Category: Health Care

College of Optometry Honored for Excellence in Diversity

The NSU College of Optometry is a recipient of the 2023 Higher Education Excellence in Diversity (HEED) Award for the second year in a row!

The HEED Awards and the Health Professions HEED Awards are the only national honors recognizing U.S. colleges and universities that demonstrate an outstanding commitment to creating a diverse and inclusive campus environment. The honorees will be featured in the November/December 2023 issue of INSIGHT Into Diversity, the nation’s largest and oldest publication dedicated to DEI (diversity, equity, and inclusion) in higher education.

“The HEED Award selection process is rigorous, assessing the recruitment and retention of students and faculty, pathway programs, community partnerships, leadership support for DEI initiatives, and a comprehensive list of other considerations,” said Lenore Pearlstein, publisher. “The winning institutions consistently demonstrate best practices and set the standards for other colleges and universities.”

The Health Professions HEED Award recognizes U.S. medical, dental, pharmacy, osteopathic, nursing, veterinary, allied health, and other health schools and centers that exhibit excellence in DEI initiatives and strategies.

Posted 10/22/23

Magazine Features Piece by Assistant Director in Facilities

Mallica D. Reynolds

Mallica D. Reynolds, assistant director of regional facilities with the NSU Office of Facilities Management, published an article in the APPA Facilities Manager Magazine September/October 2023 edition. The piece focused on Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Belonging, particularly the endeavors of the NSU Office of Facilities Management DEI Committee.

The FAC DEI committee was formed around three years ago by Daniel Alfonso, the vice president of Facilities Management and Public Safety at NSU. The committee focuses on educational, service, and recreational activities within the department. These activities engage the 200+ employees from culturally and ethnically diverse backgrounds with the aim of improving their sense of belonging at NSU. Each month the team identifies a diversity topic and host lectures, service opportunities, and/or luncheon highlighting opportunities for the department to expand its DEI mindset and viewpoints.

FAC has also collaborated on student events to improve DEI culture throughout the university. FAC employee Assistant Director Dr. Rod Colas serves on the NSU DEI team. Decisions and events from that university wide team are also incorporated into the FAC endeavors. The FAC diversity committee is currently under the leadership of Building Manager Candice Leaty, M.S.

NSU is an active member of APPA/SRAPPA and is a driving force setting new Facility Management trends on a national level. APPA is an international facilities management organization representing more than 17,000 educational facilities professionals from over 1,200 learning institutions. APPA is the Diamond standard for Higher Educational Facilities Management.

Read the full article.

Posted 10/08/23

Hispanic Student Dental Association Chapter Places Second

From left, Dr. Liliana Mosquera, vice president and faculty adviser of the Hispanic Dental Association Florida Chapter and Selena Sanchez , the chapter president of NSU’s Hispanic Student Dental Association.

Nova Southeastern University’s College of Dental Medicine Hispanic Student Dental Association (HSDA) won second place in the 2023 Orgullo Scholarship Competition at the Hispanic Dental Association (HDA) Student Regional in Chapel Hill, N.C., on Sept. 23, 2023, and were awarded $2,000.

This HSDA Student Chapter program and competition is designed to accomplish two important goals:  Outreach and Recruitment.  In order to participate, each student chapter must accomplish a minimum of two activities.

  • Crest Oral-B Community Outreach Program:The outreach program can be geared toward any age group, from pre-elementary to senior citizen. The outreach portion of the competition is designed to be a delivery of services such as oral screenings and oral health education (for example, providing patient education services at a community health fair).
  • Hispanic Dental Association Recruitment Program:The recruitment portion of the competition is recommended for middle school or high school students.  The object of this program is to encourage young Hispanics to strive for a career in dentistry.  This can be accomplished during the same outreach programs discussed above or at specific events such as high school career days.

For some background about this scholarship, Orgullo means “Pride”. The vision for this scholarship sponsored by Crest & Oral-B, is to celebrate and recognize student chapters of the Hispanic Dental Association that share their pride and commitment to the pursuit of excellence in preventative dental education and patient motivation.

For the contest, students developed a video of about three minutes long demonstrating oral hygiene instructions, caries prevention, and nutritional counseling. The NSU video beat out projects by six other dental schools’ students.”

Posted 10/08/23

Former Dean and Professor Emeritus Co-edits Book

Honggang Yang, Ph.D., Dean and Professor Emeritus from the former NSU College of Arts, Humanities, and Social Sciences (CAHSS), is co-editor of the upcoming book, “The Rise of Chinese American Leaders in U.S. Higher Education: Stories and Roadmaps.” The other co-editor is Wenying Xu, Ph.D., professor of English and former Provost at Jacksonville University.

The book presents the roads traveled by Chinese American university leaders using stories and reflections. The book will be published later this fall. For more information, please see https://link.springer.com/book/9783031423789.

Yang designed and implemented the Residential Institute (RI) in 1999, still used by the Department of Conflict Resolution Studies (DCRS) in the Halmos College of Arts and Sciences and the Guy Harvey Oceanographic Research Center (HCAS).  RI brings distance learning students to campus to engage in on-campus learning, attend keynote lectures, and participate in working groups and social activities. DCRS recently held the 48th RI on September 29-October 2. In addition, he implemented other programs such as the Campus Diversity Dialogues.

Posted 10/08/23

Honors College Launches Alumni Mentorship Program

Honors student Ruthie Fogel meets with her mentor Mariam Haroun, D.M.D., over Zoom.

The Farquhar Honors College alumni mentorship program has created lasting relationships between honors students and alumni. Launched during the winter semester, the program connected students with alumni mentors with similar career interests who could help them achieve their professional and academic goals for the year.

