College of Health Professions Fall 2020 Newsletter

FALL 2020

HARDER TO BREATHE

Respiratory Therapists ‘Last Line of Defense’ in Battle against COVID-19 HEALTH PROFESSIONS | FALL 2020

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A Message from the Dean The past few months have certainly been unusual, to say the least. COVID-19 has disrupted our lives in many ways, and the College of Health Professions hasn’t been immune to the disruption.

COLLEGE OF HEALTH PROFESSIONS FALL 2020 NEWSLETTER The UAMS College of Health Professions Mission

At 11 a.m. on March 12, face-toface classes ended and clinical placements came to a screeching halt, ushering in a period characterized by unprecedented uncertainty and anxiety for everyone. Faculty put aside their own fears and got down to the work of leading their programs during these strange times.

The mission of the UAMS College of Health Professions is to improve the health of culturally diverse populations by: •Offering education, research and service opportunities for students in the allied health professions •Providing students with a total educational experience that emphasizes lifelong learning •Collaborating with other health care professionals to be an innovator in allied health education Cam Patterson, M.D., MBA Chancellor University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences Susan Long, Ed.D. Dean Tina Maddox, Ph.D. Associate Dean for Academic Affairs Wade Anderson, MBA Associate Dean for Administrative Affairs Phyllis Fields, M.Ed. Associate Dean for Student Affairs Reza Hakkak, Ph.D. Associate Dean for Research Deborah Taylor Editorial Committee Yavonda Chase Editor Kayleigh Myers Graphic Designer

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In August, we welcomed students back for a learning experience that looks a bit different than it did in February.

Our programs continued online learning where appropriate, with in-person interaction saved for classes, labs and clinical experiences that absolutely required it.

The challenge of COVID-19 has only magnified the commitment our faculty and staff have to our students and academic programs. Watching everyone work together to give our students the best academic experience reminds me how grateful I am to be a part of this college.

Despite the challenges, we have a lot to celebrate in 2020.

In January, we welcomed the first cohort of Doctor of Occupational Therapy students.

We concluded our first year of full sponsorship of the Doctor of Audiology, Master of Science in Communication Sciences and Disorders, and the Doctorate in Communication Sciences and Disorders programs. Plans are underway for a UAMS Speech and Hearing Clinic at UAMS that will support the clinical component of the programs.

We celebrated the 20th anniversary of the Ophthlamic Medical Technology program and gained approval to expand our Diagnostic Medical Sonography program to the UAMS Northwest Regional Campus. Our Dental Hygiene program will be opening a new clinic early next year.

While this year has definitely had its challenges, things are looking good for the College of Health Professions. Thank you for your continued support.

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Susan Long, Ed.D. Dean, College of Health Professions

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Occupational Therapy Program’s First Year

By Yavonda Chase and David Wise

Mark Koch, OTD, (center) speaks with students Awbrey Gibby and Sarah Arenas during a class in January. Photo courtesy of the University of Arkansas.

If you had asked Sherry Muir, Ph.D., OTR/L, earlier this year what challenges she expected when the Doctor of Occupational Therapy program welcomed its first class of students, she wouldn’t have predicted a pandemic disrupting classes just weeks after they started.

However, that is exactly what happened for the collaborative program between the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS) and the University of Arkansas (UA) at Fayetteville.

Muir serves as the chair of the Department of Occupational Therapy (OT) and director of the program. The 27 students of the first joint education program between the two universities split their time between the UA campus and UAMS Northwest Regional Campus, both in Fayetteville.

Students started their studies Jan. 2, and by midMarch, they transitioned to online courses.

“We didn’t have a tough time with the transition,” Muir said. “Our Blackboard courses were already highly developed and our flipped classroom format, which requires students to grapple with the material ahead of time so that instructors can focus on applying that knowledge, really lent itself to online learning.”

During the spring and summer semesters, students engaged in meaningful, community-based, servicelearning partnerships with OT programs across the state and with the local community.

Students interacted with the community through their innovative #yearoftheneighbor2020 projects in their wellness course, which took on new meaning when everything went remote. They

were challenged to show ways to connect and help people feel “seen” as they got to know their neighbors in new ways.

This summer, students participated in Friendships Bridging Generations, a collaboration with a University of Central Arkansas OT student and residents and staff at Katherine’s Place at Wedington. The goal of this learning experience was to improve social engagement and overall quality of life of nursing facility residents through friendships with college-aged volunteers guided by clientcentered, occupation-based activities.

