Staff members recognized for work at Burke
Laura E. Gamble, CPNP, College of Nursing instructor and Burke High School’s health team committee chairman, accepted a recognition plaque for Burke’s participation in the statewide S.C. Healthy Schools competition. S.C. Healthy Schools promotes schools and communities working together to improve health and physical education, social and emotional health, nutrition and health services, staff wellness and a healthy and safe environment. Burke was one of 15 South Carolina schools recognized. Gamble has received recognition during the past three years for her work with the Burke School-Based Clinic including health services and health education programs made available through the College of Nursing. Gamble also mentors high school students interested in the health sciences and precepts MUSC pediatric residents and nursing students who rotate through the clinic for adolescent, community and school health expereinces. Thelma V. Aiken, MSW, social worker for the Department of Pediatric’s Young Mother/Baby Clinic, won in the category of exceptional work in community and family involvement for her work with Burke students. Aiken is project coordinator for Second Chance, an in-house program for adolescent mothers and expectant adolescent high school students. Aiken is also an instructor for Burke’s Education Parenthood course. Pleshette R. Edwards Grant, was named the winner of the Skills-Based Health Instruction category. Grant is coordinator for MUSC’s S.C. Health Professions Partnership Initiative and Project 3000 by 2000, funded by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation. The project’s goal is to increase the number of under-represented minorities in the health science professions. At Burke, Grant has helped establish a three-year health science curriculum and encourage student involvement in local, state and national health science clubs as well as the national School to Work/Careers Initiative. |