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Two Wayne State OT students win Mary Free Bed Minority ScholarshipTwo Wayne State University Master of Occupational Therapy students – Clifford Lyons Jr. and Alyssa Ouellette – were honored with the Mary Free Bed Minority Scholarship for 2020.
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Ask a Mentor launches second series to help prospective WSU Applebaum students explore career options
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Interprofessional Home Visit (IPTV) program teaches team care for older adultsIPTV introduces Wayne State’s social work, medical, nursing, occupational therapy, pharmacy, physical therapy and physician assistant students, as well as University of Detroit Mercy’s dental students, to team care for older adults. Students learn how to assess an older adult’s health and social needs and to participate in an interdisciplinary team environment.
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Ask a Mentor series helps prospective students explore health sciences career optionsOn May 28-29 and June 11-12, a series of four one-hour virtual Q&A sessions will connect prospective students with those currently studying health sciences. Each panel will answer questions about their program — including physician assistant studies, physical therapy, radiologic technology and nurse anesthesia — and offer admission tips.
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Scholarship winner Fabiha Nishat aims to bring OT to underdeveloped countriesOn track to graduate in December, the Hamtramck student says that "while doctors and nurses save people's lives after illnesses and injuries, occupational therapists show them how to live again."
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Regina Parnell to lead OT service learning project in DetroitThe assistant clinical professor of occupational therapy has been awarded an Educational Development Grant from Wayne State’s Office for Teaching and Learning to launch a Detroit-based service learning project for first-year OT students.
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April is OT Month! Meet Wayne State students Cliff Lyons and Carmen CarilloApril is National Occupational Therapy Month, and while all of our students embrace their roles as leaders and change agents and exhibit a passion for helping others, this week we feature two students who are examples of what it means to be an occupational therapist and a Warrior. Clifford (Cliff) Lyons and Carmen Carrillo are both second-year OT students in the Wayne State Master of Occupational Therapy (MOT) program. We chose to feature just a few of the ways that they have gone above and beyond what is expected as part of the curriculum to help others live life to the fullest.
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Teaching hands-on professions under hands-off circumstancesMany faculty members in WSU Applebaum's health sciences programs rapidly transformed the second half of their winter semester courses in a way that would impart crucial lessons while keeping far-flung students engaged.
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OT students help neurologically injured prepare for stay-at-home order, COVID-19 safetyThis semester, occupational therapy students in Assistant Clinical Professor Christine Johnson’s motor control course were supposed to assess and design treatment plans for individuals with neurological injuries. Wayne State University’s switch to online classes in response to the COVID-19 pandemic changed those plans – but it did not stop students from making a difference.
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RESCHEDULED: Fulbright faculty information session at EACPHS rescheduled for May 13The Fulbright information session at EACPHS originally scheduled for Wednesday, March 18, has been postponed until May 13.
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Interprofessional education sessions at WSU Applebaum bridge health disciplines for studentsThe first in a planned series of IPE events took place Jan. 14 and 16, 2020, with 240 students from five programs actively participating in large and small group sessions focused on interprofessional roles in pain management.
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Support OT student Sarah Miller and family after house fireSecond-year OT student Sarah Miller recently lost her home in a devastating fire. If you'd like to help support Sarah, a GoFundMe has been set up, or you may drop off donated items for her young daughters at the WSU Applebaum Office of Student Affairs.
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Heather Fritz awarded NIH grant to better understand self-care challenges of older African AmericansAssistant Professor of Occupational Therapy Heather Fritz has been awarded $461,894 from the National Institute of Health, Institute on Aging (1R15AG063087-01A1) to better understand the chronic condition self-management challenges that lie at the intersection of age and race.
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Miriam Freeling, OT program director from 1978-1992, dies at 89Miriam Freeling, Wayne State University Occupational Therapy Program Director from 1978-1992, passed away on Friday, Nov. 22, 2019, at the age of 89.
