We asked Joke Bradt, PhD, professor and program director of the PhD in Creative Arts Therapies program, Clarissa Lacson, PhD, assistant clinical professor, Michele Rattigan, MA, ATR-BC, associate clinical professor, and Minjung Shim, PhD, assistant professor, from Drexel University’s College of Nursing and Health Professions to share about their experiences at 11th Street.

Benjamin Binder‐Markey, PhD, assistant professor in the Department of Physical Therapy and Rehabilitation Sciences, is one of only 10 recipients across the country designated by The Hartwell Foundation to receive a 2022 Individual Biomedical Research Award.

Safiyyah Okoye, PhD believed being a lawyer was her calling. Then, after witnessing chronic disease in her family, she wanted to go into health care.

Jonathan Deutsch, PhD, a professor in Culinary Arts and Food Science and the director of the Drexel Food Lab, is the PI on a grant from the Environmental Protection Agency. His research, along with co-Is, Brandy-Joe Milliron, PhD, associate professor in Nutrition Sciences, and Roni Neff, PhD, an associate professor at the Bloomberg School of Public Health at Johns Hopkins University, will look for innovative solutions to reduce household food waste, specifically through prevention.

Ivy Tong shares why she chose to pursue Creative Arts Therapies and sheds light on current research in the field

Dean Laura N. Gitlin, PhD, gave a talk as part of the Health Equity Seminar series as part of the Drexel FIRST (Faculty Institutional Recruitment for Sustainable Transformation) program. “Beat the Blues” is a community-academic partnership with Center in the Park, a senior center located in Germantown, PA.

College of Nursing and Health Professions faculty and staff had an opportunity to check out their new academic home at an open house on August 25. Groups of people took advantage of a walking-tour to preview classrooms, teaching spaces and labs.

Chef Tonii Hicks, who received a BS culinary arts ’21, was raised in Philadelphia and embodies a devotion to food and community. She chose Drexel because she was drawn to the program's combination of culinary skills and science background.

The AgeWell Collaboratory funded seven projects across Drexel colleges. schools and partners to uphold our commitment to be an age-friendly university.

Health Sciences student Amy Kwok has big plans for a career in physical therapy and is living Drexel's Ambition Can't Wait motto.

Health Sciences student and leader of Exercise is Medicine On Campus Nicholas Eltman acquired unique medical training as an U.S. Army Ranger helping him choose his career path.

Drexel’s team is one of six partners to the School District of Philadelphia (SDP) EAT RIGHT PHILLY Program, the official nutrition education program of the School District of Philadelphia.

New NIH grant awarded to Drexel University co-principal investigators, Ana Diez Roux, MD, PhD, and Laura N. Gitlin, PhD, to hire, retain and support 10 new faculty members with a long-term goal to transform university research policies, procedures and culture and create a sustained pipeline of outstanding, diverse faculty who are well-positioned to be successfully promoted and substantively contribute to health disparities research with significant impact on individual and population health outcomes.

Mayor Jim Kenny recently announced his new 17 appointees to the Mayor’s Commission on Aging, two of which are Drexel University College of Nursing and Health Professions (CNHP) leaders and senior administrators.

Drexel's SNAP-Ed)/ EAT RIGHT PHILLY has been working with the School District of Philadelphia to make nutrition a priority through interactive nutrition lessons, movement breaks, hydration tips, and more geared to the children and adults in the district.

Teng is an assistant clinical professor in undergraduate nursing at Drexel University’s College of Nursing and Health Professions. She is the course chair for Population Health Concepts and has taught Relationship Based Care and Pharmacology I.

Student attendee shares her insights on Global Perspectives Searching for Solutions: Diving into the Ripple Effects of Global Disruption.

A new report from CNHP aging researchers, the first for the state, examines health disparities in Pennsylvania with actionable recommendations for Disrupting Disparities for older Pennsylvanians.

A new collaboration between the College of Nursing and Health Professions and University of Minnesota School of Public Health will work to establish the Public Health Center of Excellence on Dementia Caregiving.

Mohammed Alghamdi took on the role of physical therapy department chair nine months ago after receiving his PhD in Pediatric Physical Therapy in 2019. At the time, he likely didn't realize how his education from CNHP got him ready to lead during a pandemic.

