Category: Health Care

NSU Shepard Broad College of Law 1st in Florida for Health Law and 2nd in Florida in Legal Research and Writing

Nova Southeastern University’s (NSU) Shepard Broad College of Law Health Law program has been ranked 1st in Florida, 56th nationally and the Legal Research and Writing program is ranked 2nd in Florida and 20th nationally by U.S. News & World Report. Schools in the specialty rankings are ranked based solely on the number of nominations received from U.S. law school faculty who teach in that specialty.

These successes are due to the teaching, scholarship, and broad interdisciplinary engagement of the NSU Law faculty and staff and NSU leadership. “Our faculty have developed exemplary national programs in both these specialties,” said Jon M. Garon, Dean of the law school. “They bring their national expertise into the classroom and community on a daily basis.” As experts in their field, the faculty in these two programs continue to focus on student success through engaging research and national symposiums, conferences and publications.

The Health Law program at NSU emphasizes the main areas of the health law practice and offers a diverse and varied curriculum for students to become health law practitioners and policy makers. NSU Law continues its interprofessional collaboration with the NSU health professions colleges in providing engaging research between disciplines as well as commitment to community efforts to effect legislative issues.

NSU Law Legal Research and Writing offers a student-centered approach to legal writing instruction that integrates legal analysis with practical skills and professionalism. Our exceptional LRW faculty members have diverse practice expertise and are active leaders with the Legal Writing Institute and the Association of Legal Writing Directors. In addition to LRW, faculty members teach a wide array of courses, including experiential and doctrinal classes. Like all NSU Law faculty, they pride themselves on their commitment to student and community involvement.

For additional information, contact Kathleen Perez at Kperez1@nova.edu or 954 262-6295.

All NSU University School Robotics Teams Compete at State Robotics Championship

Upper School Team Advances to World Robotics Championship

Congratulations to the NSU University School Lower, Middle, and Upper School Robotics teams for their exceptional work while competing at the Florida VEX Robotics State Championship.

The Upper School Robotics team earned a spot to compete at the VEX Robotics World Championship for the sixth consecutive year after winning the prestigious Design Award for their robot having the best design and function in the state of Florida. Sophomore Amanda Kopelman also qualified as a finalist in the VEX World Online Challenge.

The Middle School Robotics team made it to the semi-finals and placed 3rd in the robot skills challenge. They also won the “Think Award,” which is given to a team with an impressive and effective autonomous programming for their robot.

All three Lower School Shark Bots teams did a great job as well. Lower School Teams A & B tied for 5th Place in the Driving Skills Challenge out of 47 teams, and Team C made the final round for the Design Engineering Notebook interview.

Congratulations to all of the NSU University School Robotics teams for their successful year and we look forward to cheering on the Upper School team at the World Championship in April.

Orlando Physician Assistant Program Wins the Challenge Bowl

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NSU’s Orlando Physician Assistant Program comes away with the win at the Florida Academy of Physician Assistants (FAPA) Student Challenge Bowl. There were 27 teams representing multiple universities from across the state.  NSU was represented by 9 teams from the 4 programs (Ft. Lauderdale, Jacksonville, Ft. Myers, and Orlando).  All NSU teams performed well, with a Ft. Lauderdale team and an Orlando team advancing to the final round.  The winning team from Orlando includes Jordan Walker, Fadi Essak, and Jeremy Gordon.  These students will now compete in the National Challenge Bowl at the American Academy of Physician Assistants (AAPA) conference in Denver, Colorado.

Halmos College Great White Shark Genome Research Heard Around the World

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Over the past several weeks, news about a major scientific step to understand the biology of this iconic apex predator and the entire genome of the white shark has now been decoded in detail. Sequence changes were found tied to DNA repair, DNA damage response and DNA damage tolerance, the exact opposite of which – genome instability – is well known to predispose humans to numerous cancers and age-related diseases.

Since this announcement, news outlets from around the world broadcasted this information. By the end of February 2019, over 351 outlets shared this story. From Asia to Europe, Africa to South America, NSU shark research covered the globe. NBC’s Today Show broadcasted live from Halmos College’s Oceanographic Campus.

shivji“Genome instability is a very important issue in many serious human diseases; now we find that nature has developed clever strategies to maintain the stability of genomes in these large-bodied, long-lived sharks,” said Mahmood Shivji, Ph.D., director of NSU’s Save Our Seas Foundation Shark Research Center and Guy Harvey Research Institute. “There’s still so much to be learned from these evolutionary marvels, including information that will potentially be useful to fight cancer and age-related diseases, and improve wound healing treatments in humans, as we uncover how these animals do it.”

Diving into NSU!

