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Salus University Alumni Association
Salus University Admissions
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WE SALUTE
The Salus community warmly welcomes its newest members:
Joseph Anton, Associate Professor, Core Faculty
Blaine Carfegno, Assistant Registrar
Ivelisse Lazzarini, Associate Professor, College of Education and Rehabilitation
Jayne Mangini, Administrative Assistant, Occupational Therapy program
Sabrina Marshall, Patient Accounts, TEI
Sarah McHugh-Grant, Assistant Project Coordinator, TEI
The Salus University community offers sincere congratulations to the following members:
Radhika Aravamudhan, AuD, associate professor, and Yell Inverso, AuD, PhD, adjunct, who co-authored three chapters in a new textbook "Auditory Electrophysiology: A Clinical Guide."
Patty Burke, on her promotion to Assistant Registrar.
Jed Ellwood '13 OD, for achieving the highest score of any PCO student on the March 2012 NBEO Part I examination I - Applied Basic Science.
Rita Chaiken, AuD, and Jiovanne Hughart, AuD, on their workshop, "Cerumen Management 2012."
Jill Leslie, academic technical coordinator, Academic Technologies and Learning Resources, who, with her husband Patrick, welcomed a new daughter, Kyla, last month.
Brooke Smith, PhD, assistant professor, and Fabiana Perla, EdD, assistant professor, on their course "Building Relationships with Families: Bridging the Gap Between Knowing and Doing," presented at the recent AER annual conference.
Shital Mani, OD'03, assistant professor, on her appointment as director, Off-Campus Residency Programs.
Tara Bucklew, '14OD and Benjamin Foreman, '15OD, who each received a $2,000 scholarship from the Dr. Stanley Pearle Scholarship Fund.
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TEI MT. AIRY OFFICE TO MOVE
Next month TEI will move from its Mt. Airy satellite location to a new, larger space located further up Germantown Avenue in Chestnut Hill.
"Many patients who have sought services at our Mt. Airy office consider us the neighborhood eye doctor," explained Dr. Susan Olecszewski, executive director of Patient Care Services. The new site will feature six examination rooms - an increase from the four at the Mt. Airy location. Eventually TEI also plans to bring diagnostic and therapeutic technologies, such as vision therapy to this location. These services are not currently offered at TEI satellite branches.
With this new location, extra space offers patients a dedicated waiting room and allows the optical department to expand its eyewear selection.
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Salus Kickball Champs
The three-week Salus intramural kickball season closed with the all optometry (Class of 2014) Fresh Kicks as 2012 Champions.
Team members are: Matthew Bryant, Cameron Black, Nate McKay, Tyler Doersam, Jared Burd, Vittorio Mena (Captain), Samuel Flori, Lauren Pastucha (MVP), Gina Litz and Nicole Maierhoffer.
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Vitto Mena'14OD, and winner of the AOA photo contest earlier this year, created a video highlighting PCO students' participation at Optometry's Meeting this past June. It is posted on You Tube.
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Hands-On Learning for Audiology Students
Second-year audiology students treated patients with earwax removal and ear care tips during a Cerumen Management Workshop last month. |
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Dr. Caldwell Appointed New
Dean of Student Affairs
James M. Caldwell,OD, MEd, has been appointed dean of Student Affairs succeeding Dean Robert Horne, who has retired after 36 years.
In making the announcement, University President Thomas L. Lewis said "Dr. Caldwell has consistently demonstrated effort, excellence and dedication. I have no doubt that he will bring those same qualities to the position of dean of Student Affairs and serve our students well.
It has been suggested that Dr. Caldwell has been preparing for his new position throughout his professional life. After graduating from PCO in 1989, he joined PCO as a resident in The Eye Institute and as an admissions officer. Since then he had held a variety of positions including director of Student Recruitment, director of Admissions and most recently, associate vice president of Academic Affairs. Dr. Caldwell also served as a clinical instructor at TEI from 1995 to 2005. |
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Dr. Lewis into Hall of Fame
President Thomas L. Lewis, OD, PhD, was inducted into the National Optometry Hall of Fame at a reception at the American Optometric Association's annual Optometry's Meeting in Chicago in June.
In its May announcement of his appointment, The AOA noted that Dr. Lewis has "impacted both the profession of optometry and patients around the world," citing his creation of postgraduate programs in Europe in optometry and vision sciences.
Dr.Lewis has made important contributions to expanding the scope of practice in optometry both through his advocacy efforts as well as his participation in continuing education across the country.
Dr. Lewis was honored as well for his leadership and memberships in numerous professional organizations. They include the American Academy of Optometry (president), Partnership Foundation for Optometric Education, National Board of Examiners in Optometry and Association of Schools and Colleges of Optometry.
A new portrait of Dr. Lewis was unveiled at a recent gathering of colleagues, family and friends. The portrait hangs outside of the presidential suite alongside portraits of the four former presidents. The portrait, by the artist John Ennis, can be viewed at http://www.john-ennis.com/t.lewis. |
OD Students Finalists in Project Foresight
 Congratulations to Charita Smith '14OD (shown on the left in photo at right) and Olayemi Swindell '14 OD, who were finalists in the Project Foresight national scholarship competition. Here is the poster they created. The students also developed a PowerPoint outlining a business plan that they presented during the recent AOA meeting. Judges included Walmart representatives, who were there on behalf of the company to award the scholarship, and PCO Dean Linda Casser and Mrs. Janice Mignogna, FAAO, director of the University's Bennett Center for Business and Practice Management. Also in the audience were the competing presenters.
