Student and Alumni Stories, Events, Faculty Highlights, and Video Features
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I am excited to recognize the many achievements of our CHP community, adapting to new challenges and opportunities. I'm heartened by the accomplishments of our students and by the great efforts of faculty and staff behind the scenes to be responsive to student needs while maintaining the rigorous standards that assure our graduates a great career path after Pace.
Our CHP faculty-staff work tracks have accomplished much the past calendar year, including expanding collaborations and developing a new map for 2023. More to come in February!
The summer saw investment in facilities in including the Center for Excellence in Healthcare Simulation and a new Communication and Speech Disorders clinic. Additional investment is planned in the coming years, along with new supports for advancing faculty research.
The past few weeks we’ve seen the joy of in-person ceremonies to celebrate the successful completion of our students including those in OT, PA-PLV, FNP, AGACNP, and ABSN-PLV.
We continue to develop new degrees in areas to improve health equity and outcomes, and have a deep appreciation for our clinical partners and advisory board who make our work possible. By our chosen fields and this work, we are very much a part of the solution to a better future.
My warmest wishes to all for your health and happiness in the holiday season and a successful New Year!
Best regards,
Marcus C. Tye, Ph.D. [he/him]
Dean, College of Health Professions
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Meet the Adult-Gerontology Acute Care Nurse Practitioner students
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Welcome to University Health Care at Pace University |
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Understanding and Promoting Interprofessional Practice and Collaboration |
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A GO-GETTER USES CHALLENGES TO BUILD RESILIENCE |
Reaching a career goal has its challenges, but Go-Getters know how to face them head on. Occupational Therapy (OT) alum, Elias Fraija, MOT, was determined to fight for his passion. Through perseverance and resilience, he made it happen.
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FROM MENTEE TO MENTOR, A REWARDING JOURNEY |
LSN alumna, Paule Valery Joseph, PhD, MS, FNP-BC, FAAN, found her passion for nursing and healthcare at a young age. Her journey of becoming an exceptional nurse scientist with multiple advanced degrees started from studying her mother’s career as the community nurse in their town in Venezuela. Dr. Joseph presented, What are the chemosensory profile(s) of Covid-19 at the CHP Faculty Colloquium October 27.
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THE BEAUTY IS IN THE EYE OF THE GO-GETTER |
Pace Go-Getters can do it all, said Pace
two-time graduate, mother, wife, nurse, and business owner, Dawn Surajh, DNP, APRN, FNP-C. For Dawn, nursing is not just a passion, it is her foundation.
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WHEN YOUR PASSION SPEAKS TO YOU, LISTEN |
Alumna LaChana Flanders, MS CCC - SLP found her passion for communication sciences and disorders (CSD) towards the end of her undergraduate education, and she hasn’t
looked back.
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TRIPLE ALUMNA RETURNS TO MAKE IT A QUARTET
Nothing says satisfaction more than a returning student. After completing the RN to BS, FNP, and DNP programs at Pace, Go-Getter Edith Onua, DNP, RN, FNP-BC, knew she was ready to take on more. Her career path and desire to help others brought her back to LSN for her fourth degree, a Master of Science in Psychiatric Mental Health Nurse Practitioner (PMHNP).
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PA-NYC, A PROGRAM OF
GO-GETTERS
Lenox Hill Hospital Physician Assistant Program (PA-NYC) graduates are Go-Getters. At Lenox Hill Hospital there are 22 advanced clinical providers (ACPs), of which 9 that have graduated from the PA-NYC program! These nine graduates have had some unique experiences and are a great representation of the achievements that students can look forward to in their careers.
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FALL 2022 AWARD PROGRAMS/CEREMONIES |
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The AGACNP program held an award ceremony for students on December 9. Congratulations to
Michele L. Sulcov, RN, AGACNP, for Outstanding Academic Achievement
Danielle Lampone, RN, AGACNP, for Outstanding Academic Achievement and Professional Potential.
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Congratulations to all faculty on their recent accomplishments! Visit the CHP directory to connect with any member of faculty.
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Joanne Singleton, PhD, RN, FNP-BC, associate dean, interim, of the Lienhard School of Nursing and Sophie R. Kaufman, DPS, MBA, assistant dean for grants and strategic initiatives gave their presentation, Evidence-Based Practices for Stress Reduction: Paws & Breathe and Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction (MBSR) to New York Presbyterian’s nurse managers.
