Every 17 seconds, someone in the U.S. is diagnosed with diabetes. Each day, 230 of them require an amputation, usually a leg because of a diabetic foot ulcer. That’s why Dr. Alexander Reyzelman, DPM...
Professor Sharon Gorman is the creator of the Function in Sitting Test (FIST), one of the world’s foremost exams in measuring a person’s ability to balance while sitting. The test is taught in SMU’s...
In five years, what will Samuel Merritt University look like? What type of student will it educate? What communities will it serve? And how can the 112-year-old institution cultivate a culture of...
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...
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...
About three years ago, Sarah Jingying Zhang, PhD, CRNA ’15, began looking for solutions to America’s opioid epidemic. Her ongoing—and now award-winning research—focuses on alternatives to common...
Rachel Gelman, DPT ’12, clearly remembers her first full-time clinical rotation as a physical therapy student. A patient came in complaining of back pain from a car crash, but it was a different...
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...
New research out of Samuel Merritt University’s Occupational Therapy program offers a potential road map for how to teach health science students cultural responsiveness. The research, published in...
