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UAB School of Health Professions • Impressions of Alumni Excellence • Fall 2017 E-Magazine SNAPSHOTS PHILANTHROPY ISSUE BUILDING YOUR LEGACY IGNITING THE FUTURE IMPACTING OUR STUDENTS{ SNAPSHOTS } Impressions of SHP Alumni Excellence • Fall 2017 “We shape our buildings; thereafter, our buildings shape us.” — Winston Churchill This edition of Snapshots is dedicated to all the people who give in order to shape others. We look at the power of numbers and its impact on giving: the more who give – no matter the size of their gift – the more lives it impacts. Quick example, the campaign to build our building’s top two floors saw more than 400 people contribute. Since opening, our Executive Learning Center has welcomed more than 35,000 people* to learn! Include the other learning spaces plus faculty and staff that work here and the numbers quickly increase exponentially. *The timeline for our statistics is August 15, 2013 through July 7, 2017. UAB Giving Day, which you saw us promote in our last Snapshots, had 41 donors give $1,370 to the Firehouse Shelter Crowdfunding campaign. Another $310 in matching funds meant $1,680 went directly to our student-led Firehouse Shelter clinic. What does that really mean? It means this program, which includes students from every department in our school, can provide health care to nearly 50 men at no cost. It means free access to health care for the homeless men who visit the shelter. We would like to sincerely thank everyone who gave to each of our campaigns. /uabshp UAB School of Health Professions /uab_shp /uabshp /uab_shp Join our GLOBAL conversation ON YOUR favorite media outlet. 2Go. Give. Serve. Your SHP education is the foundation that built your future. Today, the place that helped build your future offers many ways for you to help build others’ futures. ONLINE: uab.edu/shp/give PHONE: Answer the call from a student in the Annual Giving Office or call us at 205-996-5469 MAIL: Send a check ESTATE: Leave a legacy with a planned gift MATCH: Ask your employer to match your gift GIVE BACK SEPT 19: SHP Reception at Braves game in Atlanta SEPT 28: PT Reception OCT 1: Dodging for Degrees Tournament OCT 1-7: Homecoming Week OCT 6: HSA Women’s Leadership Event GET INVOLVED See all upcoming events! Visit our event page: uab.edu/shpevents Make a difference! Contact Katie Adams: katiedav@uab.edu HOST Breakfast with Blazers GIVE a guest lecture BECOME a preceptor or clinical instructor BE a mentor WRITE welcome notes to incoming students PARTICIPATE in one of our many service opportunities SERVE OTHERS Get involved today! Contact Amanda Sherman: asherman@uab.edu DON’T MISS OUT: update your contact info at uab.edu/shp/alumni to receive alumni news & more. JOIN US FOR OUR ANNUAL JAB DODGEBALL TOURNAMENT Learn more: uab.edu/dodgingfordegrees or contact Amanda Burton Martin • aebmartin@uab.edu SHP ALUMNI E-MAGAZINE • FALL 20173Ellen Strunk (PT, 1991) Lucy Blair Service Award, APTA Callie Andrews (MSHA, Class 41) and Erin Yarbrough (HQS, 2014) , 2017 Young Alumni Rising Star Award, UAB Norman Bolus (NMT, 1989) elected 2017-18 President-Elect of Society of Nuclear Medicine and Molecular Imaging Technologist Section (SNMMI-TS) ALUMNI RECOGNITION Michelle Cardel (NS, 2009; R.D., DI, 2012; Ph.D. in NS, 2012) Outstanding Young Alumni Award, UAB Samuel Hoskins (PA, 1973) Advanced Practice Clinician Award of Excellence, Bassett Healthcare Network Gwendolyn Gray (OT, 1972) Roster of Fellows, AOTA Tara Franks Bailey (OT, 1994; AHS, 1999) Roster of Honor, AOTA Deborah Grimes (HQS, 2016) named UAB Health System’s first Chief Diversity Officer. Shanda Coomes Bland (MSHA, Class E47) Justin Bryant (MSHA, Class 47) Courtney Duff-Harrison (OT, 2004) Keith Granger (RS, 1974) John Kueven (MSHA, Class 41) Mary Temm (DSc, 2013) Beth Whitehead (PT, 1972) Dale Yake (PT, 1992) Regan Miller Jones (R.D., DI, 1998) Media Excellence Award, Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics Alumni Excellence Our alumni are consistently recognized for service to their professions and to others — here are some of our most recent honorees. SHARE YOUR SUCCESS: Tell us about your honors & achievements. shpalumni@uab.edu • 205-975-8415. 