Austin Harris, Assistant Director of Aquatics

Austin Harris, Assistant Director of Aquatics

Nova Southeastern’s Assistant Director of Aquatics, Austin Harris, talks on overcoming the challenges in managing one of the countries largest academic SCUBA Diving programs, first responder aquatics training, and more.

NSU Aquatics is the leading program area for the Office of Recreation and Wellness and operates 3 large and distinctively different pools on the Fort Lauderdale/Davie campus The aquatic center boasts the largest competition pool by volume in the state of Florida holding 1.2 million gallons and ranging from depths of 5 to 16.5 feet.  It is the home of the Sharks for the university’s NCAA division 2 swim teams, high school, and middle school.   The Don Taft University Center Recplex leisure pool is a 213,000 gallon salt pool that serves as a recreation pool for the student population, camp Nova, and a myriad of programs and events.  Our Rolling Hills Graduate Residence pool is a resort-style facility exclusive for graduate students and features a waterfall cave, barbeque pavilion area, and clubhouse.

So what’s our challenges?  Like many other collegiate aquatic programs, we are not immune to the pitfalls that other universities face with staff shortages, scheduling, pool space, and budget cuts.  Our facilities are highly sought after and it’s always a delicate balancing act to meet the needs of not only our own internal programs, but also serving NSU athletics and University School. In addition, some of our more prominent external user groups include swim club, water polo, and springboard diving teams. We also partner with various fire rescue and police organizations for different types of training.

At Nova Southeastern University we employ an unprecedented 5 highly credentialed full-time aquatic professional staff members, including an associate director, two assistant directors, facilities manager, and coordinator.  The emergence of our NSU Aquatics Institute has prompted a massive expansion of our aquatic program offerings. Like most aquatic programs we offer courses in American Red Cross Lifeguarding, CPR/AED for the Professional Rescuer, Administering Emergency Oxygen, Lifeguard Instructor, Water Safety Instructor, and swim lessons.  In the last 5 years we’ve added on Pump Room Operations training, Advance Service Technician certification, First Responder Aquatics Training, and one of the largest Academic SCUBA Diving programs in the country.

It’s never an easy task managing over 60 lifeguards, swim instructors, dive masters, and SCUBA instructors. However, one of the greatest benefits to our success is having 90% of our operations and programming controlled in-house. NSU Aquatics has adopted a model of training with excellence for the advancement of our own student employees through mentorship, professional development, and leadership. Our staff is groomed through our programs to exceed industry standards, in which the skills they acquire are transferable to their chosen career paths. It is for these reasons NSU Aquatics is revered as a premier institution for aquatic education.

For more information: blog.pooloperatorcourse.com/nova-southeastern-university/

NSU Research Spotlight: NSU Researchers Uncover Genetic Marker, Predictor of Early Relapse in Pediatric ALL

Jean Latimer, Ph.D. and AutoNation Institute Team

Nova Southeastern University  researchers recently discovered that by testing the level of NER (nucleotide excision repair) gene expression, pediatric oncologists can determine the likelihood of early relapse (less than three years) in their acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL) patients. This is a critical finding because NER gene expression levels can now help guide doctors in their rationale for appropriate treatment targeted to each patient’s disease.

ALL is the most common childhood cancer. Treatment has improved dramatically due to evolving methods of determining risk factors and genetic analysis. Five-year survival rates have increased substantially from 57% in 1975 – ’77 to 92% in 2006 – ’12. Yet, the current genotoxic chemotherapy regimens are still extremely debilitating.

Jean Latimer, Ph.D. in lab“Our research found a correlation between high NER expression levels and early relapse of ALL among relapsing patients,” said Jean Latimer, Ph.D., director of the NSU AutoNation Institute for Breast and Solid Tumor Cancer Research and associate professor and cancer research scientist, College of Pharmacy. “Being able to identify patients with the highest risk of early recurrence who are not detectable using present clinical measures and then treating them with a more targeted therapy is crucial to overcoming the cancer.”

This is critical, according to the research recently published in the peer-reviewed journal, BMC Medical Genomics, because while ALL is much more treatable than in the past, the survival rate after relapse is poor.

“By being able to accurately predict if a child’s cancer is likely to recur early or not, we may also spare many children who have low NER levels from the most toxic chemo regimens,” said Latimer.

The AutoNation research team also included Stephen Grant, Ph.D., project director and associate professor, Public Health, Dr. Kiran C. Patel College of Osteopathic Medicine; Homood As Sobeai, Ph.D., assistant professor, College of Pharmacy, King Saud University, and Omar Ibrahim, post-doctoral fellow.

Their complete findings can be found in an article titled, “Nucleotide excision repair is a predictor of early relapse in pediatric acute lymphoblastic leukemia” in BMC Medical Genomics.  This work was supported by funding from AutoNation and the Children’s Leukemia Research Association.

