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...
Doctor of Physical Therapy Professor Sharon Gorman recently returned from a U.S. Department of State-sponsored trip to the small central African nation of Burundi, where she trained physical...
Two new leaders in academic affairs and advancement have been appointed to the Samuel Merritt University (SMU) executive team, President Dr. Ching-Hua Wang announced today. On July 8, Fred Baldini, Ph...
Alice Vestergaard, a community health instructor in the SON, won the 2019 Dr. Cornelius Hopper Diversity Excellence Award for developing a community nurse corps that works to help residents in impoverished areas.
Should where you live determine how long you live? Research suggests it does, says Sandra Witt, DrPH, Samuel Merritt University’s 29th annual Picchi Memorial Lecturer.
