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CHPSW
MESSAGE FROM THE DEAN
Greetings from the
College of Health
Professions and Social
Work. As you can see,
it was an eventful
summer and fall. In
July, the School of Social
Work (SSW) joined
eight CHP departments.
The new CHPSW brings
combined undergraduate
and graduate enrollment
to more than 3,000, offering exciting opportunities
for interdisciplinary collaboration in the classroom
and community.
Bringing SSW into the college acknowledges something
health professionals have long known: that the
objectives of social work and health care are deeply
intertwined. The profession, dedicated to the elimination
of social, political and economic injustice, is vital
in improving access to health services among underserved
populations. In advocacy, social work mirrors
public health. In community involvement, it intersects
with nursing. Clearly, social work is integral to the
achievement of well-being across society, as is each
of our disciplines.
In another development, when CHPSW faculty form
private practice plans for patients through Temple
University Hospital or any of its affiliates, CHPSW
is compensated. This arrangement formalizes faculty
members’ clinical roles and enables students to gain
essential experience as they work alongside them.
The unsettled economy continues to be a consideration
in our budgeting and planning. While we are
grateful for the continued support of the Pennsylvania
legislature and our benefactors, we are well aware
of the need for continued fiscal vigilance, whether
resources are obtained through appropriation, grants,
tuition or gifts. We are keenly aware that the prevailing
economic difficulties are far from over, and we
are doing everything in our power to be both academically
productive and financially prudent.
I continue to be optimistic about the financial future
of Temple University and our college. Students now
see Temple as an option that combines excellence
with affordability, and enrollment has continued to
grow. We rely on our own discipline, on the students
and their families who sacrifice to pay tuition, and
on alumni and friends who provide support that has
never been more important.
Ronald T. Brown, PhD
Dean
Temple University College of Health Professions
and Social Work
IN BRIEF
For Alumni and Friends of Temple University College
of Health Professions and Social Work SPRING 2010
HEALTH CARE REFORM:
WHAT CHPSW CAN DO
reform
CHPSW mission and health care reform on task: teaching students in the community, managing electronic information
across the nation, diagnosing and preventing illness through early intervention .
Even as politicians, payors, patients and
providers debate the details, it is possible
to envision the future of American health
care—at least in broad strokes—and to
anticipate how the College of Health
Professions and Social Work will help
make reform real.
Recognize the Realities
Care rationing is one of the emotionally
loaded phrases used to frighten people
and halt discussion, but according to Dean
Ronald T. Brown, it is nothing new.
“Health care is going to be rationed no
matter what,” he says. “In a public system,
it comes in the form of waiting for appointments
and treatments. In a private system,
the cost and quality of coverage limit care.”
“I have had approximately 30,000 clinical
encounters involving patients with
teach manage diagnose
prevent
Medicare insurance, and the decisions made
during these medical visits were never, not
even on a single occasion, questioned or
rejected by federal bureaucrats,” wrote Syed
Quadri, MD, FACP, in The News Enterprise
of Elizabethtown, Ky., earlier this year. “In
contrast, the clinical encounters involving
patients with private insurance…are scrutinized,
some are rejected… A corporate
bureaucrat can deny the test a doctor has
deemed necessary.”
“The real question,” Dean Brown says,
“should be how health care can be provided
more broadly, effectively and efficiently.
This is a more nuanced discussion than
Care versus No Care, and requires the
input of people all along the continuum of
care, including the disciplines represented
at CHPSW.”
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HEALTH CARE REFORM
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Here are just a few ways in which the college
can assist health care reform.
Get Them Before They Get Sick
Many people enter the medical system
when there is a crisis, such as a heart attack,
when it is almost impossible to focus on
the full range of issues that affect long-term
health. Ideally, patients should receive
ongoing preventive care, when problems are
avoidable or manageable. Care provided to
children is especially important, ushering in
a lifetime of improved health and less need
for acute medical care. To provide primary
care for the 45 million Americans who lack
care, however, many additional providers
are needed. The Kaiser Commission on
Medicaid and the Uninsured estimates that
in 2007, 36 million non-elderly adults and
almost 9 million children lacked health
insurance. The good news is providers don’t
have to be physicians.
Nurse practitioners, such as those educated
by the Department of Nursing, are licensed
to provide primary care, but currently function
with restrictions. For example, an NP
must be associated with a collaborating
physician. “We need to remove the training
wheels from nurses,” says Chair Frances
Ward, PhD, RN, CRNP. “We need to
allow NPs to be independent in practice to
provide the services they are educated to
undertake. NPs diagnose and manage common
acute and chronic illnesses. Registered
nurses are very well prepared to take lead
roles in health promotion and disease
2 College of Health Professions and Social Work IN BRIEF SPRING 2010
prevention efforts. Both of these providers
reduce acute care visits.”
Nurses can thoroughly address lifestyle
issues, which may be rushed through in
busy ambulatory practices. Diet, exercise
and lifestyle behaviors have dramatic
impacts on health—changing these behaviors
requires careful and focused education.
Share Information Electronically
“An advanced, interactive electronic health
record system is a major component of
health care reform,” says Laurinda B. Harman,
PhD, RHIA, who chairs the Health
Information Management Department.
