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...
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...
