Good Press: Newspaper Features Neonatal-Pediatric Section Member

April 7, 2004
Among its many duties, the AARC’s public relations department often sends press releases to the hometown media of an AARC member who receives an honor, wins an award, or is issued a grant at the Awards Ceremony at the AARC Congress.

Lots of times these press releases end up as short announcements highlighting a local resident who achieved on the national level. But sometimes one will catch the eye of a reporter, and the result will be a feature article that not only highlights the person at hand, but the entire profession of respiratory care.

That’s what happened a couple of weeks ago, when The News & Advance in Lynchburg, VA, picked up on Brian Walsh’s recent receipt of the Neonatal-Pediatric Section’s Specialty Practitioner of the Year Award.

Reporter Amy Coutee visited with Walsh, an RRT at the University of Virginia Children’s Medical Center, taking readers through his exciting day as a clinical team leader in the NICU and PICU in an article that focuses on everything from the many accomplishments this young RT has made in a relatively short period of time (Walsh is just 27) to the role the AARC plays in supporting the profession of respiratory care.

Read the article and see how AARC public relations is putting your profession and its members in the media spotlight.