Feb. 17, 2022
Integrative Behavioral Health Center receives Community Action Partnership Award
Kelli Canada accepted the Council of Social Work Education Community Partnership Action Award on behalf of IBHC students and faculty. Congratulations to the students and faculty of the School of Social Work’s Integrative Behavioral Health Clinic (IBHC), which received the Community Action Partnership award from…
Feb. 7, 2022
Douglas Clem wins first place in scientific presentation competition
Feb. 7, 2022 The Society of Diagnostic Medical Sonography recently awarded Douglas Clem first place in its National Scientific Presentation Competition. Clem is a clinical coordinator and clinical professor of the diagnostic medical ultrasound program in the University of Missouri School of Health Professions. The Scientific Presentation Competition evaluates sonographers’ original summary papers on clinical research, educational techniques, patient care, sonography department management, case studies presenting a diagnostic challenge, or other areas related to diagnostic medical sonography. Clem presented the paper “Atypical presentation of an adult man following repair of multiple coronary artery fistulas connecting to the main pulmonary artery…
Feb. 3, 2022
Respiratory therapy student wins state leadership award
Feb. 3, 2022 Jack Heerhold, Respiratory Therapy student, was recognized with the Glen Kolander Leadership Award from the Missouri Society for Respiratory Care. In order to receive this award, one must possess leadership skills and participate in campus activities that help to foster these skills.
Jan. 18, 2022
Fall 2021 Dean’s List
Jan. 18, 2022 Congratulations to 1,507 Health Professions students who made the Fall 2021 Dean’s List! Each school and college at the University of Missouri determines its own dean’s list eligibility for undergraduate students. Students who had privacy holds in MyZou are excluded from public lists. To qualify for the dean’s list in the School of Health Professions, a student must earn a 3.30 GPA in a minimum of 12 graded (A-F) credit hours. Dean’s list honors only apply to Fall and Spring semesters. Courses graded S/U or Hearer do not count toward the required 12 graded hours. Self-paced courses…
Dec. 7, 2021
Health Professions students selected for AASB
Congratulations to Health Science majors Sharmarke Khadar and Jayda Moss, and to Social Work major Diamond Russell for being chosen for the Mizzou Alumni Association Student Board (AASB). As leaders on campus, AASB members work to preserve MU traditions, foster a sense of pride within the Mizzou community and serve as the governing board for all True Tigers.
Dec. 7, 2021
PhD student earns research award
Congratulations to Jacob Thomas, a PhD student in Health and Rehabilitation Sciences. Thomas received the Health Science Research Day Dean’s Award for the School of Health Professions for his project “Validation of Azure Kinect Temporospatial Parameters During a Sit-to-Stand Task.” He is advised by Trent Guess, Physical Therapy associate professor.
Dec. 2, 2021
Margie Sable receives national award
Congratulations to Margie Sable, who received the Insley Evans Public Health Social Work award at the American Public Health Association conference. The award recognizes her outstanding service in the field. Dr. Sable, professor emerita, directed the School of Social Work from 2008–16. Dr. Sable completed her MSW at Washington University, and earned an MPH and DrPH from the University of North Carolina–Chapel Hill. Her research interests included maternal and child health; adolescent pregnancy, psychosocial barriers to prenatal care and family planning; domestic violence; and perinatal substance abuse.
Nov. 15, 2021
Botswana Toney Blackburn named 2021 Faculty Alumni Award winner by Mizzou Alumni Association
Oct. 12, 2021
Multidisciplinary team receives poster award
Oct. 12, 2021 At the Boston University Speech Motor Control Symposium, Mili Kuruvilla-Dugdale, Speech, Language & Hearing Sciences associate professor (pictured); Katie Threlkeld, Health & Rehabilitation Science PhD student; and Mojgan Golzy, School of Medicine; received an award for their dysarthric speech research poster. The $250 prize will be donated to the SLHS student travel fund. …
Oct. 10, 2021
Health Sciences student crowned Homecoming King
Congratulations to Dylan Hood, who was crowned 2021 Homecoming king! Dylan is a Health Science major, Health Professions ambassador, Bryant Scholar, and Theta Chi fraternity member from Wardsville, Missouri. He was crowned by the 2020 Homecoming king, Omobude Eke, BHS ’21. From left: Dylan Hood and his supervisor Cheri Ghan, and fellow SHP ambassadors Hunter Puckett and Jason Nayar.