens up an opportunity for Wyomingites in rural areas to receive specialty medical care or mental health care without having to travel great distances and incur lost wages through having to take time away from work. Telehealth services can range from direct clinical services such as mental health counseling to consultations between local practitioners and specialists at larger facilities located in or out of state.” CRHRE instructional specialist Bob Wolverton adds, “Almost any medical specialty can be provided across a telemedicine connection.”

The clinic in Agua Salada is becoming a reality, not just a dream

The CRHRE is recognized throughout Wyoming as a leader in using technology to support health care.

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ExCEPTIONAL COLLEGE FACULTy AND STAFFEach year, the college recognizes exceptional faculty and staff. It’s a pleasure to share the names of this year’s recipients.

outstanding teacher: Michelle Jarman, Assistant Professor of Disabilities Studies, WIND

innovation in teaching: Kem Krueger, Associate Professor of Pharmacy

meritorious service: Sandy Root-Elledge, Associate Director for Program Development, WIND

outstanding researcher: Jun Ren, Professor of Pharmacology, Associate Dean of Research, and Director of Wyoming INBRE

new investigator: Douglas Petersen, Assistant Professor of Communication Disorders

outstanding staff: Jennifer Martin, Office Associate for Academics, K&H; and Ray Gable, Information Technology Support

interprofessional/interdisciplinary Award: Colleen “Kelly” Hubbell, Associate Lecturer, WWAMI

outstanding Career Achievement: Linda Gore Martin, Associate Professor of Social and Admini- strative Pharmacy

WIND ASSISTIvE TECHNOLOGy RESOURCESThe Wyoming Institute for Disabilities (WIND) Assistive Technology Resources (WATR) offers statewide technology-related assistance through coordination and support of a wide range of activities and services to Wyoming residents with disabilities. The staff is dedicated to providing current and high quality information about assistive technology devices to facilitate participation in life activities. WATR’s activities are impressively diverse and numerous: device demonstrations, assessments and evaluations, equipment loans and reutilization, and alternative financing; and its mission is to create a unique system that works for the individual. Please contact 1-888-989-9463 or watr@uwyo.edu.

Exceptional faculty and staff of the College of Health Sciences (front row, left to right) Kelley Hubbell and Linda Gore Martin; (back row, left to right) Sandy Root-Elledge, Michelle Jarman, Jun Ren, Douglas Petersen, Jennifer Martin, and Ray Gable. Not pictured—Kem Krueger

WATR’s Kathy McWhorter (left) and Gisele Knopf (right) explain uses and benefits of assistive devices to two young clients

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Two of the FWWSON’s new simulation manikins

NURSING’S CLINICAL SIMULATION CENTERThe Fay W. Whitney School of Nursing (FWWSON) received four new top-of-the-line, high-fidelity simulation manikins. With the new teaching models, the FWWSON’s Clinical Simulation Center is now among the most technologically advanced nursing education labs in the country. The simulators improve students’ clinical performance, assessment results, and patient care. This is great news for UW’s nursing students and their future patients.

2011 GRAND ROUNDS/RESEARCH DAyThe college’s 2011 Grand Rounds/Research Day was very rewarding. Those attending heard from keynote speakers David L. Shern, Ph.D., and Pamela R. Fuller, Ph.D.; Diane Kempson, Ph.D., and Vicki Murdock, Ph.D., from the Division of Social Work; and Mary Anne Purtzer, Ph.D., and Dana Murphy-Parker, M.S., from the Fay W. Whitney School of Nursing. The day also featured student poster presentations on subjects ranging from biomedical and clinical outcome studies, local and regional surveys, and drug literature reviews to investigations of rural health issues. Faculty grant-in-aid and travel awards were given, and Communication Disorders students Christine DeGeorge from Phoenix, Arizona, and Jennifer Zebre from Kemmerer; Kinesiology and Health students Rashmi Pacha Ravi from Laramie, Jamie Scarcliff from Arvada, Colorado, and Megan Sexton from Laramie; and pharmacy student Xihui Xu from Laramie received student travel awards. A heartfelt thank-you goes to the members of the college’s Research Committee for their hard work in affording university personnel and local residents the opportunity to experience a wide range of research interests and personalities.

