Dr.
Mishoe elected to leadership positions
by Jennifer Hilliard
Dr. Shelley Mishoe, dean of the School of Allied Health Sciences, has been elected an officer of two professional organizations and has been appointed by Georgia Gov. Sonny Perdue to serve on a work group studying substance abuse.
Dr. Mishoe was elected chair of the Southern Association of Allied Health Deans at its spring meeting in Little Rock, Ark. The association comprises the chief academic officers of health professions colleges at 22 academic health centers in the Southeast and Puerto Rico. The association emphasizes campus-led and national agendas for health professions workforce, faculty recruitment/development and research.
The Association of Schools of Allied Health Professions adopted the association’s annual survey to determine educational benchmarks for factors including types of degree programs, operational budgets, funding, faculty credentials/salaries and faculty-to-student ratios.
She also has been named chair-elect of the Committee on Accreditation for Respiratory Care of the Commission on Accreditation of Allied Health Educational Programs. The commission, the largest programmatic accreditor of the health sciences, develops standards and provides recommendations for allied health programs. Dr. Mishoe has served on the committee for four years. Her chairmanship includes serving on the board of directors for the Healthcare Education Accreditation Services Corporation.
Dr. Mishoe’s appointment to the Georgia State Epidemiological Outcomes Work Group for substance-abuse prevention involves creating a state profile and determining whether resources are being optimized. The group, funded by work begun under the State Planning Incentive Grant, will identify high-need areas and populations, common risk behaviors and the capacities of existing community-based service delivery systems. Dr. Mishoe was part of the work group that developed the incentive grant.
Dr. Mishoe is a member of the editorial board for the Respiratory Care Journal, serves as a peer-reviewer for several professional journals and is an inaugural fellow of the American Association for Respiratory Care. She earned associate’s and bachelor’s degrees in respiratory therapy from the State University of New York Upstate Medical University in Syracuse, a master’s degree in education from Augusta State University and a doctorate from the University of Georgia.