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When Adeha Bodas and Chaitahya Deo began the Master of Science in Physical Therapy program in 2010, sparks flew – although not the romantic kind.

Although the two students discovered they grew up 25 minutes from each other in their native India, Bodas wanted noth-ing to do with Deo when she first met

him at the Institute. She considered Deo rude, while he found Bodas too uptight.

But as is often the case, things began to thaw over time. That first semester’s animosity became second semester’s friendship, which led to them becoming engaged during the program’s third and final term.

First PhD DegreeTo Be OfferedThe MGH Institute will now offer an interdisciplinary PhD in Rehabilita-tion Sciences. It will focus on educating clinical practitioners to conduct research that will lead to improved rehabilitation outcomes for people with impairments in movement, physical development, communication, or cognition.

“A hallmark of the MGH Institute degree has always been excellence in clinical practice. Our graduates make an immediate impact in their profession,” said President Janis P. Bellack, PhD, RN, FAAN. “Our new PhD program cre-ates a further opportunity for excellence in research and the generation of new knowledge in the rehabilitation disci-plines.”

With the PhD program, which is sched-uled to begin in September 2012, the MGH Institute will offer the full range of academic degrees: baccalaureate, master’s, clinical doctorate, and now a research doctorate.

Rehabilitation professionals already licensed in a rehabilitation field such as physical or occupational therapy, speech-language pathology, rehabilitation

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The Stories Behind Commencement 2012

Lending a HandAssociate Professor Marjorie Nicholas helps Gabrielle Giffords recover from shootingWhen former U.S. Rep. Gabrielle Giffords received a standing ovation at President Obama’s State of the Union address in January, Department of Communication Sci-ences and Disorders Associate Professor Marjorie Nicholas, PhD, CCC-SLP, couldn’t help but smile.

That’s because Dr. Nicholas had recently assisted the Arizona Democrat relearn many of the communication skills lost in the aftermath of a January 2011 shooting that left six people dead and 13 wounded. continued on page 15

Commencement is rich with pomp and circumstance and new beginnings. But if you look a little closer, each of the 423 new members of the Class of 2012 has his or her own story about the experience at the MGH Institute. The following are a few of those stories.

Adeha Bodas and Chaitahya Deo found more than a love for physical therapy while at the MGH Institute.continued on page 8

MGH Institute Assistant Professor Marjorie Nicholas, right, and colleague Nancy Helm-Estabrooks, left, working with former U.S. Rep. Gabrielle Giffords.

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MGH INSTITUTE OF HEALTH PROFESSIONS

ADMINISTRATION

Janis P. Bellack,President and John Hilton Knowles Professor

Alex F. Johnson,Provost and Vice President for Academic Affairs

Atlas D. Evans,Vice President for Finance and Administration

Bette Ann Harris ’83,Associate Provost for Academic Affairs, Interim Director, Center for Interprofessional Studies and Innovation

Robert E. Hillman,Associate Provost for Research

Harriet S. Kornfeld,Chief Development Officer

Carolyn F. Locke,Dean of Student Affairs

Paul W. Murphy,Chief Communications and Marketing Officer

Denis G. Stratford,Chief Information and Facilities Officer

Sarah H. Welch,Manager of Human Resources

ACADEMICDEPARTMENTS

Laurie Lauzon Clabo,Dean, School of Nursing

Leslie G. Portney, Dean, School of Health and Rehabilitation Sciences

Regina F. Doherty,Director,Program in Occupational Therapy

Pamela K. Levangie,Chair,Department of Physical Therapy

Gregory L. Lof,Chair,Department of Communication Sciences and Disorders

Richard Terrass,Director, Program in Medical Imaging

President’s CornerAs we mark the Institute of Health Profession’s 35th anniversary, I’ve been reflecting on our history and the impact our graduates, students, faculty, and indeed, the Institute as a whole have had—not only on the field of health professions education and the specific professions we educate for, but most importantly on the people and communities served.

The scope and diversity of this impact are reflected throughout the pages of this issue of The Graduate, and the stories of our students, alumni, and faculty fill me with wonder and pride. They beautifully capture the essence of who and what the Institute is today—a vibrant and vital institution: vibrant because on any given day, the Institute is pulsing with energy and activity as our students, faculty and staff engage with each other in their learning and work, and vital because of the necessary and essential nature of the Institute’s contributions to improving health and health care through education, clinical practice, research and community service.

It is especially gratifying to know that in this 35th year of its history, the Institute is fulfilling the promise envisioned by its founders and early leaders.

Unlike many colleges and universities, the vitality of the Institute does not abate during the summer. In addition to offering a range of summer courses, we also admit new classes of students each summer to the Accelerated BSN and Entry-level Doctor of Physical Therapy programs. And this summer will be especially vibrant as our locale in the Navy Yard will be bustling with events and celebrations of the 200th anniversary of the War of 1812, in which our nearby neighbor, the U.S.S. Constitution, earned her nickname “Old Ironsides.”

The Institute is sponsoring several of the celebratory events, and we are pleased that the high volume of visitors to the Navy Yard this summer will also increase the public’s awareness of the Institute. Our colorful banners and new building signage certainly call attention to us, and as I walk to the office, I am periodically stopped by visitors who ask what and who we are. I love the opportunity to tell them—briefly, of course—our story.

Perhaps most noteworthy is that the Institute continues to be so vibrant and vital in the midst of continuing turbulent and uncertain times. Regardless of how the Supreme Court rules on the Affordable Care Act, the Institute will stay true to its mission and purpose, and continue to educate leaders in health care who are prepared to practice safely and effectively, to respond proactively to evolving changes in how care is orga-nized, delivered, and financed, and to serve those most in need, whether in our own speech-language-literacy and physical therapy centers or in the community.

Wherever this issue finds you, I wish you—our alumni—a most enjoyable summer. Please stay in touch, and visit our Web site regularly for news and updates on your vibrant and vital graduate alma mater!

Janis P. Bellack, President

President and John Hilton Knowles Professor

Summer 2012n The Graduate3www.mghihp.edu

Peter S. Cahn, PhD, has been appointed as the new Associate Provost for Academic Affairs at the MGH Institute, effective July 1.

Dr. Cahn’s most recent position was Director of Faculty Development and Diversity in the Department of Medicine at Boston University Medical Center.

“We are extremely pleased that Peter will be joining the Institute,” said Provost and Vice President for Academic Affairs Alex Johnson, PhD, CCC-SLP. “As the Institute continues to grow and to add new programs, his expertise in working with faculty, his background in health

care leadership and diversity leadership will allow him to play a vital role in the future success of the Institute.”

Dr. Cahn is a graduate of Harvard University (AB), University of Cambridge (M. Phil.), and holds a PhD from University of California, Berkeley.

Dr. Cahn will replace Bette Ann Harris, DPT, MS, who has held the position of Associate Provost since 2008. Dr. Harris, who has been employed at the Institute since its founding and is the school’s first graduate, will retire in December 2012, following a well-earned sabbatical leave.

Two faculty members have been promoted to leadership positions in the School of Health and Rehabilitation Sciences.

Leslie Portney, DPT, PhD, FAPTA, has been appointed Dean of the School of Health and Rehabilitation Sciences (SHRS), which houses the Department of Physical Therapy, the Department of Communication Sciences and Disorders, the Program in Medical

Imaging, and the developing pro-gram in Occupational Therapy.