Students present research results during Grand Rounds

DIvISION OF SOCIAL WORK GRANTED EIGHT-yEAR REAFFIRMATIONThe Division of Social Work continues its eight-year reaffirmation by the Council on Social Work Education (CSWE). According to Division Director Vicki Murdock, the division continues to strengthen its focus on CSWE’s 10 core competencies: professionalism, ethics, critical thinking, diversity, human rights and social justice, research, human behavior, policy, context, and practice. She adds that “our team of field faculty assists students in the critical area of field education in sites across the state from Gillette to Rock Springs and Powell to Cheyenne. The division also sponsored international study and/or service to Guam, Kenya, and Honduras.”

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Faculty and staff from the Division of Communication Disorders show off their new shirts and vests

AROUND THE COLLEGE

Students join faculty in research projects

Students in many divisions sign honor pledges to their chosen health professions

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Students line up before Fall Graduation

Faculty and students enjoy beneficial interaction

Students receive hands-on training under professional supervision

College faculty share research expertise

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ALUMNI AND FRIENDS OF THE yEAR The college is proud of the accomplishments of its alumni. They are truly outstanding in their communities and professions. The college is also indebted to its friends for their support in making us strong and successful. It was therefore a privilege to honor them during a reception on October 14.

Gary M. Poteet, O.D., who received his bachelor’s degree in exercise and sport science from UW in 1987, is the 2011 outstanding alumnus for the Division of Kinesiology and Health. He later earned his master’s from Central Missouri State University in Warrensburg and then his Doctor of Optometry from the University of Missouri, St. Louis. Since 1996, he has been with Snowy Range Vision Clinic in Laramie and is involved with the Rocky Mountain Lions Eye Tissue Bank in Laramie as an active researcher and presenter. Poteet is a Fellow of the American Academy of Optometry, the Allied Health Professional Staff-Optometrist at Ivinson Memorial Hospital, and member of many national and international optometric organizations.

Justin L. Hopkin, M.D., is the 2011 Medical Education Program’s outstanding alumnus. While working toward his bachelor’s degree in zoology and physiology, he played football as a safety for the Wyoming Cowboys and was a member of Phi Beta Kappa Honor Society. After finishing medical school at the University of Washington through the WWAMI program, he performed his

ALUMNI NEWSresidency training in internal medicine at the University of Colorado Health Sciences Center in Denver. He is currently a hospitalist and internal medicine physician in Lander where he serves as a preceptor and instructor in WWAMI’s Rural Underserved Opportunities Training Program and its Rural Integrated Teaching Experience.

Brigid Mulloy, the Fay W. Whitney School of Nursing’s 2011 alumna of the year, began her career as a nurse midwife on the economically depressed, predominantly Hawaiian island of Molokai. She was later asked to become Director of the Women’s Health Center at Molokai General Hospital. During her tenure, she received the prestigious “Healthy Mothers, Healthy Babies” Award for her exceptional contributions to the health of Hawaii’s women and children and developed Molokai’s first sexual assault response team. In addition to her professional activities, Mulloy continues the research support for the work begun on Easter Island by her father, the late UW anthropology professor William Mulloy.

Scot Silber, the 2011 outstanding alumnus from the School of Pharmacy, graduated from UW in 1982 and credits UW with giving him “the ground work and tools [he] needed to be successful in the real world.” Silber is certainly a prosperous businessman, but he is dedicated to improving the quality of life for children diagnosed with life-threatening or critical illnesses such as cancer, HIV/AIDS, sickle cell, and hemophilia. In recognition of that dedication, he received the

(From left) Dean Steiner, WWAMI’s Matthew McEchron, and Justin L. Hopkin during alumni of the year reception

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prestigious Bowl of Hygeia Award for the state of Nevada in 2002. According to Dean John Vandel, “Scot Silber epitomizes the role of a professional pharmacist in his compassionate caring for others. In addition, he cares for the students who are following him.”

