Health Professions Information Days

March 23-26, 2009

Monday, Mar 23

10:10-11:05am
C140 (Brazos Gallery)
GUEST SPEAKER: Dr.Clyde Yancy, MD. ” Preventing Heart Disease: A Reality,”
Medical Director of the Baylor Heart and Vascular Institute, Chief of Cardiothoracic
Transplantation
Dr. Yancy has been the recipient of numerous honors and awards: the Marquis Who’s Who in America; Cardiologists-In-Training Hero Award, Association of Black Cardiologists.; Outstanding Teacher UT Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas; America’s Top Physician’s “Guide to America’s Top Physicians”; and Texas Super Doctors in Texas Monthly magazine. In 2003, he was named “AHA (national) Physician of the Year”.

Monday, Mar 23

11:15-12:10pm
C140 (Brazos Gallery)
GUEST SPEAKER: Dr. Scott Wright, “The Secret (or not so secret) Path into Health Professions”, Director Pre-Health Professions, UT Dallas
How can you increase your chances of getting into competitive programs?

Monday, Mar 23

12:20-1:15pm
C140 (Brazos Gallery)
GUEST SPEAKER: Dr. Gene Jones, ”Being an Outstanding Applicant in Competitive Health Professions Programs”, Physician Assistant program director, U.T. Southwestern Medical Center
How you present yourself in an interview or in a personal essay might affect your chances of getting into a program. Learn how to outcompete those other applicants.

Tuesday, Mar 24

9:30-11am
C140 (Brazos Gallery)
FOCUS ON CAREERS IN NURSING: presentations from various occupations
Associate degree nursing (A.D.N.) – Dr. Mark Meyer, Brookhaven College
Bachelor degree nursing (B.S.N) –

• TWU - Katie Llewellyn, Nursing Admissions Coordinator
• U. T. Arlington – Mary Jane Ashe, RN, MN, Assistant Director, Undergraduate
  Student Services

Tuesday, Mar 24

11-12:20pm
C140 (Brazos Gallery)
GUEST SPEAKERS: Transferring into 4 year schools & for future entry into medical, dental and other health professions graduate programs
Health occupations advisors –
UNT, Dr. Debrah Beck, Health Professions Coordinator
UTD, Dr. Scott Wright, Dir. Pre-Health Professions
SMU, Dr. Karen Deolivares, Pre-Med Advisor

Tuesday, Mar 24

12:30-1:50pm
FOCUS ON THE CAREER FIELDS: will break out into smaller sessions
ALLIED HEALTH PROGRAMS
S111 - Chiropractic – Dr. Robert Cooper, Chiropractor, Texas Chiropractic College
C110 - Pharmacy/Pharmacy technology –

• Texas Tech Univ. – Lisa Bentley, Student Retention/Recruiting, Pharmacy School
• Univ. of Incarnate Word - Liz Hernandez, Pharmacy Advisor/Counselor

E076 - Radiologic Technology - Brookhaven College, Christi Carter, Program Director

• Radiation Therapy – Carol Scherbak, Director of UTSMC program

N119 - Emergency Medical Technology/paramedic – Brookhaven College, Alex Stagthagen, NREMT-P and program director
N119 - Public Health (Epidemiology, Community Health, etc.) - UNT, Diane Wynn, Director Student & Academic Services

Tuesday, Mar 24

5:30-7pm
C140 (Brazos)
ALLIED HEALTH PROFESSIONS PANEL
Prosthetics & Orthotics – John French, Instructor UT Southwestern
Sonography – Pam Crawford, RDMS, RT, Clinical Coordinator/Facultyr, El Centro College
Communication Sciences & Disorders – Dr. Chad Smith, faculty TWU

Wednesday, Mar 25

11:15-12:10pm
C140 (Brazos Gallery)
GUEST SPEAKER: “Testing Strategies for the Health Professions ” John Dribus, Kaplan Educational Centers
What test strategies might help you in standardized testing for the NCLEX, DAT, MCAT, or PCAT?

Wednesday, Mar 25

12:20-1:15pm
C140 (Brazos Gallery)
GUEST SPEAKER: Dr. Eddie Mercado, “The World of Pharmacy---Choices in Occupations”, Clinical pharmacist at Children’s Hospital in the emergency department

Wednesday, Mar 25

1:30-2:45pm
FOCUS ON THE CAREER FIELDS: will break out into smaller sessions ALLIED HEALTH PROGRAMS
S111 - Medical Lab Sciences – LeAnne Hutson, UT Southwestern Medical Lab Sciences,
Director, professor
C110 - Occupational therapy and Physical Therapy - Beth Deschenes UT Southwestern, Asst. professor, and Joanna Lipoma, MOT, OTR, TWU,
E076 - Clinical Nutrition - Lona Sandon, Professor, UT Southwestern Dental Hygiene –Dr. Janice DeWald Professor, Texas A&M Health Science Center Baylor College of Dentistry Dental Hygiene
S261 - Physician Assistant - Christina Gonzalez, Professor, Physician Asst program, UTSMC
S175 - Richland College Pharmacy Technology - Lianne Webster, RPhT., CPhT

Wednesday, Mar 25

6-7pm
C110
GUEST SPEAKER: Dr. Ricardo Azpiroz, “Research: an Alternative Hypothesis”, Professor of Biology, Richland College
The world of research has opportunities for people with Bachelor's, Master's and Doctoral
degrees. Come and learn how research combines problem-solving and creativity, giving
you the opportunity to discover what has never been seen before.

Thursday, Mar 26

9:30-10:50am
C140 (Brazos Gallery)
GUEST SPEAKER: Sgt. Adam Drake, “Health Professions Scholarships and the U.S. Army”

Thursday, Mar 26

11:00-12:20
C140 (Brazos Gallery)
STUDENT PANEL DISCUSSION
Students and graduates from various health professions programs in the DFW area will talk about their respective occupational fields.
P&O – Shelly McClintock Dental hygiene - Bridget Blaylock
Radiologic technology – Karl Fenton
Nursing, B.S.N. Kaitlin O’Hearn Nursing, A.D.N. Christian Becerra

Thursday, Mar 26

12:30-1:50pm
C140 (Brazos Gallery)
MEDICAL, OSTEOPATHIC, & DENTAL SCHOOLS PANEL
UNT/College of Osteopathic Medicine -- Mike Kennedy, Med. Student Admissions
UT Southwestern Medical Center – James Wagner, Assoc. Dean, Assoc. Professor
Texas A & M Health Science Center Baylor College of Dentistry - Dr. Barbara Miller, Director Recruitment, Assoc. professor
Texas A & M Health Science Center - Dr. Filo Maldonado, Asst. Dir. Admissions
UNT Health Science Center – Patricia A. Gwirtz, Ph.D., Assistant Dean, Graduate School of Biomedical Science, Professor of Physiology

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