TUSPM Tidbits
Congratulations to TUSPM's Women's Basketball team for winning the Podiatry Basketball championship tournament against OCPM this spring.
Gift on permanent exhibit at TUSPM's Shoe Museum
In December 7, 2010, Moore College of Art and Design in Philadelphia donated a large scale boot to the school’s Center for the History of Foot Care and Footwear, better known as the TUSPM Shoe Museum.
The boot came from a series which was designed and fabricated by Moore alumnae as part of the College’s 160th anniversary. After the boot forms were created, they were given to various Moore alumnae to be decorated. The former students were inspired by the theme of following in some-
one’s footsteps and were permitted to use any medium to express their individual ideas. A second boot (bottom photo) was on exhibit in the Foot and Ankle Institute lobby but has since walked on.
Permanent gift from artist Jane Walentas. Sepia-toned photos from ink-jet printer, acrylic paint, aluminum leaf over metal grommets, upholstery tacks, satin ribbon.
Artisit: Cathey White '96
"Growth Process", 2008
Spray paint and mixed media
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Marisse Lardizabal is currently a third year student at TUSPM, fashion forward and a cham-pion for diabetic advocacy.
Born and raised in Arizona, Lardizabal completed her Art History degree at Arizona State University, and turned her passion for art and design into a career in the fashion industry. Being uncertain about her long-term career goals, she pursued her initial love of the sciences and enrolled in pre-requisites for medical school
at her alma mater.
The next step was deciding what type of medicine she wanted to study. She eventually chose podiatry for a few reasons. “Although podiatry is a specific field, it offers the opportunity to treat the whole patient more than with other specialties,” notes Lardizabal. “If our lower extremities aren’t functioning properly, our whole body can be thrown off kilter.”
Lardizabal was accepted into all of the podiatric schools to which she applied, including the one in her home state of Arizona. Temple, however, was her first choice. "Besides the |
Marisse Lardizabal, Class '12
fact that moving across the country seemed exciting, I picked Temple for its excellent reputation and accreditations, as well as the number of hospitals that exist in the Philly metropolitan area which means a better chance of securing a residency.”
As a future podiatrist she sees the issues surrounding diabetes as imperative facts to have a firm grasp on. It's an issue that isn’t going anywhere. People can no longer think that it will never happen to them because it can and will.” The fact was made crystal clear in the VA hospital where she has been
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completing her clinical work; she estimated that over half of the patients she saw daily had diabetes. "When I started my work there, I really wanted to find a practical way to make a difference in the lives of the patients. I try to give them as much advice as I can when it comes to taking care of their overall health, especially how to regularly check for sores on their feet.”
Currently, Lardizabal is president of TUSPM’s Diabetes Club, a role which allowed her to be present at the November signing of the Resolution at City Hall, which officially declared November 14th as World Diabetes Day. "It was a great experience, I felt privileged to be part of such a huge event.”
After graduation, she would like to move back to the Arizona area and work in a hospital setting so she can establish relationships with other doctors in various specialties.
Although she is incredibly dedicated to the podiatric cause, at 5’1 she loves to wear the sky-high heels she so often tells her patients to shy away from. "I tell my patients, high heels are like McDonald's: fine in moderation!”
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Podiatry student starts first club of its kind
Mike Sganga (left) and Professor Washburn
Michael Sganga, a first year student at Temple University School of Podiatry, wants to be a podiatrist, but he also wants to solve crimes. To that end, he’s started the Forensic Podiatry Club, which combines both passions. Forensic podiatry is a new but growing field, and Sganga’s club is the first of its kind in the country.
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According to Sganga, forensic podiatrists can identify a criminal through things like “analyzing the suspect’s foot or their shoe gear for a specific wear pattern, or for a specific deformity of the foot.”
Drs. Charles Morelli (left) and Jeffrey Siegel (center) and their surgical team in Nicaragua
For the last seven years, Drs.Charles Morelli and Jeffrey Siegel have been providing both surgical and medical humanitarian aid to the people
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of Leon, Nicaragua at HEODRA hospital. This year, they brought two 3rd year students from TUSPM (James Morrow and Morgan Houston, standing right rear), as well as a 4th year surgical resident Kate Paskey (right front). Brother and sister Josh and Juanita Ramlall, an ultrasound tech and nurse practitioner respectively, round-ed out the team (left rear). Maine podiatrist Dr. Sharmilia Das-Wattley also joined this year's team. In addition to performing 30 surgical procedures in four days, Drs. Morelli and Siegel were also able to provide an educational experience for these individuals which they have all said they will never forget. Both Dr. Morelli and Dr. Siegel plan to invite students and residents every year to join them on this annual pilgrimage.
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