Jeanette Skinner, the Division of Social Work’s 2011 Outstanding Alumna, received her MSW from UW in 2007. She currently works at Laramie’s Ivinson Memorial Hospital, where she is known as the “social worker on the run.” It is also noted, however, that she always stops, listens to, and helps all who need her.

The College of Health Sciences was formed from a variety of departments located in a variety of buildings across campus. Mary Gullikson and the late Win Hickey, the 2011 Friends of the College, recognized the unifying concept of the college—the improvement and maintenance of the physical and social health of the citizens of Wyoming—and by combining their creativity and dedication, led the long-term effort to make the concept a reality. With their many professional and social contacts, they made the college and its impressive achievements in teaching innovation, research, and service known and appreciated throughout the state. Their dedication also led to the renovation of the Biochem Building to become the Health Sciences Center, the permanent home for the college. The center, with its many research and teaching facilities, stands as physical proof of the state’s, university’s, and college’s commitment to providing exceptional health care and wellness maintenance, research, and service.

Michael Jording taught for the Wyoming Family Residency Program and was on the Wyoming Medical Society Board of Trustees for eight years. He is dedicated to furthering the scholarship opportunities for Wyoming residents interested in pursuing medical careers. He is also deeply interested in Wyoming history and has written several books on the subject, including A Few Interested Residents: Wyoming Historical Markers and Monuments in 1992. He was honored as a 2011 distinguished alumnus of the University of Wyoming. The college honored him as a physician and friend dedicated to furthering the health care of the citizens of Wyoming.

WENDALL GASTON RECEIvES HUBERT H. HUMPHREy AWARDWendall F. Gaston, BSP ’76, from Sidney, Nebraska, received the Hubert H. Humphrey Award from the American Pharmacy Association (APhA) in recognition

of his lifelong dedication to the pharmaceutical profession and his active participation in government and legislative service. Gaston, who has received more than 200 civic and professional awards, is a well-known national motivational speaker, and currently serves on the Advisory Board of UW’s School of Pharmacy. Gaston was officially acknowledged during the APhA Annual Meeting and Exposition held in Seattle, Washington.

K&H GRADUATES “GIvE BACK TO WyOMING”Kinesiology and Health (K&H) graduates Mark Elliott and Corey Hamrick are “giving back to Wyoming” by staying in the state and teaching physical education at Sheridan High School. Mark, who was born in Casper and raised in Pinedale, received his bachelor’s degree from K&H in 1994 and his master’s degree from the United States Sports Academy in 2009. In addition to his teaching duties, Mark has coached varsity football and track and girls’ basketball. Corey, a “true Wyoming kid,” was born and raised in Wheatland and earned both his bachelor’s and master’s degrees at UW. He maintains warm relationships with his former professors, whom he calls “great people and great educators,” and thrives on his teaching and coaching opportunities. Jayne Jenkins, Associate Professor of K&H, feels “privileged” to have worked with Mark and Cory and says, “[They] demonstrate the ultimate professionalism in physical education. They love teaching so much that they don’t want to be parted from their own students every year. They are truly dedicated to teaching physical education to all children.”

K&H graduates Mark Elliott and Corey Hamrick “give back to Wyoming”

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HEALTH CARE CAREERS 2011 SUMMER CAMPThe pioneer Health Care Careers Summer Camp organized by the Wyoming Area Health Education Center (AHEC) was a great hit with participants, presenters, and Wyoming high school career counselors. According to AHEC Director Marivern Easton, the camp provided students with the opportunity to explore numerous health careers through interactive activities and observation. As one camper wrote, “It was awesome to be able to explore ALL health careers, even the ones I thought I wasn’t interested in.” Wyoming, like many rural states, faces a critical shortage of health care workers. To help meet that challenge, the camp is part of the state’s efforts to identify, recruit, train, and retain Wyoming health care providers.

