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Winter 2011 Newsletter
is here!
Congratulations to MoATA President-Elect
Katherine
(Kitty) Newsham, PhD, ATC
Congratulations to MoATA Hall of Fame
Inductee, Pete Buchert, MD from Columbia Orthopedic Group and James L. McElroy
Distinguished Service Award Winner-Anthony Breitbach, PhD, ATC from Saint Louis
University.
DAY AT THE CAPITOL was a huge success!
Our Early Morning Group
   
Posters by Missouri Valley, Missouri State and Saint Louis
University Athletic Training Students
  
The SLU Group
Ice Cream
Morning Check-in
February 9, 2011
Dear
MoATA Members,
I
want to thank everyone who braved the cold weather on February 8th to
attend MoATA’s Day at the Capitol. It is truly an incredible sight to see over
100 of our members from across the state join to make our voices heard at the
Capitol. I was especially happy to see athletic training students from many of
our colleges and university programs. All of members were professional and made
a very positive impression about our health care profession.
Senator Mike Parson introduced our Reimbursement Bill yesterday as we watched
from the Senate gallery. Senate Bill 233, our bill, prohibits health benefit
plans from denying reimbursement to licensed athletic trainers for providing
physical medicine and rehabilitation services. The House Bill has yet to be
named. Your commitment to this legislation is key to its success! Please
contact your representative and senator to ask for their support. If you were
unable to attend Day at the Capitol, take a moment to send a letter to your
state Senator, by mail or e-mail, asking for their support of SB 233. If you
did attend, take a moment to thank the legislators, who you visited, for
listening and ask again for your senator’s support of SB 233. Please do the
same for the House Bill following its first reading.
Special thanks go out to those who busted their hump to pull this day together:
Josh Thompson - Governmental Affairs Chair
Missouri State University, Saint Louis University, and Missouri
Valley College Athletic Training Students for their poster presentations
William Woods University Athletic Training Students for their
mock training room set-up
Missouri Valley College Athletic Training Students for their help
serving the ice cream and cake
Elena Claus, Michelle Padgett, and Tracey Borgmeyer for
coordinating visits with each of the 197 Missouri Representatives and Senators
Executive Committee Members
Michelle Boyd - Pres-Elect; Cindy Rajkovich - Public
Relations;
Karen Fennell - Secretary; Stefanie West - Treasurer
Thank you to all who attended! I hope to see all MoATA members in Jefferson
City next year.
Sincerely,
Morgan
Morgan Simpson, ATC
President
Missouri Athletic Trainers’ Association
Congratulations to the winners of our iLEAD contest!
Jennifer Asberry, Missouri Valley College and Amber
Wilson, Missouri State University
iLEAD Student Leadership Seminar is held in
conjunction with the NATA's Hit the Hill Campaign on February 25th and 26th,
2011. In 2009, over 150 student athletic trainers participated in the
inaugural iLEAD seminar.
Jennifer
Asberry Amber
Wilson
Congratulations to Saint Louis
University's Athletic Training Education Program!
SLU is Missouri's newest CAATE accredited
program and our only Entry-Level Master's Program. Check out their blog at
http://sluatep.blogspot.com
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William Woods University also hosted the
first Missouri Athletic Trainers' Association Collegiate Quiz Bowl
Competition. Teams from seven of Missouri's accredited programs
competed in the Jeopardy-style format. William Woods University placed
first, followed by Missouri State University and Culver-Stockton
College.
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See how some of our members celebrated National Athletic Training Month
in 2010!
Saint Louis University Student
Athletic Trainers developed presentations at their clinical sites.
Pictured from Left to Right: Laura Gosewisch and her T-shirt, Mollie Cole,
Geanie Butts, and Meghan Gehrs at SLU, and Diane Schlesselmann's display at
Webster Groves High School.
SLU Student Athletic Trainers also
enjoyed a night out at the SLU Men's Basketball Game.
Missouri State University's Athletic
Training Education Program recently hosted a program for area coaches and
athletic trainers. "Assessing and Managing the Adolescent Athlete's
Concussion," a three hour program drew around 60 participants.
William Woods University hosted their
Third Annual High School Athletic Training Student Workshop. Twenty-two
students from Missouri and Illinois attended the daylong event.
WWU athletic training
student Sara Pinkston assists Jessica Muskopf of Columbia IL and Kimmy
Micotto of Webster Groves High School.
Blair Haskamp of Moberly
and Ethan Martin of South Callaway High School work to form an Aquaplast thumb
splint.
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