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Center for South Texas Programs helps roll out new HRSA website
Burns Continuing Education
CDLS held in Rio Grande City
March of Dimes Photography Exhibit on Prematurity
Laredo Campus Extension hosts Senator Judith Zaffarini
Alamo Advisory Board
Good Samaritan Center
Practice Management Seminar
New Geriatrics Fellowship
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Center for South Texas Programs helps roll out new HRSA website
Tina Fields, Ph.D., MPH
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Greysi Reyna and
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On Thursday, January 26, the Center for South Texas Programs partnered with the Health Resources Service Administration (HRSA) and the University of North Dakota in holding a virtual national press conference to introduce the newly established HRSA-DHHS
website on US-Mexico
Border Health Issues. The new web site includes information on funding opportunities, grant-writing, health topics, links to health agencies in each border state, an overview of federal activities, and a searchable resource database.
Marcia Brand, Director of the Office of Rural Health Policy, began the conference by commenting on the development history of the website and the key activities of North Dakota Health Science Center in developing the website. rated her commitment to working with partners on both sides of the US-Mexico 2200-mile border in order to improve the lives of border area residents. Mr. Richard Garcia, Assistant Vice President for South Texas Programs (and the former South Texas AHEC Program Director) discussed the impact of the website to people living and working along the border. The national press conference closed with Ms. Graciela Reyna providing a demonstration of how the website could be used.
Fact sheets and other press materials are available at http://www.hhs.gov/news or by calling Dr. Tina Fields, South Texas AHEC, 210.567.7813
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Burns Continuing Education
Tina Fields, Ph.D., MPH
 The Center for South Texas Programs joined with the Trauma Regional Advisory Council – V and the Lower Rio Grande Valley AHEC to sponsor the American Burns Association continuing education course. The event, held at the Regional Academic Health Center on UTHSCSA Harlingen Campus, had 27 participants, including five physicians. Faculty for the event was from the Shriner’s Burns Hospital in Galveston, Texas. The eight-hour course included power point presentations as well as small group scenarios using mannequins.
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CDLS held in Rio Grande City
Tina Fields, Ph.D., MPH and Laurita Putegnat
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Toni Botello, Corporate Compliance Officer with Community Action Council of South Texas introduces the instructors for the “Core Disaster Life Support “ course.
UTHSCSA-Center for Public Health and Community Preparedness offered the training as part of the Employee Inservice. |
Community Action Council of South Texas (CACST) in Rio Grande City wants their communities READY! The Health Programs of CACST provide comprehensive services through ten community health centers located throughout the CACST four-county service area. The four counties include Starr, Zapata, Jim Hogg and Duval.
On January 13th, at the South Texas College, the CACST sponsored a Core Disaster Life Support course for its staff. The course was offered as part of an in-service training for all employees. One hundred fifty staff members including physicians, physician assistants, nurses, social workers, administrative staff and custodians attended the four-hour course. The Statewide Bioterrorism Continuing education program offered continuing education credits to medical professionals upon completion of the course. The course was instructed by Dr. Tina Fields, Assistant Director of the Center of South Texas Programs and Dr. Miguel Bedolla, Associate Professor, Family and Community Medicine Department, UT Health Science Center San Antonio.
We would like to thank Dr.
Rodriquez, Health Resource Administrator and Toni Botello, Corporate Compliance Officer for the opportunity to train their staff.
Plans are underway for the CACST to receive the 8-hour Basic Disaster Life Support (BDLS) and the 16-hour Advanced Disaster Life Support (ADLS). Interest in all hazards protection is high in Rio Grande City, and at least one physician has volunteered to become an instructor for the National Disaster Life Support courses. For more information on National Disaster Life Support courses please contact Laurita Putegnat, Project Coordinator, at 210-567-7810
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March of Dimes Photography Exhibit on Prematurity
Tina T. Fields, PhD, MPH
The Center for South Texas Programs was instrumental in getting the March of Dimes traveling exhibit on premature infants to be housed at the Regional Academic Health Center Medical Library from January 13 – January 20. The exhibit is composed of 25 poster-size photographs of premature babies, with a short description of the birth and outcome. Although an attribute to the success of modern technology, the exhibit also had pictures that portrayed not-as-successful outcomes (one, a grave site of a preemie that succumbed after 12 days and a second of a wheel-chaired bound teenage boy). Visitors to the exhibit were asked to provide their thoughts after touring the exhibit, and these thoughts will be combined with other comments from visitors throughout Texas who have viewed the exhibit. The exhibit initially was showcased at the Texas Capitol rotunda during the legislative session last year.
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Laredo Campus Extension hosts Senator Judith Zaffarini
Tina Fields, Ph.D., MPH
 The Laredo Campus Extension of The University of Texas Health Science Center San Antonio was the site of Senator Judith Zaffarini’s State of the Region meeting. Eighty invited guests, including President Francisco Cigarroa and Assistant Vice President Richard Garcia, participated in the event, held on January 9. Other participants included UT Chancellor Mark Yudof; Chairman of the UT Board of Regents, James Huffines; and President, UT – Austin, William Powers. Senator Zaffarini called upon the local community to support the efforts of the University of Texas Health Science Center San Antonio as it brings health training to Laredo. She challenged local businesses to support the efforts and provided specific actions that should occur within Laredo to ensure that health training continues. Senator Zaffarini, a long-time and tireless supporter of UTHSCSA efforts in providing professional health education throughout the 38-county region, assured the audience of her continued support and zeal in securing funding for health education training in the region.
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Alamo Advisory Board
Paula Winkler, M.Ed.
 The South Central Area Health Education Center (AHEC) has taken on the administrative role of the Alamo Advisory Board. The Alamo Advisory Board is a consortium of health professions programs, school counselors and college and university professionals which functions to facilitate development of a community-wide organized effort to streamline students through the "pipeline" into the health professions. The Alamo Advisory Board is composed of representatives of all five UTHSCSA health profession schools, representatives from the independent school districts, community colleges, undergraduate institutions, community health clinics and community based organizations. These are organizations in the Alamo region whose activities or programs are committed to increasing the competitive applicant pool of students in the health professions. The group meets monthly in various educational facilities across the San Antonio region.
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Good Samaritan Center
Paula Winkler, M.Ed.
The South Central AHEC and the Good Samaritan Center will partner in 2006 to co-sponsor several programs and activities that focus on improving access for the underserved of Gillespie County. Good Samaritan is a faith-based volunteer clinic located in Fredericksburg that experienced over 2600 medical and dental visits last year. Sara Allerkamp, RN, is stepping down as Executive Director after a long history of progress and community service. John Willome has been selected by the Center’s board as the new Executive Director. South Central AHEC is pleased to partner with Good Samaritan to continue the good work already in place and to look for new opportunities to increase health care access for the community.
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Practice Management Seminar
Belinda Flores, RN
South Coastal AHEC will be sponsoring a practice management seminar on March 8-9, 2006, in Corpus Christi, Texas. The seminar will be open to all South Texas physicians. Some of the topics for this seminar include how to prepare for the Medicare cuts, time management, and being more productive and effective. For more information on the seminar, please contact the South Coastal AHEC at 361-902-6570.
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New Geriatrics Fellowship
Belinda Flores, RN
 The Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education (ACGME) has approved a Geriatrics Fellowship to start in Corpus Christi. Currently, applicants are being interviewed for the position. The fellowship will allow further specialty training of physicians in Geriatric Medicine. With the population living longer, there is a great need for Geriatricians to care for the elderly. South Texas has a considerable geriatrics population due to the winter Texans, so the need is great for more geriatric trained physicians.
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