Health Sciences MHS

Preventing and Preparing for Catastrophic Athletic Training Injuries

By Rick Bahr, BS, NREMT, founder, president, and CEO of WMI Global, LLC, which provides risk management, safety, emergency/sports medical, and rescue services to clients around the world, including Nitro Circus, Red Bull, and Union Cycliste Internationale. He is a contributing faculty member in the Master of Health Science with a specialization in Athletic Training

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What Can Athletic Trainers Do with an EdD?

By Jeremy Howard ’17, a Certified Athletic Trainer at Ave Maria University and adjunct professor in the Athletic Training program and Florida Gulf Coast University I began my career as an athletic trainer, working on interprofessional healthcare teams to create customized treatment and rehabilitation programs for athletes. But I always knew I was going to

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Career in Motion: Job Shadow with the Steelers

As head athletic trainer for Charlotte Catholic High School in North Carolina, Donna Cure ’17 is responsible for the health of more than 800 athletes. Here she shares how her Master of Health Science in Athletic Training capstone project helped her explore her dream of working in the NFL. “For as long as I can

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Faculty Focus: Learning from Experience

With nearly 25 years in health information technology, faculty member Kelly Booker, MBA, RHIA, has seen what works, and what doesn’t, as organizations leverage informatics. Rather than brush over things she would do differently if she had them to do over again as a software implementation director, project manager, and consultant, Booker uses them, along

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Fitness Tips: Mind Over Matter

As an athletic trainer at Ave Maria University in Florida, Jeremy Howard ’16 doesn’t just care for student athletes’ bodies. He also cares for their minds. The Master of Health Science (MHS) with a specialization in Athletic Training graduate and a Doctor of Education (EdD) student recently helped the university’s athletics department update its concussion

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Faculty Focus: Leading the Profession

Marjorie Albohm, MS, ATC, is used to being first. She began her career in the wake of Title IX as the first women’s athletic trainer at Indiana University and one of the first women certified by the National Athletic Trainers’ Association, which she went on to lead. An international expert, speaker, and author on musculoskeletal

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Reviving First Aid

Since December 2014, Hardyston Township in New Jersey (with a population of just over 6,000) has been without an emergency medical services (EMS) squad. Master of Health Science in Athletic Training contributing faculty member Dr. Robb S. Rehberg’s consulting company, Rehberg Konin Group, has been hired to change that. “EMS is one of my areas

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