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UAB School of Health Professions • Impressions of Alumni Excellence • Spring 2017 Newsletter SNAPSHOTS DEVELOPING LEADERS ISSUE CONNECT WITH SHP LEADERSHIP FEATURE AWARDS AND RECOGNITIONLinda Neighbors (PT, 1985) mentoring students Justin Kirk and Rachel Sedlacek (Class of 2018) in the PT Management of Musculoskeletal Dysfunction course. { SNAPSHOTS } Impressions of SHP Alumni Excellence • Spring 2017 Developing Leaders We firmly believe leadership is a learned skill. Sure someone can be a natural leader, but to become a truly remarkable leader takes years of development. For our alumni, this usually begins with a clinical rotation or a residency and it ends with – well, let’s face it, it never ends. Our alumni have learned that being a leader means you are always learning – from yourself and from others, from your mistakes and your successes and from those we mentee and those who mentor. This edition of Snapshots is dedicated to our alumni: learners, teachers and leaders – today, tomorrow and forever. This semester 170+ alumni have given SHP students immeasurable guidance and invaluable advice as preceptors , clinicians and mentors . From orientation to performance, to evaluation, they understand a legacy goes beyond sharing what you have earned, the best legacy includes sharing what you have learned . /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 APR 7-8: PA 50th Anniversary Celebration MAY 5: NMT reception at ASNM annual meeting MAY 17: PA reception at AAPA conference JUNE 3: LVR reception AUG 9-11: National Symposium for Healthcare Executives 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 and make an impact 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. Growing Success In the spirit of spring time, we celebrate the vital role our alumni play in the growth and success of our students and our school. Students begin as seedlings growing roots and absorbing knowledge. Faculty, alumni & mentors educate and guide them, facilitating growth. Residencies & Internships provide the experience necessary to thrive. Alumni succeed in the field and give back to SHP growing future leaders. PLANT NURTUREGROWGIVE BACK SHP ALUMNI NEWSLETTER • SPRING 20173Chuck Stokes (MSHA Class 17) and Kate Willis (MSHA Class 48) played key roles for Malcolm Baldrige National Quality Award winner Memorial Hermann Sugar Land Hospital. Stokes is EVP/COO of the Health System, Willis is Director of Service Line Operations at Sugar Land Hospital. ALUMNI RECOGNITION Jason Alexander (MSHA Class 28) named Birmingham ministry market executive and president, and CEO by Ascension Healthcare. His first day was April 3, 2017. Divyank Saini (MT, 2010) went from working on UAB’s world- record kidney chain, to being a part of the chain when he donated a kidney to a stranger. “I see the painful process of dialysis, so I wanted to help at least one person,”said Saini. Cheri Nipp (LVR, 2012) named to national task force to clearly define best practices in implementation of programs that serve older individuals who are blind. Michael Matthews (PhD in Admin-Health Services, 2003) earns top teaching honor at Winthrop University taking home the Kinard Award for Excellence in Teaching. Ashley Cannon (GC, 2015) has been accepted to the prestigious Francis S. Collins Scholars Program for her work as a genetic counselor and a neuroscientist. Alumni Excellence Our alumni are recognized leaders who we can say gave their all to others. And in one case, giving their all includes an organ. Tom Hunt (DSc in Admin-Health Services Class of 2014) Distinguished Alumni Award Jordan Voigt (MSHA Class 45) Young Alumni Achievement Award Rachel Ashcraft (OT Class of 2010) Alumni Service Award Carolyn Da Silva (DScPT, 2008) won the Texas Physical Therapy Association’s Outstanding Physical Therapy Faculty Award for 2016. Da Silva is a professor at Texas Woman’s University. SHARE YOUR SUCCESS: Tell us about your honors & achievements. shpalumni@uab.edu • 205-975-8415. 4ALUMNI RECOGNITION Network of Knowledge You, our SHP alumni, are part of a vast network of knowledge. Every year we hold events designed to let you share and learn from SHP leaders around the globe. More than 60 PT alumni, friends and students from across the country gathered at our networking reception at Casa Rio in San Antonio. Dominique Forte (DPT, 2015), Dhara Shah (DPT, 2015), Michael Luke Stanley (DPT, 2009), Tana Lieb (DPT, 2009) meet with current DPT students. Bill Parker (PA, 1971) recently established the program’s first endowed scholarship and spoke at the Class of 2016’s award ceremony, about giving back. Bob Zasa (MSHA Class 8) created our inaugural Ambulatory Care and Non-Acute Care Summit, Beyond the H. Leslie Simms (OT, 2006), Edith Lukawbe (founder of Home of Hope orphanage) and Jenny Taylor (OT, 