Dr. Portney, who has led the De-partment of Physical Therapy since 2003, has served as interim Dean of SHRS since the school’s incep-tion in 2010.

With more than 40 years of experi-ence, Dr. Portney is recognized as a national leader in physical therapy education and research. She joined the IHP faculty in 1990.

“With the appointment of a full-time Dean, the School of Health and Rehabilitation Sciences is now

in an excellent position to claim a leadership role in the areas of rehabilitation and health sciences,” said Provost and Vice President for Academic Affairs Alex Johnson, PhD, CCC-SLP.

In addition, Pamela Levangie, DPT, DSc, FAPTA, formerly Associate Chair, is the new Chair of the Department of Physical Therapy. Dr. Levangie joined the MGH Institute in July 2010.

Dr. Levangie is a recipient of the American Physical Therapy Asso-ciation’s Dorothy E. Baethke-Elea-nor J. Carlin Award for Excellence in Academic Teaching, and is a Catherine Worthingham Fellow, the highest honor among APTA’s membership categories.

Previously, she held long-time faculty and administrative positions at Boston University and Sacred Heart University. She also has held many leadership positions in the APTA.

Along the WAterfront

n The MGH Institute is planning to celebrate its 35th anniversarybeginninginfall2012.Detailsarestillintheworks,soweencouragetheentireIHPcommu-nity tovisitwww.mghihp.edu/35years in thecomingweeksforupdatesonactivities.

n Valerie grande, from the Office of InformationTechnology,wasnamedstaffEmployeeoftheYear.

n ThePhysical therapy Clubraised$4,300aspartoftheannualPittsburgh-MarquetteVolleyballChallengethatsupportsphysicaltherapyresearch.

n DepartmentofPhysicalTherapyAssistantProfessorJanet Kneissreceivedthe2012FacultyResearchAward.She will receive $10,000 to conduct research startingJuly1onherproposal,“Feasibilityof implementingaportablesittostandmeasureamongparticipantswithhipfracturewhohavemildcognitiveimpairments.”

Peter Cahn, PhD

Two Promoted in School of Health and Rehabilitation Sciences

Dean Leslie Portney, DPT, PhD, FAPTA

Chair Pamela Levangie, DPT, DSc, FAPTA

Peter Cahn Named as New Associate Provost for Academic Affairs


Along the WAterfrontn Three faculty each will receive $5,000 for beingnamed recipients of the 2012 Faculty Teaching Fellow-ship: Changing Courses award. They are: DepartmentofPhysicalTherapyAssociateProfessor Marianne Beni-nato,“ReconstructingHumanGrossAnatomyBasedonConstructivist Learning Theory;” Department of Physi-cal Therapy Clinical Associate Professor tracy Brudvig,“Development of Reflection Skills in Post-Professional

MastersStudents;”andSchoolofNursingClinicalAssis-tant Professor gail gall,“InclusiveExcellenceandClinicalCompetenceinClinicalEducation:ImprovingtheExperi-enceofStudentsandFaculty.”

n InstituteLibrarianJessica Bell hasbeennamed thefirstDirectorofLibraryandInstructionalDesign.Shewillworkwithleadersthroughouttheschooltoleadtheex-pansionandcoordinationofresourcestoenhanceteach-ingandlearning,strategicallysetpriorities,andsupervisebothlibraryservicesandinstructionaldesign.

Lynn Foord, PhD, MEd, PT, has joined the MGH Institute as the school’s first Director of the Prerequisites Program for the Health Care Professions.

She will work to improve and increase foundational science prerequisite courses offered to individuals who are considering changing their career and entering the health professions.

The number of non-matriculated students who take courses, most of which are online, has increased 58% since the Institute opened classes to non-matriculated students. Previously, classes were solely for incoming IHP students.

“The tools for developing highly interac-tive and engaging online courses are expanding all the time,” said Dr. Foord. “Our challenge is to select among all the possibilities to build the most effective possible learning experiences in each of our science prerequisite courses.”

Dr. Foord has a BS in Biology/Psychology from Middlebury College, a MS in Physical Therapy from Duke University, a MEd from Cambridge (MA) College, and a PhD in Educational Technology from Walden University in Minneapolis.

Lynn Foord, PhD, MEd, PT

First Director of Health Care Prerequisites Program Named

Institute Expands Into Fourth Building in CharlestownMore than 100 trustees, faculty, staff, students, alumni, neighbor-hood residents, and Partners HealthCare officials were on hand January 11 for the opening of the MGH Institute’s expansion into a fourth building in Charlestown.

“This expansion marks an historic event for the Institute,” Presi-dent Janis P. Bellack told the audience at 2 Constitution Center, located a short distance away from the school’s main campus in the Charlestown Navy Yard. “Our space now exceeds 100,000 square feet—a 50% increase in the past decade. This additional space offers our students a cutting-edge learning environment, and eases crowding in our main academic building.”

The new space includes a 104-seat interactive classroom with state-of-the-art technology, larger physical therapy labs with new equipment, and a student lounge that overlooks the U.S.S. Constitution.

“It’s a commitment by the Institute to ensure our students have the greatest learning resources available,” declared Board of Trustees Chair George E. Thibault, MD, President of the Josiah Macy Jr. Foundation. “It creates an environment that fosters interprofessional education that will make them better health care professionals.”

Class of 2009 Bachelor of Science in Nursing alumnae Amy Gearheard, left, and Heather Bullis brought their children to the ribbon cutting at 2 Constitution Center in January.


More than 400 MGH Institute students, faculty, and staff packed historic Old Faneuil Hall on February 7 to hear five experts discuss “Unconscious Bias: How It Affects Our Interactions and Decisions in Providing Care” at the 2012 Interprofessional Rounds.

The event, hosted by the Center for Inter-professional Studies and Innovation, provided first- and second-year students the chance to hear how they can best provide comprehen-sive patient care.

“I thought it was a great topic that can be applied across the board for all students,” said Jencie McDavid, a second-year Master of Science in Speech-Language Pathology program student.

“It made me reflect on how I will treat patients in the future,” noted Dawn Nathanson, a second-year student in the Master of Science in Nursing program.

Added Keith Liao, a first-year Entry-level Doctor of Physical Therapy student, “It opened up a lot thoughts on things I

hadn’t considered before, and it was fun for all of us to come to Faneuil Hall and listen to a great presentation.”

Speakers for the evening were: Center for Interprofessional Studies and Innovation Professor Anthony Guarino, PhD; School of Nursing Clinical Assistant Professor Gail Gall, APRN, BC; School of Health and Rehabilitation Sciences Associate Professor Regina Doherty, OTD, MS, OTR/L; Department of Communication

Sciences and Disorders Clinical Assistant Professor Carmen Vega-Barachowitz, PhD, CCC-SLP, Director of the Depart-ment Speech, Language, Swallowing and reading Disorders at Massachusetts General Hospital; and Joyce Shapiro Gordon, MS, CCC-SLP, a speech-lan-guage pathologist who works at Mass General. Interim Director of CIPSI, BA Harris, DPT, MS, was master of ceremonies.