Finally, a community wellness course challenged them to develop holistic wellness proposals for regional community organizations, including the Hope Academy, My-T by Design, Seeds that Feed and UA Student Success. Rogelio Contreras, Ph.D., from UA’s Sam M. Walton College of Business collaborated with OT faculty to bring in a social innovation perspective.

“Our students have done an amazing job of dealing with the unexpected,” she said. “Throughout the changes this year, they have really risen to the challenge. I think it really gives us a glimpse of the fantastic therapists they’re going to be.”

Muir said her goal is to develop occupational therapists who are capable of treating patients of any age and in any situation.

“We want to produce students who think and act as authentic occupational therapists,” Muir said.

“Therapists need to be able to design innovative interventions for people of all ages who may have physical, cognitive, mental or neurological First Year continued on Page 4

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Ashlyn Elliott (center) speaks with other students during a occupational therapy class in January. Photo courtesy of the University of Arkansas.

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challenges – and that is what we’re teaching our students.”

Muir and her team were very deliberate when designing the OT spaces on both campuses.

At UA, a two-story OT House serves as a learning and teaching space for instructors and students. The upper level looks like a typical house with two bedrooms – a child’s room with a crib, baby-changing table and bunkbeds, and an adult bedroom. A small kitchen features a sink, refrigerator, stove and a number of small appliances. There is also a laundry area, an office and an open dining room and living room.

The house was designed to help students understand the challenges people face when returning to their homes after illness or injury.

“It is imperative that our students understand real life is messy,” she said. “Homes have trip hazards that don’t exist in the clinic and rooms that are too small for adaptive equipment, but a therapist has to be able to teach our patients how to cope with those messy realities.”

“Our OT House sits at the top of a hill with a cracked driveway and sidewalk, narrow hallways and a step-in tub. As a therapist, how do I help a patient with a walker navigate those obstacles?”

The downstairs serves as an administrative area, with a meeting room and offices for faculty members, all of whom are occupational therapists with additional advanced degrees.

Faculty include Muir; Kandy Salter, OTD, OTR/L, capstone coordinator; Maria Ball, OTD, OTR/L, academic fieldwork coordinator; Jeanne Eichler, EdD, OTR/L, assistant professor; and Mark Koch, OTD, OTR/L, and Anna Harris, OTD, OTR/L, both assistant teaching professors. They plan to hire one more faculty member to begin July 1, 2021.

On the UAMS campus, the learning lab space includes two apartments that provide unique opportunities not found at the OT House, including a fully handicapped-accessible bathroom with a shower that simulates a hospital setting and a hospice room.

This will help students learn how to work with patients who may be in a nursing 4

home or medical facility.

A classroom space called the Lifespan Center includes swings, balance boards and other equipment to address sensory needs and balance. An assistive technology lab will include a 3-D printer for creating prototypes of adaptive equipment and devices to increase independence. A fabrication lab enables students to make orthotics (splints) and casts.

Finally, there is a garage area, where students learn how to help patients navigate the challenges of getting in and out of a car.

Patients also will be able to learn to work with tools commonly found in a home garage and understand how to create therapeutic interventions for patients who use these tools in their daily lives.

“We’re getting our students ready to change the world.”

“We want to push the boundaries, shake up the way occupational therapy is - Sherry Muir, Ph.D. normally taught,” Muir said. “For too long, occupational therapists have been siloed in our thinking – we treat children or we treat aging adults.”

“What happens to those adults who have socalled pediatric/developmental diagnoses like cerebral palsy or autism? Their challenges don’t stop when they reach 21. Who treats them?

Many diagnoses aren’t age related – we need to be able to help our clients throughout their lifespan.”

Developing a highly integrated curriculum that encompasses this whole person mindset is a challenging endeavor especially since none of the faculty were taught this way, Muir said.

“But I believe this type of teaching is what sets our program apart from others,” she said.

“It is also what is going to set apart our students from other occupational therapists out there.

We’re getting our students ready to change the world.”

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Ophthalmic Medical Technology Program Celebrates 20 Years

By Yavonda Chase

treatment of eye disorders. OMTs carry out a lot of the prescreening and diagnostic testing that is done during an eye exam.

Alicia Baird, director of the Ophthalmic Medical Technology program and department chair, demonstrates how to perform a prism alternate cover test (PACT) on student Mallory England.

Blow up the balloons and cut the cake because the Ophthalmic Medical Technology (OMT) program turns 20 this year.

“I think it is pretty fitting that a program dedicated to providing quality optical care celebrates its 20th anniversary in 2020,” said Susan Long, Ed.D., dean of the College of Health Professions.

A collaboration between the college and the UAMS Harvey & Bernice Jones Eye Institute, the program is the only accredited one in the country in which students graduate with a Bachelor of Science degree, and the only program integrated into a major eye clinic.

