Juliana Lainez, OTD ’22, knows what it’s like to be the parent of an occupational therapy patient. In fact, it’s the driving force behind her desire to become an occupational therapist. When her son...
Like many healthcare students during the COVID-19 pandemic, my Doctor of Physical Therapy program clinical experience prior to my graduation was affected. My first clinical experience was in...
The Samuel Merritt University School of Nursing ranks in the top 10 among 55 nursing schools in California, according to Nursing Process, a nationwide organization that assesses nursing education. The...
Whether donning a pink wig and feather boa or playing guitar while he sings into a banana microphone, Dave Pilon, ODT ’12, is spreading joy and love in the time of COVID-19 to kids and families. His...
Dakota Davis wails in pain as her mother sits anxiously beside her emergency room bed. Dakota is wearing sunglasses. "The lights are just hurting my eyes so much," groans Dakota, a 17-year-old college...
Olena Khudiakova ABSN ’20 has logged dozens of hours reading textbooks and treating mannequin “patients” in SMU simulation labs. But what she has come to value most in the last few months of the...
Alex Malliaris, ELMSN-FNP ’18 couldn’t sit idle after the shelter-in-place order shuttered the Oakland clinic where she worked as a nurse practitioner and clinical services manager. So, when she got a...
Hannah Miller, ABSN ’18, is an orthopedic nurse at San Jose’s Good Samaritan Hospital—someone who values consistency and order. Then COVID-19 hit the Bay Area, bringing with it chaos and changing...
For Dr. William Lowe DPM ’57 and his wife Phyllis, visiting with students who receive their scholarship is a high point of the academic year. Now retired, the Lowes visit Samuel Merritt University’s...
