Members Spotlighted for Donated Textbooks, Lung Health 5K, and Better Breathers Club

September 22, 2026 |  2 min read

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AARC members Jennifer Martin, RRT, and Mary Jones, BSHIM, RRT, RPSGT, were featured in the Lufkin Daily News about their second-year RT students stepping in to donate anatomy and physiology textbooks to first-year students at Angelina College who were having to make do without those integral texts due to a publishing issue. Read it Here

AARC member Kirsten Holbrook, BA, RRT, RRT-ACCS, and student member Colin Ebersold were featured in an article in the Leader-Telegram about the Chippewa Valley Technical College Respiratory Therapy Club’s inaugural lung health 5K run/walk to raise money and awareness for COPD. Read it Here

AARC member Jerry A. O’Ryan, MPH, RRT, wrote an opinion piece in the Springfield News Sun on the resurgence of measles cases in his home state of Ohio and why some people may not be getting the measles vaccination despite medical guidance saying they should. Read it Here

AARC member Bonnie Robert, RRT, was featured in an article in Business West about the Better Breathers Club she helped to start at her hospital and the role it is playing in reducing readmissions for patients with COPD. Read it Here

AARC member Jithin K. Sreedharan, PhD, MSRC, FIARC, PFHEA, was featured in an interview in the Higher Education Digest about his own career in allied health and the forces he believes will shape its future. Read it Here

AARC member Sarah Parker, MAOM, RRT, RRT-NPS, was featured in a video on the JTV website about the respiratory care profession and her RT program at Jackson College. Watch it Here

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