Dean TimDunnagan

Summer 2014

Greetings from the College of HealthSciences (COHS)! The college has had a busy summerrestructuring itself in addition to preparingfor the Fall 2014 semester. Last week thestudents returned and campus is bustlingwith people, classes and activities. We are excited to have new units - theDepartment of Kinesiology, the School of Social Work andUniversity Health Services - as well as a new School of AlliedHealth Sciences, which will house the Departments ofCommunity and Environmental Health, Kinesiology,Radiologic Sciences, and Respiratory Care. We are also excitedto have Ron Pfeiffer join us as our new Interim AssociateDean and for Jon Larkin to join us as our new DevelopmentDirector. In addition to reading about these changes in this newsletter,you will also enjoy reading about new opportunities, likeShawn Simonson's new class on the effect of underwaterpressure on the human body, and the reflections of a recentalumna, Emily Zamzow, who has been working on a researchgrant with Dale Stephenson, monitoring diesel emissions in amine in Montana.

Enjoy the newsletter, and please contact me if you have anycomments, suggestions or questions. Sincerely,Tim Dunnagan, Ed.D.Dean and ProfessorCollege of Health SciencesBoise State University timdunnagan@boisestate.edu(208) 426-3917

In This Edition

Evolution and NewStructure of the College ofHealth Sciences Ron Pfeiffer Named InterimAssociate Dean of HealthSciences Celebrate Homecoming withthe Department ofKinesiology Faculty Prepares to LeadStudents in Exploration ofUnderwater Environment andImpact on Human Body Alumna Reflects on StudentResearch Experience inMontana Mine Health Tip

Additional Stories Student Internships OfferValuable Health Educationand Promotion Contributionsto Community and Students Two Athletic TrainingStudents Spend SummerInterning with ProfessionalSports Teams Nursing Faculty and Students

Evolution and New Structure of theCollege of Health Sciences The new fiscal year, which began July 1, brings a new evolutionand a new structure to the College of Health Sciences. Thecollege joyfully welcomes the Department of Kinesiology andthe School of Social Work. The faculty and staff of the Department of Kinesiology andthe School of Social Work are pleased to join the College ofHealth Sciences. This move will increase the diversity ofpartnerships that the college will foster. The move also helpsintegrate interprofessional education throughout thecurriculums in the college and better educates future, high-caliber health practitioners and promoters. Additionally, the college created a new School of Allied HealthSciences, which will encompass the departmentsof Community and Environmental Health, Kinesiology,Radiologic Sciences, and Respiratory Care. The new school willintegrate clinical and health promotion sciences to emphasizethe increased responsibilities for all clinical and healthpromotion staff to work on disease prevention, a focusmandated in the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act.The new school will also use administrative resources moreeffectively while creating new synergies between the collegeand other campus entities. University Health Services, the campus' medical, counselingand wellness clinic, joined the college in Feb. of 2014. HealthServices strongly values higher education and the students andpeople who teach and provide services that make educationwork everyday. Health Services staff have been engaging in astrategic planning process this spring and summer. Inconjunction with President Bob Kustra's State of theUniversity address, they announced a campus wide initiative tomake Boise State University one of the healthiest campuscommunities in the country. Health Services aims to help allBoise State students to be educated health care consumers andto be prepared for a lifetime of healthy living. Additionally,Health Services is reinvigorating the Employee Wellnessprogram for faculty and staff, to encourage employees to makehealthy choices everyday. The college's expansion and new structure of three schools:Allied Health Sciences, Nursing, and Social Work; andUniversity Health Services will allow its students to betterexperience an enhanced program of integrated health care, aprincipal tenet of the Affordable Care Act. Interprofessionalhealthcare teams can set interrelated patient goals, thus

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Health Tip August is NationalImmunization AwarenessMonth, highlighting theimportance of immunizations- one of the top 10 publichealth accomplishments ofthe 20th century, according tothe Centers for DiseaseControl and Prevention(CDC).

Vaccines don't justprotect children.Immunization is ashared responsibility.Families, health careprofessionals andpublic health officialsmust work together tohelp protect the entirecommunity - especiallybabies who are tooyoung to be vaccinatedthemselves.Many people in theU.S. have never seenthe devastating effectsthat diseases like polio,measles or whoopingcough can have on afamily or community.It's easy to think ofthese as diseases of thepast. But the truth isthey still exist.

Ron Pfeiffer

Bob Murray

providing better patient-centered care and preventativeservices. The university administration and the college'scommunity partners have been extremely supportive about thischange to the college's structure. Learn more about the newCollege of Health Sciences.