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Joanne Singleton, PhD, RN, FNP-BC, associate dean, interim, of the Lienhard School of Nursing and Pawfessor Spirit provided hands-on service animal training for staff at Montefiore Nyack, increasing awareness of a service animal's role in a patient’s well-being and recovery.
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Marie Lourdes Charles, EdD, RN-BC, FNYAM, assistant professor in nursing, published her personal reflection, A glimmer of hope: My reflections on global health efforts in Haiti, in Public Health Nursing's online library, Wiley.
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Erica L. Gollub, DrPH, MPH, professor of health science
Co-author, Raven Vaughan ’20, BSHS
Article publication, AIDS Education and Prevention
US women need the dapivirine ring, too: FDA as structural barrier to HIV prevention for women
24th AIDS International Conference, Montreal, Canada
Poster presentation, You never know with one's husband, so this is important: Preliminary hypothetical acceptability responses to the Dapivirine Vaginal Ring for HIV prevention among Latina community clinic attendees
Co-presenter, Shirly Chen ‘21, BSHS
The American Public Health Association, Boston, MA
Oral presentation, Investigating race differences in female firearm-related intimate partner homicide rates using the National Violent Death Reporting System (NVDRS)
The American Public Health Association, Boston, MA
Poster presentation, FDA stance on dapivirine ring for HIV prevention: a serious threat to expanding safe, user-controlled options for US women’s HIV/STI and pregnancy prevention
Columbia University, Mailman School of Public Health
Alan Berkman Memorial Lecture, Visionary Woman in Science: Remembering and Celebrating the Life of Zena A. Stein
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Karen Roush PhD, RN, FNP-BC, assistant professor in nursing, published the editorial, Gun Violence: The Carnage at Home, in the American Journal of Nursing (AJN).
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Sarit Orlofsky PhD, RN, CNS-MS, CDP, clinical associate professor in nursing, published her research, Older adults' experiences using Alexa, in Geriatric Nursing, the official journal of American Assisted Living Nurses Association and Gerontological Advanced Practice Nurses Association.
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Kyomi Gregory-Martin, PhD, CCC-SLP, assistant professor of communication sciences and disorders
Members of ASHA’s SIG 1 (Language Learning and Education) coordinating committee met with members of Congress, to discuss the importance of funding for the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act, creation of a technical assistance center at the Department of Education to better support educational audiologists and school-based speech-language pathologists, and permanent Medicare telepractice authority for members of the professions. Dr. Gregory-Martin attended virtually to share her expertise in support of ASHA’s advocacy efforts.
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Millie Hepburn, PhD, RN, ACNS-BC, SCRN, associate professor of nursing and undergraduate nursing program director, joined the Marcella Niehoff School of Nursing for the panel discussion, Racial Justice Leadership in Nursing.
Dr. Hepburn presented A next step in LDL-C lowering therapy: Oral Non-statin Therapies at the Pace University NYC campus who partnered with the Preventive Cardiovascular Nurses Association for a fall learning event.
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Ana B. Amaya, DrPH, MPH, associate professor in the health science program, was elected treasurer of Health Systems Global (HSG). As a board officer, Dr. Amaya will help lead the work of the board and society for the 2022-2024 period. HSG is a diverse, global membership organization of researchers, decision-makers, and implementers who are dedicated to promoting health policy and systems research (HPSR) and knowledge generation.
Dr. Amaya, along with Kyomi Gregory-Martin, PhD, assistant professor of communication sciences and disorders, and Tiffany Henley, PhD, assistant professor of public administration from the Dyson College of Arts and Sciences, presented at the Montefiore Medical Center Annual Nursing Research Symposium on October 7. Their presentation was titled, Understanding the Barriers and Facilitators of Minority Care during the First Phase of the COVID-19 Pandemic: A pilot study.
Related to this work, Dr. Amaya also presented her research at the American Public Health Association annual meeting on November 7. The presentation was titled, The role of health policies in supporting primarily minority-serving healthcare workers during the first phase of the COVID-19 pandemic. Her and her co-authors, Dr. Henley and Dr. Gregory-Martin, received support from the Covid-19 Collaborative Interdisciplinary Research Award for this project.