At Old Faneuil Hall, Students Learn How to Avoid Unconscious Bias

Students filled Old Faneuil Hall at the annual Interprofessional Rounds lecture in February.

n Five faculty members recently earned their PhD:School of Nursing Clinical Assistant Professor gail gall;School of Nursing Assistant Professor Susan hamilton;SchoolofNursingAssistantProfessorAlex hoyt;Depart-mentofPhysicalTherapyClinicalAssistantProfessorMary Knab;andSchoolofNursingClinicalAssistantProfessorBrant oliver.

n Eight nurses associated with the MGH Institute werenominatedinthe2012Boston GlobeSalutetoNursessec-tionpublished inMay:SchoolofNursingProfessorJanice

Bell Meisenhelder; School of Nursing Academic SupportCounselorMary Jane Scott;nancy giallombardo ’93,whoworks at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center; noreen leahy ’98,whoworksatMassachusettsGeneralHospital;Ian Penn ’10,whoworksatBethIsraelDeaconessMedicalCen-ter;Kathy Savage ’96,whoworksatNorthShorePACE/ElderServicePlanoftheNorthShore;nancy Schaeffer ’95,whoworksatMassachusettsGeneralHospital;andMarie Sheehy ’85,whoworksatBedfordVAMedicalCenter.


future health Care Professionals?

More than a dozen freshmen high school students from East Boston toured the MGH Institute in May. The visit was coordinated by Massachusetts General Hospital’s Center for Community Health

Improvement. Faculty who led the tour were Department of Commu-nication Sciences and Disorders Clinical In-structor Charles Jeans, MS, CCC-SLP; School of Nursing Clinical As-sistant Professor Daniel Kane, MS, RN, CEN, CCRN, CFRN, EMTP; and Department of Phys-ical Therapy Assistant Professor DJ Mattson, DPT, EdD, SCS.

29th IHP Schweitzer Fellow is Named School of Nursing student Naira Arellano has been named a 2012-2013 Albert Schweitzer Fellow—the 29th IHP student awarded the pres-tigious award since the program began in 1992.

Arellano, a first-year Master of Science in Nursing student, will address health disparities affecting homeless Spanish-speaking Hispanics through culturally sensitive and language-appro-priate patient advocacy at the Barbara McInnis House, the medical respite facility of Boston Health Care for the Homeless program.

“From the very beginning of my biobehavorial clinical rotation, I was highly inspired by this respite facility’s commitment to provide the best quality of care to an incredibly vulnerable population,” said Arellano, who hopes to establish this patient advocate role as a permanent volunteer opportunity. “I knew I wanted to spend more time at McInnis and the Schweitzer Fellowship presented the perfect opportunity.”

Reading Programs Cited by IDAThe Department of Communication Sci-ences and Disorders was one of nine pro-grams in the country recently recognized by the International Dyslexia Association to have met the association’s Knowledge and Practice Standards for Teachers of Reading.

Both the Certificate of Advanced Study in Reading, and Master of Science in Speech-Language Pathology: Reading Concentration, were recognized by the association.

“This recogni-tion by IDA externally validates the Department of Communication Sciences and Disorders’ national leadership in preparing graduate students to deliver high quality diagnosis and treatment in language and literacy skills,” said Professor Charles Haynes, EdD, CCC-SLP. “We are delighted that IDA has recognized the high quality of our training programs and that we have been able to aid the association in pioneering model standards for reading teacher preparation.”

“One of the goals in publishing the IDA Standards was to establish a framework for course content in university and other teacher training programs,” said Elisabeth Liptak, IDA’s Director of Pro-fessional Services. “By recognizing high quality programs, we are raising aware-ness so that other universities will follow their lead.”

First-year Master of Science in Nursing student Naira Arellano.

Along the WAterfrontn SchoolofNursingClinicalAssociateProfessorgaur-dia Banister, who is Executive Director of The InstituteforPatientCareatMassachusettsGeneralHospital,wasnamedtherecipientofthe2012MaryMahoneyAwardbytheAmericanNursesAssociation.

n Department of Communication Sciences and Disor-dersClinical InstructorCharles Jeans wasoneof just30

people accepted into the American Speech-Language-Hearing Association Leadership Development Program.He will be working on a module to help students learnleadershipskillsastheymoveintotheircareers.

n Department of Communication Sciences and Disor-ders Clinical Assistant Professor Maggie Kjelgaard wasoneofeightfacultymembersintheUnitedStatesselectedto be in the 2012 American Speech-Language-Hearing AssociationClinicalResearchInstitute.


If a patient needs to be treated for a communication or swallowing disor-der while at Spaulding Rehabilitation Hospital, there’s a good chance the person will be working with a MGH Institute speech-language pathology graduate.

Given that one of the supervisors is Marianne Connor ’02, and the Direc-tor of the Inpatient Speech-Language Pathology Department and Brain Injury program is Department of Com-munication Sciences and Disorders faculty member Denise Ambrosi, it’s no wonder that they hire SLPs whom they know will be a good fit for the renowned Boston rehab center.

“Spaulding and the IHP have a great relationship,” said Connor. “Many students have the opportunity to have a clinical practicum at Spaulding, so we have a chance to know what kind of employee they would be should they be hired. While not everyone who does a rotation can be hired, it’s worked out quite well that we have been able to bring on a number of IHP graduates over the years.”

Kristi Camara ’11 is a case in point. She spent six months training at the Boston hospital as an IHP student, and had Katie Gallagher ’05 as a preceptor, so it was only natural she applied for a job after she graduated. “When I got hired, it was like picking up right where I left off,” Camara said.

The preceptor-student connection has been a big factor over the years. Several students actually worked with their future peers—

Meredith Pineau ’07 was the supervisor for Brooke Lenehan ’10, for example—while other alumnae including Connor, Kate Radville ’08, and Amy Lewis ’08 have returned frequently to the IHP campus as guest lecturers.

For Gallagher, the chance to be involved in a team approach to rehabilitation drew her to Spaulding. “I saw as a student how working with other disciplines like physical therapy and other specialties could provide comprehensive patient care,” she said. “That’s what sold me on Spaulding.”

The other IHP grads working at Spaulding are Holly Benjamin ’08, Jenna Muri-

Rosenthal ’09, and Carla Tierney ’10.Ambrosi has taught at the Institute for more than 10 years. Although she’s not a graduate of the Institute, she said she has been greatly impressed with her former students who have become part of this special inter-affiliate Partners HealthCare relationship.

“They are all so well prepared when they graduate from the Institute that those who are hired at Spaulding do not miss a beat,” Ambrosi said. “It’s been a great connection.”

Spaulding Proves to be Good Destination for SLP Graduates

IHP graduates working at Spaulding (l-r): Amy Lewis ’08, Brooke Lenehan ’10, Kristin Camara ’11, Kate Gallagher ’05, Holly Benjamin ’08, Marianne Connor ’02, Carla Tierney ’10, Jen Muri-Rosenthal ’09, Kate Radville ’08, and Meredith Pineau ’07.

n School of Nursing Professor Patrice nicholas washonoredbytheMassachusettsAssociationofRegisteredNurses(MARN)withthe2012ResearcheroftheYearaward.

n Department of Communication Sciences and Disor-dersAdjunctProfessorJoanna Christodoulou receivedtheGeorgeE.BurchFellowshipinTheoreticMedicineandAf-filiatedTheoreticSciencesfromtheSmithsonianInstitutionfor2012-2014.

n A book co-authored by School of Nursing ClinicalProfessorMertie l. Potterwaschosenasoneofthe2011AmericanJournalofNursingBooksoftheYear.Palliative Care Nursing: Caring for Suffering PatientswasoneofjustthreebookslistedintheHospiceandPalliativeCarecategorybythenationalnursingpublication.


