Halmos Faculty Members Collaborate on New Book

February 13, 2022 iharrell

: Moreau

: Morris

: Dvorak

Kevin Dvorak, Ph.D., professor and NSU Writing and Communication Center (WCC) executive director; Janine Morris, Ph.D., assistant professor of writing and WCC faculty coordinator; and Cynthia Moreau, Pharm.D., BCACP, assistant professor of pharmacy practice, published “Enhancing Communication Competencies: A Model for Pharmacy and Writing and Communication Center Partnerships” in the edited collection Teaching Writing in the Health Professions (edited by Michael Madson, Routledge 2021). Dvorak and Morris are both faculty in the Halmos College of Arts and Sciences, and Moreau is faculty in the College of Pharmacy.

“Enhancing Communication Competencies” addresses the need for writing, verbal and nonverbal communication skills within pharmacy graduate programs and outlines the collaboration that took place between Moreau’s Pharmacy Applications graduate course and the WCC during 2019 and 2020.

“Collaborating with Dr. Morris and Dr. Dvorak on this chapter was a great experience. As a pharmacist working in academia, most of my collaborations tend to occur with other health professionals, but I loved the opportunity to work with faculty from an entirely different non-HPD department at NSU,” Moreau said. “I believe we were ‘pioneers’ in our collaboration between a college of pharmacy and a writing center, and I think the description of our collaboration and learning activities included in our chapter will be useful to faculty from multiple disciplines across the country.”