“The lack of interoperable health information
systems has long been an impediment
to the provision of quality, coordinated and
cost-effective health care. A recent RAND
study found that adoption of this system
will improve patient safety, health benefits
and disease management, and reduce costs
and adverse drug events.” Dr. Harman adds
that the need for qualified health informatics
practitioners, who are already in short
supply, will only increase as the nation’s
health system converts to electronic information
systems. Temple offers two programs,
a BS in Health Information
Management and an MS in Health Informatics,
to serve this need.
Electronic records are seen as one way to
reduce administrative costs, which are
responsible for some of the outrageous cost
of health care. It is the desire for efficiency
that leads some people to support a single
payor system, or at least a public plan that
could offer price competition to force
greater efficiencies from private insurance
plans. Proponents cite one such government
program, Medicare, as being popular with
consumers and more cost-efficient than private
insurance. In a January 2009 interview
with The New York Times, physician Marcia
Angell, a senior lecturer at Harvard University
and former editor of The New England
Journal of Medicine noted, “The private
insurance industry takes 15 to 20 percent
right off the top of the premium dollar for
its administrative costs and profits. That’s a
lot to siphon off… Medicare has overhead
costs of less than 3 percent.”
Look Beyond Acute Care
For all the talk of wellness, the current
health system remains tightly focused on
acute care. Items such as smoking cessation
classes or stress management, which can
have significant benefits in the long term
for both patients and the health care system,
are simply not held in the same esteem
as, for example, placing a stent in a clogged
heart vessel. Even though educators recog-
nize the value of ongoing and preventive
care, most students are still educated in
environments devoted primarily to caring
for the very ill, rather than those trying to
manage chronic conditions or to avoid sickness.
Consequently, insurers tend to recognize
acute care procedures as more
reimbursable than care directed toward
wellness.
“Talking with patients about eating more
healthfully or becoming more active or better
managing conditions can be tedious, but
it is effective. And you don’t need a physician
earning $200,000 a year to do it,” says
Dean Brown. “We need to emphasize these
things in our education and professional
practice. We know, for instance, that
patients with diabetes who monitor their
blood sugar levels and weight have fewer
complications. That’s good for patients,
practitioners and whoever is paying for their
care. Regardless of what decisions are made
in Washington, I think CHPSW researchers,
teachers and graduates will be the real
reformers as they improve information
management, extend primary care, increase
patient education and reshape policy to
benefit the most people.”

Seven years ago, Im Ja P. Choi was advised
to place her mother in a nursing home, and
she knew what would happen. Not only
was Boo Park, then 86, very frail, she spoke
only Korean and had never gotten used to
American food. So Ms. Choi, a CHPSW
Board of Visitors member, brought her
mother home. Then she faced the challenge
of coordinating home care and finding aides
who spoke Korean.
“I was begging everybody to tell me if they
knew of someone. A neighbor called me
seven months later about a Korean woman
who had a home health aide certificate, and
I hired her,” she recalls. “There was no system
available for Asian seniors.”
So Ms. Choi created one. In 2004, she
founded Penn Asian Senior Services
(PASSi) to support Asian-American seniors.
Headquartered in Jenkintown, Pa., it
today serves more than 120 seniors of eight
nationalities in their homes through a staff
of 83 certified home health aides—many
of whom are fluent only in the language of
their clients, and 12 administrative staff,
including four registered nurses.
3 College of Health Professions and Social Work IN BRIEF SPRING 2010
Board of Visitors Spotlight: Im Ja P. Choi
Helping Frail Seniors Communicate and Stay at Home
“I wanted to
be involved at the
College of Health
Professions because
it contributes so
much to society
and to the
community.”
“We are taking care of low-income, frail
seniors who would otherwise be in nursing
homes. PASSi home care makes them so
much happier, and it saves the government
money,” Ms. Choi says. “In Pennsylvania,
it costs about $67,000 a year to care for
a nursing home patient, while home care
costs about $22,000 a year.”
To ensure a supply of qualified aides, PASSi
(in 2006) founded the Penn Asian Vocational
Institute. To date it has trained 178
certified home health aides and 75 bilingual
certified nurse aide candidates who work
in local health care institutions. PASSi is
also developing a licensed practical nursing
course. “We are developing the Asian-
American workforce,” Ms. Choi says. “The
LPN course would give people a possible
career path.”
Born in South Korea, Ms. Choi came to
the United States in 1971 and worked in
financial services and real estate. An interest
in women’s issues led her into nonprofit
work and eventually health care. A member
of numerous boards and committees, she
has received honors that include the 2008
Pine Light Award from the Korean Senior
Association of Greater Philadelphia, the
Pennsylvania Human Relations Commission’s
Equal Opportunity Advocacy Award
and was a delegate to the 2005 White
House Conference on Aging.
The Board of Visitors is especially important
to her: “I wanted to be involved at
the College of Health Professions because
it contributes so much to society and to the
community. It has so much in common
with what I do, with health care, the Intergenerational
Center and now the School
of Social Work. It is exciting. I meet people
from different backgrounds and help get
more funding for the college. And I give
my two cents on the programs.”
