Shifting his weight from side to side like he’s ready to pounce, Huy Trinh, DPT ’21, signals the next move to half-a-dozen community members tuned in on Zoom for a physical therapy shadowboxing class...
Natalie Lucas, ELMSN-FNP ’21, is video conferencing with a 14-year-old female patient. Pre-COVID, Lucas would have been in an exam room with the teen at Oakland’s Roots Community Health Center, but...
Los Angeles-based digital publisher and conference host Create & Cultivate (C&C) celebrates and promotes women in business. This year, C&C honored female hospital workers, comprising 77% of workers in...
Aimee Martel, DPT ’07, knows the injuries that dancers face—she used to be a dancer herself. Now she focuses her physical therapy practice in Walnut Creek on the needs of adolescent recreational...
What determines how long you live? It turns out that your zip code plays a key role. The California Endowment reported in 2016 that people in communities with little or no access to preventative...
Nursing Professor Paulina Van has received the 2021 Excellence in Nursing Leadership Award for Education from the Nu Xi at-Large Chapter of Sigma, an organization committed to developing nurse leaders...
From NBA players to U.S. Special Olympians Dr. Tim Dutra, assistant professor at Samuel Merritt University’s California School of Podiatric Medicine, has helped numerous athletes of all levels recover...
At 8 years old, Manuel Arteaga, ELMS-CM ’21, saw firsthand the disparities in healthcare that his family sometimes experienced. That’s when Arteaga, the eldest child of Mexican immigrants, began...
Samuel Merritt University has received the WASC Senior College and University Commission (WSCUC) accreditation for a period of 10 years, the longest time period possible for such accreditation. “This...
Victoria Lopez, OTD ’21, sat close by and watched as an occupational therapist worked with a 5-year-old who had autism. The girl bounced on an inflatable yoga ball. Sometimes the therapist took the...