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Today@Wayne: Heather Fritz researching new program to prevent frailty in older African AmericansAssistant Professor of Occupational Therapy Heather Fritz won a $256,000 grant from the Michigan Health Endowment Fund to test an occupational therapy-based intervention on 150 pre-frail African Americans. Her team is halfway through their two-year timeframe and seeing positive results in the 75 people enrolled so far.
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Zhengping Yi, Wassim Tarraf win WSU Applebaum faculty awardsAt the Eugene Applebaum College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences 16th annual Research Day on Wednesday, Oct. 16, 2019, Professor of Pharmaceutical Sciences Zhengping Yi was awarded the Faculty Research Recognition Award, and Assistant Professor of Occupational Therapy Wassim Tarraf ’02, ’10 was awarded the Junior Faculty Research Recognition Award. These annual honors were announced in addition to student poster winners following a keynote lecture by Timothy Billiar, MD.
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OT professor seeks grad students for animal-assisted therapy studyAssistant Professor (Clinical) of Occupational Therapy Christine Johnson is seeking full-time graduate and professional students to participate in her latest study, "The Effect of Animal-Assisted Intervention (AAI) on Graduate Students’ Perceptions of Well-being: Insights from Occupational Therapy."
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Malcolm Cutchin part of team receiving $3.1 million NIH grant to improve quality of life for African American cancer survivorsA team of researchers from Wayne State University and the Barbara Ann Karmanos Cancer Institute are investigating the combined role that community, interpersonal and individual influences have on negatively affecting the health-related quality of life for African American cancer survivors, and how those influences create racial health disparities between African Americans and non-Hispanic white survivors. The team includes Malcolm P. Cutchin, Ph.D., professor in the Institute of Gerontology and the Department of Health Care Sciences in Wayne State’s Eugene Applebaum College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences.
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Heather Fritz works to prevent frailty in African AmericansBefore a person becomes frail, they are pre-frail, showing changes in physical and mental health, socialization, and quality of life that make them likely to become frail, often within three to seven years. “If we can intervene at this point,” said Heather Fritz, PhD, an assistant professor of occupational therapy (OT) and gerontology at the IOG, “we could possibly delay the descent into frailty.”
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Pre-Health Sciences Mentoring Program launched at WSU ApplebaumA new Pre-Health Sciences Mentoring Program is available for Wayne State undergraduates who are considering applying to one of WSU Applebaum's bachelor's, master's or doctoral degree programs in the health sciences.
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OT professors invited to national workshop aiming to stimulate new research on aging in placeEugene Applebaum College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences faculty members Malcolm Cutchin and Heather Fritz are part of a small group of occupational therapy aging researchers invited from across the country to work toward laying the foundation for the next generation of innovative research in occupational therapy and aging as part of the American Occupational Therapy Foundation (AOTF) Planning Grant Collective Workshop "Stimulating Research to Enhance Aging in Place: A Continuum of Home and Community-Based Services."
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Students learn veteran health care needs straight from the sourceStudents and faculty from Wayne State University’s School of Medicine and Eugene Applebaum College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences hosted 33 Michigan veterans of the U.S. Air Force, Army and Marines during the course of three sessions June 6, 13 and 20 to better understand their health needs.
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"75 and sunny": Legacy scholarship reflects care, optimism of 1959 alumnaIn 1998, Barbara Henderson Miller established an endowed scholarship for OT students who have, in her words, “pulled themselves up by their own bootstraps.”
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OT alumna headed for third WSU degree researching yoga for Parkinson’sNow working on her PhD in kinesiology with a specialization in motor control and a minor in neuroscience, Alicia Jones (MOT '12) is seeking participants for her dissertation research study, “The Effects of Yoga on Motor Control Processing in Individuals with Parkinson's Disease.” Current OT student Cassandra Viselli is the yoga instructor for the program.
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Occupational therapy researcher awarded funding for postdoc fellowHeather Fritz, assistant professor of occupational therapy in the Eugene Applebaum College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences, was awarded $60,000 in funding administered over two years to bring on a postdoctoral fellow through a competitive selection process for Wayne State faculty members.