NSU MD Faculty and Administrators to Present at National Medical Conferences

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Several NSU Dr. Kiran C. Patel College of Allopathic Medicine faculty and administrators have been invited to present at upcoming Association of American Medical Colleges conferences to showcase some of the successes of the new M.D. college. They include:

AAMC Southern Group on Educational Affairs Regional Conference on March 27-30, 2019 in Orlando.

  • Daniel Griffin, Ph.D., associate professor, medical education has been invited to lead a workshop titled “Connecting and actively engaging clerkship students through synchronous, technology-supported, team-based learning (TBL) in a distributed campus model.”  The topic Dr. Griffin’s Harvard Macy project where we worked to overcome the limitations of synchronous active learning (TBL) in a distributed campus model, by virtually connecting students into teams for inter and intra-team engagement.

AAMC National Professional Development Conference for Institutional Advancement on April 11-13, 2019 in Orlando.

  • Johannes W. Vieweg, M.D., FACS, dean, will be part of a panel of medical school deans from throughout Florida called “Deans’ Perspective: Looking to the Future”
  • Jeremy Katzman, M.B.A., APR, director of public relations and marketing communications, will be facilitating a panel called “Using Content to Enhance Your Brand and Develop New Audiences”

AAMC Group on Faculty Affairs (GFA) and Group on Women in Medicine and Science Professional Development Conference on July 11-13 in Chicago.

  • Stefanie Carter, Ed.D., director of professional affairs and faculty development, and her GFA mentoring group will be presenting an Ignite Session titled: “What are we not talking about but should be?”

Scholars, Researchers, and Academics from around the World make TQR 10th Annual Conference its Largest Ever.

Recently, Keynote speakers, Kathryn Roulston, Ph.D., from the University of Georgia, Sally St. George, Ph.D., and Dan Wulff, Ph.D., from the University of Calgary, and Eli Lieber, Ph.D., from SocioCultural Research Consultants, LLC (Dedoose.com) and UCLA joined nearly 240 scholars, researchers, and academics to celebrate “Teaching and Learning Qualitative Research” at The Qualitative Research 10th Annual Conference.

Durig the three-day event held at Nova Southeastern University (NSU), presenters shared 160 panel and paper presentations on wide ranging topics including the latest innovations in technology-assisted research, pedagogical advancements for teaching online, and methodological progress for conducting and reporting qualitative research.

Ron Chenail, Ph.D., Editor-in-Chief of The Qualitative Report, NSU’s online qualitative research journal, closed the conference with an exploration of the current trends shaping education and publishing today and what these developments mean for future of the journal and its conference. He also announced the theme for the 11th Annual Conference to be held January 15-17, 2020 will be “Contemporary Qualitative Research.”

Halmos College Assistant Dean Co-edits Book for Springer

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In January 2019, Springer – International Publisher Science, Technology, Medicine released “Advances in Artificial Systems for Medicine and Education II”, co-edited by Halmos assistant dean and professor Matthew He, Ph.D.

This book includes the proceedings of the Second International Conference of Artificial Intelligence, Medical Engineering, and Education (AIMEE2018), held in Moscow, Russia, on 6–8 October 2018. The papers presented in the book discuss topics in mathematics and biomathematics; medical approaches; and technological and educational approaches. Given the rapid development of artificial intelligence systems, the book highlights the need for more intensive training for a growing number of specialists, particularly in medical engineering, to increase the effectiveness of medical diagnosis/treatment and artificial intelligence systems that can beneficially be applied in the future.

Eighteen Optometry Students Become AAO Student Fellows

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Nova Southeastern University’s College of Optometry is proud to announce that 18 of its current students completed the requirements to become Student Fellows in the American Academy of Optometry (AAO). This number is outstanding and represents an extensive commitment by these students.

The students who achieved this are:

Molly Buchanan (’20)

Amit Chohan (’20)

HaeMi Choi (’21)

Samantha Krueger (‘20)

Tychnia Madison (‘20)

Hayden Matz (‘20)

Veronica Mirabent (‘20)

Julianna Mola (‘20)

Thuy Nguyen (‘20)

Alyssa Panagos (‘20)

Rajsee Pandya (‘20)

Rigen Pamin Saltivan (‘20)

Shadaanan Singh (‘20)

Trenisha Smith (‘20)

Natasha Taleff (‘20)

Steffani Tiomno (’19)

Crystal Victor (‘20)

Megan Webb (‘20)

The students received a Student Fellow lapel pin, a certificate, and their Candidacy for Fellowship application dues will be waived during their year of graduation. They will also enjoy free registration to the next Academy meeting.

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