In helping her own mother, now 93, Ms.
Choi has helped many others. She maintains,
however, that it is simply what she
owes her mother: “Without my mother,
I would not be here. She came here 30
years ago and helped me raise my two children—she
was the world’s most dependable
babysitter. And now she has given me a
second career.”

4 College of Health Professions and Social Work IN BRIEF SPRING 2010
Faculty Focus:
Building a World-Class Program in Challenging Times
This past summer, at a point in his career
when many academics would scale back
administrative commitments to write, travel
or perhaps enjoy their accomplishments,
Ian A. Greaves, BMedSci, MB BS, FRACP,
FAAAS, did something different. He moved
halfway across the country to an unfamiliar
university in a new city, in the middle of
a recession, to build a world-class public
health program.
What was Temple’s new Public Health
chair thinking? For one thing, Dr. Greaves
relishes a challenge. “It’s relatively late
in my career. I could have stayed in the
Midwest and faded off into the sunset, but
that’s not who I am,” says the soft-spoken
62-year-old physician, who for the past
20 years served in the University of Minnesota’s
School of Public Health, most
recently as its associate dean and director
of its global health program.
A specialist in occupational and environmental
medicine who took his medical
training at Monash University in his native
Australia, Dr. Greaves says his objective
is to assemble a team that can “put the
department in the best possible position
to answer the important questions—
about financing health care, the swine flu,
avian flu and ongoing problems such as
tuberculosis, upper respiratory infectious
disease, and how to provide safe food and
drinking water.”
He is not intimidated by the economy, but
he is realistic. “We’re not going to be able
to add a lot of people, so we have to explore
relationships with people who are already
here,” he says. “Public Health already
collaborates with the schools of Medicine,
Dentistry, Business and Law. We need
well-trained people who can do research.
We have to leverage our relationships. The
challenge is there to be met and overcome.”
With years of experience in teaching,
research and academic administration,
Dr. Greaves is confident: “I’ve done lots
of trench work [in academia]. This is not
heavy lifting. There are lots of good people
here and we’re on the same wavelength.”
It was the people, Dr. Greaves notes, who
convinced him that Temple was where he
should spend the rest of his career: “I was
impressed by the energy and enthusiasm
here. They had taken a long hard look at
the program and decided they wanted to
make it better. Doing that kind of inventory
impressed me… Dean Brown is a fellow
who is really committed. He is open
and amicable, but he is also the boss. He
is a good administrator.”
Early in his career, Dr. Greaves spent several
years at the Harvard School of Public
Health. He is happy to be back on the east
coast, and particularly to be in Philadelphia.
“I am thoroughly enjoying my time here,”
he says, demonstrating that he already
understands the city’s psyche: “People are
very forthright. I know exactly what’s on
their minds, which is different from the
Midwest. Philadelphia is what I call
a ‘gritty’ city. Parts of it are incredibly
poor, especially in North Philadelphia,
which gives us an important window on
many health issues. It shapes how our
faculty and staff think about the world,
and I think that’s wonderful.
“Other parts of Philadelphia are just
beautiful. You have wonderful history
and sports—everything that goes with
being in a big city.” To combine proximity
to the city with a little suburban quiet,
Dr. Greaves and his wife Brenda have
settled in Montgomery County.
Though he has lived in the United States
for almost 30 years and holds dual citizenship,
Dr. Greaves returns to Australia once
or twice a year to visit his mother, a trip
that requires 24 hours in the air, a total
of 30 hours counting layovers. Perhaps
coming to Temple wasn’t so much of
a challenge for him after all.
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5 College of Health Professions and Social Work IN BRIEF SPRING 2010
CHP Welcomes School of Social Work
“Our focus is not just
on individuals and
families, but on
changing policy and
society to increase
disenfranchised
populations’ political
power and access to
resources.”
-–Chair Bernie S. Newman, PhD, LCSW
BIGCHALLENGES
EXCITING
OPPORTUNITIES AHEAD
When the word transformation occurs in
the first sentence of a mission statement, as
it does for Temple’s School of Social Work,
it is reasonable to expect big things. Even
so, 2009 was a momentous year for the
school. In addition to celebrating its 40th
anniversary and changing its name from
the School of Social Administration, on
July 1 SSW formally joined the College
of Health Professions, which in turn has
become the College of Health Professions
and Social Work.
“Social work is integral to health care,
particularly in providing access and in the
focus it brings to issues of mental health,”
says Dean Ronald T. Brown. “It is a
complementary discipline to public health
and to the epidemiology of psychology, its
concerns are closely aligned with many disciplines
within the college. This realignment
encourages collaboration, allowing for more
interdisciplinary teaching and research.
Social Work benefits from enhanced access
to the resources of eight academic departments,
and the departments benefit from
the school’s knowledge of, and experience
in, the community.”
SSW, which offers both the Bachelor and
Master of Social Work and has more than
8,000 alumni, underscores in its mission
statement its belief in change to eliminate
social, political and economic injustices for
poor populations and advance overall quality
of life. This broad focus, says SSW Chair
Bernie S. Newman, PhD, LCSW, fits well
with the outreach efforts of several departments,
most notably Public Health and
Nursing: “Our focus is not just on individuals
and families, but on changing policy
and society to increase disenfranchised
populations’ political power and access to
resources. We will enhance the college’s
work through our focus on social and economic
justice and its impact on health and
mental health of vulnerable populations.”