2006; LVR, 2007) spoke with OT students. Bert Gavin (PA, 1974) shared great stories about the profession with students from the PA Class of 2018. Andrew Dees (HCM, 2014 and MSHA/MSHI student), Reginald Sennie (MSHA Class 43; MSHI, 2009), Evita Payton (MSHA/MSHI student) in Orlando. Carolyn Sherer (PT, 1984), Russ Hyde (PT, 1992) and Elizabeth Cypher (PT, 1982) at Gossman Endowed Lectureship. APTA CSM Networking Reception Junior Advisory Board Retreat Breakfast with Blazers HIMSS Networking Luncheon Marilyn R. Gossman Lectureship 2016 PA Graduation and Awards Convocation Beyond the H OT Speaker Series SHP ALUMNI NEWSLETTER • SPRING 20175T here are as many as 10 of our alumni in leadership roles in various areas of USA Health in Mobile. They range from soon to be retiring Physicians Group CEO Becky Tate (MSHA Class 12) to Children’s & Women’s Hospital Administrator Chris Jett (MSHA Class 42) to newly named USA Health CEO Owen Bailey (MSHA Class 22) . “There is just a synergy in how UAB develops students and how USA develops leaders that works well together,” said Bailey. “We have UAB graduates that span four decades, from MSHA Class 12 to MSHA Class 50, as well as L/R STANDING: Howard Holcomb, USA Health (MSHA Class 19); Liz Kirby, USA Health (MSHA Class 43); Casey Daniel, USA Mitchell Cancer Institute (PhD in Health Education & Promotion); Philip Meador, USA Mitchell Cancer Institute (MSHA Class 46); Alice Johnson, USA Health (MSHA Class 43) L/R SEATED: Sam Dean, USA Medical Center (MSHA Class 39); Becky Tate, USA Physicians Group (MSHA Class 12); Owen Bailey, USA Health (MSHA Class 12); Chris Jett, USA Children’s & Women’s Hospital (MSHA Class 42); Ashton Creel Hennig, USA Resident (MSHA Class 50); Thad Phillips, USA Health (MSHA Class 33; MSHI, 2003) LEADERSHIP FEATURE Health care is hands-on and so are our best leaders. The ability to guide, not dictate, and assist, not control, separates SHP alumni from the rest. Hands-On Leadership USA Health 6team members who have been promoted at USA for decades – the longevity of each are a testament to the program’s lasting excellence and our health system’s commitment to excellence.” USA Health is home to a multigenerational UAB group with a singular family feel. And just like your typical family, when a new offspring enters the world, their UAB ‘siblings’ step up to make sure they are taken care of, to make sure they are nourished with knowledge and to make sure those that are in a seedling stage of their work career grow to their full potential. “Almost everyone that I work with has been through the residency process and knows what it is like to be a resident. Many of them have taken a special interest in me to ensure I have a great residency,” said Ashton Hennig (MSHA Class 50) , administrative resident, USA Health. “All four of our top administrators are UAB grads as well as three out of four of our assistant administrators. I don’t think I would be able to do what I do without the many UAB connections at USA.” And then there is the commitment and connection to each other. They have walked the same halls and they have had some of the same professors (yes, every MSHA graduate at USA has had at least one lecture from Professor Emeritus Howard Houser, PhD). “My strongest network of healthcare leaders started while I was in the MSHA/MBA dual program,” said Sam Dean (MSHA Class 39) , hospital administrator, USA Medical Center. “The program encourages networking among all UAB grads and those relationships lead to the highest quality of mentoring and development in the years following your completion of the program.” The early UAB connections last entire careers because of the depth to which they are developed in a sapling stage of knowledge and education. Each cohort spends its first two years together in classes, in meetings, in study groups, in social settings and more. It develops a long-lasting bond built on a strong foundation. “Great students and great faculty lead to a great program where the relationships developed through the cohort type environment lead to immediate network connections that only grow over time,” said Thad Phillips (MSHA Class 33; MSHI, 2003) , assistant chief HIPAA compliance officer, USA Health. Not only do the connections grow over time, but so grows the learned knowledge. It grows within the person and it grows within the network, as the new knowledge learned becomes the new knowledge shared. “Most of us in hospitals are facing the same challenges and often we are all trying to find a solution that someone else has already figured out so there is no reason to ‘reinvent the wheel,’” said Alice Johnson (MSHA Class 43) , assistant administrator, USA Health Ancillary Services. “There have been dozens and dozens of times that I have reached out to a UAB connection for help with a certain issue or just to find out how they