Release Date: Saturday, February 18, 2012
Morgantown, W.Va. – Students and faculty from the University of Charleston brought home numerous honors from the 2012 West Virginia Athletic Trainers’ Association (WVATA) Sports Medicine Conference in Morgantown. Damien Clement, a 2003 alumnus, presented “Counseling and Psychopathology in Injured Athletes.” Faculty members Dan Clifton, Kelvin Phan, and Ericka Zimmerman presented “Incorporating Evidence Based Medicine into Clinical Practice.”
Several students presented case studies and many of them were recognized for their outstanding achievement. Lindsey Martin, an Athletic Training and Exercise Physiology (ATEP) senior from Cross Lanes, W.Va., received first place in the Student Poster Presentation category for her poster, “Anterior Cruciate Ligament Tear with Lateral and Medial Meniscus Tears in a Collegiate Women's Soccer Player. Teresa Edgar, a senior from Ivydale, W.Va., received third place for her poster, “Displaced Spiral Fracture of the Distal Fibula in a Collegiate Football Player.”
German Hall, a senior from White Plains, Md., presented “Ulnar Nerve Neuropathy in a Collegiate Softball Player,” and Leann McKay, a senior from Winfield, W.Va., presented “Grade I MCL Sprain in a Collegiate Men’s Soccer Player.”
Lindsey Martin was recognized as the 2012 Athletic Training Student of the Year in West Virginia and Dr. Zimmerman was recognized as the 2012 Athletic Training Educator of the Year in West Virginia.
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