PT Alum featured in PBS documentary about preventing concussions in student athletes

KeithCroninBelmont PT alumnus, Keith Cronin, is part of a team of health professionals featured in a new PBS documentary about reducing concussions in high school football.  The documentary, entitled “The Smartest Team”, shows how football programs and athletes can reduce concussions and their effects by playing smarter.   The program premiered on Oklahoma Public Television last month and will roll out to all other PBS stations this fall.  Cronin was recently interviewed about his participation in the documentary by Fox 2 in St. Louis, Missouri.

Cronin earned his Doctorate of Physical Therapy (DPT) from Belmont University in 2008 and is currently a physical therapist in St. Louis, working on sports injury prevention and coaching education community outreach programs.  He is a member of the Team of Experts at MomsTEAM.com, the premier online information gateway for parents of children who play youth sports.  MomsTeam.com was founded by parenting expert Brooke de Lench, the author of Home Team Advantage: The Critical Role of Mothers in Youth Sports (HarperCollins 2006).

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Pharmacy professor to present at Breast Cancer Symposium

DiazCruzSmallDr. Edgar Diaz-Cruz, Assistant Professor of Pharmacy, recently had an abstract accepted for presentation at the 2013 San Antonio Breast Cancer Symposium. The work is titled “Effect of letrozole is superior to tamoxifen in limiting preneoplasia in both ERα and aromatase over-expressing mice.” As co-principal investigator, Diaz-Cruz and his collaborators determined that the impact of letrozole was greater than tamoxifen in reducing prevalence of mammary gland preneoplasia in both ERα and aromatase over-expressing mice. These results suggest that letrozole should be considered as a chemo-preventive agent based on individual estrogen signaling prognostic factors.