To mark World AIDS day, Dr. Amaya spoke on a panel titled The Fight Against HIV organized by Students for Global Health and Friends of Doctors without Borders (MSF) on November 30. She was joined on the panel by Chris Peskett, MSF nurse and member of the board, where she discussed the implications of the United Kingdom’s funding cuts to the Global Fund and the role of young advocates for global health. In addition, in September she gave a guest lecture for the graduate program in International Relations of the Federal University of Sergipe (DRI/UFS) in Brazil, titled Regionalism and Health in the Global South.
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Christen Cupples Cooper, Ed.D, RD, assistant professor of nutrition, shared her best tips for holiday snacking in the U.S. News & World Report, The Best Holiday Snacks and Desserts.
She was also featured on the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetic's podcast, The Hot Sauce.
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Temitope Gold, PhD, RN, PMH-BC, NPD-BC, NE-BC, assistant professor of nursing, presented at the 36th Annual American Psychiatric Nurses Association (APNA) conference in Long Beach, California. The presentation was on her dissertation research, Leadership Empowerment Behavior and Psychiatric Nurses’ Intent to Leave.
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Elijah Salzer, D.M.Sc., PA-C, NYSAFE, C-EFM, clinical professor of physician assistant studies, was invited by Lemoyne College Gender and Women’s Studies program to present, Topics in Health Care of Gender-Diverse People.
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Sethu Karthikeyan, PhD, associate professor of communication sciences and disorders, joined the Evolutionary Studies Club at SUNY New Paltz to present her talk, Bits, bytes, and the (d)evolution of human speech: An evolutionary mismatch perspective.
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Laurice D. Nemetz, MA, BC-DMT, E-RYT500, LCAT, C-IAYT, recently promoted adjunct professor of health science, presented Fascial Net Plastination Project: the Unveiling of FR:EIA - Insights and applications from the world's first human, whole body, fascial-focused plastinate dissection and Communicating the Science of Fascia at the Sixth International Fascia Research Congress held in Montreal.
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Congratulations to professor and alum Lucille Ferrara, EdD, MBA, on her retirement! She enjoyed a long career at Pace from 2007 to 2022.
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After dedicating 31 years to Pace University, we want to wish a very happy retirement to Barbara Streany!
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Congratulations to Keville Frederickson, EdD, MEd, on her retirement! She was the founding director of the PhD in Nursing program and has inspired many during her 8 years at the Lienhard School of Nursing.
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Family Nurse Practitioner (FNP) students from NYC and PLV came to campus to celebrate their last in-person class and the end of the semester before the holidays!
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The Occupational Therapy (OT) OTH 610 class of 2023 and Nursing RN4 class of 2024 shared simulated lab time together. Led by the nursing faculty Stephanie Allen, Patricia Myers, Elizabeth Ann Berro, Laura Geffs, Maureen Lynch, Cristina Vergara, Susan Balamaci, Nurine Chodosh, Aimee Smith, and Isavela Pace and OT faculty Jennifer Tokash and John Damiao.
The OT students conducted a job task analysis while the nursing students participated in their transfer training lab. They conducted assessments of the amount of force it requires for nurses to push and pull hospital beds, transfer carts, and bed rails as well as analyzed nursing students body mechanics and the ergonomics required of many nursing tasks. They presented their findings to the nursing students and collaborative efforts to "save the nurses backs" began! Nursing students are invited to OT labs to use therapy balls for stretching and exercise.
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Congratulations to Karyn Haynes, BSN, RN, PCCN, CCRN, TCRN, NREMT, adult-gerontology acute care nurse practitioner student, on receiving the 2022 Student Nurse Practitioner of the Year Award! The Nurse Practitioner Association of New York presents this award to an NPA student member that exemplifies educational excellence both academically and clinically as well as an understanding of the role the NPA plays in a student's education. Karyn was presented this award at the Annual Conference in Saratoga Springs, NY.
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Congratulations to PhD in Nursing student, Patricia Hughes, PhD, for successfully defending her dissertation: A single-center Observational Study of Nurses’ Assessment of Pain in Older Adults with Dementia/cognitive Impairment in The Acute Care Setting.