For its part, Dr. Newman notes, joining
CHP will enable SSW faculty and
students to take advantage of a well developed
research infrastructure, providing
greater access to funding and collaborative
opportunities, increasing already strong
relationships SSW has within clinical and
community settings throughout the region.
“Working in professional and research contexts
across the nine CHPSW units affords
us exciting opportunities,” she says.
The school will remain headquartered on
Temple’s Main Campus. SSW’s MSW
program will continue to have a significant
presence on Temple’s Harrisburg campus,
where as many as 40 percent of its students
are enrolled.

Robyn Younger left
Temple one semester short
of graduation when she
was offered a good job.
A decade later, she
returned but had to
navigate academic
reinstatement and other
obstacles that come with
a 10-year interruption.
Supportive faculty lent a
hand, and Younger, who
now holds a BS in civil and
construction engineering
and an MS in environmental
health from Temple,
is returning the favor.
6 College of Health Professions and Social Work IN BRIEF SPRING 2010
Alumni Federation Member Profile:
Robyn E. Younger, BS ’98, MS ’00
Professional: As a safety, health and environmental
consultant for DuPont Corporation
in Wilmington, Del., Younger
develops systems and programs to prevent
injury, illness and environmental harm.
“We work to engineer out potential problems
and improve health and safety for our
employees,” she says. “It is very personal.
We believe that all workplace injuries and
illnesses are preventable.”
Since 2001, Younger has also conducted
a small business educating K-12 children
in financial literacy: Younger Days. “I
always had a notion that we could eradicate
generational debt by educating children
to be responsible stewards of money,”
she explains. As with her health and safety
work, Younger wants to prevent financial
problems for young people by helping
them be wiser than their elders. This fall,
Younger Days added child care to its
services.
Personal: Younger, her husband and their
two daughters live in Philadelphia.
Volunteerism and Service: Younger established
the Younger Days Endowed Prize
Fund in the College of Engineering, with
the first scholarship to be awarded in 2010.
She has also served as the CHP Alumni
Federation treasurer for the past five years.
In addition to her Temple activities, she is
first vice president of the National Coalition
of 100 Black Women, a group that
advocates reduction of disparities in education,
health, job benefits and economic
opportunity.
Temple Memories: “I can’t tell you how
much help and support I received from the
faculty. When a problem arose, there was
always someone who had a suggestion or
made a way for me to continue. The faculty
saw potential in me, and believed that
I was going to put to good use what I
learned. I want them to know their efforts
weren’t in vain. I get very emotional when
I talk about it.”
Alumni Profile: Mary
Physical Therapist, Faculty Memb
Mary C. Sinnott, PT, DPT (BS ’76, MEd
’90), was first inspired to study physical
therapy by a young neighbor who had cerebral
palsy. “We used to exercise with her to
try to improve the quality of her movement.
That experience fueled my interest,” she
recalls. Today, Dr. Sinnott, who directs the
Doctor of Physical Therapy program, still
draws inspiration from patients: “The most
rewarding thing about the profession is helping
individuals achieve their goals and get
back to their lives.”
Dr. Sinnott, who was inducted into Temple’s
Gallery of Success last fall, earned her doctorate
at Massachusetts General Hospital’s
Institute of Health Professions in 2005. A
CHPSW associate professor, she teaches
cardiovascular-pulmonary management,
health policy, exercise, pathophysiology and
clinical decision making, as well as conducting
a clinical practice in acute care at Temple
University Hospital.
Comparing her experiences over the years
as a student, practitioner and educator, Dr.
Sinnott notes that physical therapy—both
as a profession and a Temple program—has
changed considerably. “It has progressed from
being an allied health profession to a profession
in its own right,” she says. “There is far
more evidence to guide clinical decision
making, and physical therapists have greater
autonomy.” She notes that the Physical
Therapy program, under the direction of

C. Sinnott
er
Emily Keshner, EdD, is evolving into a center
for evidence-based research and faculty practice,
and is rapidly becoming a premier program
in education, research, patient care and
advocacy. “Our new orthopedic program is
a testament to this. The revision of our PhD
program also speaks to the commitment of
faculty to educating the next generation of
physical therapy clinicians, researchers and
educators. This is a wonderful time to be
a part of the department!”
“The most rewarding thing
about the profession is
helping individuals achieve
their goals and get back
to their lives.”
In 2009, Dr. Sinnott was elected to the
American Physical Therapy Association Board
of Directors. She has been recognized with
APTA’s Mary Sinnott Award for Clinical
Excellence in Acute Care, and has received
the Signe Brunnstrom Award for Excellence
in Clinical Teaching. As an educator, Dr.
Sinnott says that she prepares students by
creating “an environment where students feel
safe and are not afraid of making mistakes.
We all make them. The outcome, however,
should be to learn.” She also expects students
to be able to answer the questions: “Why an
impairment occurs, why one intervention
works better than another, why a piece of
clinical data informs clinical decision making,
and so on.”