John Shock, M.D., founding director of the Jones Eye Institute, and Chris Westfall, M.D., Shock’s successor as director who is now dean of the College of Medicine, were instrumental in founding the program, said Alicia Baird, B.S., CO, COMT, program director and chair of the Department of Ophthalmic Medical Technologies.

“To that point, ophthalmologists largely trained their staff themselves because there weren’t really any programs that offered education in this area,” said Baird. “Shock and Westfall wanted UAMS to develop a program that would train at the highest level – the technologist.”

Ophthalmic medical technologists assist ophthalmologists with most aspects of a patient’s eye care, including assessment and

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Since accepting its first class in 2000, the OMT program has graduated 60 students, said Baird, a number that includes her (Class of 2010) and previous program director Suzanne Hansen, M.Ed., COMT, who was in the program’s second class of students.

“Because we are such a small profession and one of only three accredited ophthalmic medical technologist programs in the United States training at the advanced level, it makes sense our graduates end up being our faculty,” said Baird. “I was honored when I was selected to succeed Hansen in 2017.”

In all, there are 34 accredited ophthalmic personnel training programs in the country, most of which offer training at the assistant (entry) and technician (intermediate) levels.

Currently, there are five students in the program. Those students receive one-on-one, personalized time with the optometrists and ophthalmologists at Jones Eye Institute, Baird said.

“The investment by UAMS physicians into our students is something special,” she said. “I know those relationships are invaluable and will benefit our students throughout their careers. When I talk about this program to future students that is one of the biggest things I highlight because it is so unique.”

Students also start clinical rotations in their second week of the program.

“We believe in hitting the ground running,” Baird said, adding that the first clinical experiences are largely observational. “But those early clinicals are really what hook our students. They see exactly how they’re going to be able to help people.”

While the program is the smallest in the College of Health Professions, it has an outsized reputation.

“We may be small, but we are mighty,” Baird said. “Our students are highly recruited and usually have jobs before they graduate. The last few classes have had a 100% pass rate their first time to take the national certification test administered by the Joint Commission on Allied Health Personnel in Ophthalmology. I’m so proud of our amazing students.”

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HARDER TO BREATHE

Respiratory Therapists ‘Last Line of Defense’ in Battle against COVID

By Yavonda Chase

Since the emergence of COVID-19, respiratory therapists have found themselves at the forefront of the fight against the deadly virus. As the number of infected climb, these allied health professionals employ every tool at their disposal to keep their sick patients breathing.

Such a task is grueling, but for respiratory therapists this is exactly what they’ve been trained to do.

“I have never been more proud to be a respiratory therapist than I am right now,” said Tom Jones, M.Ed., R.R.T., CPFT, chair of the Department of Respiratory Care in the College of Health Professions. “Because of this pandemic we’re being recognized for the work we’ve always done.”

“We’re not just on the front lines of this pandemic; we’re often the last line of defense.”

In April as New York City’s hospitals struggled under the weight of the virus, a team of nurses and respiratory therapists from UAMS volunteered to help. UAMS respiratory therapists Henry Campbell-Gomez, R.R.T., and

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Tina Patton, R.R.T., reported to New York-Presbyterian Brooklyn Methodist Hospital.

Heather Washington, R.R.T., a 2017 graduate of the CardioRespiratory Care program who works at Arkansas Children’s Hospital, went to Long Island Jewish Medical Center.

Respiratory Care student John Smith practices setting up an air entrainment mask.

Image by Bryan Clifton

“We’re not just on the front lines of this pandemic; we’re often the last line of defense.”

- Tom Jones, M.Ed.

Campbell-Gomez, who deployed twice to Iraq with the Army Reserves, said he prepared for the trip to New York City as he would a military deployment. He tried to imagine the worst scenarios possible so that he could work through his responses while he was still safe at home.

When he arrived, he could see the New York therapists were “shell shocked.”

UAMS respiratory therapists Henry Campbell-Gomez and Tina Patton spent two weeks volunteering at New York-Presbyterian Brooklyn Methodist Hospital.

“I knew then we were going

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BATTLE AGAINST COVID-19

into battle,” he said.

All three therapists described a situation unlike any they had ever witnessed.

“At UAMS, we are probably treating six to eight patients on a ventilator who are COVID-positive.

When we arrived at NYC, there were about 126 patients on vents, all COVID-positive,” said Campbell-Gomez. “The respiratory therapists there were just exhausted. It felt good that we were able to lighten their load.”