Meeting every month over Zoom, alumni were able to advise their assigned students on everything from mental health and stress management to college and career advice. Some students were even fortunate enough to receive special opportunities from their mentors like research, publication, and shadowing experience.

For Ruthie Fogel, this was an especially lucky match, as her mentor Mariam Haroun, D.M.D., is a practicing orthodontist in her hometown. As an aspiring orthodontist herself, Fogel was able to shadow her mentor every week over the summer.

“Shadowing [Dr. Haroun] was a very valuable and rewarding experience . . . Her dedication to the art and science of orthodontics has motivated and inspired me to keep dreaming of attending dental school and pursuing orthodontics!” said Fogel, a sophomore engineering major. “A big takeaway from the alumni mentorship program is that it taught me to try new things, to always be curious of the unknown, and to be unafraid to step outside of one’s comfort zone.”

For alumni, the voluntary program gave them a meaningful way to stay connected to the college and help shape the paths of current honors students.

“These mentees are so mature and bright, and they’re involved in so many aspects of education, which is so wonderful to witness,” said Tia Cifu, a class of 2017 honors alumna with a B.S. in mathematics and an M.B.A from NSU. “I’m very proud to be an alum of this program.”

The program will run each year with mentoring relationships lasting for the entire academic year. The next round of the program will begin this fall.

“As someone who is considering pursuing a Ph.D. directly out of undergrad, [my mentor] was a perfect match for me because we were able to talk about her experiences, and I was able to see what life looks [like] for someone who was in my shoes not so long ago,” said Courtney White, a senior chemistry and marine biology major. “Mentor-mentee relationships are special connections, and I’m thankful to have had the opportunity to establish a relationship with someone who can provide me with a point of view I didn’t have access to before.”

Posted 09/25/23

Levan Center Called ‘Theme Park for Global Entrepreneurs’

Alan B. Levan I NSU Broward Center of Innovation and John Wenzveen, the center’s executive director, were recently featured in Global Miami, a monthly print and digital publication designed to serve as an information resource and hub for Miami’s booming international business community. The center was characterized as “A Theme Park for Global Entrepreneurs.” Global Miami is a leading source of intelligence about the people, companies, trends, and opportunities as a trade nexus for the Americas and beyond.

Posted 09/24/23

Dental Students from 2 Campuses Deliver Services in Tenn.

Forty-one students from the D-4 Davie campus and D-3 students from Tampa Bay and Davie took the trek to East Ridge Tennessee for an incredible Remote Area Medical Mission on Sept. 9-10.

Our Assistant Dean of Community Programs and Public Health was joined by our amazing faculty Mauro Mesko, Luis Paes de Barros, Augusto Duarte, and our second-year PG oral and maxillofacial resident Alexander Takshyn.

The students and faculty compassion, caring, clinical skills, and understanding of underserved populations were evident throughout the mission. A special thanks to RAM and Dean Steven Kaltman for his unending support and our wonderful celebration dinner.

Together we served almost 400 patients and provided close to $300,000 in donated dental care.

Remote Area Medical is a major nonprofit provider of free pop-up clinics. Their mission is to prevent pain and alleviate suffering by providing free, quality healthcare to those in need. They do this by delivering free dental, vision, and medical services to underserved and uninsured individuals. They have provided care across the world at over 1500 events.

These Outreach experiences provide an opportunity for dental students and reaffirm NSU core value of “Community” and help to:

  • Develop a broad understanding of the community and social responsibilities they will have as Dental Professionals.
  • Treat a diversity of patients with a variety of oral health care needs.
  • Enhance their clinical skills.
  • Participate in inter-professional learning experiences.

In the words of RAM founder Stan Brock, “Never forget the Mission.”

Posted 09/24/23

Business Faculty Members Cited in Wall Street Journal Piece

A recent a Wall Street Journal Op-Ed piece by Scott Hodge (president emeritus and a senior policy adviser at the Tax Foundation) cites three papers by academics, two of which are faculty members of NSU’s H. Wayne Huizenga College of Business and Entrepreneurship. Faculty members Pankaj Maskara and Florence Neymotin’s papers “Do Credit Unions Serve the Underserved?” and “Credit Unions during the Crisis: Did They Provide Liquidity?” are referred to by Hodge, in his piece which examines the changes in today’s credit unions.

Read the full piece here.

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Posted 09/24/23

Dean Wallace Named 2023 Power Leader in Healthcare

Dean Elaine Wallace

Dean Elaine M. Wallace, D.O., M.S., M.S., M.S., M.S., of NSU’s Dr. Kiran C. Patel College of Osteopathic Medicine has been named a 2023 Power Leader in Healthcare by the South Florida Business Journal. Considered one of the journal’s most popular editorial features, the Healthcare Power Leaders is a top regional resource of the who’s who in the business community. Power Leaders are selected based on their leadership within their organization and their community along with their contributions to the local economy.

Wallace, along with 49 other South Florida area industry executives, will be profiled in an upcoming special section in the Business Journal. The Healthcare Power Leaders will publish in the journal’s November 10 edition.

Posted 09/24/23

USchool Students’ Community Service Targets Caribbean

Upper School Students and New2U Ambassadors started off the year participating in an impactful community service event. Students filled about 2,000 backpacks with school supplies to be sent to vulnerable children through Food For The Poor.

Each backpack contained notebooks, folders, a pencil case, ruler, colored pencils, crayons, pencils and sharpeners, erasers, highlighters, and pens. The backpacks are being sent to schools in Jamaica, Haiti, and other islands of the Caribbean through Food for The Poor’s Angels of Hope program.

Learn more about NSU University School’s college preparatory program for students in Preschool – Grade 12 at www.uschool.nova.edu.

Posted 09/10/23

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