Valerie
Moody,
PhD, LAT, ATC, CSCS
Professor and Chair, IPAT
University of Montana
Valerie has been at the University of Montana for 20 years where she serves as the Program Director of the Master of Athletic Training Program, Director of the Montana Youth Sports Safety Institute and Chair of the School of Integrative Physiology & Athletic Training. She has been a certified athletic trainer for 28 years and still is a practicing clinician providing athletic training services to youth hockey athletes in the Missoula community. She is active in researching interprofessional care models in concussion management, and emergency preparedness and sports safety in high school and youth athletics in Montana.
Presenting at the Nexus Summit:
The University of Montana faculty from the Family Medicine Residency, Paramedicine, and Athletic Training programs hosted two large interprofessional medical simulations for their students focused on managing a variety of emergent injuries and illnesses. The first event exposed students to emergency scenarios that may occur during a collegiate football game. The second event focused on emergency scenarios that may occur working with wildland firefighters out on the fire line. Coordinating pre-hospital patient care in emergent, high-stress rural environments demands a high level of team…