Transgender patients' concerns over how they will be treated by health care providers can preoccupy them more than their medical conditions.

Seirei Christopher University exchange students visit SMU from Japan to see the American health care system in action and experience American culture.

Two vastly different experiences with hospitals and health care led mother and daughter to pursue nursing.

Students see patients who are hospitals most frequent users in the university's "hotspotting" program.

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.

Tina Sacks' research demonstrates the persistence of racial and gender discrimination when black women seek medical treatment in America's predominately white health care system.

Nursing case management students create "farmers market" and talk about nutrition and health eating with middle schoolers.

They are running a makeshift medical clinic near a garbage dump where families survive by picking through mounds of trash for anything of value.

Professor Pamela Minarik has been fascinated by why people think and feel the way they do since she was in high school.

Samuel Merritt University is deepening its commitment to interprofessional education by spearheading academic and clinical initiatives that are reaching students throughout all five health sciences programs.