ATSU-SOMA happenings

• Carolyn Glaubensklee, PhD, associate professor, ATSU-SOMA, Barbara Maxwell, PT, DPT, MSc, Cert. THE, director of interprofessional education at ATSU, and Mara Hover, DO, associate chair of the Department of Family and Community Medicine, ATSU-SOMA, have been accepted for poster presentation at the All Together Better Health VII conference, taking place in Pittsburgh, Pa. June 6-8. “This is an international event, and we are honored to have been selected from more than 650 abstract submissions,” said Dr. Hover. The title of their presentation is Development of an IPE elective for ATSU-SOMA Community Health Center Sites.

• The ATSU-SOMA Virtual Community Health Center (VCHC) team presented at the Osteopathic Medical Education Leadership (OMEL) conference held in Austin. The VCHC team comprises the following members: Frederic Schwartz, DO, FACOFP, associate dean, clinical education and services; ATSU-SOMA,Thomas Bennett, DO, director, VCHC Project, ATSU-SOMA; Monica Fernandez, PA-C, MMS, assistant professor, VCHC continuity and educational specialist, ATSU-SOMA; and Lise McCoy, EdD (ABD), assistant director, faculty development, ATSU-SOMA.

• Jeffrey Morgan, DO, has been named ATSU-SOMA’s interim chair, Clinical Sciences Education.

• Mrs. Sandra Harris and Mrs. Verna Burkett are the new ATSU-SOMA clinical education coordinators. Mrs. Briana Langston returned from maternity leave as instructional coordinator.

• The ATSU-SOMA residency team (Thomas McWilliams, DO, associate dean – Graduate Medical Education Development, ATSU-SOMA; Lisa Watts, DO, director of Medical Education, ATSU-SOMA; and Brian Ebersole, Wright Center for Graduate Medical Education) presented their innovative residency model at OMEL as part of a Keynote Panel.