Commencement 2012

“We had it wrong about each other,” said a smiling Bodas, as the couple posed for a photo while waiting to enter the Hynes Convention Center and the start of Com-mencement. Added Deo, “I guess love can bloom when you’re away from home.”

The couple plan to wed in the coming months, and expect to live and work in the States for the foreseeable future.

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It’s hard enough to be a full-time student at the Institute, what with the demanding academic course load and huge time commitment needed to successfully complete one’s degree. Add having a baby to this mix and it certainly adds a layer of complexity.

Matt Dickinson (Claire, 11 months), Lisa Mashburn (Chloe, 4 months), Sara Amory

(Claire, 1 year), and Trina Hirsig (Garret, 17 months) all became new parents, and juggled home and school responsibilities, to complete the three-year Master of Science in Nursing program on time.

“The faculty were great, very understand-ing,” remarked Hirsig, as she posed for a picture with her fellow classmates. “I think I can speak for all of us that we never would have been able to get

Proud new parents (l-r) Matt Dickinson, Lisa Mashburn, Sara Amory, and Trina Hirsig.

Stories Behind Commencement... continued from page 1

Graduates Urged to Push for Better Access to Health CareJoia Mukherjee, MD, MPH, Chief Medical Officer and Director of the Institute of Health and Social Justice for Partners In Health, who delivered the keynote address at Commencement, told the 423 new graduates how they could play a key role in improving health care throughout the United States and across the globe.

“The lack of access, in my view, is about the silos we have created—between rich and poor, black and white, nurses and doctors, patients and providers. What is needed to break these silos and to bring the best of our collective strength, competencies and passion is a movement for health care as a basic human right,” said Dr. Mukherjee. “There is no place I know of that educates health professionals at the graduate level with more consciousness about the concept of team than the MGH Institute.”

She added: “My greatest hope is that you realize and act on the weight of your responsibility as one of the privileged few with a degree in higher education—whether it is in nursing, physical therapy, speech-language pathology, or medical imaging— to liberate yourself from conventional wisdom and liberate others from suffering.”

2012 keynote speaker Joia Mukherjee, MD, MPH.

former Presidents Attend Commencement

Several past presidents of the Institute attendedCommencementtohelpcommemoratetheschool’s35thanniversaryyear,whichrunsthroughJune2013.Inphoto,President JanisBellack (center) isflankedby (fromleft)Dr.MaureenGröer, the Institute’s3rdpresident from 1994 – 1997; Patrick McCarthy, theInstitute’s 2nd president from 1988 – 1994; AnnCaldwell, the Institute’s 4th president, who served10 years starting in 1997 and whom the Trusteesnamed President Emerita upon her retirement in2007;andDr.AlanJette,formerchairofthePhysicalTherapyprogramwhoservedasinterimpresidentfrom1987–1988.


Commencement 2012

through without their support.”

Their classmate Maria Pia Terra, how-ever, took a longer route. While she began at the Institute in September 2008, it took her an extra year to finish, as she twice took off time to have her two boys. Thus it was even more gratifying for her to walk across the stage at the Hynes Convention Center.

“It was well worth it,” she said with a smile.

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Students in the Department of Commu-nication Sciences and Disorders generally tend to be the youngest at the Institute. But two women in the Class of 2012 did not fit that mold.

Both Patricia Collins and Eve Berne were full-time mothers before deciding

they were ready for a career change—never mind that between them they were raising seven children under the age of 14.

“It was interesting being in class with so many younger people, but they were great because they brought so much enthusiasm,” said Collins, a mother of four who spent more than 15 years as a high school teacher before embarking on her new career.

Berne, who has three children, was the student keynote speaker at the department’s Hooding and

Award ceremony, held the morning of Commencement.

Lauren Katz ’95 Chosen as Distinguished Alumni RecipientSince graduating from the Communication Sciences and Dis-orders program in 1995, Lauren A. Katz, PhD, CCC-SLP has gone on to prominence as a leader in developing new interven-tions for children and adults with communication difficulties.

Dr. Katz, the recipient of the 2012 Bette Ann Harris Distinguished Alumni Award, has published extensively and presented her work to numerous national and international audiences.

After earning her PhD from the Uni-versity of Michigan, where she also completed a post-doctoral fellowship, she joined the faculty at Bowling Green State University in Ohio, where she led the establishment of a reading clinic to help children and adults with reading and writing disorders.

In addition, she is involved in col-laborative research projects with col-leagues from Florida State University, Towson University, and the University of Michigan.

As one of her nominators remarked, “Lauren exemplifies the best of the Institute’s graduates who have become leaders, scholarly thinkers, and committed practitioners who are influ-encing and changing the field of speech-language pathology.”

Jessica Gosnell Caron ’07 Receives Emerging Leader Award

Jessica Gosnell Caron ’07, MS, CCC-SLP, has become been a leader in incorporating mobile applications for smart devices like iPhones and iPads that give patients with language disorders a new method of communication that greatly improves their

quality of life.

Since graduating from the Communica-tion Sciences and Disorders program in 2007, Caron has established a niche in augmentative and alternative com-munication, a rapidly changing area of practice at the forefront of a techno-logical revolution in speech-language pathology.

The 2012 Emerging Leader Alumni Award winner last year won the CSD department’s Faculty Award for Teaching Excellence for her work as a clinical preceptor with Institute students at

Children’s Hospital’s Center for Communication Enhancement.

As the author of one of her letters of support stated, “Jessica truly represents the Institute’s core values of embracing inquiry, ingenuity, innovation, resourcefulness, and continuous learning. There are no limits to what she will be able to accomplish in the future, and I expect more great things to come.”

Two Alumni Recognized For Their Professional Achievements

Jessica Gosnell Caron ’07, left, and Lauren Katz ’95, right, with President Janis Bellack.

Patricia Collins with children John, Brian, Kaila, and Lindsay at the CSD department’s reception the night before Commencement.


class notes

COMMUNICATION SCIENCES AND DISORDERSSasha Yampolsky ’96presentedastaffseminaratNeuropsychologyandEducationServicesforChil-drenandAdolescentsinNewton,inJanuary2012.

Danuza nunn ’01 presented “Swallowing Disor-ders on Neuromuscular Disease,” “Speech andLanguage Services Provided at MassachusettsGeneralHospital,”“GuidelinesandProtocolsforSpeech, Language and Swallowing EvaluationandTreatment,”“UpdatesonSLPTherapy,”and“Speech-Language Pathologists in the HospitalSetting” at the first international RehabilitationSymposiuminSaoPaulo,BrazilinOctober2011.

Meredith Bosley o’Dea ’03andBonnie halvor-son-Bourgeois ’07 eachwonaPartnersinExcel-lenceawardfortheirworkasclinicalinstructorsattheIHP.Meredithwasalsorecognizedforservingas the Assistant Coordinator of External ClinicalEducation,whileBonniewascommendedforad-visingCSDstudentsanddesigningandteachingCSDcourses.