Washington said all of her patients had the virus and were intubated. “It was the most patients I have had on the ventilator since I’ve been a therapist,” she said, adding that several of the ventilators were ones she had never worked on before.

For Patton, it was a heart-warming and heartbreaking experience.

“I have never seen so many critically ill patients under one roof,” she said. “Everyone was so sick.

People were dying all around us every day. My goal was to help keep my patients alive, but if death was imminent, I did not want anyone to die alone [visitors were not allowed] so I held their hand and prayed for them as long as I could.”

Washington was in New York for 25 days, while Patton and Campbell-Gomez stayed three weeks. All three therapists had to quarantine for 14 days when they returned to Arkansas.

COVID-19 also affected many things at UAMS. In March, when classes moved to online learning, programs scrambled to ensure learning continued. In the Department of Respiratory Care, Jones and his faculty worked diligently to ensure their seniors would graduate on time.

Because of a long history of using technology in

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Students Natasha Wilbon and Rich Nouketcheussi practice how to show a patient the proper way to use an inhaler.

Image by Bryan Clifton

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Despite Pandemic, CHP Grads Still Eager to Serve Others

By Yavonda Chase

Graduation is always a time of apprehension mixed with excitement. Students typically worry about finding a job, paying off student loans and being happy in their chosen field.

This year’s seniors in the College of Health Professions found themselves graduating just in time to join the ranks of health care professionals during a pandemic.

Afton Wrinkle graduated in May from the Cardio-Respiratory Care program and went to work at UAMS. Caring for COVID-positive patients is just a part of the job, she said.

“COVID has changed my perspective in my profession, in that I see even more how important my job is to the health of patients who suffer from this virus,” she said. “I was a little nervous to begin my career in the middle of a pandemic, but I was eager to learn my particular role in the care of these patients.”

“I am proud to say that I am a part of this wonderful profession, and I look forward to helping treat my patients,” she said.

Tiffany Wallace, a December 2019 graduate of the Medical Laboratory Sciences program, found herself newly employed in the UAMS Blood Bank when COVID-19 hit.

“Lab workers play an important role in a hospital,” she said. “Lab analysis of patient samples helps direct doctors with treating their patients. Without our work and test results physicians would not have the clearest picture possible when working through a diagnosis.”

To a certain extent, the pandemic has given the world a glimpse into the vital services performed by those behind-the-scenes health care workers, she said.

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“This pandemic has really put all medical professionals to the test, veteran and rookies alike,” Wallace said. “It’s shown the importance of communication and collaboration across all medical disciplines.”

Paula Lynn Whitaker is one of the newest graduates from the college, earning her degree from the Radiologic Imaging Sciences program in September. Before graduating, Whitaker was exposed to COVID-19 during work at an MRI clinic.

Respiratory therapist Tina Patton on the roof of New York-Presbyterian Brooklyn Methodist Hospital.

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Tiffany Wallace at work in the UAMS Blood Bank.

Image by Bryan Clifton

“Being on the front lines is definitely a bit concerning, especially given that my husband has COPD and I have asthma; however, we understand how to protect ourselves and others.

I completed this program so I can help people, and that is what I plan to do. I will take care of myself in this pandemic, but I am also 100% committed to taking care of others.”

Natalie Cannon graduated from the Physician Assistant program in August and began a neonatal physician assistant residency at the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia.

“I am excited to finally be of use during this unprecedented time,” she said.

“Throughout the past few months, I found myself wanting to yell, ‘How can I help?’ But as a student, your usefulness is limited. I am excited not only to join the front line, but also to learn alongside my fellow professionals as medicine continues to evolve.”

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the program, faculty were able to flip most of the courses to online in a few days,” said Jones.

For the New York City volunteers, adapting meant putting aside fear to respond to the need.

“It was the clinical hours and labs that gave us the most heartburn,” he said. “You can’t do those virtually – person-to-person contact is necessary.”

“I was scared,” said Washington.

“I’ve never been away from home and my family for that extended period of time or traveled that far without my husband. My friends and family called or texted me every day I was up there, which helped.”

“Seniors needed clinical hours to graduate,” he said, “so the Director of Clinical Education created a three-hour class on COVID-19 to fill the gap. Faculty also redesigned summer courses to make up clinical time for the juniors.”

The extra effort paid off.

“Our seniors graduated on time and didn’t miss a thing. We even had a 100% pass rate on credentialing exams,” he said.

“The juniors started the fall completely caught up, thanks in no small part to our dedicated faculty, and partnerships with clinical affiliates like ACH, which was able to accommodate some students in June.”

“I’ve always said it is in the DNA of a respiratory therapist to adapt to change and be resourceful,” Jones said. “We really proved that with our COVID response.”

