Teens eramine medicine As potential CAREER
CAMPMED offers An Early immersion For high school Freshmen
Over three days, 60 students get to know Steven Trepost intimately — his head, heart, lungs and blood.
Now, it’s their responsibility to diagnose whatever is causing the 9-year-old’s life-threatening medical problems. That Steven Trepost doesn’t actually exist makes the pressure no less acute.
This surprisingly involved medical detective story For students, it’s a marathon session of using medical tools — both tangible, in the form of their new stethoscopes and pocket flashlights, and intellectual — to solve the sort of medical mysteries health professionals face every day.
unfolded recently at UNLV during the third annual Campmed, a three-day, twonight program for incoming high school freshmen who are considering careers in medicine.
Campmed is the brainchild
of Dr. Ken Rosenthal, a professor of biomedical sciences at Roseman University of Health Sciences’ College of Medicine, who created a similar program in
CAMP
Honke officially started in July, though she’s still waiting for approval from insurance companies to take insurance.
Touro had been searching for three years for a replacement for Nicole Cavenagh, the child neuropsychologist who left the university’s center for private practice in 2015, director of operations Lisa Kunz said.
“Unfortunately, they’re not here in our city, so we were recruiting across the country,” Kunz said. The center interviewed three candidates before Honke came along.
Kunz has nothing but high praise for Honke, who she said stands out for her commitment to children and a family-friendly personality.
“She was eager, enthusiastic, warm,” Kunz said of her first meeting with Honke. “You could tell she was going to fit in well.”
On the other side of town, Cook is returning to work under Julie Beasley, the Ackerman Autism Center’s director who served as Cook’s postdoctoral supervisor.
Cook graduated from UNLV’S clinical psychology PH.D. program in 2012 and moved to Kansas and later Oahu, Hawaii, with her three children and husband, who was stationed at Air Force bases in those states.
She was well aware of the dearth of services in Nevada when she called Beasley about a year ago and told her she planned to return to
Las Vegas, which, after eight years of graduate school here, Cook said feels like home.
“It’s amazing to see how many families are being served here. I know from personal and professional experience just how
incredibly hard it was to get in and get any services or even know where to go or what services were needed, especially for families on the front end of diagnosis,” Cook said.
“It’s also crazy to see how many families have gone without and are waiting to be seen, and that’s certainly something I’m excited to be a part of.”
Like Honke, Cook is waiting for insurance company approval, though she’s gotten the OK from Medicaid, which allows her to see