Kate gallagher ’05andKate radville ’08co-pre-sented“DoYouNeedtoUnderstandtoStand?”at the Clinical Scholar’s Graduation ResearchDay held by the IHP and Spaulding Network inSeptember with PT alum erin hallett ’10. KateGallagher and Kate Radville were also recentlypromoted toSLPClinicalSpecialist andSLPAd-vancedClinician,respectively,intheirpositionsatSpauldingBoston.(SeestoryonPage7)

Jessica gosnell Caron ’07 authored the article,“Apps:AnEmergingToolforSLPs,”publishedinthe ASHA Reader in October. She also was fea-turedintheInstitute’s 2011 Annual Report.

holly Benjamin ’08waspartofaninterdisciplinaryteam,includingPTalumJessica guilbert ’11,thatpresentedtheSpauldingRehabilitationHospital’sSchwartzRoundsinDecember2011.

Amy lewis ’08 was promoted to the role ofSLP Advanced Clinician at Spaulding Boston inDecember.

Stacie robarts ’08co-presented“CaringfortheOutliers: The Challenge of Caring for PatientswithLonger thanAverageLengthsofStay”withfivecolleaguesattheSpauldingBostonSchwartzRoundsinOctober.Shewasalsorecentlypromot-edtoSLPAdvancedClinicianatSpauldingReha-bilitationHospitalinBoston.

rebecca Baars ’09 and Amanda libenson ’10co-authoredastudywithCSDAssistantProfessorLaurynZipseandfiveotherresearchers,“Auditory-Motor Mapping Training as an Intervention toFacilitateSpeechOutput inNon-VerbalChildrenwithAutism:AProofofConceptStudy,”whichwaspublishedinthe journalPLoS One inSeptember2011.

Professor Charley Haynes Receives 2012 Nancy T. Watts AwardIt should come as no surprise how Professor Charley Haynes, EdD, CCC-SLP responded when asked about receiving the 2012 Nancy T. Watts Award for Teaching Excellence.

“If you read the criteria, it actually describes the vast majority of people who teach at the Institute,” said the humble Dr. Haynes. “There are so many people who are more deserving of this award than me. It was a complete shock.”

The award, presented each year at Commencement, is given to a faculty member who best exemplifies creativ-ity in teaching, is receptive to evaluation, is responsive to the individual learning needs of students, is a mentor to students and faculty alike, and is recognized and respected by professional colleagues.

Dr. Haynes has exceeded those expectations during the two decades he has taught in the Department of Communication Sciences and Disorders. And the comments in support of his nomination were abundant.

“Dr. Haynes encourages moving beyond simple surface understanding of materials and encourages development of connections between concepts and nuanced application of core themes to clinical practice.” – Alexis Smith ’12

“He is very open to receiving feedback, and will often e-mail the students to ask what they thought of a particular project or activity and what could be done in the future to improve it.” – Irene Gofman ’13

“Dr. Haynes is deeply committed to educating students in a way that will prepare them for their future as culturally competent, lifelong learners. His dedication to teaching is extraordinary.” – Bridget Craig ’12

“Dr. Haynes’ influence expands beyond the confines of the classroom. Not only did his mentoring allow me to be successful as a first-semester clinician and develop clinical competencies, but his demeanor and personable nature encouraged frequent self-reflection.” – Meghan Reina ’13

“In working with others, Charley always shows a combination of sincerity, flexibility and compassion that is unique in my experience. These characteristics make him an extremely effective supervisor, teacher, and team member.” – CSD Professor Pamela Hook, PhD

An internationally renowned expert in dyslexia with a focus on improving knowledge of communication issues within the Arab world, a frequently keynote speaker in the U.S. and abroad, the author of over 35 published articles, books, and chapters, and recognized for his strong commitment to diversity, Dr. Haynes is the embodiment of why the MGH Institute educates tomorrow’s health care leaders.

“I’ve completely enjoyed teaching at the Institute,” said Dr. Haynes, who in 2009 was inducted into the International Dyslexia Association Hall of Honor, “so this means a lot to me.”

Professor Charley Haynes, left, receives the Nancy T. Watts Award from Associate Provost BA Harris.


class noteslauren White ’09wasinterviewedforaDecember2011 article in the Arlington Advocate about alocalprogramthatallowschildrentopracticelit-eracyskillsbyreadingaloudtodogsatthetown’spetstore.

PHySICAL THERAPyKate Stein ’97andKristina gilman ’06participat-ed intheNewton-WellesleyHospitalCommunityHealthFair inMarch,whichprovidedhealthcareandeducationtocommunityattendees.

Jane gruber ’98, ’02 recently was interviewedfor a story in the Waltham News-Tribune aboutNewton-Wellesley Hospital’s Strength in Motionprogram, which provides low-impact cardiovas-cular exercise to cancer patients. She continuesherworkastherehabilitationservicesmanageratNWH.

roya ghazinouri ’99, ’07 traveled to the Do-minican Republic in March with Operation WalkBoston,anorganization thatprovidesdirectandindirect orthopedic health care to impoverishedpatients.Royawaspartofateamofover50vol-unteers that served36patientsand replaced47jointsduringthetrip.

Kathy Phillips ’99, laura foley ’09, and erin leidl ’10 were among physical therapists who hosted“Staying on your Feet: How to Keep Your Bal-anceandPreventFalls,”aneducationaleventatMGH as part of its celebration of Physical Ther-apyMonthinOctober2011.InSeptember2011,Kathy also presented “Scapular Dyskinesis” atthe annualAmericanSocietyofHandTherapistsmeetinginNashville.

Janet Callahan ’00 was recognized by MGH’sPatientCareServiceswiththeStephanieM.Ma-caluso,RN,ExcellenceinClinicalPracticeAward.She also received the Outstanding AchievementinClinicalPracticeAwardfromtheAmericanPhys-icalTherapyAssociationofMassachusetts,wheresheco-presentedanall-daycourse,at itsannualconference.

Martha garlick ’01wasre-appointedasthefeder-alaffairsliaisonoftheAmericanPhysicalTherapyAssociationofMassachusetts.

Ann Jampel ’01andMary Knab ’02co-present-ed“ASocialConstructionofKnowledgethroughGroup Reflection on Stories of Clinical Practice”withanoccupationaltherapistattheEducationalLeadershipConferenceof theAmericanPhysicalTherapyAssociationinClearwater,Florida.AlongwithColleen Kigin ’02andMichael Sullivan ’02,Ann also co-presented “Looking Back, LookingForward: The History of MGH Physical TherapyServices” as part of the MGH Physical TherapystaffcelebrationinFall2011.

robert Dorman ’03 received theMassachusettsGeneral Hospital Patient Safety Star Award inMarch.

Daniel Dyrek ’03wasappointedasaClinicalCon-sultantfortheBostonRedSoxmedicalteam.

Atwood, Hook Newest Faculty EmeritiTwo long-time members of the Department of Communication Sciences and Disorders faculty have retired after more than 40 years of combined service to the Institute.

Professor Julie Atwood, MEd, CCC-SLP, and Clinical Professor Pamela Hook, PhD, are the latest two faculty named as Professors Emeriti, joining just 11 other faculty similarly honored.

