Congratulations 2020 Graduates! You have completed your program with resilience and courage, two qualities you will surely carry with you. I invite all of you to visit USF Commencement Hub as the community celebrates this professional milestone.
During spring semester, School of Nursing and Health Professions faculty, staff, and administrators focused on supporting our students in a remote online learning environment. I am impressed ( but not surprised) by the exemplary flexibility, dedication, and passion of our students, faculty, and staff to work together through difficult times. Many of you showed what it means to work within the hallmarks of the Ignatian spirituality of cura personalis (care for the whole person) and cura apostolica (care of the whole project), showing up with energy, openness, and care.
Throughout this newsletter, you will be able to learn about our community and stories of how you, our students, have positively responded in challenging times. These stories are a testament to who we are as a community and how we live and work within our Jesuit values and education.
We continue to be here for you, working together to prepare you to be socially-conscious, innovative, expert-level health professionals who use their hearts, minds, and souls to change the world.
Sincerely,
Dean Baker
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Congratulations to the Spring 2020 Program-Specific Awards and Dean’s Medals
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Bachelor of Science in Nursing
Frances Monet Carter Award:
Earl James Ybanez Johns and Rachel Louise Toledo
Presented by Linda Harris, BSN, RN
Part-Time Faculty, Community and Mental Health Nursing
Master of Science in Nursing
Pam Bunnell Award: Sabrina Kwok
Presented by Robert Patterson, DNP, RN
Program Director, ME-MSN
Master of Public Health
Social Justice Award: Francesca Guilani
Presented by Dory Escobar, PhD
Assistant Professor
Dean’s Medals
Presented by Margaret Baker, PhD, RN, FAAN, FGSA
Dean and Professor
- Dean’s Medal for Promoting Professionalism - BSN Program
Toby Chun-Dong Lin - Dean’s Medal for Promoting Professionalism - MSN Program
Amanda Yvette Theolet - Dean’s Medal for Promoting Professionalism - DNP Program
Shanda Whittle - Dean’s Medal for Promoting Professionalism - MSBH Program
Josien Scheepens - Dean’s Medal for Promoting Professionalism - MSHI Program
Sruthi Gopalakumaran
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 | Spirit of St. Francis Award
Shelly Anne Aquino
Major: Nursing
"The meaning of life is to find your gift. The purpose of life is to give it away."
–Pablo Picasso
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Norman Feng
Major: Nursing
Minors: Health Studies, Gerontology
"I've always told myself that if I was going to be given a voice, I might as well say something worth listening to."
–Alessia Cara
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SONHP McGrath 2019–2020 Scholars!
Joan and Bob McGrath established a scholarship to create a new multidisciplinary student leadership institute and expand international student immersion opportunities. The program focuses on undergraduate students across all disciplines with leadership potential, regardless of their academic discipline.
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Sharif Adam, who presented the project “Restorative Leadership: Alternatives to Standard Punishment Paradigms,” said: "punishment only solidifies the behavior it seeks to punish, without ever bringing true understanding of the act in question."
Nick Banaria, whose project is "Health is Wealth," shared this: “Being a McGrath Scholar allowed me to go out of my comfort zone and learn to be a leader in ways I had never considered. It pushed me to become a better leader, listener, and mediator in any situation. My group's project, Health is Wealth, aims to target areas of food insecurity within the Bay Area. The website enables users to learn, volunteer, donate, and find access to healthy foods around the Bay Area.”
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Congratulations to the USF ROTC Nursing Cadets who were commissioned on May 15, 2020!
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White Coat Ceremonies
Back at the beginning of the semester, thanks to the Arnold Gold Foundation, USF Hilltop, Sacramento, and Orange County nursing students celebrated their White Coat Ceremony, "an iconic ritual that provides an important emphasis on compassionate, collaborative, scientifically excellent care from the very first day of training."
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- Public Health and Global Security in the Time of COVID-19 moderated by SONHP Statewide MPH Program Director Taryn Vian, SONHP faculty members Marie-Claude Couture and Barbara Sattler and, from the College of Arts and Sciences, biologist Sangman Kim. They provided perspectives on the COVID-19 pandemic through the lenses of epidemiology, immunology, and public health.
- Psychological Impacts of COVID-19: Understanding and Emerging from Crisis moderated by June Madsen Clausen, Senior Associate Dean (SONHP), Professor John E. Pérez (CAS), Assistant Professor David Martínez (SONHP), Assistant Professor Joyce Yang (CAS), and Assistant Professor Farima Pour-Khorshid (SOE) discussed the collective and individual psychological impacts of COVID 19. Using their research and expertise, the panel of faculty focused on the effects of this crisis on mental health and ways we can restore well-being for our community.
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Shelby Delaney BSN ‘15 got a very special call from her favorite basketball player, Steph Curry and engaged in a very inspiring conversation. Read more in the article and conversation video in the Mercury News.
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Dr. Jian Zhang is chief executive officer of the Chinese Hospital in San Francisco’s Chinatown. She is an alumna of Cohort #1 of the EL-DNP program and was featured in the New York Times article, How San Francisco’s Chinatown Got Ahead of the Coronavirus.
“Dr. Zhang has always been a visionary and ahead of the curve. We are proud of her!” said EL-DNP Program Director KT Waxman.
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BSN Hilltop Class 2020 Slideshow
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BSN Sacramento Class 2020 created this video as a way to contribute to the overarching message of social distancing. Well done Cohort 9 students! Sacramento students are committed to their community!
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Two BSN students, Simardeep Pajetta and Kayla Zuniga, developed the following educational pieces for clinics, Single Room Occupancy (SROs), and other sites in need of information:
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ME-MSN student Taryn Whitman became the GNSA Liaison for SONHP through June 2021!
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- Shanda Whittle, a DNP student, shared with us her story published on the NAMI Blog. As Professor Robin Buccheri said: “Shandra is a brave, persistent, and caring human being. The world is a better place because of her.”
- Liliana (Lilly) Campos Ramales, PsyD student, was honored as a WebMD hero in public health (e.g., the Gates Foundation) for her work related to immigrant health. Lily tells us: “My hope and dream is that we can find a sense of liberation in our wellness and our political voice.”
- One of our Master of Science in Health Informatics (MSHI) students, Jessica Stothers, produced this video abstract for AMIA’s Informatics Summit.
- Arianna Cunha, a second-semester student in the MPH-Community and Public Health Practice concentration, shared how she is applying principles of health communication design and persuasion to develop a Public Service Announcement video for the employees at the Port of San Francisco where she is an intern at the Health and Safety Department.
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