Drexel University's Rapid Response Research & Development Fund was designated for urgent action, short-term projects focused on COVID-19-related health and health-related research and development. Two CNHP faculty members were awarded grants to advance research and provide more PPE for our frontline heroes.

Brandy-Joe Milliron, PhD, assistant professor in the Department of Nutrition Sciences, receives funding for interprofessional cancer research study.

CNHP’s researchers will be presenting their research at Drexel’s 2018 Helen I. Moorehead-Laurencin, MD, Sex and Gender Research Forum, which will be held March 8, 2018. Our College will have an impressive showing of our research at this University-wide research forum. The abstracts were peer-reviewed and nine were accepted for presentations.

CNHP and DABDEI are co-sponsors of this event.

The number of Americans affected by chronic pain and the annual cost to treat it is staggering. Add to it the poor outcomes and it is clear that we are facing one of the most challenging health issues to address. A new approach is needed and Sarah Wenger, PT, DPT is working on just that.

After winning an award from Drexel for career development, Margaret Finley, PT, PhD received a grant from the Department of Defense to discover a biopsychosocial prospective surveillance model for development of shoulder pain following spinal cord injury.

We’ve all heard of laughter being the best medicine, but what about music?

A systematic review published by the Cochrane Library found that there is significant evidence that music interventions help alleviate symptoms of anxiety, pain and fatigue in cancer patients, while also boosting their quality of life.

Three nursing students take second place at CHOP Research Day for their research project in implementing simulation into the unlicensed assistive personnel orientation

In November 2014, much of the nation was riveted when disturbing video footage from a hospital unit showed a 68-year-old hospital patient attacking a group of nurses with a metal pipe pulled from his bed. 

The upcoming BAYADA Home Health Care Speaker Series will tackle a topic as massive as the bill itself – the Affordable Care Act (ACA).

Though the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) requires all places of employment to provide equal access and reasonable accommodations to persons with disabilities, there are still many barriers to employment that may stand between a deserving individual with a disability and their full career potential. 

A daily dose of exercise is a key component of a healthy lifestyle, but when a flare for fitness becomes a compulsion the mental and physical side effects can easily become unhealthy.

After spending 10 years abroad in Russia, Israel and Denmark, Minh-Anh Nguyen, PhD, has finally landed in the Creative Arts Therapy Department to work on his research as a Fulbright Visiting Scholar. His pursuit of scholarship and desire to bring creative arts therapies to his native Vietnam are the driving forces behind his tenure at Drexel.

Although it was only formally developed in 2013, the Mixed Methods International Research Association (MMIRA) was in the making for almost 10 years.

Girija Kaimal, EdD, an assistant professor in the Department of Creative Arts Therapies, has been awarded the American Art Therapy Association (AATA) Research Award.

Celebrating alumni accomplishments. 

When most people think about the Grammys they envision music's elite gathering to celebrate a year of achievements. For Joke Bradt, PhD, associate professor in the Department of Creative Arts Therapies and certified music therapist, that vision includes music therapies and brain imaging.

Drexel is one of just a handful of universities endowed by the Coulter Foundation to help academic researchers bring their health-care discoveries to market — much the way an angel investor helps entrepreneurs.

If you are a healthy adult between the ages of 18 and 60 years and a member of the Drexel community (students/ faculty or staff) we would be delighted to have you join our research.   The research, which is... 

Joke Bradt, PhD received the 2014 Research and Publication Award from the American Music Therapy Association (AMTA). She was fortunate to have her mentor, John Creswell, PhD, present at the...

In July, resident Graduate Art Therapy faculty Donna Kaiser, PhD, Yasmine Awais, and Michele Rattigan presented at the 45th Annual American Art Therapy Association Conference in San Antonio, Texas.  Also... 

Victoria Scotti, a PhD candidate in the Creative Arts Therapies program, was just awarded the Estonian Student Scholarship for the second year in a row. Along with classmate Angela Aicher, Scott is co-authoring an article on arts-based research... 

Loretta Sweet Jemmott, PhD has been appointed Vice President for Health and Health Equity, Drexel University and Professor in the College of Nursing and Health Professions. 

Joke Bradt, an associate professor in the Creative Arts Therapies Department, visited the University of Melbourne's National Music Therapy Research Unit to serve as an external research consultant to their PhD students and faculty...