“Julie and Pam have dedicated their professional lives to the program,” said department Chair and Professor Gregory Lof, PhD, CCC-SLP. “They have played a key role in educating nearly every CSD student who has graduated.”

Atwood has been part of the Massachusetts General Hospital family her entire professional life. Starting out as a staff speech-language pathologist, she worked her way up to become director of the hospital’s Speech-Language Pathology Department, a position she held for 25 years. So when the Institute began working on creating the CSD program in the 1980s, the school reached out to her not only to help create the program, but to become its first director.

A Fellow in the American Speech-Language-Hearing Association (ASHA), Atwood also received the Distinguished Service Award from the Massachusetts Speech-Language Hearing Association.

And her legacy at the Institute will continue to be felt via the annual Julie Atwood Award for Excellence. The high-est honor given to a graduating SLP student for excelling academically and clinically, Dr. Lof says it’s a perfect description “because she promotes excellence in everything she does.”

In addition to being an excellent teacher at the Institute for the past 20 years, Dr. Pamela Hook has played a leading role in publicizing the prevalence of dyslexia in children and adults, including a stint as president of the Massachusetts chapter of the International Dyslexia Association.

Dr. Hook, who in 2004 won the Institute’s coveted Nancy T. Watts Award for Excellence in Teaching, was also instrumental in co-creating a center for children and adults who struggle with spoken language development and written disorders, and for working to get a state certification for speech-language pathologists as reading specialists.

Dr. Lof said students have regularly told him how Dr. Hook’s passion and brilliance have inspired them. “It got them thinking about their training and how they work with people,” Dr. Lof noted. “They’ve said over and over, ‘I wouldn’t be as successful a professional without her.’ It’s really quite amazing.”

(l-r) Pamela Hook, Gregory Lof, and Julie Atwood.


School of Nursing, Harvard Med School Students to Collaborate on 2-Year ProjectFaculty and students from the MGH Institute School of Nursing and Harvard Medical School will collaborate on designing a team-based interprofessional curriculum to provide high-quality, safe, and effective health care for Limited English Proficiency (LEP) and culturally diverse patients.

The two-year program, Improving Quality and Safety for Diverse Populations: An Innovative Multidisciplinary Curriculum, has been funded with a $289,000 grant, initiated by the Massachusetts General Hospital Disparities Solutions Center, from the Josiah Macy Jr. Foundation of New York City.

The curriculum will focus on three areas: teaching quality improvement and patient safety, interprofessional education, and training health professionals to serve underserved populations.

“This is a great opportunity for nursing students from the MGH Institute and medical students from Harvard Medical School to learn how to treat patients together, which is expected to lead to improved outcomes,” said MGH Institute School of Nursing Clinical Assistant Professor Gail Gall, PhD, RN, co-principal investigator.

More than 50 third-year nursing and medical students from both schools will be recruited to help design and ultimately participate in the new curriculum. They will be split into groups so they can interact as well as participate in joint focus groups and online surveys to provide feedback on the course outline and intervention methods. Faculty from both schools will do the same.

MGH Institute faculty participants are Dr. Gall; Assistant Professor Clara Gona, PhD, APRN; Associate Provost for Academic Affairs BA Harris, DPT, MS; and Assistant Professor Deborah Navedo, PhD, CPNP, CNE. Representing Harvard Medical School and the Disparities Solutions Center are Associate Director and Harvard Medical School Assistant Professor of Medicine Alexander Green, MD, MPH, co-principal investigator; Director Joseph R. Betancourt, MD, MPH; Jason Van Duong; and Operations Manager Aswita Tan-McGrory.

(L-R) Dr. Gail Gall, Dr. Alexander Green, Aswita Tan-McGrory, and Dr. Joseph Bettencourt

class notesStacey Seifried ’03presented“Neuro-IntegratedFunctionalRehabilitationandHabilitation(IFRAH)Approach” at the Rehabilitation Education Sym-posiumatSpauldingNorthShoreandNorthShoreMedicalCenterlastfall.

Andrew Bennett ’04 recently received the War-ren C. Smyth Award for Outstanding Service inPrivatePractice from theTexasPhysical TherapyAssociation.

larry Benz ’05appearedinthecoverstoryoftheJanuaryissueofToday in PTmagazinetodiscusslegislative advocacy related to physical therapyHe is a board member of the Physical TherapyBusinessAlliance,whichwasfoundedin2011andseekstobuildanetworkofprivatepracticePTs.

laura Driscoll ’05 co-presented “Applying Evi-dence to Discharge Planning in the Acute CareSetting”attheannualconferenceoftheAmericanPhysicalTherapyAssociationofMassachusettsinNovember2011.

Maura Daly Iversen ’05 received the 2011Distinguished Scholar Award from the AmericanCollegeofRheumatologyatitsannualmeetinginChicagoinJanuary.

Matthew nippins ’05 presented“TheNuts andBoltsofCysticFibrosis:BasicsforNewHealthcareProviders”and“ExerciseStudies inCysticFibro-sis”attheNorthAmericanCysticFibrosisConfer-enceinAnaheim,CaliforniainFall2011.

Martha Schneider ’05ranthe2012BostonMara-thon as part of the Newton-Wellesley HospitalMarathonTeam.

Kevin Wilk ’05co-authored“Criteria-BasedMan-agement of an Acute Multistructure Knee InjuryinaProfessionalFootballPlayer:ACaseReport,”whichwaspublishedintheSeptember2011edi-tion of the Journal of Orthopedic and Sports Physical Therapy.

Marilyn Moffat ’06madeabriefappearanceonNBC’sTodayShowwithsomeofherstudentsfromtheNYUPhysical Therapyprogramas theyheldabannertopromotetheFoundationforPhysicalTherapy outside NBC Studios. Al Roker spottedthem and remarked, “Always love the physicaltherapists!”

David nolan ’06, ’08 co-presented a day-longcourse, “Current Concepts in Managing KneeDysfunction,” at the annual conference of theAmericanPhysicalTherapyAssociationofMassa-chusettsinNovember2011.

tara orton ’06wroteanarticle,“FlexibleFitness:Warm up before taking a swing,” that recentlyappearedintheMetroWest Daily News.

nicole tomasino ’06 wrote the article “FlexibleFitness: Female Athletes at Higher Risk for ACLInjury,”whichrecentlyappearedintheMetroWest Daily News.

elise townsend ’06 presented “Managingthe Physical Therapy Needs of Boys withMuscular Dystrophy: A Team Approach,” at theannualmeetingoftheAmericanPhysicalTherapyAssociationinProvidenceinOctober2011.


Hillman, Mahoney to Use Smart Phone Technology in Research StudiesTwo MGH Institute faculty members, Robert E. Hillman, PhD, CCC-SLP, and Diane F. Mahoney, PhD, APRN, BC, FGSA, FAAN, recently secured grants in which they will utilize smart phone technology in their research efforts.

Dr. Hillman, Associate Provost for Research, was awarded $2.4 million from the National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders (NIDCD), part of the National Institutes of Health, to improve the diagnosis and treatment of patients with laryngeal voice disorders.

The device he is working on will monitor voice use as people go about their normal day-to-day activities, and provide quantitative measures that can be used to more accurately determine the role that vocal habits play in causing many of the most common voice disorders that plague approximately seven percent of the working-age population in the United States.

