Western University of Health Sciences

Services

• Student Performace Committee 2014 - 2018, Chair 2017 - 2018

  Purpose - The College’s Student Performance Committee reviews the overall academic progress of each student enrolled in the college and considers violations of the Standards of Professional Conduct when requested by the respective College Dean. These standards and the operation of the college’s Student Performance Committee are contained in the appropriate Program Specific section of this Catalog: Two Major contributions: 
  Development and implementation of flowsheets to govern daily academic operations of the committee
  Finalization of Conduct hearing scropts with University Legal Council
  

• Advanced Technology Partnership Committee 2014 - Present

  The Academic Technology Partnership (ATP), which was formed in July 2010, is a collaboration of the Office of Academic Affairs and Office of Information Technology (IT). This working group was created to identify, develop, prioritize, and address technology needs for academic programs at Western University of Health Sciences. The membership consists of faculty representatives from each of the 9 Colleges (appointed by each College Dean), and the Executive Director of Information Technology serves as Co-Chair with one of the appointed faculty members.
  The goal of the Partnership is to serve faculty users, encourage communication, provide professional development and apply the potential of academic technologies to the college curricula, in an effective and cost efficient manner. Here is the link with details
  

• Academic Senate 2017 - 2018

  The Academic Senate is a representative committee of the Academic Assembly. In discharging this function, the Academic Senate has the authority to conduct studies, make reports and recommendations on all matters which have a significant bearing on the work of this faculty. The Academic Senate is a channel of communication between the Academic Assembly and administration of the University. Here is the link with details

• Academic Support Services and Planning Committee 2016 -Present, Co-Chair 2017 - 2018

  The committee is responsible for periodically reviewing existing policies and providing guidance, as a representative body of the Academic Senate, and faculty input to Information Technology, Library, Research, Human Resources, Facilities and other co-curricular and support services departments. The committee is also responsible for reviewing and approving co-curricular policies that impact quality of curriculum and the ability of the faculty to perform their duties. The committee is also responsible for participating in program review processes, as well as that of all co-curricular and support-services departments. The committee shall participate in university strategic planning and other planning processes within the various support services units. Finally, the committee shall serve as the primary channel of communication between support service units and the academic senate. Here are the details

• Evidence Based Optometry Committee 2014 - 2018

  The Institute of Medicine (IOM), a division of the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine, at the request of the U.S. Congress in 2008, was asked to undertake a study on the best methods for the development of trustworthy clinical practice guidelines. These methods would address the structure, process, reporting, and final products of systematic reviews of comparative effectiveness research and evidence-based clinical practice guidelines. In 2010, in anticipation of these changes, a sub-group of the AOA Quality Improvement Committee was asked to investigate and initiate an evidence-based guideline development pilot project. Due to the importance and magnitude of this work, the AOA Board of Trustees appointed Evidence-Based Optometry (EBO) as a stand-alone committee in 2012.
  The EBO Committee has worked diligently to create an evidence-based process that aligns with the NAM standards and keeps optometrists in the forefront of evidence-based practice.  

• Accreditation Council on Optometric Education (ACOE) Consultant 2016 - 2018

  The Accreditation Council on Optometric Education (ACOE) is the only accrediting body for professional optometric degree (O.D.) programs, optometric residency programs and optometric technician programs in the United States and Canada. Both the U.S. Department of Education and the Council on Higher Education Accreditation recognize the ACOE as a reliable authority concerning the quality of education of the programs the Council accredits. ACOE accreditation means the programs that have attained accredited status:
  Meet the Council's standards of educational effectiveness; and
  Show a demonstrated commitment to quality assessment and improvement.
  

• Society of Science Member and ISEF Judge 2017

  The Intel International Science and Engineering Fair (Intel ISEF), a program of Society for Science & the Public (the Society), is the world’s largest international pre-college science competition.
  California State: Toxicology Junior division Judge: 2017
  ISEF Bioemedical and Health Sciences Judging: 2017