Drexel University’s Office of the President, College of Nursing and Health Professions (CNHP), Office of the Vice Provost for Diversity, Equity & Inclusion and Office of Research & Innovation have announced an opening in the application cycle for the 2024-25 HBCU-Drexel Health Science and STEM Partnership Pilot Research Awards competition.

The conference aims to engage students with industry professionals while connecting members of the culinary and hospitality industry through two days of workshops, hands-on demonstrations, tastings and panel discussions. This year’s conference explored Philadelphia’s vibrant food culture, fostering community engagement and the emergence of culinary arts as medicine.

U.S. News and World Report announced their Best Online Master’s in Nursing programs this week, including rankings in nursing specialty areas.

Sandy Sheller (Alumna ’04, ‘05) and her husband Stephen Sheller (Trustee Emeritus, HD ‘17) are an essential part of the growth at 11th Street. Sandy, as well as being an alumna, is a former assistant clinical professor at Drexel, an art therapist and currently president and director of the Sheller Family Foundation. The foundation’s mission is to improve lives, particularly of the marginalized and underserved, and it supports organizations that promote positive social change. In 2014, the Sheller Family Foundation helped support the expansion of 11th Street.

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.

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.

CNHP has a new degree program to offer students in the Health Science Department — a BS in exercise science — and Zach Jordan is one of the first people to sign up.

Students in "Garden to Table Cooking” (CULA T280) aimed to tackle sustainability and innovation by preparing dishes to present to a real-world partner of the University — Longwood Gardens.

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.

Food and Hospitality Management alumna, Mia Ormes, created a business, how many other enterprises begin, out of a need in the market. Coming from her own experience, she launched Tribu, a meal service company specializing in prenatal and postpartum foods with an emphasis on the traditional flavors of the African Diaspora.

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.

Drexel has been hosting the Mandela Washington Fellowship at the university for the last five years. An alumnus of the 2019 program, Dr. Joel Duah Afi, Veronica Carey, PhD, and Adam Zahn developed a training for Carey to deliver in Ghana. 

The ground has been broken on the Drexel Academic Tower, the new home for the College of Nursing and Health Professions in the University City Campus. Periodic updates, photos and video will be posted so you can feel part of the project.

On November 16, 2021, the College of Nursing and Health Professions in partnership with Offices of University Communications and Enrollment Management & Student Success filmed an Ambition Can't Wait commercial portraying a disaster simulation exercise. Students, alumni, faculty and professional staff took part in the one-day taping at the New College Building on Drexel's Center City Campus.

Kailie Dunn graduated in five years with a BS in Health Services Administration and a master’s in Public Health from Drexel University in 2019. Through this accelerated program that spans the College of Nursing and Health Professions and the Dornsife School of Public Health, Dunn found an ideal combination of her distinct interests in health care, business and public health.

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.

College of Nursing and Health Professions Assistant Clinical Professor Katie Farrell knew that the best place to pursue her doctorate degree was right under her nose. She's combining her love of nursing and teaching for a comprehensive EdD degree thanks to Drexel's School of Education and CNHP. 

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.

The Macy Undergraduate Leadership Fellows program provides students at Drexel University's College of Nursing and Health Professions and Dornsife School of Public Health an opportunity to exponentially boost their leadership potential and learn how to collaborate with and work on interprofessional teams.

The College of Nursing and Health Professions ranked in U.S. News and World Report Online Nursing Programs and finished in the top 3 for one of the specialty nursing areas.

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.

SNAP-Ed 2019 numbers are out and they show the impact of the state-wide program. Infographic included.

As long-term strategic plans coalesce for the College of Nursing and Health Professions, Dean Gitlin affirms our committment to community-centered health and wellness in all the areas where we serve. Roberta Waite, EdD, PMHCNS, ANEF, FAAN, with her years of scholarly, clinical and administrative expertise, is the perfect person to lead the charge of implementing learning opportunities with community practices. 

CNHP gets a director of strategic initiatives to develop and implement innovative approaches to interprofessional teams, new initiatives and best practices and new community-based partnerships. Kate Clark, MPA is also responsible to help develop an aging "collaboratory" and facilitating work groups around new efforts.

CNHP gets a director of strategic initiatives to develop and implement innovative approaches to interprofessional teams, new initiatives and best practices and new community-based partnerships. Kate Clark, MPA is also responsible to help develop an aging "collaboratory" and facilitating work groups around new efforts.

For 13 years, BAYADA Home Health Care has recognized nurses and health professionals for contributions to patients and students through technology in education and practice. This year, an app and an electronic board win the $10,000 prizes. 

There is a robot inhabiting the 9^th floor of Three Parkway.  It’s tucked away in a cubicle, but makes the occasional venture out into the hallways to interact with faculty, staff and students.

Faculty members from the Behavioral Health Counseling (BHC) Department traveled to Seoul, Korea in November 2015, to present a workshop on a unique partnership with Project HOME, a nonprofit organization that provides housing and other services to men, women, and children in Philadelphia.

A man breaks into a 28-year-old woman’s home and rapes her. When you arrive at the scene to investigate, you find the door unlocked, a roll of duct tape in the bedroom and the woman’s license missing from her wallet.

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

The Drexel University College of Nursing and Health Professions Division of Continuing Nursing Education Presents

Raising the Bar Workshop

New Tools & Resources to Support the Technology Enhanced Classroom

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.