Girija Kaimal, PhD, was in Malawi, Africa in September 2014 as a research and evaluation consultant to Save the Children in their study of the outcomes of a project called Healing and Education through the Arts (HEART). The research project involved baseline assessments of over 800 children from approximately 60 preschools...

Deeptha Sukumar, PhD, an assistant professor in the Department of Nutrition Sciences, conducted a two-day event on August 12 and 13, 2014,  titled “Nutrition and Bone Workshop,” at PSG College of Arts and Science (PSGCAS) in Coimbatore, India...

Maggie O’Neil, PhD, an associate professor in the Department of Physical Therapy and Rehabilitation Sciences, was invited to participate in a visiting research professor lectureship as a part of her sabbatical in the spring... 

Congratulations to our senior students in the Physician Assistant Program who presented professional posters at the Pennsylvania Society of Physician Assistants.

Current senior nursing student Rachel Pagano was fortunate enough to work as a Drexel STAR (Students Tackling Advanced Research) Scholar during her freshman year at Drexel. The highly selective program allows students to...

The A.J. Drexel Autism Institute was established in July 2012, thanks to support from the Charles and Barbara Close Foundation in partnership with the University. 

Liesbet Manders is a PhD candidate in the Creative Arts Therapies Department at the Drexel College of Nursing and Health Professions. She was awarded a Fulbright Scholarship in 2013 for her research proposal, which later took her to Heidelberg, Germany to investigate whether participants...

Ellen Giarelli, an associate professor in the Doctor of Nursing Practice Department at the Drexel University College of Nursing and Health Professions, is an expert in strategies for public health surveillance of autism spectrum disorder (ASD), and through her work has...

Creating Integrated Healthcare for People with Autism Spectrum Disorder. That’s the title of the one-day conference scheduled to take place on November 8, 2014 in Behrakis Grand Hall on Drexel’s University City Main Campus. The conference, complete with invitational speakers and networking opportunities, will explore...

Donna Mueller, a former associate professor in the Nutrition Sciences Department who retired earlier this year, has co-authored the chapter “Nutrition for Pregnant Women Who Have Cystic Fibrosis” in the book Diet and Exercise in Cystic Fibrosis.

Gioia Chilton, PhD, the first graduate of the College’s new PhD in Creative Arts Therapies Program, has been selected as a recipient of the E. Paul Torrance Graduate Student Research Award for 2014. 

Lauren Pitts, MS Couple and Family Therapy ’13, EdD ’17, will be traveling to Barbados to study the impact of father-daughter communication on adolescent daughters’ sexual decision-making. 

Faculty and students from the PhD Program in Creative Arts Therapies at the College of Nursing and Health Professions have been busy this summer traveling to and presenting at multiple conferences. Here are the impressive highlights:

Jennifer Nasser, an associate professor in the Nutrition Sciences Department, has been awarded seed funding for her research from the Clinical and Translational Research Institute (CTRI) at Drexel University, which announced the first round of awardees after the organization received 35 competitive applications.

Faculty and doctoral students in the Department of Physical Therapy and Rehabilitation Sciences and the Department of Health Sciences have embarked on a research study looking at possible associations between athletes’ core stability and shoulder injuries.

The Nutrition Sciences Department at the College of Nursing and Health Professions has initiated a monthly seminar series. In the spring, the department invited Katherine W. Bauer, PhD, an assistant professor of public health at Temple University and a member of the Temple Center for Obesity Research and Education, to present to students...

The Office of the Provost and the Steinbright Career Development Center of Drexel University have granted $7,250 in research co-op funding to Rose Ann DiMaria-Ghalili for the upcoming fall/winter co-op cycle. 

Her presentation, titled “Tell Me About Your Mother: The Power of a Simple Question to Reveal a Patient’s Voice Through a Family Discussion,” focused on the use of open-ended questions to help families identify patients’ wishes...

“Every society invests in their future by making sure that their babies born today grow up to be healthy adults tomorrow,” said associate professor in the Graduate Nursing Department Joan Bloch. “And we know that healthy mothers have healthy babies,” she continued.

Ellen Giarelli, EdD, and Kathleen Fisher, PhD, from the College of Nursing and Health Professions and Jennifer Plumb, DSW/LSW, PhD, from the University’s AJ Drexel Autism Center were awarded conference grant funding from the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality NIH/AHRQ.

