Plains to Peaks Podcast #1 (April 2007)
Subject:
Siobhan Champ-Blackwell interviews Joy Voltz, OTD, OTR/L, Coordinator for the Office of Interprofessional Scholarship, Service and Education (OISSE) in the School of Pharmacy and Health Professions at Creighton University. They discuss academic community partnerships, and health information outreach efforts that include librarians.
MCR Host:: Siobhan Champ-Blackwell, MCR Community Outreach Liaison
Guest: Joy D. Voltz, OTD, OTR/L
Joy Voltz graduated from the University of South Alabama in 2002 with a Bachelor’s of Science in Occupational Therapy (BSOT). After working briefly in long-term care, Joy attended Creighton University graduating summa cum laude from Creighton University with her Doctorate of Occupational Therapy (OTD) in 2003. During her doctoral studies, Joy developed a program on fall prevention for older adults to be implemented in faith communities and explored the role of occupational therapy in health ministry. She also assisted in the teaching of Neuro-Occupation, a course in the OTD curriculum. Upon graduation, Joy completed a VISTA with AmeriCorp coordinating a volunteer respite program for the Presbyterian Outreach. Currently, Joy acts as the Coordinator for the Office of Interprofessional Scholarship, Service and Education (OISSE) in the School of Pharmacy and Health Professions at Creighton University. In this role, Joy coordinates interprofessional health community outreach in a variety of underserved communities including two Native American communities. Joy has a writing contract with Advance for Occupational Therapy Practitioners and acts on the Board of Directors for the Presbyterian Outreach, along with remaining active with a variety of other community organizations. In her spare time, Joy likes to read, write, run, photograph, and relax.
Program Length: 13 minutes, 30 seconds
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About the Music:
The music in the podcast is from the Opsound website for open source music. The track is called "Culinária Brasileira" from the album "A Música Impossível" by Irmãos Sacramento (see http://www.opsound.org/artist/paulosacramento/. All sounds in the Opsound pool are released under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike license (a copyleft license similar to those used in the free and open source software communities) or are placed in the public domain (the license information for each song can be found under the song link).
