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building Profiles 2017 healthour future WHAT’S INSIDE LEE COllEGE PATIENTS ER RIO WORK EMT training revived ‘We love Local physician Special Supplement through workforce treats Olympic to The Baytown Sun development center giving back’ athletes Allied Health Careers Enrolling Now at Lee College! Lee College Center for Workforce and Community Development EMS Continuing Education for Individuals and Industry (pending DSHS approval) Continue your EMS training with high quality professional development that is relevant, new and innovative. Attendees who successfully complete the requirements of the classes, will receive continuing education hours that will help fulfi ll national and state CE requirements for recertifi cation. EMT Training Coming Soon -- Here’s What You Need To Know! Emergency Medical Technician (EMT) Class The EMT basic course is designed for anyone interested in working in public safety, including fi re, police, and ambulance operations. The course work and hands on experience are designed to prepare For info or registra on students to administer care in emergency situations. (Currently offered at the informa on! Lee College Education Center of South Liberty County. Coming Soon to Baytown!) > 281-425-6311 > [email protected] Emergency Medical Responder (EMR, ECA, First Responder) The primary focus of the > www.lee.edu/workforce/ Emergency Medical Responder is to initiate immediate lifesaving care to critical patients who access the emergency medical system. This individual possesses the Some courses currently o ered at basic knowledge and skills necessary to provide lifesaving interventions while awaiting the Lee College Education Center additional EMS response and to assist higher level personnel at the scene and of South Liberty County. Call during transport. now for more information! McNulty-Haddick Nursing Center Renovations Slated for fall 2017 Completion. The state-of-the-art renovation and expansion of Lee College’s McNulty-Haddick Nursing Center includes a remodel of the current lab and simulation center that signifi cantly expands square footage and capacity. Also accompanying a long list of improvements to the facility is the critical addition of a new pediatric wing and three new lab spaces for allied health and nursing courses. New construction expansion adds approximately 20,000 square feet and includes a 90-seat, auditorium style lecture hall, faculty offi ces, a student computer center and student access area. Construction is scheduled for completion in late fall of 2017. The renovation of the McNulty-Haddick Nursing Center is part of Lee College’s ongoing effort to support our commitment to our students and the community we serve. www.lee.edu aa/eeo Thursday, March 9, 2017 HEALTH The Baytown Sun 3 ‘Amazing experience working with all the international athletes’ Physician treated Olympic athletes in Rio BY CHRISTOPHER JAMES letes that got injured and came While thousands of athletes to our outpatient polyclinic,” participated in the 2016 sum- Dr. Pancholi said. “So I worked mer Olympic games in Rio, about three weeks there and it one Baytown physical thera- was just a wonderful experi- pist was behind the scenes, en- ence.” suring that those international Dr. Pancholi was one of athletes were competing at the about 5,000 healthcare provid- highest levels. ers selected to volunteer at the Dr. Maulik Pancholi, who Rio Olympics, which included practices at Aerio Rehabili- specialty medical doctors, chi- tation off Garth Road, volun- ropractors, message therapists, teered his services at the Rio osteopaths and physical thera- Olympics, where he treated in- pists. ternational athletes in boxing, And only about 3 percent of track and field, handball and international volunteer phys- basketball. ical therapists were chosen to “It was a volunteer physical work at the Olympic games on- therapy position and it was an site, and in an outpatient poly- amazing experience working clinic that was managed by the with all the international ath- Olympic committee. “I worked with the athlete Mohammed Rabii; he’s from Morocco and competed in the 69 kilogram (boxing) category. So I had to treat him before and after his game,” said Dr. Pan- choli. “One day he came and Dr. Maulik Pancholi takes a selfie with members of the 2016 Swedish soccer team day before the Olympic told me that his hip was hurt- semifinals against Brazil. Sweden earned a silver, falling 2-1 to Germany in the gold medal game. ing and his back was hurting. So I had to watch his game, Pancholi. “So I enrolled with py, and during that time he has could help but I couldn’t touch previously recorded boxing them and they took me to the volunteered for three Olympic the athletes. But I was involved matches, to figure out exactly Christ Redeemer and we went games, Rio being the third. Pri- and was helping them organiz- where he was having issues. I trekking in communities along or to Rio, he served at the Bei- ing different things at the poly- had to watch his videos to get the hill areas. It was an ex- jing Olympics in 2008, London clinic,” said Dr. Pancholi. “I the conclusion that this is the tremely interesting, beautiful Olympics in 2012 and plans to was an assistant PT in London area where he was having is- experience, and Brazil is a very be at the 2020 Olympics in To- and Beijing. This time (in Rio) sues, and I would work with multicultural country.” kyo, which he has already been they put me under the liability him before and after matches “In enjoyed Brazil and nev- approved for. insurance of IOC, which is In- all the time.” er experienced any of the bad He was also invited to go to ternational Olympic Commit- Rabii won the bronze med- stuff that was in the news,” he Athens in 2004 but was getting tee, so I could touch and work al in the welterweight 69-ki- added. married that same week and with athletes without any ten- logram boxing division at the Back in 2014, Dr. Pancholi was unable to attend. sion.” 2016 Olympics in Rio. applied to be an Olympic phys- However, Rio was the first But when he’s not at an But when Dr. Pancholi ical therapist, which involved a time he was considered a phys- Olympic game, he practices wasn’t working, he was enjoy- background check, interviews, ical therapist instead of an as- right here in Baytown. Since Dr. Maulik Pancholi with Moroccan ing everything Rio had to offer. a series of online modules, sistant. 2009, Dr. Pancholi has worked boxer Mohammed Rabii during the “Rio was fantastic. They ac- group discussion, multiple skill “At that time (in London at Aerio Rehab, 910 N. High- 2016 summer Olympic games in tually had stalls in the Olympic checks and online quizzes. and Beijing) I didn’t have 15 way 146, suite A, where he has Rio. Rabii won a bronze medal in village so we could go and do For 16 years, Dr. Pancholi years experience, so they gave worked with thousands of pa- the welterweight division. day trips ourselves,” said Dr. has practiced physical thera- me a different position where I tients. 4 The Baytown Sun HEALTH Thursday, March 9, 2017 Business followed by the Industry edition Welcome to and then the final week we’ll unveil the 2017 Citizen of the Year. Profiles 2017 On the cover ... 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