FIRST SHOWCASE SATURDAyThe college’s first Showcase Saturday was a huge success. With demonstrations, tours, and mock classes, faculty, students, and staff from each division of the college introduced prospective students and their families to the varied and challenging world of health care professions.

College personnel were impressed with the caliber of the potential students, and as the following comments demonstrate, the students were impressed with all they heard and saw and the many people they met: “Everyone made us feel welcome from beginning to end. The mock classes were very informative, the professors were easy to talk to, and the tour was excellent. Thank you

Two Health Care Careers Campers before going into surgery

Prospective health sciences students and their parents were welcomed to the first Showcase Saturday

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for making this an enjoyable and worthwhile event”; “It was great! My parents and I received a lot of useful information, and now I know what I have to do to pursue my career dreams. Thank you!”

IMPROvING HEALTH LITERACy IN OLDER ADULTSLinda Gore Martin, Associate Professor of Social and Administrative Pharmacy, and Tonja M. Woods, Clinical Associate Professor of Pharmacy Practice, received $55,000 from the Wyoming Department of Health Aging Division to fund their project “Improving Health Literacy through Medication Management in Older Adults.” The two work with pharmacists and senior centers throughout Wyoming to improve

New program designed to improve medication-related health outcomes in the state’s older adults

medication-related health outcomes in the state’s older adults. Health literacy is the degree to which individuals have the capacity to obtain, process, and understand basic health information and services needed to make appropriate health decisions. Health literacy is not simply the ability to read. It requires a complex group of reading, listening, analytical, and decision-making skills and the ability to apply these skills to health situations.

ASPIRE!Aspire!, the program to encourage, promote, and nurture scholarship, leadership, and professionalism in the college’s future health care professionals, is off and running. Four Kinesiology and Health Aspire! students are already enjoying some of the perks of the program, including a trip to the National Kinesiology Organization through the American College of Sports Medicine. While there, the students learned strategies to promote physical activity and fitness. Aspire! students from the Fay W. Whitney School of Nursing (FWWSON) are scheduled to begin in spring 2012 their activities. The early success of the program is exciting, and all divisions look forward to joining the program.

FACULTy NEWSNEW FACULTyThe college is proud of its new 2012 faculty. Elizabeth Goodwin and Kimberly Raska are assistant lecturers in the Fay W. Whitney School of Nursing, and Barbara J. Phillips is the school’s newest assistant professor. Goodwin and Raska earned their master’s degrees from UW, while Phillips earned her Ph.D. in nursing informatics from the University of Colorado. All are familiar with UW and Laramie and are eager to work with and get to know their new students and colleagues.

Karen Lux, Assistant Professor of Physical Education Teacher Education in the Division of Kinesiology and Health, investigates the socio-political factors influencing the work lives of physical education teachers. Specifically, she studies the low status and marginalization of physical education as subject matter in schools, how PE teachers navigate these obstacles in their work environments, and how teaching a low status subject affects the nature of PE teachers’ work.

Mark Guiberson is the newest assistant professor in the Division of Communication Disorders. He received

his Ph.D. from Colorado State University and focuses his research on screening, assessment, and intervention practices with families of young linguistically diverse children. He maintains membership in several speech/language associations and has published articles in many national and international journals.

Baskaran Thyagarajan, Assistant Professor of Pharmaceutics, earned his Ph.D. in pharmacy from Karl-Franzens University of Graz in Austria. He has published numerous articles and abstracts and received several awards for his research about neurodegenerative diseases such as muscular dystrophy. Lanae Salverson, Clinical Assistant Professor of Pharmacy Practice, earned her Pharm.D. from UW and completed a residency at the Wyoming Medical Center in Casper (WMCC). Her practice setting is WMCC, and her research focuses on medication therapy management and family medicine.