Rachael Ray, a well-known television personality and celebrity chef recently invited Jennifer Nasser, PhD, an associate professor of Nutrition Sciences at the College of Nursing and Health Professions to join her on set to explain human brain responses to certain foods.

Millions of people suffer from chronic pain every year and, consequently, millions of people feel estranged from their social life, family, and physical body. “The body becomes the enemy so you try to get rid of the pain and almost get rid of your body,” associate professor in the creative arts therapies Joke Bradt, PhD, said. “People with chronic pain often see personal relationships destroyed because of their pain. The pain breaks down communication and leads to many misunderstandings and frustration. People often end up feeling lonely and isolated.”

Guy Diamond, PhD, joined the Drexel College of Nursing and Health Professions’ Couple and Family Therapy Department as a full-time permanent faculty member at the start of the new year after serving in a visiting professor role during 2013. A renowned expert in adolescent suicide screening and depression treatment, he joins us at the pinnacle of a career filled with important publications, accolades, groundbreaking research, and an outstanding grant funding history.

There are approximately 3.1 million adolescents who smoke. The problem is that the human brain does not fully develop until people reach their mid-20’s, and so tobacco use is especially harmful to adolescents. Furthermore, almost 90% of adult smokers started when they were teenagers, explained Suzan Blacher, an assistant professor in the online RN-BSN Program at the College of Nursing and Health Professions.

Paulina Sockolow, DrPH, an assistant professor in Health Systems and Services Research, is working with an interdisciplinary team to bring a psycho-educational behavioral intervention to the smartphones of inner city teens. 

Tucked away on the second floor of the College of Nursing and Health Professions’ Three Parkway facilities is the newly developed Gait Lab of the Department of Physical Therapy and Rehabilitation Sciences. 

Kathleen Fisher, PhD, is a federally funded researcher and an associate professor in the Doctor of Nursing Practice Department at the Drexel College of Nursing and Health Professions. Since 1999 she has been working in the field of intellectual and developmental disability, or I/DD.

Samantha Beaino, an undergraduate student in the Nutrition Sciences Department at the College of Nursing and Health Professions, was recently awarded the Urban Sustainability Initiative Fellowship Grant (USI) for a total of $7,500.

Recent graduate Sandra Brinkman-Denney’s capstone manuscript, entitled “An International Comparison of the Clinical Trials Nurse Role,” was published in the December issue of the British journal, Nursing Management-UK...

Rose Ann DiMaria-Ghalili, PhD, an associate professor in the Doctor of Nursing Practice Department, recently published three journal articles. The first article was titled...

BSN co-op seniors, Noah Zuares and Kyle Coles, presented a poster at the 2013 American Assembly for Men in Nursing Annual Conference in Newark, New Jersey. Zuares and Coles presented the findings of their Internet survey through which they investigated...

The Drexel Social Science Committee (SCC) recently chose Constance Perry, PhD, an associate professor in the Health Services Administration Department, along with several other Drexel professors from various colleges, to receive support from the...

Cerebral palsy, a term that encompasses a group of motor conditions, movement disorders, and muscle tone or posture disorders, affects almost 800,000 Americans. Robert Palisano, PT, a distinguished professor in the College of Nursing and Health Professions’ Department of Physical Therapy and Rehabilitation Sciences, has been researching cerebral palsy in children and adolescents for the past twenty years...

MinJung Shim, a doctoral candidate in the Creative Arts Therapies Department at Drexel’s College of Nursing and Health Professions, recently attended a conference on Integrative Oncology in Vancouver, British Columbia...

Infant feeding behavior encompasses a wide array of actions including breastfeeding, bottle feeding and the introduction of solid foods.

Creative Arts Therapies faculty members Donna Kaiser, PhD and Yasmine Awais each published separate articles in the September issue of the Journal of the American Art Therapy Association. 

On October 8, a delegation from the country of Oman, a country situated in southwest Asia, visited the Drexel College of Nursing and Health Professions to discuss our nursing programs and research. 

It was a gathering scheduled by Drexel’s Vice Provost for Research, Dr. Deborah Crawford, PhD, that fortuitously allowed Elizabeth Gonzalez, PhD and Eugenia Ellis, PhD to meet for the first time. 

Alison K. Ventura, PhD, an assistant professor in the Nutrition Sciences Department at the College of Nursing and Health Professions, recently published an article about nutrition and child development. According to Ventura, “learning about flavors in foods begins in the womb and during early infancy...

