Meet Our 2021 Award Winners We proudly announce our Awards of Excellence winners. Carrie Esopenko, Ph.D. Assistant Professor, Doctor of Physical Therapy In just five years as a SHP faculty member, Dr. Carrie Esopenko has built her laboratory and an impressive research program. Her work is both in sports and intimate [...]
Faculty Member Featured in “Twenty Pearls” Documentary on the Impact of the Nation’s Historic First Black Sorority Rutgers School of Health Professions Program Director Valerie Johnson is a long-time member of the nation’s first Black Greek-letter sorority. But it wasn’t until she participated in a recently released documentary film about its founding [...]
Medical Student Wins Fellowship to Train with Physical Therapy Researcher A prestigious National Institutes of Health fellowship was awarded to a Rutgers medical student and Ph.D. candidate who is working with Professor Judith Deutsch, PT, Ph.D., director of the Rivers Lab at the School of Health Professions in Newark. John Palmieri is [...]
One of the First Graduates of the Physician Assistant Program Gives Back with Estate Gift His mother was a pioneer for her time – a captain in the Women’s Army Auxiliary Corps during World War II who learned to fly her own plane, and later, earned a master’s degree in social work while caring [...]
For Two Best Friends, A Dream Comes True They grew up best friends in a small, rural Virginia town with the same big dream – to play in the Super Bowl. One went on to a powerhouse football university and into the NFL. The other ended up at a smaller school and [...]
Workforce Development Team Aids in COVID-19 Vaccine Trials Their task, as part of a multi-million federal grant initiative, was to establish workforce development training to accelerate a quality clinical trial process and translate research into patient care and treatment more quickly. Their work was put to the test sooner than they ever anticipated in the [...]