Bethany Cutts and Joanne Theobald are Social Work’s new assistant lecturers. Cutts has been a social worker in various non-profit settings for nine years, taking on different roles as an advocate, a direct service provider, and a clinical supervisor and program manager. She

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has worked with diverse populations ranging from children to adults and families and groups and is an assistant field coordinator for the division from her office in UW/CC Social Work Department. Theobald brings a lengthy practical experience to the division, experience that includes expertise as a therapist is trauma and eating disorders. She is a regular member of UW’s Medical Brigade to Honduras and finds that she is “really energized by teaching.”

Cynthia “Cindy” Works, M.D., amassed a wealth of experience practicing third-world medicine and HIV/AIDS management for 14 years before returning to her native Casper to join the Family Practice Residency Program/Casper (FPRP/Casper) as its new clinical assistant professor. She has become the cornerstone of the program’s geriatrics rotation and performs nursing home visits, home visits, geriatric assessment team clinics, and memory (dementia) clinics. Burl Mauer, LCSW, has joined the FPRP/Casper as its behaviorist. Since receiving his master’s degree from the University of Georgia, he has worked in Casper for the last 17 years in a variety of health care settings, including hospice, home health, dialysis, and nursing homes. His interests include working with depression, anxiety, and personality disorders.

PETERSEN AND DECHERT PART OF UW DELEGATION TO UNIvERSIDAD DE vALLE DE GUATEMALADivision of Communication of Disorders faculty Douglas Petersen, Assistant Professor, and Christiane Dechert, Assistant Lecturer, joined the UW delegation to the Universidad de Valle de Guatemala (UVG) in early 2011.UW has an existing relationship with the private university in Guatemala. Petersen and Dechert joined representatives from Information Technology and the Colleges of Business, Agriculture, Engineering, and Education and met with members of several UVG departments, including psychology, special education, and literacy development. The Division of Communication Disorders hopes to develop collaborative programs with UVG, including taking students there for audiology and speech clinics, sending students there for a semester abroad, and receiving UVG students here for a semester on the UW campus. Because 40% of Guatemalan children drop out of school by third grade, only 10% graduate from high school, and the literacy rate is low, especially among indigenous populations, the need for services of this kind in the small South American country cannot be overstated.

Douglas Petersen and Christiane Dechert (center) joined the UW delegation to the Universidad de valle de Guatemala

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FAy W. WHITNEy HONORED By UNIvERSITy OF SyRACUSEFay W. Whitney, Professor Emerita of Nursing, received the Honorary Alumni Award from the College of Nursing and Alumni Association at Upstate Medical University in Syracuse, New York. Whitney was honored for her many years as a faculty member of the college and one of the founders of the Upstate Nurse Practitioner (NP) Program, a four-track program educating adult, pediatric, gerontology, and first acute care NPs.

JENNEy GARCIA: AGNES MILSTEAD DISTINGUISHED LIBRARIAN AWARDJenny Garcia, Health Sciences Reference Librarian, received the Agnes Milstead Distinguished Librarian Award in recognition of her significant contributions to the UW Libraries through scholarship of librarianship, distinctive work with faculty and students, and improving the access to the scholarly record for the UW community, specific groups, and the state of Wyoming. Garcia works with health sciences classes to develop modules tailored to the needs of nursing, pharmacy, kinesiology and health, communication disorders, and pre-medicine students. In her meetings with students to guide them through research strategies, her one-on-one instruction is invaluable. Mary Burman, Dean of the Fay W. Whitney School of Nursing, noted Garcia’s passion for helping students and faculty, and Janelle Krueger, Director of Experiential Education in the School of Pharmacy, said, “[Garcia] puts people at ease, and I always look forward to my opportunities to interact with her.” Garcia has also developed an excellent and relevant collection of medical references and texts for the college and serves as the Coordinator of the Wyoming Geriatric Education Center’s online resource center.