Jennifer Quinlan, associate professor of Nutrition Sciences at Drexel’s College of Nursing and Health Professions, recently published an article entitled “Foodborne Illness Incidence Rates and Food Safety Risks for Populations of Low Socioeconomic Status and Minority Race/Ethnicity: A Review of the Literature” in The International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health.

The College of Nursing and Health Professions welcomes two new faculty members, Deeptha Sukumar, PhD and Brandy-Joe Milliron, PhD.

Stella Volpe, PhD, professor and Chair of the Department of Nutrition Sciences, gave two keynote lectures, one in Brazil and the other in England.  On August 30, she presented her research, “Obesity and Diabetes Prevention across the Lifespan..."

In investigating the food safety challenges that Philadelphia area residents experience in their kitchens, Jennifer Quinlan, PhD, an associate professor in the Nutrition Sciences Department decided it was best to actually get inside some of these kitchens...

Fruits and vegetables are essential to a healthy diet. When we’re in a store picking out a beautiful piece of fruit, we don’t stop to ask ourselves, “Were pesticides used in the growing process of this apple? Who harvested this apple and how much were they exposed to these pesticides?”

How would you like to eat your meals lying on your back, in a metal tube, surrounded by a symphony of strange noises and goggled researchers? This is what it would be like to eat dinner inside of a functional MRI instrument...

Rising nursing sophomore Pelagia “Peggy” Papathomas presented her poster, “Sources of Measurement Error in Evidence Based Research,” as part of the Pennoni STAR Scholar Program at Drexel University on August 28. Her research studied the intrinsic and extrinsic factors that can cause inaccuracies in the data collected for a study.

Do you have raw chicken sitting in your refrigerator at home right now? If the answer to that question is yes, “you should assume that you have either Salmonella or Campylobacter bacteria on it, if not both,” Jennifer Quinlan, PhD, an associate professor in the Nutrition Sciences Department, explains.

DrNP student Jean Logan was published in the Journal of General Internal Medicine for her article, Exploring Public Attitudes Towards Approaches to Discussing Costs in the Clinical Encounter. The article’s objective was to explore public attitudes toward doctor-patient discussions of insurer and out-of-pocket costs and to examine whether several possible communication strategies might enhance patient receptivity to discussing costs with their physicians...

Beth Leonberg, an assistant clinical professor in the Nutrition Sciences Department and Director of the Didactic Program in Dietetics, was a co-author on a new study led by Drexel’s School of Public Health. Titled “Exploratory Analysis of Fast-Food Chain Restaurant Menus Before and After Implementation of Local Calorie-Labeling Policies, 2005-2011,” the study was recently published in the journal Preventing Chronic Disease...

Han Chen, MD, MPH, a PhD candidate in Rehabilitation Sciences at Drexel University’s College of Nursing and Health Professions, was awarded the Young Investigator Award at the World Congress of the International Society of Physical and Rehabilitation Medicine (ISPRM), held in Beijing, China in June...

Jamie Rincker, a recent graduate of Drexel’s master’s program in Nutrition Sciences, worked with Nutrition Department chair Stella Volpe, PhD, and Victor Tringali of University Wellness to create the food audit, “Feed the Dragons, A Guide to Healthier Food Selections on Campus..."

 “My father was a general practitioner for fifty years and he regularly made house calls. It seemed like a natural step for me to do the same,” said Bobbie Posmontier, PhD, who has delivered more than 2,000 babies in homes, hospitals and birth centers as a Nurse Midwife. She previously had her own practice that emulated midwife practices you might find in the United Kingdom. Posmontier gave her charts directly to the patients with which she worked, explaining, “There were no secrets between us..."

Jennifer Nasser, PhD, an associate professor in the Department of Nutrition Sciences, led a study that used electroretinography (ERG) to measure the brain’s pleasure response to eating.

Bobbie Posmontier, PhD, an assistant professor in the Doctor of Nursing Practice Department, received a Stein Fellowship for the upcoming academic year.

Joke Bradt, PhD, an associate professor in the Creative Arts Therapies Department, co-authored a Cochrane Systematic Review on music interventions for preoperative anxiety with Minjung Shim, a Creative Arts Therapies doctoral candidate.