“We ask people how they use their voices, but the problem is, people are really bad historians when it comes to voice use,” said Dr. Hillman.”We have data that shows people tend to be off on average 150 to 200 percent when simply trying to estimate how much they use their voices during a typical day.”

The project, called “Ambulatory monitoring of vocal function to improve voice disorder assessment,” includes subcontracts to the MGH Institute and Massachu-setts Institute of Technology.

Dr. Mahoney, Jacques Mohr Professor of Geriatric Nursing Research, was awarded a $180,000 grant from the Alzheimer’s Association to develop a system in which iPhones can assist people with Alzheimer’s disease get dressed easier and function more independently.

Development of a Responsive Emotive Sensing System, or DRESS, will use iPhones installed into the front of each dresser drawer, using both visual and spoken word prompts, to instruct patients to open each drawer in sequence and eventually dress themselves.

“Alzheimer’s patients lose the ability to perform everyday functions like dressing and eating,” said Dr. Mahoney. “We hope that DRESS can extend activities for them for a few additional months.”

Trip to Swaziland

AteamofnursepractitionerstudentsandrecentNPgraduates,ledbySchoolofNursingProfessorIngeCorless,PhD,RN,FAAN(farright),spenttwoweeksduringMayinSwaziland,Africa,aspartofanacademiccoursethatincludesaninternationalexperience.Theparticipantswere(l-r):MarthaDietzLoring;PatriciaMcCarthy;AllisonRhodes,AishaEllis,andAlexandraMcCaffrey.

class notesteresa Baker ’07 co-presented “Relationshipof FIM Items to Discharge Home from InpatientStroke Rehabilitation” at the Clinical Scholar’sGraduation Research Day held by the IHP andSpauldingNetworkinSeptember2011.

Cathy Schmidt ’07competedintheIHPPTClubDodgeball Tournament in March with a team ofphysical therapists fromBayStatePhysical Ther-apy. Cathy continues her position as ManagingPartneratBayState’sKingstonlocation.

Michael reiman ’08 co-authored two articles,“Integration of Strength and Conditioning Prin-ciples into a Rehabilitation Program,” publishedin the September 2011 edition of International Journal of Sports Physical Therapy,and“Femoro-acetabularImpingementinaHighSchoolFemaleAthlete,”published in theDecember2011 issueoftheJournal of Orthopedic and Sports Physical Therapy. He also taught a continuing educationcourse,“Examination,FunctionalTesting,andIn-terventionoftheHipJoint,”throughtheNebras-kaPhysicalTherapyAssociationinMarch.

lesley Smith ’08 rantheCapeCodRelayMara-thon in October 2011 with other staff membersandfriendsfromSpauldingCapeCodinSandwich.

Justin theiss ’08co-authored“DeepVeinThrom-bosis in a Young Marathon Athlete,” which waspublishedintheDecember2011editionofJour-nal of Orthopedic and Sports Physical Therapy.

Kristen reynolds ’09 wrote an article, “HealthyHockey Hips,” that appeared in the Back Bay Patch.KristenalsodiscussedherPilatesexpertiseintheJanuaryissueofStuff Bostonmagazine.

Beth grill ’10co-presentedapostertitled“Pre-dictorsofFallersVersusNonFallersUsingFOTOData in the Outpatient Setting” with colleaguesfrom Spaulding Framingham at the annualconference of the American Physical TherapyAssociationofMassachusettsinNovember2011.Thegroupwonfirstprizefortheirwork.ThegroupalsopresentedtheirfindingsattheClinicalSchol-arsGraduationResearchDayheldbytheIHPandSpaulding Network in September 2011. In addi-tion,Bethwrotethearticle“FlexibleFitness:Helpfor Dizziness after Concussion,” which appearedintheMilford Daily News.

erin hallett ’10participated in theBostonWalkforBurnSurvivors inCambridgewithother staffmembers fromSpauldingRehabilitationHospitalinBoston.

elizabeth hansen ’10 co-presented “MoralDilemmasandMoralDistressinRehabilitation:Fo-cusonSolutions”attheSpauldingPhysicalMedi-cineandRehabilitationGrandRoundsinFebruary.

hetal Kulkarni ’10 and Shalvi Sheth ’10 co-authored an article, “The Effect of TherapeuticExercise and Mobilization on Patients withShoulder Dysfunction: A Systematic Review withMeta-analysis” with Clinical Associate ProfessorTracy Brudvig in the October 2011 issue ofthe Journal of Orthopaedic and Sports Physical Therapy.


class notesMelanie Parker ’10co-presented“StaffasSurro-gate Family: Supporting a 17-Year-Old in Crisis”with threecolleaguesat theBrighamandWom-en’sHospitalSchwartzRoundsinDecember2011.

Jessica guilbert ’11waspartofaninterdisciplin-aryteam,includingCSDalumholly Benjamin ’08,that presented at the Spaulding RehabilitationHospital’sSchwartzRoundsinDecember2011.

NURSINGPauline A. (Vashon) Wilder ‘89, who has beenan advanced holistic nurse board certified since2007,recentlyreceivedhercertificationasaThaiBodyworkPractitioner.ShecontinuesherprivateholisticnursingpracticeusingReikiandThaiBody-work,primarilywitholderadults.Virginia Capasso ’94presented“PressureUlcers”in a second-year medical course called “Essen-tials of Geriatrics” at the School of OsteopathicMedicineattheUniversityofNewEnglandinBid-deford,Maine,inSeptember2011.Patricia lowry ’94 presented “Updates in Hy-pertrophic Cardiomyopathy and Sudden CardiacDeath”attheNationalPrimaryCareConferenceinBostoninOctober2011.School of nursing Professor Patrice nicholas ’95 was honored in April with the Excellence inNursingResearchAwardfromtheMassachusettsAssociationofRegisteredNurses(MARN).The inter-disciplinary rounds implemented byJoanne empoliti ’95 and Kathleen Myers ’96 intheWhite6OrthopaedicsUnitatMGHwerehigh-lighted in the February 16 issue of Mass GeneralHospital’s Caring Headlines.JoanneandKathiealsoco-presentedaposter,“ICareRounds:Implement-ing a Standardized Approach to Improve PatientSatisfactionandNursePresence,”withthreeothernursesattheAcademyofMedical-SurgicalNursesinSeptember2011.richard Ahern ’97, ’10, Sheila Davis ’97, ’08, and School of nursing Professor Inge Corlessco-au-thored an article, “Infusing Swanson’s Theory ofCaringintoanAdvancedPracticeNursingModelforan InfectiousDiseasesAnalDysplasiaClinic,”withanothernurse.TheirarticlewaspublishedintheNovember/December2011issueoftheJour-nal of the Association of Nurses in AIDS Care.Catherine griffith ’02 presented “AdvancingProfessionalPractice:TheResearchNurseRoundTable” at the annual conference of the Interna-tional Association of Clinical Research Nurses inBethesda,MarylandinNovember2011.lin-ti Chang ’03co-presentedadvanceddisastermedicalresponsecoursesinJanuary2012attheAlice Ho Miu Ling Nethersole Hospital in HongKongandat theSino-Luso InternationalMedicalForuminMacau.todd hultman ’04wasappointedasamemberoftheReviewCommitteeoftheAmericanBoardofIn-ternalMedicineinPhiladelphiainSeptember2011.

