The Providence College of Nursing at Samuel Merritt University recently celebrated their annual alumnae reunion on Friday, December 9, 2022, with a luncheon at Trader Vic’s in Emeryville. All...
The Largest Gift in University’s History Will Transform Health Sciences Education in Northern California Samuel Merritt University (SMU) has received a $10 million gift from the estate of esteemed...
An Nguyen, DPT ’22, knows what it means to take a chance for a brighter future. “My parents told me that they risked their lives fleeing Vietnam at the end of the war and came to the U.S. as refugees...
Iman Mattox, ABSN ’18, MSN-CRNA ’23, was 10 years into a teaching career when he decided to become a certified registered nurse anesthetist (CRNA). Although he had a 2.0 GPA in college and didn’t pass...
When Charae McConnell, OTD ’19, read that 84% of occupational therapists (OTs) are white, she knew it was more than an abstract statistic in her class textbook. As an African American, she’d seen the...
Doug Stone, ABSN ’20, MSN-FNP ’22, arrived in Medyka, Poland just days after his SMU semester ended in May. Within hours, he started his first shift as the senior medical provider of the local...
Shefali Parikh, MOT ’99, still recalls commiserating with classmates after their occupational therapy licensing exam 23 years ago. What worried her classmates most were the hundreds of dollars it cost...
“I was born of a nurse and married a nurse,” Howard “Mike” Milliken, MD, proudly declares when asked why he has such a strong connection to Samuel Merritt University nurses. During his 40-plus years...
When Gul Ahmad Samimi began receiving threats from the Taliban, he made the heart-wrenching decision to leave his home and his family. He fled Afghanistan in 2015, after working for a U.S. aid agency...
Leada Malek, DPT '16, still remembers her Management of Physical Therapy Services class from five years ago. Assistant Professor Heidi Garske asked students, “Do you have the entrepreneurial spirit?”...