do something that may help us improve. Copying best practices is a better use of everyone’s time and building on one another’s successes allows all of us to make ourselves better.” By making themselves better they make the health system better. By making the health system better they make health care better. By making health care better they make their patients better. By making their patients better they make their world better. And in turn, they make our world better. Ambitious USA leaders connected by viable UAB networks cultivate organic outcomes that strengthen everyone within their landscape. ● “There is just a synergy in how UAB develops students and how USA develops leaders that works well together.” — OWEN BAILEY LEADERSHIP SHP ALUMNI NEWSLETTER • SPRING 20177FRONT ROW L/R: Kerri Bailey (OT, 1985) and Susan Jones (OT, 2004) BACK ROW L/R: Keisha Patterson (OT, 2004), Brooke White (OT, 1991) and Rachel Ashcraft (OT, 2011) I n 2007, Kerri Bailey (OT, 1985) began Child’sPlay Therapy Center with her friend Deborah Boswell. What began as two rooms of occupational therapy care in Boswell’s Alabama Speech Services business has grown today to include three full-size locations, on-location care in school systems, early intervention clinics and community clinics. Child’sPlay employs 15 UAB OT and PT graduates and frequently has UAB students shadowing or working in clinical rotations. “We have a student in one of our facilities almost daily," Bailey said, "allowing students to shadow and train in our facility is part of giving back to the profession. We were all students at one point in time and without the investment in us by others, none of us would be where we are today.” Rachel Ashcraft (OT, 2011) and Susan Jones (OT, 2004) , two therapists currently practicing at Child’sPlay, are perfect examples of the culture. When they first met, Rachel was observing in an adult rehabilitation clinic and Susan was Rachel’s supervisor. Susan eventually transitioned to pediatrics and today, Rachel serves as Susan’s mentor at Child’sPlay. This story, along with many others, is testament to Child’sPlay and the culture developed by Bailey: UAB graduates committing their time, talent and treasure to supporting each other, the UAB network and the future leaders in the field of occupational therapy. ● Child’sPlay Therapy Center ◗ Treatment for patients is client-centered Each patient receives an individualized case plan ◗ Education is an ongoing process Learn from one another and seek additional educational opportunities ◗ Training the future generations is a priority Learning comes full circle – by training students, practicing therapists learn too “We have a student in one of our facilities almost daily, allowing students to shadow and train in our facility is part of giving back to the profession. We were all students at one point in time and without the investment in us by others, none of us would be where we are today.” — KERRI BAILEY CHILD’SPLAY’S CULTURE IS CLEAR: 8T he E ( Mike Eskridge, PT, 1992) in EW Motion Therapy is a UAB PT alumnus. So is the W (Ethan White (PT, 1993) . So are 13 other PTs, two PTAs and three members of the company’s fitness staff. “For us, UAB PT is a slam-dunk, we know we are getting quality students and alumni who are prepared and perform well,” said Jon Delk (PT, 1999) , COO, EW Motion Therapy. A close look at the EW Motion Therapy mission reveals it is designed to help clients and team members through continuing education and professional development. “There is an emphasis on education at EW because we want our therapists to be the best – to never stop learning,” said Delk, a team member since 2001. Whether the EW Motion Therapy team sees the next generation as students during a clinical rotation or as alumni when they are colleagues, they will always be there for them and their continuing education. “The foundation of the UAB PT program and the leadership are strong,” said Kendell Jno-Finn (PT, 2007) , chief development officer and director, EW Motion Therapy – Trussville. “The faculty have steered the program in the right direction and have instilled a philosophy of excellence in students that continues long after graduation.” ● EW Motion Therapy FRONT ROW L/R: Leigh Ellen Cowart (PT, 2016); Caroline Faught (PE, 2015: KIN); Mike James (PE, 2008); Becca Lee (PT, 2014); and Hilary Young (PT, 2016) BACK ROW L/R: Aaron Sherrill (PT, 2016); Stacey Gresham (PT, 2009); Katherine Stone (PT, 2009); Ally Edwards (PT, 2014); Ethan White (PT, 1993); Mike Eskridge (PT 1992: EDU 1989); Stacey Cole (PE, 2011); Allison Schmidt (PT, 2013: BME, 2010); Chris Pierson (PT, 2016); and Kendell Jno-Finn (PT, 2007) “There is an emphasis on education at EW because we want our therapists to be the best – to never stop learning.” — JON DELK LEADERSHIP SHP ALUMNI NEWSLETTER • SPRING 20179Next >