PA Program’s Free Clinic Serving the Area’s Most Vulnerable PopulationWithin six weeks of its reopening, the Health Outreach Practice Experience (HOPE) clinic, operated by the PA program’s faculty and students, has seen thirty patients in need of health services. The free clinic, which reopened this summer, aims to increase access to primary care for the [...]
Honoring DPT Student Michael Robert Cammett Jr.December 22, 1996 - June 26, 2021Rutgers School of Health Professions is sad to share the news that Michael Robert Cammett Jr., student of the Doctor of Physical Therapy (DPT) program, passed away at just 24 years old on June 26, 2021. He completed his first year of the [...]
Rutgers New M.S. Speech-Language Pathology Program to Open Pro Bono Clinic in the Newark Community Rutgers’ newest academic program – the Master of Science in Speech-Language Pathology (MSSLP) within the School of Health Professions’ Department of Rehabilitation and Movement Sciences –is opening a speech-language pathology clinic in September, offering free speech-therapy services to children [...]
Meet Some of the Students Who Comprise SHP Kerri-Ann Best Doctor of Clinical Nutrition (DCN), Class of 2025 Where are you from? Christ Church, Barbados Where were you before enrolling at SHP? I am currently a clinical dietitian at Queen Elizabeth Hospital, the main acute care medical facility in Barbados. I [...]
Occupational Therapy Doctoral Program to Bring Services to Marginalized Populations New Degree Program Will Offer Students Novel Fieldwork Opportunities Their occupational therapy clinical experiences might include working with inmates, homeless people, adolescents at risk, or children with disabilities. Under Program Director Sandra Rogers, students in the Rutgers School of Health Professions Occupational Therapy Doctoral [...]
Philanthropist and Post-doc Gets National Science Foundation Fellowship to Pursue Prostate Cancer Research After seeing friends with sick children struggle financially, Michael Craige founded a not-for-profit to help pay costs when insurance and other financial resources get exhausted or expenses go uncovered. His fundraising efforts pulled in $200,000 for the Atlanta-based CiDrep SickKids Foundation. [...]