Ron Pfeiffer Named Interim AssociateDean of Health Sciences College of Health Sciences Dean TimDunnagan has appointed Ron Pfeiffer asinterim associate dean of the college. Theappointment became effective July 1. "Ron brings a wealth of knowledge andexperience to this position and I amconfident that he will do an excellent job,"Dunnagan said. Since 2013, Pfeiffer has served as interimassociate dean of the College of Education. Pfeiffer served asthe chair of the Department of Kinesiology for the prior fiveyears and has served an array of roles in the department for thepast 34 years, including athletic training program director andgraduate program director. In July, kinesiology moved fromeducation to health sciences. Read more.

Celebrate Homecoming with theDepartment of Kinesiology Celebrate Boise State and Kinesiology with faculty, staff,alumni, and friends on Sept. 18 at the annual KinesiologyAlumni and Friends Reception. Visit with exceptionalKinesiology students and researchers while enjoying heavyappetizers and a no-host bar from 6:00-8:00 PM in the StudentUnion Lookout Room.

Bob Murray, PhD, FACSM, former BoiseState exercise physiologist and the founderand principal of Sports Science Insights,LLC, will be the special guest speaker of theevening.

Murray previously served as director of theGatorade Sports Science Institute (GSSI)from 1985 to 2008. Murray oversaw a broadprogram of GSSI and university-based

Talk to your doctor orother health careprofessional to makesure you and yourchildren getvaccinations you needwhen you need them.Bring your child'sfavorite toy, book,blanket or othercomfort item to thedoctor's office whenyour child is due for avaccine. Distract yourchild with a toy, story,song or somethinginteresting in the room.Make eye contact withyour child and smile,talk softly, or sing.Hold your child's handor let your child sitsnugly in your lap, ifpossible. Take deepbreaths with an olderchild to help "blowout" the pain. After theshot, hug, cuddle andpraise your child,offering comfort andreassurance.The need forvaccination does notend in childhood.Vaccines arerecommendedthroughout our livesbased on age, lifestyle,occupation, locationsof travel, medicalconditions andprevious vaccines.Every year, thousandsof adults in the U.S.needlessly suffer, arehospitalized, and evendie from diseases thatcould be prevented byvaccines.Everyone age sixmonths and oldershould have a flu shotevery year.

Jon Larkin

research in exercise science and sportsnutrition designed to set industry standards and consumerexpectations for science-based product efficacy. Murray hasbeen an invited speaker at sports science and nutritionconferences around the world. An author of numerouspublications in scientific texts and journals, Murray is a Fellowof the American College of Sports Medicine and served on theACSM Board of Trustees. After leaving GSSI in 2008, Murrayfounded Sports Science Insights, LLC to help companies andorganizations maximize the value and impact of scientificknowledge in exercise science and sports nutrition.

Tickets are $10 for alumni and $15 for non-alumni. Registeronline or RSVP to Li (Lee) Sperl at aliciasperl@boisestate.eduor (208) 426-4272 for more information.

College of Health SciencesWelcomes New DevelopmentDirector Jon Larkin is excited to be the new directorof development for the College of HealthSciences. Larkin has worked for Boise StateUniversity Advancement since 2012 asassistant director of annual giving.Previously, he worked for his undergraduatealma mater, Eastern Oregon University, asdirector of alumni and annual giving andlater as regional director of development.Larkin has a master's degree in artsadministration from Indiana University and a bachelor's degreein piano performance with a minor in business management. Larkin is excited to work with the College of Health Sciencesfaculty and staff to further the initiatives of the college'sstrategic plan. He cares deeply about quality health care and ispassionate about helping the College of Health Sciencescontinue its tradition of providing innovative, high qualityeducation for future healthcare professionals and researchopportunities for faculty. As the development director, Larkin's responsibilities includeidentifying potential partners for the College of HealthSciences. Partners might include individuals or businesses whohave an interest in Boise State and specifically programs,people and places affecting the College of Health Sciences.Larkin helps to connect those people and businesses toappropriate individuals employed in the college so that they

Vaccines are very safe.They are thoroughlytested before licensingand are carefullymonitored even afterthey are licensed toensure that they arevery safe.Side effects fromvaccines are usuallyminor and temporary.Some people may haveallergic reactions tocertain vaccines, butserious and long-termeffects are rare.Vaccines are availableat private doctoroffices, as well as otherconvenient locationssuch as pharmacies,workplaces,community healthclinics and healthdepartments.

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can establish mutually beneficial relationships and help build aneven better College of Health Sciences through monetary orvolunteered service donations. If you are interested insupporting the college, contact Larkin at 208-426-2124or JonLarkin@boisestate.edu.