In being chosen for the Gallery of Success,
Dr. Sinnott acknowledges the excellent
instruction she received from the founder and
longtime leader of the Physical Therapy program,
Hyman Dervitz. “He remains one of
the best teachers I ever had and instilled in
me a passion for my profession.” Through her
teaching at Temple, lecturing across the country,
care of patients and service to her colleagues,
Mary Sinnott honors that legacy.
7 College of Health Professions and Social Work IN BRIEF SPRING 2010
Alumni Profile: Barbara J. Reimann
Teacher, Coach, Athlete
Though she lives in Bethesda, Md., and
worked for 30 years at American University
in Washington, D.C., Barbara Reimann
(BS ’55) has not forgotten her roots. She
well remembers attending Frankford High
School and studying physical education at
Temple University, as well as teaching and
coaching at Upper Darby and Cheltenham
high schools. This year, she returns to
campus for induction into Temple’s
Gallery of Success.
“I feel very fortunate
to have received the
education that I
did and made close
friendships,” she says. “I still have family
and friends in the Philadelphia area and
come back for the holidays. I commuted
to Temple for the first three years but lived
in the Alpha Sigma Alpha sorority house
as a senior. Both my sorority and undergraduate
class in phys ed were close-knit.
Many of us still get together.”
Ms. Reimann, who also holds a master’s
degree from University of Maryland,
taught, coached women’s field hockey
and swimming, and served in a variety
of administrative capacities at American
University, including senior associate athletic
director and acting athletic director.
In the 1980s, she was active in working
toward the passage of Title IX, and in 1984
received outstanding service awards from
AU’s College of Arts and Sciences and the
To Barbara Reimann,
Temple roots run deep,
up-close and personal.
university as a whole. Her accomplishments
include helping prepare AU for the first
NCAA certification of its athletic program
in the 1990s, and facilitating the university’s
achievement of a top-20 ranking among
Division I schools for equity between
women’s and men’s athletic programs. Ms.
Reimann retired from AU an associate professor
in 1997, was inducted into its Athletic
Hall of Fame in 2002, and sponsors an
annual scholarship
for postgraduate
study.
Her specific memories
of Temple
include the Baptist Temple, where her high
school graduation was held, playing varsity
basketball, and Sullivan Hall, which in her
day housed Temple’s library. Ms. Reimann
also recalls riding the bus to practice at Oak
Lane Country Day School as a member of
Temple’s field hockey squad.
Even in retirement, Ms. Reimann doesn’t
have much free time. She travels, most
recently to eastern Europe, gardens and
plays golf regularly. Each year she chairs
a golf tournament benefitting Susan G.
Komen for the Cure for more than 100
women. In 2008, the event raised $12,000.
She also maintains contact with many
colleagues, sorority sisters and students
she has encountered over her busy and
accomplished career.

NEWS BRIEFS
Clinical Laboratory Science
Mary Ann McLane (MS ’80,
PhD ’93) was named the 2009–10
President of the American Society
for Clinical Laboratory Science.
Communication Sciences
and Disorders
Professor Nadine Martin (PhD
’87) is principal investigator on
two National Institutes of Health
grants involving word processing
and memory deficits in aphasia,
and verbal short-term memory
and learning. Others working on
this research are Instructor Cynthia
Càrcamo, Research Associate
Michelene Kalinyak-Fliszar,
Instructor Francine Kohen (EdM
’87), Marcia Lineberger, PhD,
Associate Professor Gary Milsark,
PhD, and doctoral student Raúl
Rojas (MA ’00, PhD ’09).
Aquiles Iglesias, PhD, CCC-SLP
Professor Aquiles Iglesias, PhD,
was honored by the American
Speech-Language-Hearing Association
at its 2009 convention in
November.
Professor Carol Scheffner Hammer,
PhD, has joined the CS&D
Department. In her research,
Dr. Hammer, an expert on children’s
school readiness, examines
the influence of environment,
culture and services on children’s
language, literacy and early
academic development.
8 College of Health Professions and Social Work IN BRIEF SPRING 2010
Health Information
Management
The MS program in Health Informatics
began last fall with 18
students who include professionals
from the fields of health information,
health care, information
technology and business. Health
care systems, insurance companies
and a clinical research firm are
represented among the group.
Margaret M. Foley, PhD, RHIA
(BS ’84, MBA ’94, PhD ’05), is
co-investigator on a validationmapping
project involving the
National Library of Medicine,
College of American Pathologists,
and American Health Information
Management Association. She also
served as co-facilitator for AHIMA
Clinical Terminology and Classification
Community of Practice,
and has consulted with McKesson
Corporation and the Philadelphia
Health Maintenance Corporation.
Dr. Foley has also recently
published three book chapters and
one article.
Laurinda B. Harman, PhD, RHJA
Research and ethics are the topics
of a book chapter co-written by
Laurinda B. Harman, PhD,
RHIA, in Health Informatics
Research Methods: Principles and
Practice (C.S. Nielsen; E. Layman
and V. Watzlaf, Eds., 2008). Dr.
Harman has also made several
presentations on medical identity
theft and participated in panels on
personal genetic information and
ethical-legal informatics.
