Class of 2020: Dr. Nalin Ranasinghe, MD, B.S. in Cardiovascular Sonography M.D. Takes Cardiovascular Sonography to Improve Patient Care When emergency room physician Dr. Nalin Ranasinghe applied to the cardiovascular sonography program, the program director was puzzled: did the medical doctor understand it was geared toward undergraduates? He did, and still wanted [...]
Class of 2020: Kathleen Mazza, PhD Biomedical Informatics For Kathleen Mazza, the Learning Never Stops For her dissertation in Biomedical Informatics, Kathleen Mazza studied a pilot artificial intelligence chatbot program that monitored patients after their release from the hospital. She couldn’t have known how important that knowledge would be more than a [...]
Class of 2020: Adam Coughlan, DPT DPT Grad Finds Niche During Rotation in Long-Term Care At the Helen Hayes Rehabilitation Center in New York, people who lost limbs, suffered brain trauma or had catastrophic spinal cord injuries can spend months working to reclaim their mobility. Adam Coughlan, a member of the Rutgers [...]
Class of 2020: Josie Dudzik, MSCN’20 Nutrition Graduate Jumps into New Job in Midst of Pandemic She graduated in January, passed her registered dietitian exam in February, and the following month, began work at a hospital in Brooklyn-in one of the nation’s earliest pandemic hot spots. Josie Dudzik, MSCN ’20, was assigned [...]
Class of 2020: Jessica Easton, MSHM Anything is Possible for Jessica Easton Jessica Easton was determined to graduate from her M.S. in Health Care Management degree program regardless of the obstacles put in her pathway. In December, she was diagnosed with Stage 4 kidney failure and spent 10 days in the hospital [...]
PA Students Participate in Pioneering COVID-19 Study As Rutgers University researchers launch an important clinical study tracing the spread and consequences of COVID-19 in healthcare workers and non-healthcare workers, Rutgers School of Health Professions Physician Assistant students are working right alongside them. The viral outbreak sidelined PA students from their clinical rotations, leaving some [...]