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...

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.

June 6 was a very happy day for many as golden shovels literally broke ground at the site of the Stephen and Sandra Sheller 11^th Street Family Health Services of Drexel University...

A team of three nursing professors from the Drexel College of Nursing and Health Professions, led by Jill Derstine, traveled to Eternal University’s Akal College of Nursing, located in the foothills of the Himalayas in India. 

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.

Oooohs and ahhhhhs filled the room when Dr. Robbie Melton, Associate Vice Chancellor for the Tennessee Board of Regents, visited the College of Nursing and Health Professions last month. 

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. 

“The Behavioral Health Counseling Program teaches you that a person is a person,” said Alison Reynolds, a student in the College’s Behavioral Health Counseling Program. 

At a ceremony on November 4, the RN-BSN Online Team was presented with a 2013 President’s Award for Excellence...

On October 2, distance learning faculty reached an impressive milestone when they conducted an online learning session, via BlackBoard’s “Collaborate” tool, with a record 215 students in attendance. 

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. 

Fran Cornelius, PhD, clinical professor and Chair of the Division of Graduate Nursing, and Karyn Holt, PhD, an associate clinical professor in the Division of Graduate Nursing, have ignited a new initiative to increase faculty collaboration, improve student engagement, and better the work environment across the University. Through a series of periodic mini-conferences in a series aptly named “Raise the Bar,” that are delivered both in-person and via webcast...

The Department of Nutrition Sciences is very pleased to announce that, beginning during the fall quarter 2013, nutrition counseling services will be available to every Drexel student as a benefit of their student status...

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...

Jean MacFadyen, PhD will encourage cross-global innovation in her fall Graduate Nursing course, “Innovation in Advanced Nursing Practice: Theory and Application.” The course was chosen to be taught as a Global Classroom, a newly-created program that engages Drexel students with students at one of Drexel University’s partner universities abroad through a range of online technologies.

So just what can someone do with a degree in Health Services Administration? Students graduating with an HSAD degree have gone on to careers with health maintenance organizations (HMOs), insurance companies, hospitals, marketing firms, government agencies, advocacy organizations, clinics, mental health organizations and long-term care facilities, to name a few...

Four times per year Drexel University’s College of Nursing and Health Professions offers a Certificate in Simulation course in the Center for Interdisciplinary Clinical Simulation and Practice (CICSP). On the first day of the event, participants are asked to assist with the care of the injured after a mass casualty disaster. In the past, the staff at the Simulation Lab has created scenarios involving a bus accident, a terrorist bombing, a house fire, bird flu, and even a zombie apocalypse...

Students from Drexel University’s College of Nursing and Health Professions and College of Medicine participated in an interdisciplinary cesarean section simulation in the Center for Interdisciplinary Clinical Simulation and Practice (CICSP) on April 30. The C-section high fidelity simulator prototype, named “C-Celia” was developed...

The Office of Institutional Research, Assessment, and Effectiveness (IRAE)  has announced the creation of a public website on learning assessment at Drexel University...

Roberta Waite, PhD, an associate professor and the Assistant Dean of Academic Integration and Evaluation of Community Programs, was awarded the 2013 International Society of Psychiatric Nursing Education (ISPN) Award at this year’s ISPN Conference in San Antonio, Texas...

Alis Panzera, an assistant clinical professor of nursing, brought her sons Nicholas, 11 years old, and Christopher, 7, to Inspire a Child to Dream Day in the Simulation Lab on April 25. “This was our third year attending the event. Both of my boys look forward to it every year,” she said.

Al Rundio, PhD, DNP, a clinical professor of nursing and Associate Dean for Post Licensure Nursing Programs, was interviewed for an Advance for Nurses article about universities’ struggles to find enough qualified nursing faculty. "There was a lot of attention being paid to the [presidential] election," Rundio began, "With the president being re-elected, the focus now is on the effects of the Affordable Care Act and the increase in insured people under the plan.” In response to the fact that the aging population and more insured individuals will require a larger workforce of nurses...

Kymberlee Montgomery '09 opened her DrNP dissertation with an epitaph: “Be the change you wish to see in the world.” Her husband Owen Montgomery, MD’s motivation stems from a similar world view. “Thomas Jefferson has a quote about responsibility,” Owen said. “If you have the ability to change the world for the better, you also have the responsibility to change it.” Kym and Owen Montgomery are living their personal missions...

A new post-baccalaureate certificate program in the Integrated Nursing Care of Autism Spectrum Disorder will be offered in fall 2013 to nurses who have a Bachelor’s degree or higher in nursing as well as to BSN or Master’s degree students who want to minor in Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) nursing care.

Drexel opened its Expressive and Creative Interaction Technologies (ExCITe) Center, which provides both an open work area for inter-college collaboration and a place to showcase multi-disciplinary activities and projects. Located at the University City Science Center’s 3401 Market Street building, the ExCITe Center will demonstrate how the conversion of many technologies, such as humanoid robots, video games, and digital knitting machines, can encourage innovation across multiple fields.

Drexel University’s inaugural “Certificate in Simulation” course is being presented to the public on August 9-13 by the College of Nursing & Health Professions (CNHP) Center for Interdisciplinary Simulation & Practice (CICSP) in collaboration with CNHP Continuing Education.