November 5, 2014

On September 25, Paul Nolan, MCAT- Music, HU ’82, who recently retired as the Director of the College’s Music Therapy Program but who has stayed on in an important adjunct faculty role, was featured on NPR in a segment about music therapy for seniors with dementia, Alzheimer’s and depression. Click here for the Newsworks edition.

Nursing students and faculty from the College of Nursing and Health Professions can be seen in this 6 ABC News clip from October 1 performing flu vaccines on seniors at a health fair at Cooper River Park in Pennsauken, New Jersey.

Be Well Philly featured Patty Gerrity, PhD, in an article on October 6. The Philadelphia Magazine health division runs an annual Health Hero Challenge competition for which Dr. Gerrity has been named a semi-finalist. Voting took place October 28-November 3 on the Be Well Philly Facebook page.

In an October 6 article on CBS Philly’s website, online nursing student Elizabeth Giordano was interviewed about her education and nursing career.

Nurse.com published an article on October 10 about the College of Nursing and Health Professions’ use of virtual patient software. BSN student Meredith Shatoff and Leland “Rocky” Rockstraw, PhD ’06, were both quoted in the article.

On October 17, U.S. News and World Report published an article, “Study Abroad as an Online Student,” in which Drexel Nursing alumnus Kevin Hannon ’13, was featured. Hannon took an online community health course taught by faculty at the College of Nursing and Health Professions that culminated in a trip to Paraguay.

Dr. Gioia Chilton ‘14, the first graduate of the College of Nursing and Health Professions’ PhD in Creative Arts Therapies Program, was interviewed for the Positive Art Therapy blog.