After an extensive nationwide search, Samuel Merritt University has selected Lorna Kendrick, PhD, APRN, PMHCNS, as its new School of Nursing dean. Kendrick, who started May 26, succeeds Audrey Berman...
Alex Malliaris, ELMSN-FNP ’18 couldn’t sit idle after the shelter-in-place order shuttered the Oakland clinic where she worked as a nurse practitioner and clinical services manager. So, when she got a...
Hannah Miller, ABSN ’18, is an orthopedic nurse at San Jose’s Good Samaritan Hospital—someone who values consistency and order. Then COVID-19 hit the Bay Area, bringing with it chaos and changing...
It’s 8 p.m. and Howard is despondent. Earlier in the day, he was hit by a scooter on the streets of Oakland. He’s being treated at a local hospital for a fractured ankle and burning pain in his hand...
Samuel Merritt University President Ching-Hua Wang has been named one of the San Francisco Business Times’ Most Influential Women in Bay Area Business. The annual award celebrates women business...
When Rebecca Owen, MSN-FNP ’11, DNP ’19, began working as a family nurse practitioner at an organization that provides affordable healthcare to underserved populations in and around Sacramento, she...
Lorraine Petti is a self-proclaimed “mad scientist” when it comes to making skin. An associate professor in the Physician Assistant Program, Petti has been creating skin for her students to practice...
While researching stress and exhaustion among advanced practice clinicians (APCs), Sutter Health nurse administrator Surani Hayre-Kwan, DNP ’19, discovered that the first-year turnover for the group...
For more than 30 million Americans with diabetes, identifying a foot ulcer in the early stages can save a foot or leg from amputation—but catching ulcers early isn’t easy. That’s because diabetics...
As a child, Pablo Tavares, DPT ’20, was a regular companion to his mother’s appointments, translating her Spanish to health care providers. At 12, he accompanied her to a physical therapy appointment...