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Congratulations to Andrew Jacobowitz, MS, PA-C, CAQ-EM, for being selected as the Physician Assistant of the Year at Weill Cornell Medicine’s Advanced Practice Provider (APP) Awards! PA Jacobowitz has been the associate chief physician assistant for the Department of Emergency Medicine (EM) at New York Presbyterian Weill Cornell Medicine (NYP-WCM) since 2019. He graduated from the Pace University-Lenox Hill Hospital Physician Assistant (PA) program in 2014 and went on to complete a post-graduate physician assistant residency in Emergency Medicine at NYP-WCM.
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Deans Roundtable November Speaker
Linda Yi, CRNA '13
Certified Registered Nurse Anesthetist (CRNA)
University of Chicago Medical Center and Rush University Medical Center
Ms. Yi is a Certified Registered Nurse Anesthetist (CRNA) at the University of Chicago Medical Center and Rush University Medical Center. She currently provides anesthesia for adult populations and her goal is to relocate to Los Angeles, California to specialize in pediatric anesthesia. Anesthesia is her passion and she was beyond excited to share her story with students. She graduated with a BSN at Pace University, Lienhard School of Nursing in May 2013.
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Concept-based Education to Competency-based Education |
The LSN faculty are actively engaged in revising and updating the curriculum for the BS, MS, and DNP programs using a competence-based education approach for student learning to provide our graduates with the knowledge, skills, and philosophy to be nurse leaders in evidence-based, equitable, person-centered primary health care in complex and diverse healthcare environments.
Thank you to our Curriculum Committee Chairs Stephanie Allen, and Jason Slyer for their exceptional knowledge and organizational skills to leading and directing this important work.
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PACE HEALTH AND WELLNESS EVENTS |
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Pace Wellness and the College of Health Professions
presented four signature wellness events this semester. Click the videos below to watch now!
Feedback from the CHP community is greatly appreciated.
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Dr. Richard Shadick, PhD
Director of the Counseling Center and Adjunct Associate Professor of Psychology
September 21, 2022: An event that brought awareness of the importance of resilience and how mindfulness practice can be helpful to boost well-being and resilience. Attendees learned the What/Why/How of Mindfulness and experienced a brief practice together.
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October 13, 2022: As part of the Pace University-wide wellness initiative, students, faculty and staff are invited to watch the "social wellness" zoom event focused on acts of kindness. Click the link to find out how you can be part of Lady Gaga's national #BEKIND21 movement!
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Megan Walter
Policy Analyst, National Association of Student Financial Aid Administrators
November 15, 2022: Watch the zoom conversation around the Biden Administration Student Loan Debt Relief Plan.
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Plant-Based Cooking For the Holidays
Mary Opher, MS, RD, CDN
Clinical Assistant Professor
December 6, 2022: Chef and Registered Dietitian Mary Opfer demonstrated how to prepare healthy and delicious plant-based dishes for the holidays. Samples of each dish were offered for the in-person attendees on both the NYC and PLV campuses.
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Earn a chance to win $100 Pace Flex Dollars!
Eight signature wellness programs will be held throughout the academic year, focusing on the 8 dimensions of wellness. By attending 5 of the 8 programs your name will be entered into a lottery for one of three awards of $100 Pace Flex Dollars, each to be used for the Pace dining hall and/or bookstore.
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CONSTRUCTION AT LIENHARD HALL |
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The construction for the Lienhard Hall enhancements is complete!
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The Hugoton Foundation provided generous funding to renovate the simulation center on the Pleasantville campus to create an ADA Compliant simulation exam room.
The exam room is equipped to accommodate students with disabilities as well as to train all students on treating patients with physical disabilities, thereby providing an inclusive learning environment. We are so pleased to name the newly renovated exam room, Lienhard 12, in honor of Pace University Alumna
Joan M. Stout, JD, RN, ’84, ’78.
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The SIM Lab renovation was funded by a NYS HeCap grant and the University. The grant provides funding to universities for projects that will accomplish one of the following goals: enhance program offerings; provide economic development in the surrounding area; or enhance student life.
Highlights of the renovation include
The Healthcare Hub
Flexible classroom and lab spaces
Conservation and sustainability elements
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Explore employment opportunities
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