Kinesiology
The feasibility of lunchtime
walking to improve sedentary
employees’ mental well-being was
the focus last fall of Elizabeth
Loughren (PhD ’09), a research
fellow at the University of Birmingham,
U.K., School of Sport
and Exercise Sciences. The study
was funded by BUPA Foundation.
Pre-doctoral fellow Keith Diaz
(EdM ’09) is principal investigator
on a three-year National Heart,
Lung and Blood Institute-funded
study investigating gene variants
and the vascular circadian clock
in regulating blood pressure in
African-Americans.
The first results from the Fit4Life
diet and exercise intervention at
CHP’s Hypertension, Molecular
and Applied Physiology Laboratory
were presented in the fall
by graduate student Deborah
Feairheller (PhD ’09) at the
American Heart Association’s
High Blood Pressure Research
Conference. The preliminary findings
suggest that pre-hypertensive
African-Americans may retain
adequate kidney function, contradicting
previous research.
Nursing
Four Public Health Management
Corporation Philadelphia nursemanaged
health centers, with
which the Department of Nursing
collaborates, met requirements to
remain in the Governor’s Chronic
Care Initiative of Pennsylvania for
a second year. Professor Nancy
Rothman (EdD ’89) oversees
quality and policy for nursing in
the centers.
Starting in Fall 2010, first-year
Temple students will be admitted
directly into the Bachelor of
Science in Nursing program. This
replaces the existing undergraduate
program of two years of liberal
arts studies followed by applica-
tion for two years of nursing education,
enabling nursing students
to be immersed in the discipline
for four years.
Registered nurses are now finding
it easier to earn their bachelor’s
degrees with the start of an online
RN-to-BSN program at Temple,
the university’s first completely
online undergraduate degree program.
The program, which has
been received enthusiastically by
nurses across the region, will inaugurate
a new curriculum in Fall
2010 directed toward improving
community health, assuming leadership
roles and graduate study
preparation.
Occupational Therapy
Recent graduates Deana Miller
(MOT ’09) and Marie Patterson
(MOT ’09) volunteered in September
at Tanzania’s Rift Valley
Children’s Village, home to 65
orphans. Faculty and their classmates
followed the women’s experience
on Deana’s blog.
Marie Patterson (MOT ’09) and
Deana Miller (MOT ’09)
Button Buddy is one of two
therapeutic devices designed by
Fern Silverman, BS, OT, EdD,
OTR/L, to assist those with poor
kinesthesia and motor ability.
Button Buddy, which develops
buttoning skill, is being marketed
by Sammons Preston Roylan.
Dr. Silverman’s other invention,
which helps patients learn to put
on a glove, will be on the market
soon.

NEWS BRIEFS
continued from page 8
With the help of a soundabsorbing
wall system donated by
Owens Corning, Occupational
Therapy and TALK Inc.—
Magnolia Speech School tested
the impact of a quiet room on
attending behavior of students
with autism. Master’s candidates
Jennifer Lash Miller (BS ’00,
MS ’09) and Cecilia Roan
(MS ’09) conducted the study
under the guidance of Moya
Kinnealey, OTR/L (PhD ’85).
Owens Corning highlighted the
project’s positive results at its
annual meeting.
Fern Silverman, BS, OT, EdD, OTR/L, and
President of Austill’s Rehabilitation
Services, Inc., Becky Austill-Clausen,
MS, OTR/L, FAOTA
Physical Therapy
Scott Burns, PT, DPT, OCS,
FAAOMPT, has joined the faculty
as an assistant professor (clinical).
In addition to earning his
doctorate at University of Colorado
at Boulder, Dr. Burns is a
fellow of the American Academy
of Orthopaedic Manual Physical
Therapists and a board-certified
orthopaedic clincal specialist.
The Department of Physical
Therapy now provides instruction
for the clinical residency program
in geriatrics at Fox Rehabilitation
of New Jersey.
Physical Therapy has initiated
an auxiliary clinical practice at
Temple University Hospital
which faculty use to maintain
9 College of Health Professions and Social Work IN BRIEF SPRING 2010
Scott Burns, PT, DPT
clinical skills while supporting the
outpatient therapeutic needs of
the local community.
Public Health
Ten undergraduate students and
one graduate student participated
in the 2009 Costa Rica Public
Health summer abroad program.
The students presented their experiences
and findings at the Society
for Public Health Education Conference
Saturday, Nov. 7, 2009,
at the Sheraton Philadelphia City
Center Hotel. Their workshop
was titled Global Health Lessons:
Students Sharing International
Field Experience.
The Public Health Alumni
Reception introducing the new
chair of the department, Dr. Ian
Greaves, was held in November,
in conjunction with APHA’s
137th Annual Meeting and Exposition.
The reception which was
well attended by alumni and current
Public Health Faculty was at
the Philadelphia Marriott where
the group enjoyed cocktails and
hors d’oeuvres as well as a short
presentation by Dr. Greaves.
Social Work
An abstract on violence among
girls by Associate Professor
Marsha Zibalese-Crawford,
DSW, MSW, was selected for
oral presentation at the 2009
meeting of the American Public
Health Association.
