Sarah Geiger, assistant professor and undergraduate public health program coordinator, has been elected Fellow of the American Heart Association conferred by the Council on Epidemiology and Prevention (EPI). Fellowship recognizes and awards premium professional members for excellence, innovative and sustained contributions in the
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NIU’s Mariah N. Cheyney, Au.D, clinical assistant professor audiology, provided comments about Illinois’ new law requiring insurers to cover replacement costs of hearing aids every three years for children with hearing loss 18 and younger. Her story about the issue appeared in
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Several College of Health and Human Sciences faculty attended the Sigma Theta Tau International Conference in Melbourne, Australia in July. They gave presentations and poster sessions. Here’s a summary: Associate Professor of Nursing Manju Daniels gave two presentations and a poster session.
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NIU Assistant Professor Priyanka Ghosh Roy along with Theresa Stretch of the Institute of Child Nutrition of the University of Mississippi, have updated The Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics position paper on federally funded youth nutrition assistance programs. According to the paper “Child and Adolescent Federally
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Recently two NIU Doctor of Physical Therapy students, along with DPT assistant clinical professor Brynn Nahlik, volunteered to screen national and international Special Olympics athletes prior to their soccer competitions. Second-year DPT students Kory Tieman and Arthur Cano developed a fitness screening
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NIU Professor and Audiology Program Coordinator King Chung will present her research at the World Congress of Audiology, Cape Town, South Africa this October. She will present “Cognitive Functions of Older Adults and their Ability to Complete Different Automatic Hearing Screening Applications.” Here
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The NIU School of Nursing hosted the annual conference of the Chicagoland Nursing Simulation Interest Group (CNSIG) recently. Topics for the conference included Standards of Best Practice as determined by the International Nursing Association for Clinical Simulation and Learning (INACSL), simulation debriefing techniques and
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Public Health and Health Education Associate Professor Lynn Herrmann has been named to a concept advisory panel with the International WELL Building Institute. The is a public benefit corporation whose mission is to improve human health and well-being through the built environment. IWBI
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D. Scott Sibley, NIU human development and family sciences assistant professor, has co-authored “Contextual Therapy for Family Health: Clinical Applications.” According to publisher Routledge: “This book provides readers with a compelling case for the inclusion of contextual therapy in comprehensive healthcare settings
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If you’re a sports physical therapist, you’re in luck: you’re in demand. Less than 2 percent of all licensed physical therapists in the U.S. are board certified specialists in sports physical therapy. And, if you are studying to become a physical therapist
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(Editor’s note: This is republished from NIU Today.) More than two decades after earning their Round Lake High School diplomas together, NIU’s director of Campus Child Care Kristin Schulz and her longtime friend Mike Lannon can call themselves fellow graduates again. Both graduated Friday,
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The College of Health and Human Sciences, School of Health Studies has its first chair. Jeanne M. Isabel, an award-winning educator and former NIU Medical Laboratory Sciences program director, will take over the role June 1. “Dr. Isabel is a respected leader
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