{"id":4208,"date":"2016-10-31T13:14:47","date_gmt":"2016-10-31T19:14:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/forum.belmont.edu\/health\/?p=4208"},"modified":"2016-10-31T13:14:47","modified_gmt":"2016-10-31T19:14:47","slug":"pt-students-faculty-and-alumni-help-coordinate-susan-g-komen-race-for-the-cure-in-nashville","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forum.belmont.edu\/health\/2016\/10\/31\/pt-students-faculty-and-alumni-help-coordinate-susan-g-komen-race-for-the-cure-in-nashville\/","title":{"rendered":"PT Students, Faculty and Alumni Help Coordinate Susan G. Komen Race for the Cure in Nashville"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"komen2016a\"<\/a><\/strong>Over 130 doctoral students and alumni from the School of Physical Therapy at Belmont recently helped coordinate logistics for the annual Susan G. Komen Race for the Cure in Nashville.\u00a0 \u00a0The Belmont contingent helped with course set-up and take-down and served as course marshals managing a crowd of over 20,000 participants and spectators.<\/p>\n

Dr. Michael Voight, professor of physical therapy, was co-chair for this year\u2019s race along with Dr. Ashley Campbell who is an adjunct professor in the School and an alumnus of the doctoral program.\u00a0 Dr. Voight serves on the local Komen organization\u2019s Board of Directors and has facilitated the participation of Belmont students as volunteers for many years.\u00a0 \u201cKomen Greater Nashville has provided more than $4 million in screening, treatment and educational services to women in middle Tennessee,\u201d said Voight, \u201cand much of that is raised each year with the Race for the Cure in which our students contribute greatly.\u201d\u00a0 Additional faculty support comes from Dr. Pat Sells who leads the race volunteer program.<\/p>\n

Third-year students Jade Manning and Brittany Ryan served as class leaders to train and coordinate their classmates in preparing for the race weeks in advance.\u00a0 Many worked until dark during the day before the race with course set-up and 120 volunteers began race day at 6:00 a.m. to coordinate last-minute logistics.\u00a0 \u201cEach year when we volunteer at these charitable events I\u2019m reminded why I wanted to be a physical therapist in the first place,\u201d shared Ryan, \u201cto help promote a healthier and more positive world.\u201d\u00a0 Added second-year student Sarah Hogan, \u201cI love volunteering for Komen each year because it provides great class bonding while raising money for an important cause.\u00a0 I have multiple breast cancer survivors in my family and seeing all these people in pink reminds me of the struggle that so many families endure.\u201d<\/p>\n

Patty Harman, executive director of the Nashville Komen affiliate, expressed gratitude to the Belmont students for their contributions to the race.\u00a0 \u201cThe race would not have been as successful without our friends from Belmont University School of Physical Therapy,\u201d remarked Harman, adding, \u201cwe cancer survivors and co-survivors understand and appreciate the gift they provide each year in this unique way.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cWe had another successful event with more people participating this year than ever before,\u201d said Haden McWhorter, Komen board member and chairman of the event.\u00a0 \u201cBelmont jumped in to do whatever was needed to make it a wonderful experience for each person.\u00a0 We can\u2019t thank them enough for all they did.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Over 130 doctoral students and alumni from the School of Physical Therapy at Belmont recently helped coordinate logistics for the annual Susan G. Komen Race for the Cure in Nashville.\u00a0 \u00a0The Belmont contingent helped with course set-up and take-down and … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4208","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-chs","category-physical-therapy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forum.belmont.edu\/health\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4208","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forum.belmont.edu\/health\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forum.belmont.edu\/health\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forum.belmont.edu\/health\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forum.belmont.edu\/health\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4208"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/forum.belmont.edu\/health\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4208\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4210,"href":"https:\/\/forum.belmont.edu\/health\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4208\/revisions\/4210"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forum.belmont.edu\/health\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4208"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forum.belmont.edu\/health\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4208"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forum.belmont.edu\/health\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4208"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}