{"id":17735,"date":"2017-06-12T09:03:03","date_gmt":"2017-06-12T13:03:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogarchive.utc.edu\/news\/?p=17735"},"modified":"2017-10-12T12:20:52","modified_gmt":"2017-10-12T16:20:52","slug":"utc-professors-give-presentations-national-symposium","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogarchive.utc.edu\/news\/2017\/06\/utc-professors-give-presentations-national-symposium\/","title":{"rendered":"UTC professors give presentations at national symposium"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"well span3 pull-right\">\n<div id=\"attachment_17734\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" ><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"300\" height=\"162\" data-attachment-id=\"17734\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/blogarchive.utc.edu\/news\/usphs-2\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/blogarchive.utc.edu\/news\/files\/2017\/06\/USPHS-1.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"900,485\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;1&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"USPHS\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/blogarchive.utc.edu\/news\/files\/2017\/06\/USPHS-1.jpg\" class=\"wp-image-17734 \" src=\"https:\/\/blogarchive.utc.edu\/news\/files\/2017\/06\/USPHS-1-300x162.jpg\" alt=\"\" style=\"max-width: 100%;\"style=\"max-width: 100%;\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogarchive.utc.edu\/news\/files\/2017\/06\/USPHS-1-300x162.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blogarchive.utc.edu\/news\/files\/2017\/06\/USPHS-1-768x414.jpg 768w, https:\/\/blogarchive.utc.edu\/news\/files\/2017\/06\/USPHS-1-580x313.jpg 580w, https:\/\/blogarchive.utc.edu\/news\/files\/2017\/06\/USPHS-1-610x329.jpg 610w, https:\/\/blogarchive.utc.edu\/news\/files\/2017\/06\/USPHS-1-250x135.jpg 250w, https:\/\/blogarchive.utc.edu\/news\/files\/2017\/06\/USPHS-1-600x323.jpg 600w, https:\/\/blogarchive.utc.edu\/news\/files\/2017\/06\/USPHS-1.jpg 900w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Dr. Lisa\u00a0Harrison, from left, Capt. Benitez McCrary, Dr. David Levine, Dr. Henry Spratt and Capt. Jeffrey Lawrence.<\/p><\/div>\n<p><strong>USPHS Mission<\/strong><br \/>\nU.S. Public Health Services includes:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Promoting the public health of the United States.<\/li>\n<li>Providing pharmaceutical care to American Indians\/Alaska Natives, federal inmates, and members of the Coast Guard.<\/li>\n<li>Expanding knowledge through biomedical, behavioral, and health services research.<\/li>\n<li>Controlling and preventing disease.<\/li>\n<li>Improving the health care system, including development of innovations.<\/li>\n<li>Assuring safe and effective use of drugs and medical devices.<\/li>\n<li>Expanding national health resources.<\/li>\n<li>Responding to natural disasters, technological<\/li>\n<li>emergencies and biological and chemical terrorism.<\/li>\n<li>Shaping the health workforce, medical knowledge, technology, and other resources.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<p>Three professors from UTC took part recently in a national conference by the U.S. Public Health Service, an event that included presentations by two officials who served as acting surgeon general for the country.<\/p>\n<p>Held at the Chattanooga Convention Center, the Scientific and Training Symposium ran from Tuesday through Friday, June 6-9, and brought in health experts from across the world.<\/p>\n<p>The Public Health Service, a division of the Department of Health and Human Services, is a group of about 6,500 health professionals that provide care in the U.S. prison systems, Native American reservations, military facilities, and others. Its main goal is to improve public health.<\/p>\n<p>On June 7, UTC\u2019s Dr. David Levine, professor and Walter M. Cline Chair of Excellence in the Physical Therapy Department, and Dr. Henry Spratt, a professor in the Biology, Geology and Environmental Science Department, gave a presentation on \u201cHealthcare-Associated Infections and Preventions.\u201d Dr. Lisa Harrison, director of Clinical Education in Physical Therapy, gave a presentation on &#8220;STEADI for the Physical Therapist: Preventing Falls in the Older Adult.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFor us, it was a great opportunity to interact with these highly qualified professionals and to exchange ideas and hopefully form some collaborative effort&#8217;s in the future,\u201d Levine says.<\/p>\n<p>Among the other conference attendees were:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Sylvia Trent-Adams, who became the acting Surgeon General for the U.S. on April 21. Prior to that, she was the deputy associate administrator for the HIV\/AIDS Bureau in the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. In that role, she helped manage the Ryan White CARE Act, which allocates $2.3 billion to address the needs of uninsured people with AIDS and also trains healthcare workers in the treatment of AIDS.<\/li>\n<li>Anne Schuchat, acting director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Assistant Surgeon General and a rear admiral in the U.S. Public Health Service Commissioned Corps.<\/li>\n<li>Boris Lushniak, a retired rear admiral in the Public Health Service Commissioned Corps who also served at U.S. Acting Surgeon General in 2013-14.<\/li>\n<li>Dr. James S. Marks, executive vice president of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, who oversees all of the organization\u2019s work on communications, research, and policy.<\/li>\n<li>Capt. 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