Fay W. Whitney honored by Upstate Medical University in Syracuse, Ny

SERvICEALzHEIMER’S DISEASE TRAININGThe Wyoming Geriatric Education Center (WyGEC) presented a free two-hour training on Alzheimer’s Disease (AD). The session, which was inspired by the HBO documentary series “The Alzheimer’s Project,” provided concise information on the latest research advances and topics related to caring for individuals with AD. There is real hope in new strategies for identification of drugs and behavior that not only alleviate symptoms of Alzheimer’s but also intervene in the onset and progression of precious memory loss.

BETTER HEARING AND SPEECH MONTH ACTIvITIESClinical supervisors and graduate students in the Division of Communication Disorders sponsored “May Is Better Hearing and Speech Month” activities at UW’s Lab School. During the week, participants provided information on the prevention of communication disorders, advocated for speech-language pathology and

audiology services and clientele, and served refreshments to the school’s teachers and staff. The division also sponsored its annual Silent Signing Party. During the get-together organized by Lucy Carter, Associate Lecturer of American Sign Language, division faculty

WyGEC presented a free training inspired by the HBO series “The Alzheimer’s Project”

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AED members hosted a very successful MS Walk

and students joined students and staff from the Deaf Program at Laramie’s Cathedral Home for Children for pizza and drinks provided by Papa John’s Pizza and Pepsi of Laramie.

FIFTH ANNuAL COLLEGE OF HEALTH SCIENCES HEALTH FAIRThe fifth annual College of Health Sciences Health Fair, which was coordinated by students in the School of Pharmacy with participation by other divisions within the college and many local health care organizations, was held in late October. Activities and services, including blood glucose screening testing, osteoporosis screening, and sexual and reproductive health information, were provided. Pharmacy students conducted a prescription drug take back program for unneeded medications, nursing students performed blood pressure checks, and Communication Disorders offered hearing testing. As always, the fair was well attended and well organized, and next year’s event has already been slated.

LARAMIE MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS (MS) WALKThe Laramie Multiple Sclerosis Walk, promoted by UW’s chapter of Alpha Epsilon Delta (AED), a national honorary for students interested in pre-professional health careers, attracted 200 participants and raised

Participants of the Silent Signing Party

$17,350. The proceeds will benefit Laramie residents with MS and advance research of the autoimmune disease that affects the brain and spinal cord (central nervous system). According to AED President Elizabeth Gerstner, a senior physiology major from Billings, Montana, the event, “a celebratory walk to promote awareness,” has grown steadily over its three-year history, and plans are already being made for next year’s walk.

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UNDERSTANDING AGINGGraduate students working with the Wyoming Geriatric Education Center have been visiting with high school students around the state in an effort to remedy myths and stereotypes about aging. Using healthy heart messages provided by the American Heart Association, the students made valentines for senior citizens in the Meals on Wheels (MOW) Program. With the cards, the students enclosed notes about themselves and what they do to keep healthy. The project was a great success, with cards being sent to 450 MOW recipients in Casper, 90 in Riverton, and approximately 100 in Laramie. Results have been so positive that plans are being made to make the project an annual event.

WyGEC’S “GRAy MATTERS”In May, a Wyoming Public Television documentary featured “Gray Matters: Exploring the Mature Mind” produced by the Wyoming Geriatric Education Center (WyGEC). During the 30-minute film, UW and statewide experts shared positive messages about the

aging brain and steps people can take to preserve the health of their brains. College personnel featured in the documentary included Deb Fleming, WyGEC Director and Clinical Professor, and Pat Engler-Parish, a graduate student in the Division of Social Work. WyGEC produced the film with financial support from the Division of Social Work and Richard Chatham of the Wyoming Department of Health Office of Multicultural Health and the Cheyenne Regional Medical Center. AARP Wyoming and St. John’s Institute for Cognitive Health in Jackson provided in-kind support.

Health care careers summer camp participants

A Wyoming student reaches out to senior citizens

WyGEC’s “Gray Matters” offered positive messages about the aging human brain

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DONORSJULy 1, 2010–JULy 1, 2011The College of Health Sciences extends a hearty “Thank You” to all its donors whose gifts provide flexibility, support, and expansion of its many programs.

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