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SeHealth celebrates Class of 2020 Resident graduation

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Family Medicine Resident
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s C The field of neonatal
s Emergency Medicine Resident Graduates therapy is relatively
e NI new, and Southeastern
l Health’s Southeastern
w Southeastern Health celebrated the graduation of 23 residents DO CU Regional Medical
h across three residency programs Friday, June 19. The virtual • Emergency Medicine Attending of the Year: Joseph Earl Center is very proud to
ceremonies, which were held in the Medical Education Audi-
Deese, MD
i torium at Southeastern Regional Medical Center, recognized • Family Medicine Attending of the Year: Charles Almond, off have two therapists
t residents who had completed their residencies at SeHealth MD who can work in the
specialized
highly
e in either Emergency Medicine, Family Medicine, or Internal • Internal Medicine and Transitional Year Attending of the ers environment of the
Medicine. Year: Godfrey Onime, MD Neonatal Intensive
• Emergency Medicine Nurse of the Year: Kayla Harvey, RN Care Unit (NICU).
Residency Awards • Family Medicine Nurse of the Year: Regina Scott, RN rar Since 2016,
Some of the program’s residents, attending physicians and • Internal Medicine and Transitional Year Nurse of the Year: Occupational Therapist
nurses with which they worked were also recognized with spe- Sharon Saunders, LPN e and Inpatient Rehab
cial awards during the graduation ceremony. The awards were Services Coordinator
given as follows: Since 2015, Southeastern Health and its affiliates have been ne Jyutika Zope and
• Emergency Medicine Resident of the Year: Field Austin Da- a major clinical campus for Campbell University’s Jerry M. Physical Therapist
vis, DO Wallace School of Osteopathic Medicine. Residents in the on William Hunt have
• Family Medicine Resident of the Year: Brandon T. Wei, DO family medicine, internal medicine, and emergency medicine
breat • Internal Medicine Resident of the Year: Dennis David Jow, began three-year or four-year residencies that year. been working with
he ata full-term and
bette premature babies at
r in l SRMC. Their work is
his Robeson Living ~ Summer 2020 aided by upgrades
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p. unit, which can care
for babies born up to
rap 10 weeks early.

work y “Not a lot of therapists
in the go into the NICU,”
highly
special Hunt said. “It requires
additional training and
ized mentorship, and
enviro
nment because it’s so
specialized, it can be
of the hard to find people to
Neona
tal mentor you in this
Intensi area. We conduct
evaluations,
develop
ve
Care treatment plans, and
Unit as they gress to go
home, we integrate the
(NICU SeHe
). Since family into that plan.”
2016, alth
Occup
ational anno
Thera
pist unce
and
Inpatie s new
nt
Rehab walk-
Service
s in
Coordi
nator
Jyutika clin
Zope
and
Physic
al
Thera
pist
Willia
m
Hunt
have
been
workin
g with
full-
term
and
premat
ure
babies
at
SRMC.
Their
work is
aided
by
upgrad
es
made
in
2017
to the
unit,
which
can
care
for
babies
born
up to
10
weeks
early.

“Not a
lot of
therapi
sts go
into
the
NICU,
” Hunt
said.
“It
require
s
additio
nal
trainin
g and
mentor
ship,
and
becaus
e it’s so
special
ized, it
can be
hard
to find
people
to
mentor
you in
this
area.
We
conduc
t
evalua
tions,
develo
p
treatm
ent
plans,
and as
they
progre
ss to go
home,
we
integra
te the
family
into
that
plan.”

Kayla
White,
of
Lumbe
rton, is
a nurse
at
SRMC
who is
also a
parent
of a
child
who
went
throug
h the
NICU.
Her
son,
Harris
on,
who
turns 1
this
weeken
d, was
born
six
weeks
early
but is
now
thrivin
g.