Assistant Professor Cheri Carter,
PhD, MSW, received a grant
to develop a General Education
course with Tamsen Wojtanowski
of Tyler School of Art to encourage
the students to explore social
behavior using photography.
Among SSW faculty who have
recently been published are:
Professor Jay Fagan, DSW,
MSW, who co-wrote an article
on paternal engagement among
nonresident fathers in Developmental
Psychology (2009, Vol. 45);
Assistant Professor Yookyong Lee,
MSW, PhD, who co-wrote an
article on fathers and the risk of
child abuse in Child Maltreatment
(2009, Vol. 14, No. 3); Associate
Professor Mark F. Schmitz,
PhD, whose article on the DSM-
IV criterion for depression will
appear in the American Journal
of Psychiatry; Assistant Professor
Jonathan B. Singer, PhD, MSW,
who wrote on borderline personality
disorder and on technology
in social work practice in the
Social Workers’ Desk Reference,
Second Edition (2009, Oxford
University Press, New York); and
Associate Professor David Zanis,
PhD, MSW, who co-wrote an
article on drug treatment among
Catherine Coyle, BS ’79, EdM ’88, PhD ’91
parole violators in the Journal of
Psychoactive Drugs (2009, Vol.
41, No. 2).
Therapeutic Recreation
Associate Professor Catherine
Coyle (BS ’79, EdM ’88, PhD
’91) received a 2009 Lindback
Award for Distinguished Teaching,
which recognizes excellence
in teaching activities and skills.
“Dr. Coyle’s students praised her,
in particular, for their learning
experiences in the courses Health
Promotion and Leisure Education,
and Research Methods,”
noted Department Chair John
W. Shank, EdD.
Active Living and Recovery for
Racial/Ethnic Groups with Mental
Illness is the title of a study
that has received a two-year grant
from the National Institute of
Mental Health. Professor Yoshitaka
Iwasaki, PhD, is principal
investigator, with Associate
Professor Catherine Coyle and
Professor John W. Shank, EdD,
CTRS, serving as co-principal
investigators.
A team of Therapeutic Recreation
faculty and alumni, the
Paddlin’ Owls, represented the
department in October in the
Philadelphia International
Dragon Boat Festival.

Dental Hygiene Alumni
Present Scholarship to
Rachael Moore, ’10
Terry Barr, RDH, BS, AS ’78, and Rachael Moore, BS ’10
The Temple University Dental Hygiene Alumni Club presented
its 2009 scholarship to Therapeutic Recreation student
Rachael M. Moore, who plans to work with adults with mental
illnesses after completing her degree.
“I wasn’t sure college was for me, so I stopped and worked for
three years,” explains the 27-year-old senior who transferred
into Temple. “Now I appreciate it more. I came in with a
completely different perspective than some of my [younger]
classmates.” For example, living on her own and paying tuition
have been challenges, so the $1,000 scholarship was welcome:
“Doing financial aid forms is a complete headache,” Rachael
says. “I’m so happy I’ve filled out my last FAFSA [Free Application
for Federal Student Aid]!”
A junior internship and working as a recreation assistant with
United Cerebral Palsy helped Moore learn that she prefers the
clinical setting, which allows for flexible protocols and time to
get to know clients.
This past fall, Moore worked as a Diamond Peer, teaching an
adaptive sports course with Assistant Professor Rhonda Nelson,
PhD. She and Dr. Nelson are also preparing a presentation
for the New Jersey/Eastern Pennsylvania Therapeutic
Recreation Association. Finally, under the guidance of Assistant
Professor Susanne Lesnik-Emas, PhD, Moore is writing
articles based on her junior internship with Community Support
Rehabilitative Program for adults with mental illnesses
living in the community.
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CHPSW Student Profile:
Jenny Lee, DPT ’10
DOCTORAL STUDENT, PHYSICAL THERAPY
Background: Jenny Lee emigrated
with her parents from
Taiwan to southern California
when she was 15. As she
neared the end of her doctoral
program at Temple, she sought
to apply her education in her
native land, arranging an internship
through her church,
Evangelical Formosa Church
in Philadelphia, with Evergreen,
an organization that provides
medical and other services in
rural China.
Last Summer: Lee spent two
months in northwestern China,
traveling to hospitals and
rehabilitation centers. She
trained physicians, nurses and
therapists in Western rehabilitation
practices. Most of her
internship/practicum was spent
at Lu Xi Community Health
Clinic in the Shanxi Province.
Rehabilitation Medicine in
China: “You see lots of high
blood pressure, hypertension
and diabetes in China,” she
explains.“There are lots of
stroke patients. They have rehabilitation
doctors, but treatment
consists mostly of folk practices
and Chinese medicine, which is
very caring but passive. For
example, a stroke patient in
China would typically be kept
in bed, told to rest and receive
acupuncture treatments with
electrotherapy.”
Bridging the Cultural Gap:
“I encouraged the nurses and
therapists to take a more proactive
role, to engage patients and
families. When I recommended
to patients that they exercise,
they really did go home and
follow my suggestions. Then
they would come back and ask
questions. My challenge was
to find a balance between what
we do and Chinese medicine.
You can’t just say, ‘Don’t do
that, do this.’ I think there is a
huge potential for rehabilitation
medicine in China.”
