Salutations Masthead 2011 

    
November-December 2014 
In This Issue
Looking Out for Kids
WCO President-Elect Visits
PhD Student Presentations
Student Council Awards Gala
Special Olympics
PhD White Coat Ceremony
CER IPE Presentation

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 WE SALUTE
 

The Salus University community warmly welcomes its newest members:  

 

Hugh Chance,

Custodial Technician, P/T

 

Rena Wallace, Administrative Assistant,Osborne College of Audiology

 

  

The Salus community extends congratulations to the following members:

 

Dr. Rita Chaiken '03, adjunct, who is now president-elect of the Academy of Doctors of Audiology (ADA), becoming the third successive OCA alumnus to hold the ADA presidency.

 

Mr. Keith Lammers, director, Cottet Library, who has retired after 21 years at PCO/Salus. Best of luck, Keith! 

 

Ms. Chawn Thomas,  Student Affairs, who has earned a Master of Science degree in management from Walden University.

 

Andrea Tyszka, MS, OTR/L, SIPT, assistant professor, Occupational Therapy, who successfully completed a Tough Mudder race in October.

 

APOLOGIA

Kathryn Tribulski's first

name was misspelled in the last issue of Salutations

and we apologize for the error.

 

Happy Holidays! 

 

 

Be safe,

stay warm -

and

enjoy! 

 

NJAO
Annual
CE Program
Join the New Jersey  Academy of Optometry (NJAO) for its 2015 CE program from April 22 to April 26 in Myrtle Beach, South Carolina.

   The NJ Academy of Optometry supports endowed schoalrships that benefit optometry students from  New Jersey.

 

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Looking Out for Kids 2014 

 The University's eighth annual "Looking Out for Kids" fundraiser was held on November 1 at the Hafter Student Community Center. This year's Philadelphia-themed event was the most successful to date, raising funds for vision care for under-insured and uninsured school
children in the Philadelphia and Norristown area school districts.

Read more...

WCO President-Elect Visits Salus

When the president-elect of the World Council of Optometry (WCO) comes to campus, it's an honor for the University and a serious occasion. Last month, when WCO president-elect Uduak Udom, OD, arrived in Elkins Park, the occasion was more of a homecoming. This former - and first female- president of the African Council of Optometry is a current Salus student, earning a Master of Public Health degree in the University's online program.

          In the above photo, Dr. Udom poses with fellow MPH students (from left to right): Lili Liang '16OD/MPH, Victoria Galbreth '16OD/MPH, Dr. Udom, and Brice Wharton, MPH student.  Read more ...

Salus PhD Student Presentations in Saudi Arabia 


        Manal Al-Harbi

Noura Aldossary   
Wafa Al-Otaibi

Three current PhD Biomedicine students recently participated in an annual conference at King Saud University (KSU) in Saudi Arabia, as part of that university's External Joint Supervision Program (EJSP). According to Graduate Programs in Biomedicine associate dean, Dr. William Monaco, the three women, who all lecture in optometry at KSU, "did a wonderful job and were praised for the quality of the work and the presentation."  Read more...

Student Council Salus Awards Gala

The red carpet was in full play at Congregation Keneseth Israel on the night of November 20, as Salus students, faculty and staff arrived for the First Annual Salus Awards Gala. The University's Student Council hosted a formal dinner after which awards for diverse - and several new - categories were presented. Read more ...

OT Students' Sensory-Friendly Sunday 
Salus Occupational Therapy (OT) students participated in "Sensory-Friendly Sunday" at The Franklin Institute on Sunday, November 2. The event was implemented to create a comfortable environment for kids and adults with a variety of sensory differences. Exhibits were modified during the event to provide an opportunity for people on the autism spectrum to experience all that The Franklin Institute has to offer without feeling overwhelmed.   
Read more.  
Thanksgiving Salus 2014

For the eighth year, Salus University staff and Williamson/Culinart Services prepared and delivered complete turkey dinners to Jenkintown and Cheltenham police departments on Thanksgiving day. Read more.

Posthumous Honors from ADA for
Dr. George Osborne

PCO School of Audiology founding dean, the late Dr. George S. Osborne, was honored by the Academy of Doctors of Audiology (ADA) at their annual meeting in November. Read more

Special Olympics Fall Fest 2014 

Salus students from the optometry, audiology and occupational therapy programs volunteered at the Special Olympics Pennsylvania (SOPA) Fall Festival held at Villanova University on November 8. This event is the largest annual student-run Special Olympics event in the world, and Salus student and faculty volunteers, led by Dr. Brandy Scombordi-Raghu '98, have supported it for many years. SOPA  provides year-round sports training and competition for more than 20,000 children and adults with intellectual disabilities.  Read more

PhD White Coat Ceremony
 

On Thursday, December 4, Dr. William Monaco, associate dean of Graduate Programs in Biomedicine (GPBI), presented white coats to PhD students Lauren Sponseller, OTD, assistant professor, Occupational Therapy, and Scott Rowe, MA. Also on hand to congratulate and welcome the program's newest members was PhD student Noura Aldossary of Saudi Arabia, who received her white coat in 2013. (Photo, left to right: Dr. Monaco; Dr. Sponseller; Mr. Rowe; Ms. Aldoussary). Photo credit: Asami Kojima

CER Faculty IPE Collaboration

Faculty from two programs in the College of Education and Rehabilitation (CER) joined together in November to present at the Pennsylvania Occupational Therapy Association Conference (POTA) in King of Prussia, PA. The Blindness and Low Vision and Occupational Therapy (OT) faculty members' presentation focused on the importance of interprofessional collaboration between these two disciplines. The presentation received overwhelmingly positive feedback from attendees, according to Dr. Fabiana Perla, chair of the Department of Blindness and Low Vision programs and one of the presenters. Pictured here (left to right) are: Jamie Maffit, MS, COMS, Blindness and Low Vision programs; Dr. Fern Silverman, director, OT program; Dr. Fabiana Perla, director, Orientation and Mobility program and Dr. Lauren Sponseller, OT program.