Oct. 26, 2021
Health Sciences students twirl for Mizzou
Oct. 26, 2021 When freshman Ella Earnest was applying to colleges, she knew she wanted to twirl at an SEC university. After competing in national championships and earning a spot as one of the best baton twirlers in the country, she was looking for a place to take her tosses to the next level. Florida is a long way from Faurot Field. But when Earnest, an Orlando native and health sciences major with an emphasis in rehabilitation sciences, visited campus, she knew the University of Missouri was right for her. “When I woke up Sunday morning in Columbia after being…
Oct. 24, 2021
How Columbia schools and FACE are teaming up to address mental health in students
In 2012, Boone County voters approved a quarter-cent sales tax, establishing the Boone County Children’s Services Fund and raising around $6.7 million annually for children’s programs. One of the programs the sales tax has funded has been Family Access Center of Excellence, operated through the University of Missouri. It provides case management for families with children and links them to services. Read the full article.
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.
Oct. 7, 2021
Alumna Claire Willard receives Excellence in Mentoring Award
Sept. 25, 2021 Coming from Clinton, Mo. — a town of less than 10,000 people — to Mizzou was a big adjustment at first for Claire Willard (CSD ’04). But after her freshman year, she made two friends who would ultimately influence her choice of what to major in, putting her on the trajectory of becoming a speech-language pathologist. Now, Willard serves as the Coordinator of Speech-Language Services for Columbia Public Schools, where part of her role includes helping the Department of Speech, Language and Hearing Sciences place master’s students in their school-setting outplacements. …
Oct. 6, 2021
How storytelling can help public health officials combat distrust, skepticism
October 6, 2021 Contact: Brian Consiglio, 573-882-9144, consigliob@missouri.edu Since the COVID-19 pandemic began, public health experts and scientists have struggled to get some segments of the public to heed their warnings about the importance of following public health measures aimed at controlling the spread of the virus. Lise Saffran, an associate teaching professor at the MU School of Health Professions, studies public health and earned a master’s degree in fine arts and creative writing from the University of Iowa Writer’s Workshop. In a recently published commentary titled, “Public health storytelling practice,” she explains how storytelling can help public health…
Oct. 6, 2021
Faculty and students present dysarthric speech research at Boston Symposium
Oct. 6, 2021 At the Boston University Speech Motor Control Symposium, Speech, Language and Hearing Sciences PhD student Katie Threlkeld, faculty member Dr. Mili Kuruvilla-Dugdale, and Mojgan Golzy of the Department of Health Management and Informatics, were awarded with the third place Best Poster Award for their poster titled, “Can listener training improve the reliability of auditory-perceptual judgments of dysarthric speech?”. Dr. Kuruvilla-Dugdale shares, “This study was possible due to the sheer determination of student researchers and study participants during the global pandemic. This project forced us to think outside the box and implement data collection and analysis procedures that…
Oct. 6, 2021
Mizzou Motion Analysis Center presents research on international stage
Rose Schauffler The Department of Physical Therapy is pleased to announce that faculty and students from the Mizzou Motion Analysis Center (Mizzou-MAC) were invited to share their research at the 17th International Symposium on Computer Methods in Biomechanics and Biomedical Engineering and 5th Conference on Imaging and Visualization in September. Virtually hosted from Bonn, Germany, Dr. Trent Guess provided an oral presentation titled, “Opportunities and Challenges in Computational Modelling of the Pediatric Knee.” Outstanding work, Dr. Guess. Additionally, Rose Schauffler, a master’s student in biomedical engineering and team member within the Mizzou-MAC, presented, “Novel Knee Arthrometer Use in Clinical…
Sep. 30, 2021
Painful Debt: How Credit Card Bills Can Hurt Your Health (Forbes)
It’s easy to quantify the pain that high levels of debt can cause to one’s finances by either looking at the opportunity cost or the squeeze on the ability to pay day-to-day expenses. But causing pain to the actual body? According to new research, the ache you may feel or the stiffness after work may also relate to the amount of debt you have. Researchers evaluated Baby Boomers as they aged, starting from 28-to-40 and then checking them again at 50 years old. They separated the group into…
Sep. 17, 2021
Telehealth services provide quality pediatric care, MU survey finds
An MU survey finds that telehealth services are able to provide quality pediatric care, and bridge the gap for rural families