4 ALUMNI RECOGNITION Alumni in Action Oh the places our alumni go! No place is too far or too close for our alumni to get together. School of Health Professions Building, UAB Class of 2015 graduates Sara Joyce, Lisa Bartlow, Alex Vaughan, Maureen LeFevre, and Katelyn Cresswell Cantina Laredo, Birmingham Junior Advisory Board showing off Blazer Pride Nigel Brown (HQS, 2016), Linda Coogan (EMSHA, Class 40), John Kueven (MSHA, Class 41), Jim Burkhart (DSc, 2012; MSHA Class 13) National Symposium for Healthcare Executives, Sandestin President, Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics with DI graduates National Society of Genetic Counselors convention, Columbus, Ohio NAS Scholarship Run37th Annual National Symposium for Healthcare Executives PA Alumni Reception, Las Vegas HI Networking Reception GC Alumni Reception LVR Practice Update Course Executive DSc Networking Reception Donna Martin Presentation SHP ALUMNI E-MAGAZINE • FALL 20175WHAT WILL YOUR IMPACT BE?PHILANTHROPY T he director of operations of a healthcare system in Massachusetts is a high school dropout and he is in this elevated position because of real gifts from real people. Nicholas Colleran (MSHA, Class 49) is a proud alumnus of our nationally ranked Master of Science in Health Administration program because people were generous with their time, their talent and their treasure. “So many times money doesn’t allow us to do what we want in life but I believe education shouldn’t be one of them,” said Colleran, a member of MSHA, Class 49. “For many of us, these scholarships created the option to go where we wanted and many of us wouldn’t be here without them.” Every student and every graduate has a story of how they got here. And each story generally begins with a dream. They dream to make a difference. They dream to have an impact. For some though, that dream is placed on hold unless someone helps them. The difference they wish to make and the impact they want to deliver must wait for another day, if at all. One of our recent graduates, Dhara Shah, DPT (PT, 2015) , has seen both sides of dreams. She spoke at our 2015 Scholarship Luncheon about the life- changing impact that scholarships have on dreams, and in turn, reality. “Growing up, dreams for me were seen always as just that, dreams, not reality,” said Shah. “My mother had a dream of becoming a microbiologist, however, in India a woman’s life revolved around getting married to a man arranged for her: her dream was forgotten. My father wanted to go to college and be an accountant, but his father passed away and being the oldest he had to provide for his family: his dream was forgotten. So I say to the School of Health Professions scholarship donors: Thank you! Thank you for allowing my dreams to come to reality, and thank you for allowing all the students in this room to follow their dreams.” For our impact investors, you can say this goes beyond individual dreams. You could look at it in investment terms and say it really is about ROI, but in this case, the return is in human capital. It is the investment in faculty that can share top knowledge; state-of-the-art equipment to develop skills; mentors and preceptors to pass along experience; and technologically advanced learning settings to forever impact the next generation and beyond. “These scholarships allowed us to come to this top ranked program that has been preparing us for the future,” said Colleran. “We will do everything in our power to show you that the generous scholarships you gave us were a good investment in the future of healthcare.” So what will your impact be? Will it match the dreams of their future? Can it match the dreams of your legacy? Well, don’t dream it, live it. The tradition of giving at our School is strong and it only grows stronger as people like you join in support or expand their current support. And for your support, we are all grateful. ● “Growing up, dreams for me were seen always as just that, dreams, not reality... So I say to the School of Health Professions scholarship donors: Thank you! Thank you for allowing my dreams to come to reality." — DHARA SHAH On paper, philanthropy is generous donations to good causes. But you don’t give on paper; we don’t help on paper; and our students don’t need on paper. In real life, philanthropy is real gifts with real impact on real people in real need. SHP ALUMNI E-MAGAZINE • FALL 20177L aShonda Peoples does it all – she works full-time as an Occupational Therapist at Children’s of Alabama, raises two young boys