EDUCATION
& HUMAN
DEVELOPMENT
Creating a literate citizenry through
excellent education for current and
future teachers, as well as through direct
community outreach to children and
families, is the goal at the heart of a
$50,000 grant awarded to Shenandoah
University by the Claude Moore
Charitable Foundation (CMCF). With
this grant, Shenandoah University has
received more than $300,000 in funding
from CMCF since 2008. The newly
awarded grant will allow Shenandoah’s
Claude Moore Center for Literacy
(CMCL) to continue providing reading
clinics, mentoring projects, expanded
writing programs for disadvantaged
students, and evidence-based professional
development for local teachers at the
pre-K through 12th grade levels.
HEALTH
PROFESSIONS
Second-year occupational therapy
(OT) students Jennifer Simpson and
Shannon Mays listened to music
last semester as part of a fieldwork
experience to build intergenerational
relationships with individuals in the
memory care community at The Village
of Orchard Ridge in Winchester. The
OT students interviewed residents and
then created individualized playlists based
on the musical genres the community
members enjoyed. Both the students and
their preceptors found that community
members clearly enjoyed the therapy. The
OT division will continue to use similar
innovative approaches to engage and
stimulate participants at Orchard Ridge.
NURSING
Shenandoah University launched the
Virtual Interprofessional Education
(VIPE) Learning Center in January.
VIPE is a one-stop resource for flexible,
centralized and completely online
interprofessional education. VIPE
allows health professionals to remotely
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receive continuing education units for
licensure through VIPE’s library of videos,
lectures and resources; use VIPE learning
activities for class credit (depending on
instructor or course); engage in real-time
or asynchronous interaction with other
health professionals; build an e-portfolio
that automatically contains VIPE activity
completion certificates, and more.
PHARMACY
The Bernard J. Dunn School of Pharmacy
PGY-1 residency program and Amherst
Family Practice recently received a 2015
ASHP Foundation PGY-1 Pharmacy
Residency Expansion Grant. The grant
will allow the residency to expand to two
positions and restructure under the Care
Coordination Services (CCS) Accountable
Care Organization. The residency program
will be based at the Amherst Family Practice
site and will add Selma Medical Associates.
Applications were reviewed by a committee
comprised of leaders in hospital/healthsystem pharmacy practice. Residency award
recipients were selected on the strength of
the application, including but not limited to
the available learning experiences, quality of
preceptors, and the successful development
of previous pharmacy residents. The
Residency Program Director is Professor
and Chair of Pharmacy Practice Dawn
Havrda, Pharm.D., FCCP, BCPS, and
primary preceptors of the residency program
are Online Curriculum Coordinator and
Associate Professor of Pharmacy Practice
Michelle Rager \