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nursing, or physiatry, will be considered for admission to the program.

“With its interdisciplinary faculty, and access to the abundance of additional expertise and resources in the Boston area, the new PhD program will tailor research training to fit the wide variety of interests that individual students may have in specific areas of rehabilitation,” said Professor and Program Director Robert Hillman, PhD, CCC-SLP.

Admitted students will be provided the equivalent of half-time clinical, teaching, or fellowship positions in which they will teach or practice at on-campus clinics or at one of the participating/collaborating clinical sites, primarily Massachusetts General Hospital and Spaulding Rehabilitation Hospital.

Three Raise More Than $17,500 for InstituteDespite a sweltering heat that approached the 90 degree mark, the three people running the 2012 Boston Marathon for the MGH Institute completed the 26.2-mile race on April 16 and collectively raised more than $17,500.

Beth Ann Rutolo, a first-year, Entry-level Doctor of Physical Therapy student, finished the race in 4:21:58. Rutolo, who previously has competed in several triathalons, raised $5,686 to support the Physical Therapy Center for Education and Health Promotion.

Heather Quirk, a student in the 14-month Accelerated Bachelor of Science in Nursing program, crossed the finish line in 6:04:25. Quirk, a mother of two, raised $6,447 to increase scholarships for students in the School of Nursing. A scholarship recipient, she ran in memory of Emilene Brown, the late wife of Institute benefactor Sumner Brown, as well as her late husband, Patrick Quirk Sr.

Chuck Vanderburg, PhD, an adjunct associate professor in the Center for Interprofessional Studies and Innovation, completed his first marathon in 6:17:42. The outdoor enthusiast, who also is Director of the Advanced Tissue Resource Center at Harvard NeuroDiscovery Center, raised $5,592 to support the incubator of new ideas and entrepreneurial activity at the Institute.

(l-r) Heather Quirk, Chuck Vanderburg, and Beth Ann Rutolo trained throughout the winter months to run the 2012 Boston Marathon.


class notesJackie Machain ’04 helped provide abdominalaorticaneurysmscreeningsattheNewton-Welles-leyHospitalCommunityHealthFairinMarch.Carolyn Chungu ’05recentlyacceptedapositionattheNorrisCottonCancerCenterinNashua,NH.Kathleen grinke ’05, Kerry grennan ’08,andan-othernurseco-presented“NursingRoleson theCutting Edge of Diabetes Research” at the An-nual Conference of the International AssociationofClinicalResearchNursesinBethesda,Maryland,inNovember2011.Victoria turbini ’05wasafeaturedspeakerattheResearchNurseRoundtableatMGHinMarch.J. Aleah nesteby ’07was interviewedforanar-ticleintheJanuary3,2012issueoftheRainbow Timesaboutherworkasanursepractitionerwithtransgender patients at Baystate High StreetHealthCenterAdultMedicineinSpringfield,Mas-sachusetts.Stephanie Ahmed ’08 was elected as a Distin-guished Practitioner and Fellow in the NursingAcademy of the National Academies of Practice(NAP).ShereceivedthehonorattheannualNAPForumandBanquetinArlington,VirginiainMarch.lisa Colombo ’09willserveasthesecretaryandby-lawschairfortheOrganizationofNurseLead-ers of Massachusetts and Rhode Island (ONL)throughJune2012.Deborah hoch ’10presented“TransplantTrainingParadigms-AdvancedTransplantProviders”attheASTS 12th Annual State of the Art Winter Sym-posium inMiami inJanuary.Deborah,who isanAcuteCareNursePractitioner inTransplantationatMaineMedicalCenterinPortland,Maine,alsoco-authored an article “Billing and Reimburse-ment forAdvancePractice inSolidOrganTrans-plant”intheDecember2011editionofthejournalProgress in Transplantation.Megan Keating ’10 wrote a clinical narrativeaboutherworkinMGH’sRespiratoryAcuteCareUnit that appeared in the February 16 issue ofMGH Caring Headlines.elaine Bridge ’11wasinterviewedinanOctober2011 Boston Globe story about noise reductioninitiativesonpatientunits.Ann Caberoy ’11 was promoted to role of nursemanager for the stroke program at Spaulding Re-habilitation Hospital in January. Also at Spaulding,tammy Corsaro ’11recentlybecamethenurseman-ageronthe3rdfloor,andMary-Ann getchell ’11waspromotedtothepositionofinterimnursemanager.Caitlin Jeffries ’11andJonMontcrieffweremar-riedOct.22,2011atSt.Paul’sChurchinHingham.Caitlinisemployedasapediatricnursepractitio-neratHasbroChildren’sHospitalandanoncologynurseatMassachusettsGeneralHospital.

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natalie Petzold, former Institute Office of Stu-dentAffairsDirector,andMassachusettsGeneralHospitalSchoolofNursingDirector.

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Kami Crary New Alumni Relations DirectorKami Crary is the new Director of Alumni Relations in the Office of Development at the MGH Institute.

Crary comes to the Institute from Hofstra Law School, where she was Director of Special Events In that role, she designed and implemented events including alumni engagement, donor stewardship, conferences, lectures, and symposia, as well as planning the law school’s 40th anniversary gala held at Yankee Stadium.

“Kami’s arrival at the Institute comes at a perfect time, as the school is about to begin a more extensive effort to reach out to our talented alumni and provide the kind of programming that will get them energized and engaged,” said Chief Development Officer Harriet Kornfeld.

Prior to her work at Hofstra, Crary was Event Manager for Brown University where she managed and executed a full calendar of events for the Graduate School that included a lecture series and networking dinners, and maintained its Web site.

A Massachusetts native, Crary received her Bachelor of Arts in Communications Arts from Marist College and her Master’s in Communication Arts from

Emerson College.

The Office of Development also hired Sara Bucciarelli as new Development Coordinator.

Bucciarelli, a New Hampshire native, graduated from the University of New Hampshire in 2011 with a Bachelor of Arts in Communications. During her time at UNH, she created and executed a successful fundraising event, was responsible for soliciting support from local and non-local businesses, designing and distributing publicity materials, and thanking all donors and participants.

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Dr. Nicholas, along with former Boston Veterans Administration colleague Nancy Helm-Estabrooks, spent two weeks last October working with Giffords on a multi-faceted program of speech-language services. The pair traveled to Tucson in March to provide further treatment to Giffords, who continues her remarkable recovery from being shot in the head.

“It was a great experience, and I was honored to have the opportunity to help her,” said Dr. Nicholas, an expert in adult neurogenic communication disorders, and director of the Institute’s Aphasia Center. “Gabby was engaging and upbeat. She’s very inspiring.”

Rep. Giffords’ condition, known as aphasia, occurs when a person suffers brain trauma which leads to language difficulties. Aphasia normally occurs when a person has a stroke, although it also can be caused by a head injury.

The SLP colleagues, who are collaborating on a book, plan to work again with Giffords this summer in North Carolina’s Smokey Mountains, administering several day-long aphasia treatment sessions.

“I’m looking forward to working with Ms. Giffords again,” said Dr. Nicholas. “I am expecting to see that she has continued to make impressive progress.”

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