Campbell-Gomez said he FaceTimed with his wife every evening to help process the day, adding that seeing her face eased the anxiety they both felt.

“In the end, I trusted in the training I’ve had and the equipment I was given,” he said. “I went because I believed I could do a good job.”

Patton said she “was very scared but felt called by a higher power to go.” Her 12-year-old daughter and 72-year-old parents supported her decision.

All three therapists would volunteer again.

“I cannot express the amount of pride I have for UAMS for sending a team to another institution in need,” said Patton. “I am proud to be a respiratory therapist at UAMS because we do great things here."

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Tiffany Huitt, Ph.D., Receives Chancellor’s Teaching Award

received the 2020 Excellence in Teaching Award for 30 years of skill and commitment in developing leaders in the respiratory care field. Gramlich has developed and redesigned courses, most recently to meet needs for online instruction as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic.

She’s also a “passionate and meticulous educator” who inspires her students, said her nominator and department chair, Tom Jones, M.Ed., R.R.T.

By Spencer Watson and Yavonda Chase

UAMS Chancellor Cam Patterson, M.D., MBA, presented Tiffany Huitt, Ph.D., with the Chancellor’s Teaching Award for Teaching Excellence.

Huitt is director of research and an associate professor in the Department of Physician Assistant Studies in the UAMS College of Health Professions.

“Dr. Huitt is a model of excellence in education and scholarship as a mentor and master teacher,” said Patterson. “Her evaluations, both from students and colleagues, speak for themselves in how highly they speak of her.”

The award was established in 2004 to recognize outstanding teaching among UAMS faculty. The Teaching Excellence Award recognizes direct teaching, mentoring or educational scholarship between a faculty member and any learner.

The award is traditionally presented annually at commencement, but the ceremony was canceled this year due to the COVID-19 pandemic.

Huitt joined UAMS in 2013 as an adjunct assistant professor while the physician assistant program was under development and became full time in 2015, contributing to the program’s successful accreditation in 2016. She was appointed the program’s first associate program director in 2017.

“Dr. Huitt is a gifted teacher and her course evaluations are continuously nothing short of exceptional. Having been a medical illustrator, her ability to teach gross anatomy is truly unmatched,” said Susan Long, Ed.D., dean of the College of Health Professions.

The College of Health Professions also recognized several faculty members this fall.

Theresa Gramlich, M.S., R.R.T., an assistant professor in the Department of Respiratory Care,

Chancellor's Teaching Award recipient Tiffany Huitt, Ph.D., with Stephanie Gardner, Pharm.D., Ed.D., and Cam Patterson, M.D., MBA. Image by Bryan Clifton HEALTH PROFESSIONS | FALL 2020

Theresa Gramlich

Jennifer Vincenzo

Jason Key

“Ms. Gramlich works tirelessly to remove learning barriers, incorporate learning strategies and create engaging environments that enable students to perform at their highest potential,” wrote Jones in the nomination letter.

Jason Key, M.Ed., MLS(ASCP)CM, an assistant professor in the Department of Laboratory Sciences, received the 2020 Excellence in Service Award, which recognizes an educator whose significant contributions through service are instrumental in achieving the UAMS mission.

Key was chosen in part for efforts to develop Memorandums of Understanding (MOUs) with colleges and universities in Arkansas, Mississippi, Ohio, South Carolina, Missouri, North Carolina, Maryland and even Japan. He also set up the first MOU with Drew Memorial Hospital, which will serve as the focal point for lab training for the underserved areas of southeastern Arkansas and western Mississippi.

Nathan H. Johnson, Ph.D., chair of the Department of Laboratory Sciences, wrote in his nomination letter that Key’s work as the assistant program director for the Medical Laboratory Technician (MLTs) to Medical Laboratory Scientist (MLS) online program has helped hundreds of MLTs from all over the world to advance their clinical skills and their careers.

Jennifer Vincenzo, Ph.D., M.P.H., P.T., an associate professor in the Department of Physical Therapy, received the 2020 Excellence in Scholarship Award, which recognizes faculty who make significant scholarly contributions.

Despite carrying a heavy teaching and administrative load leaving her only 30% of her time for scholarship, Vincenzo has published 15 peer-reviewed articles over the past five years, wrote her nominator, John Jefferson, Ph.D., P.T., chair of the PT department. During that same time, she also has had 27 peer-reviewed poster or platform conference presentations, an average of 5.4 peer-reviewed presentations a year.

Finally, she has been a primary investigator or coinvestigator on six funded grants during her time at UAMS. 9

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