Professional Enrichment Day 2025
September 11, 2025 from 9:00AM to 3:00PM
A Hybrid Event
In person: OAK Bechtel Room
Online: on Zoom
You are cordially invited to the Professional Enrichment Day 2025, a day full of learning and movement.
Hybrid In Person and Online Event
September 11, from 9:00am to 3:00pm
OAK Bechtel Room and Online
Destiny Arts Center
The Destiny Arts Center exists to inspire and ignite social change through the arts. They offer hands-on and embodied arts education training to educators, school administrators, teaching artists and community leaders.
Our PED activity will offer information and interactive activities both demonstrating and practicing the connection between the arts and somatic/community and individual health.
Continuing Education Units
For information, scroll down and expand the accordion for Continuing Education Units.
Event Schedule
9:00 – 9:15
Opening Announcements, Faculty Development Co-Chairs
Welcome and Introduction of Keynote, Provost Brian Clocksin
Michele Santilhano, RN, DNP
Assistant Professor, Chair of Faculty Development '25-26, College of Nursing, Samuel Merritt University
Catherine Tanner, DNP, APRN, FNPC
Assistant Professor, Co- Director of the FNP Program, Family Nurse Practitioner Program; Chair of Faculty Development Committee '22-24, Co-Chair '24-25, Co-Chair '25-26, College of Nursing, Samuel Merritt University
Brian Clocksin, Ph.D
Provost and VP for Academic & Student Affairs, Samuel Merritt University
9:15 – 10:00
Keynote Speakers
Somalee Banerjee, MD, MPH
Physician, Artist, Researcher; Director of Global Health, Assistant Program Director, Internal Medicine Residency, Kaiser Permanente Oakland; Lecturer, School of Public Health, UC Berkeley; Volunteer Clinical Instructor, Department of Internal Medicine, UCSF
Archana Nagraj, M.P.H., M.S.W.
Executive Director, Destiny Arts Center
10:00 – 10:15
Break
10:15 – 10:45
Movement and Arts Rotations (Bechtel and Zoom)
Samara Atkins
Teaching Artist, Destiny Arts Center
Join the General Session
10:50 – 11:20
Movement and Arts Rotations (Bechtel + Atrium)
Tesfaye Tekelu
Martial Arts Director, Destiny Arts Center
Marjorie Ortiz Silvey
Director and Creative Lead of DJC & Teaching Artist, Destiny Arts Center
11:30 – 12:00
Check-in/ wrap up (Bechtel)
12:00 – 1:00
Lunch in Bechtel
1:00pm – 2:00
Breakout Focus: TBD
– Faculty
– Staff/ HSSC/ community
2:00- 2:30
Summary: Takeaways and Sharing
2:30 – 3:00
Wrap up and Closing Remarks, Faculty Development Chair
PED Feedback Survey
Continuing Education Units
Continuing Education Units
The Faculty Development Committee is pleased to offer continuing education units to nursing and occupational therapy attendees at this event. If you wish to receive CEUs for attendance at Professional Enrichment Day, please complete the “sign in” and “sign out” surveys for your respective profession. To receive CEUs, you will be required to complete the feedback surveys at the end of the day. Your certificates will be emailed to you within 90 days after the event.
Approved by the California Board of Registered Nursing, Provider Number 11258, for 5.0 contact hours. Attendance at this event is free of charge.