Crossing the Language
Barrier: Though fluent in
Chinese, Lee says that she
sometimes didn’t understand
colloquial phrases. “I knew
the words, but the meaning
could be hard to pick up
because I didn’t understand
the cultural context.”
Postgrad Plans: “I hope to
finish my licensing and go
back to China this summer,
then do a residency in neurological
rehabilitation. I want
to specialize in caring for
stroke patients, and I will go
wherever the need is greatest.
If I return to China, I hope to
work where medical resources
are limited and difficult to
reach. …I feel I was meant
to do this because I was born
there and am fluent, and
have been blessed to study in
the U.S. It is the perfect
combination to give back.”

The College of Health Professions and
Social Work’s development staff grew
over the summer with the arrival of David
A. Miller, senior director of Development,
and the addition of members from the
School of Social Work, who joined CHP
July 1. Marcus A. Bagby, SSW director of
Development, and Evelyn M. Rush, development
specialist, join assistant director
of Development, Sean Marsh. These four
manage alumni relations and cultivate
vital funding for the college, which now
consists of eight departments, two active
alumni groups of former departments,
and the School of Social Work.
Mr. Miller comes to Temple from Thomas
Edison State College in Trenton, N.J.,
which serves adult and off-site students.
He is familiar with Temple through his
wife Margery, who earned a bachelor’s
in journalism and Master of Social Work
at the university. “I love returning to a
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Development Staff Grows with College
Left to right: David Miller, Marcus Bagby, Sean Marsh
and Evelyn M. Rush
David A. Miller
Senior Director
of Development
215-707-9780
dmiller@temple.edu
traditional college,” he says. “I have
noticed Temple getting more and more
exciting. There is something really positive
going on across the university, and this
college in particular has tremendous
leadership in Dean Ron Brown.”
Mr. Bagby, who has been with Temple
for more than five years, relocated in late
August with Ms. Rush from Main Campus
to Health Sciences. “I will still travel,” he
says, “and still visit with Social Work
alumni, but now I have more to talk about.
I am excited for the opportunity to work
with David and Sean, and for the opportunities
for collaboration among the disciplines,
especially in community service.”
Besides raising funds in challenging economic
times, the staff may have no greater
challenge than getting staff and alumni to
begin thinking of CHPSW’s several pieces,
many of them added in recent years, as a
unified whole. “We’re a blended family,”
explains Mr. Miller. “With the addition of
the School of Social Work, we now have
nine strong areas of concentration in this
college. Our goal is to make them better
and better, to raise money for faculty
chairs and research, for program development,
for student travel to broaden their
horizons, and for scholarships. Money
should never keep an able student from
coming to Temple…. We want to engage
with people, to make as many friends as
we can and to get our message out.”
Marcus A. Bagby
Director of Development
School of Social Work
215-707-7674
marcus.bagby@temple.edu
Sean Marsh
Assistant Director
of Development
215-707-4810
sean.marsh@temple.edu
Evelyn M. Rush
Development Specialist
215-707-7928
evelyn.rush@temple.edu
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INTERGENERATIONAL
CENTER ATTRACTS
ALMOST $2 MILLION
The Intergenerational Center
attracted more than $1.9 million in
funding during the six months that
ended Sept. 1. This includes more
than $900,000 in new and
renewed funding, and more
than $800,000 in continuing
grants.
New funds included $200,000
for Project SHINE from MetLife
Foundation and $40,000 for
Experience Corps from the
Council of Adult and Experiential
Learning. Renewed funding
of $175,000 was provided
to Time Out by The Pew Charitable
Trusts, and $70,000 to
Coming of Age by United Way
of Southeastern Pennsylvania. In
addition, Family Friends received
just under $62,000 in renewed
funding from the Philadelphia
Corporation for Aging.
Project SHINE provides language,
literacy and citizenship
tutoring to older immigrants
through college students. In
addition to the MetLife funding,
the program received an Ameri-
Corps national grant of
$240,000 for its work in health
literacy. Experience Corps utilizes
adults aged 55 and over to
improve literacy in Philadelphia
elementary schools.
Time Out brings college students
into the homes of older
people, linking them to the outside
world and giving their caregivers
a respite. Coming of Age,
a national program, promotes
volunteering, learning and community
leadership for people
aged 50 and over. Family
Friends matches adults aged 50
and over with Philadelphia families
with special-needs children
to provide support and linkage
to resources.
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Third-generation Temple graduate
Kendal A. Growe (BA ’09) was
awarded the 2009 Acres of Diamonds
Scholarship as a senior for volunteer
service. The $500 scholarship is presented
annually by the College of
Health Professions Alumni Federation
to an undergraduate student who
exemplifies the philosophy of Temple
founder Russell Conwell: to make the
most of where you are and what you
have, that perseverance will conquer.
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In addition to serving as student
representative to the federation
for three years, Ms. Growe, a
Communication Sciences and
Disorders alumna, was active with
Temple’s chapter of the National
Student Speech Language Hearing
Association, tutored children at
North Philadelphia’s Douglass
Elementary School, and ran with
Back on My Feet, an organization
that helps the homeless.
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