Western Carolina University – School of Health Sciences director recognized by National Academies of Practice
By Tom Lotshaw
Ericka Zimmerman (remaining) was inducted as a distinguished practitioner fellow for the
Nationwide Academies of Practice.
Ericka Zimmerman, a professor and director of Western Carolina University’s College
of Health and fitness Sciences, was not too long ago inducted as a distinguished practitioner fellow for
the Nationwide Academies of Exercise.
The NAP is a nonprofit with members from a array of wellbeing care professions serving
as distinguished advisors to policymakers in Congress and somewhere else. It advocates
for top quality, interprofessional care to enhance well being outcomes for individuals and communities,
and extends its fellowship honors to individuals who excel in their professions and are
focused to advancing interprofessional exercise, dialogue, scholarship and plan.
Zimmerman, who began her occupation as a medical athletic coach, will provide as a fellow
in the athletic schooling academy, one particular of a lot more than a dozen experienced academies
that make up the NAP.
As director of the Faculty of Health and fitness Sciences, Zimmerman sales opportunities a multi-disciplinary
group of faculty and employees in the professions of athletic coaching, unexpected emergency health-related
care, environmental health, integrated wellbeing sciences, diet and dietetics, and
leisure treatment.
“I’m honored by this recognition of my motivation to supporting WCU and its faculty,
and our ongoing approach to collaborative, interprofessional instruction that gains
our students and ultimately patients in our community,” Zimmerman explained. “I’m fired up
about this option to interact with other professionals and to achieve added
knowledge to assistance the incredible perform our staff members and school are performing in the University
of Wellbeing Sciences.”