Faculty Prepares to Lead Students inExploration of UnderwaterEnvironment and Impact on HumanBody Shawn Simonson, associateprofessor in the Department ofKinesiology, will lead a group often graduate students this fall onan adventure of a lifetime. Thestudents will study how thehuman body adapts andperforms in the hyperbaric, orincreased pressure, of theunderwater world. During thecourse, the students will earntheir PADI Open Water scubacertification and will practicewhat they learn during a field experience in December, afterthe end of the term, when they travel to the Exuma Islands inthe Bahamas for a week on a live-aboard dive boat.

Once students have successfully earned their scubacertification and completed the classroom portion of thecourse, the students will travel to Nassau, Bahamas on Dec. 26to begin their field experience. They will live on board a 65foot sailboat that is owned and operated by BlackbeardCruises, a company that specializes in educational diving andsnorkeling cruises and the live-aboard experience. While onboard, they will serve as part of the crew, completing necessarychores, such as wheel watches, mooring the boat to dive sites,washing dishes and cleaning cabins. They will also dive, sail,swim, snorkel, fish and, when on land, they will visit the SharkLab in Bimini and explore nature trails and historic landmarkson the various islands. The students will also complete 20hours of service, such as beach cleaning, underwater clean-ups,fish identification and counting, invasive species managementand mooring repair.

A fund has been established within the Boise State UniversityFoundation to help defray the costs associated with this once-in-a-lifetime experience. To find out how you can support thestudents in this endeavor, contact Jon Larkin, director ofdevelopment for the College of Health Sciences at 208-426-

2124 or JonLarkin@boisestate.edu.

Faculty Collaborate to CreateInnovative Interprofessional Projectsand Courses In an effort to empower faculty to create and sustaininterprofessional education projects and courses, the College ofHealth Sciences sponsored a two-day institute on June 9 and10. Twenty-one faculty from Community and EnvironmentalHealth, Kinesiology, Nursing, Radiologic Sciences, RespiratoryCare, Social Work and University Health Services participatedin the institute. Interprofessional education is a key initiative in the college's2012-2017 Strategic Plan. Interprofessional education is "thecollaboration of two or more professions that involvesinteraction and knowledge to improve safety and quality ofsystems impacting the healthcare environment." The collegesees interprofessional education as a way to understand issues,address problems and create new solutions that extend beyondthe scope of a single profession through education, service,scholarship, and policy. The faculty developed a wide array of projects and courses.Some developed one credit courses that would enhance patientcare quality and safety, patient care coordination, or teachstudents within and outside the health disciplines aboutemergency preparedness. Others developed class projects onwhich students from two classes from different disciplineswould collaborate. Topics for these projects include ethics,policy and scope of practice. Other faculty developed ways toenhance, emphasize and sustain existing interprofessionalcourses, such the skills lab and the Complementary andAlternative Therapies course. Courses and projects will be implemented throughout thecoming academic year. Read more.

Alumna Reflects on StudentResearch Experience in MontanaMine Approximately 3,000 feet beneath the surface of theearth, Emily Zamzow, recent Boise State Environmental andOccupational Health graduate, helps Dale Stephenson,professor and chair of the Department of Community andEnvironmental Health, place baskets filled with twelve or more

Emily Zamzow (left) and DaleStephenson (right) check air quality

instrumentation on a miner.

instruments used to measure the amount of diesel exhaust inthe air throughout a platinum mine in Montana. Zamzow, a research assistant on Stephenson's NationalInstitute for Occupational Safety and Health grant, is involvedwith every aspect of the project. She works with experts in thefield of Industrial Hygiene, including Stephenson, his co-principal investigator Chris Simpson, associate professor at theUniversity of Washington along with co-investigator Sin MingLoo, professor and chair of Boise State's Department ofElectrical and Computer Engineering. The research team hasmade two of four fieldcampaigns to the mine tocollect real-time airsamples in the mine andurine samples from theminers. The final two willoccur in August andOctober. The team wasawarded their second yearof funding in July tosupport the data analysisand synthesis.

Because of the nature of their work in confined spaces close todiesel-powered equipment, underground miners have thehighest exposures to diesel exhaust of any occupation. Thus,miners are at high risk for suffering harmful health effects. Zamzow urges students to not pass up opportunities to workwith faculty researchers. "I've learned so much in the eight months that I have been onthis project. I never realized how much work goes intoresearch. Everything from grant writing, to budgeting, toworking with the university and vendors, are all things thatnever even crossed my mind as important parts of research.I've never had any experience doing all these extra, yet vital,parts of research," Zamzow revealed. "I'm so lucky to have amentor like Dr. Stephenson who involves me with theseprocesses. I'm slowly learning the amount of detail that goesinto federal grant funded research and getting funded isn't justabout going in the field and taking samples, there is so muchmore to it." Read more about Zamzow's field experiences inthe mine.