with her husband, volunteers in her community and supports UAB through her time, talent, and treasure. In 2008, only three years after graduating from the OT program, Peoples began remembering the out-of-pocket expenses she endured during her second year. “While preparing for the National Board Certification exam, my classmates and I were looking for financial resources for study materials and registration fees but we couldn’t find anything,” said Peoples, “books alone felt like tuition and thinking about additional materials for licensing seemed daunting.” This memory sparked a vision that Peoples quickly turned to reality, a scholarship that provided support for licensing exams, the National Board Certification Exam, and study materials for 2nd year OT students. The sponsored scholarship was named Helping Occupational Therapy Students Succeed (HOTSS). Sponsored scholarships provide impact immediately at the value they are established at so as the fund grows, the opportunity for real-time impact multiplies. “Anyone can set aside $10 or $25 to give to a scholarship that you know will do a lot of good for a student, especially at a place like the School of Health Professions where you know good people are doing good things,” said Peoples. HOTSS was a collaborative effort - Peoples rallied her family and fellow alumni to support the fund. To date, 12 students have received the scholarship. This launched a chain of giving with former recipients of the fund now supporting it as alumni. Peoples believes in the chain of giving and in people. She believes both will sustain HOTSS because she knows many others feel the same way she does: “I have my family and I have my work and I have my life, but giving makes everything fall into place.” ● LASHONDA PEOPLES OCCUPATIONAL THERAPY (OT, 2005) ◗ Works with pediatric burn patients and children with mental illness ◗ Organizes the back-to-school supply drive for St. Paul AME Church ◗ Member of the SHP Junior Advisory Board YOUNG DONORS Our young donors are seeking new ways to give back. We are helping them deliver a hands-on, direct-impact legacy that supports the next generation. Peoples and HOTSS Recipient, Keaira Gunn, at the 2016 Scholarship luncheon. 8G raduate. Find a job. Move to a new city. Find a place to live. These are the goals on most new graduates’ minds. But for Dominique Forte – her list of goals looked different. At the top – establish a scholarship. “As I walked across the stage at graduation, I reflected on my time at UAB – the people who helped me accomplish my goals: family, professors and staff in the School, plus the donors who generously established scholarships that benefited me,” said Forte. “That’s when I realized how blessed I was to have such support, and that many are not as fortunate. At that moment I thought, I must assist students by removing that financial barrier” She started a conversation with David Morris, Ph.D., Chair of the Department of Physical Therapy and her former professor, and it only took a few brief conversations to make it happen. And just like that – well ahead of her self-imposed one-year deadline – Forte established the Bridging the Gap scholarship. Each year, her scholarship provides funds for students in the final year of the DPT program to take the National Physical Therapy Exam as well as the PT jurisprudence exams. Both exams are required to earn a PT license in the state of Alabama. Together, they can cost more than $800 – a lot of money for anyone, but especially significant for a recent graduate. That was the situation Forte found herself in less than two years ago. That was the situation PHILANTHROPY FEATURE “Everyone who graduates should think about who and what impacted their journey, I guarantee someone at UAB helped you and I encourage you to ask yourself: how can I help others on their journey?” — DOMINIQUE FORTE DOMINIQUE FORTE DOCTOR OF PHYSICAL THERAPY (DPT, 2015) ◗ Served on 3 PT Mission Trips in 2 countries ◗ Junior Advisory Board member of SHP and NAS ◗ Secretary for AL Chapter of APTA that inspired her. “I encourage all graduates to think about who and what inspired your educational journey,” said Forte. “Use that inspiration to make an impact on others!” ● Inaugural BTG scholarship recipients Louise Webb and Reilly Beilman with Dominique Forte at the 2016 DPT Graduation Reception. SHP ALUMNI E-MAGAZINE • FALL 20179