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Dean and Students Help Develop Lighted Canes
Two versions of a lighted cane, designed to help people with low vision walk around at night and in poorly lighted areas, were featured in the Philadelphia Business Journal. Developed as a result of a conversation between Dr. Audrey Smith, dean, College of Education and Rehabilitation (CER) who had the concept, and Lorraine Keller, PhD, whose company, Technical Vision, Inc., manufactured the canes, the StreetLight support canes are projected to be on the market in the fall. The StreetLight™ Support Cane is a height-adjustable offset cane with a built-in two millimeter diameter LED light source that emits broad spectrum white light. The StreetLight™ Mobility Cane is a telescoping graphite cane with a small switch to control the illumination of a single, white spectrum LED light source. Prototypes were tested by CER students during their on-campus training.
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New Occupational Therapy Programs Debut As the College of Education and Rehabilitation (CER) Occupational Therapy (OT) program welcomes its inaugural Class of 2014, program director Dr. Marian Gillard plans inter-professional learning experiences for the Fall 2012 semester. Guest lecturers will include Salus professor Dr. Charles Wormington, who will lecture on genetics, and vice president of Academic Affairs, Dr. Anthony Di Stefano, who will lecture on Social and Health Policies in the United States.
Building on the University's commitment to an inter-disciplinary professional education, OT students will also join the Salus community through their participation in Evidence Based Medicine (EBM) courses, shared with optometry, audiology and physician assistant (PA) students. They will also join with Physician Assistant and Audiology students in the lecture series offered by Dr. Richard Vause, PA program director and associate dean for program development, College of Health and Sciences,in History Taking and the Physical Exam.
The new programs offer a Master of Science Occupational Therapy degree (MSOT) or a Doctor of Occupational Therapy (OTD) degree. OT faculty and students support the program's mission "to provide an interdisciplinary academic experience that is grounded in the core principles of occupation and influenced by emerging knowledge and technologies, leading to improved health and well-being for the individuals, communities, and populations that graduates will serve."
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PCO Students and Faculty at NJ Special Olympics
PCO faculty and students spent the weekend of June 8 to 10 providing vision screenings, exams and protective eyewear to Special Olympics athletes during the New Jersey Special Olympics Opening Eyes Program. Many of these athletes don't receive adequate eye care.
PCO students included: Veronika Ageyeva '15, Jason Cheung '15, Ashley Darnell '15, James Deom '14, Jennifer Diamond '15, Agnes Kim '14, David Kong '13, Ashley Laico '15, Vy Mai '14, Alysson Mass '15, Vitto Mena '14, Kyung Eun Michelle Min '13, Aaron Presutto '14, Chelsea Ryzuk '15, Julie Shah '15, Ruchi Shah '15, and Ben Steger '14.
Steven Sinclair, MD, research professor, PCO, and Walter Gutstein, BSc, MSc, Austria-based adjunct faculty, tested athletes with the Lea Symbol and the Vimetrics Central Vision Analyzer (CVA) to identify ocular disease in the Down syndrome population. Michael Gallaway, OD, associate professor, PCO, also participated in the program.
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Largest Public Health ClassThe Master of Public Health (MPH) degree program boasts its largest-ever class with 25 students beginning the Fall term. With a truly international student body-the greatest number of students come from the United States and the African continent, with Australia, Germany and Iran rounding out the class.
The professional disciplines represented are Optometry, Physician Assistant, Audiology, Fine Arts and Computer Science.
Begun in Fall 2010 and designed for professionals and students from a variety of backgrounds and experience, the program is also geared toward bridging the public health training gap in allied health areas.
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Welcome TEI Residents
Twelve residents have been named to The Eye Institute Residency Program for 2012-2013. They will work in their area of specialty, seeing patients, from June to May. They are Chantel Garcia (Contact Lens), Alexandra Troy (Low Vision), Silvia Han (Pediatric & Vision Therapy), Megan M. Sis (Pediatric), Elisa Bano (Primary Care), Selena Chu (Primary Care), Todd Dimmick (Primary Care), Carolyn Duong (Primary Care), Doan Trang Huynh (Primary Care), Wilfred Lee (Primary Care), Stephanie Tan (Primary Care) and Denh Tuyen (Primary Care).
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Int'l AuD-Bridge Program BeginsA distance-education international AuD-Bridge degree program that will enable master's degree audiologists and audiology physicians to obtain a clinical doctoral degree (AuD) will begin on August 20, Dr. Victor Bray, dean of the Osborne College of Audiology (OCA), announced.
This web-based program was created specifically to meet the demands made on the 21st century audiologist. "At Salus, our new program features the components necessary for audiologists to remain current with rapid advances in audiology and the health care sciences," Dr. Bray said.
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CE Forum Honors Dr Lewis
A full-day Continuing Education (CE) forum on Premier Patient Care for optometrists, in honor of Dr. Thomas Lewis, will be held on Saturday, September 15, on the Salus University Elkins Park campus.
Speakers include Michael DePaolis, OD, FAAO, Murray Fingeret, OD, FAAO, Ravi Patel, MD, MBA, Deepta Rawat, MD, MS and Joseph Shovlin, OD, FAAO.
Cost per person is $180. This includes continuing education, continental breakfast, lunch and downloadable handouts. Eight (8) CE credits will be awarded: seven (7) qualify as Therapeutics Credit (TPA), two (2) qualify as Glaucoma and three (3) qualify as Orals.
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