Tag: Dr. Kiran C. Patel College of Allopathic Medicine

NSU MD Joins Gold Humanism Honor Society

NSU MD has been officially accepted as a member of the Gold Humanism Honor Society, a renowned humanitarian organization dedicated to promoting humanistic values and behaviors in health care. This esteemed recognition highlights NSU MD’s dedication to fostering the highest standards of patient care, professionalism, and compassion among its students, faculty, and staff.

The Gold Humanism Honor Society, known for its commitment to patient-centered care, advocates for the integration of humanism into medical practice. With this membership, NSU MD joins an exclusive community of medical schools and health care institutions that share the common goal of delivering compassionate, empathetic, and ethical care to patients.

Rolando De Leon, M.D., F.A.C.O.G., Founding Chair and Clinical Associate Professor of Obstetrics and Gynecologyexpressed his delight at the acceptance and of being named founding co-adviser for GHHS at NSU MD. “This is a great honor for our school, as humanism is at the core of the practice of medicine. This peer-driven recognition of our students’ inherent humanistic values is wonderful.”

NSU MD has long been a pioneer in promoting humanistic values in medical education. Through innovative curriculum enhancements, such as early patient experiences, ethics and humanism programs, and service-learning opportunities, the medical school prioritizes the development of compassionate and caring health care professionals.

The Gold Humanism Honor Society’s recognition affirms NSU MD’s dedication to shaping future physicians who prioritize a patient’s well-being, dignity, and autonomy. By incorporating humanistic values into their clinical practice, NSU MD graduates will positively impact the lives of countless patients and communities.

Posted 07/16/23

NSUMD Will Host Annual Pride Health Fair on June 3

The Dr. Kiran C. Patel College of Allopathic Medicine (NSUMD) will host its Annual Pride Health Fair on June 3 at the Pride Center at Equality Park in Fort Lauderdale.

Scan the QR code on the flyer to register for this free event and win great prizes. Interested exhibitors, please contact Dr. Arkene Levy (alevy1@nova.edu) for more information.

Posted 05/21/23

NSU’s Graduate and Online Programs Shine in Latest National Rankings

The 2023 U.S. News & World Report higher education rankings are out, and Nova Southeastern University continues to be ranked among the nation’s best in several important categories.

The “Best Graduate Schools” category includes NSU’s highly ranked physician assistant program (M.M.S. in Physician Assistant) offered in Fort Lauderdale through the Dr. Pallavi Patel College of Health Care Sciences.

NSU’s Shepard Broad College of Law topped the U.S. News & World Report “Best Law Schools” list for its highly regarded “Health Care Law,” “Legal Writing,” and “Trial Advocacy” programs, and both the Dr. Kiran C. Patel College of Allopathic Medicine and Dr. Kiran C. Patel College of Osteopathic Medicine were recognized as national leaders in “Diversity” among the “Best Medical Schools.”

The “Best Online Programs” category features NSU’s information technology program (M.S. in Information Technology) offered through the College of Computing and Engineering, and nursing (M.S.N.) program offered through the Ron & Kathy Assaf College of Nursing, which earned high national rankings.

“As NSU continues to forge ahead in its path to preeminence, such national recognitions are a product of a culture dedicated to providing top-notch educational opportunities and innovative academic and research programs on its many campuses,” said NSU President and CEO George L. Hanbury II, Ph.D.

U.S. News & World Report is the global leader in quality rankings that empower consumers, business leaders and policy officials to make better, more informed decisions about important issues affecting their lives and communities. By collecting school data annually, U.S. News & World Report presents the most current figures on enrollment, job placement, faculty and other critical quality indicators that help prospective students make informed decisions.

NSU routinely has been ranked among the best by U.S. News & World Report. University-wide, in 2022-2023, NSU was recognized as a top “National University,” a “Best Value School,” and among the best colleges for “Social Mobility.”

Transformational Gift Leads to NSU Renaming College of Pharmacy

Dr. Barry Silverman and his wife, Judy

Nova Southeastern University (NSU) is proud to announce that Board of Trustees Vice Chair, and Chair of the NSU Health Professions Division Board of Governors Dr. Barry Silverman and his wife, Judy, have made a transformational gift to the university as part of the Campaign to Preeminence.

This generous gift will provide for student scholarships and endowment support to enhance the financial sustainability of three preeminent NSU entities: its College of Pharmacy, the Dr. Kiran C. Patel College of Allopathic Medicine, and the NSU Art Museum Fort Lauderdale.

Dr. Barry and Judy Silverman are particularly interested in enhancing the growth and continued impact of NSU’s stellar pharmacy program, not only in Fort Lauderdale/Davie, but also at the university’s Palm Beach and San Juan, Puerto Rico campuses.

To honor this transformational gift, the college will now be known as NSU’s Barry and Judy Silverman College of Pharmacy.

“Education is something near and dear to our hearts, and to be able to provide a gift that will change the lives of students and the next generation of pharmacists and doctors was something we could not pass up,” said Dr. Silverman, who is an orthopedic surgeon. “NSU is a major part of our lives, and Judy and I are honored to be able to help enhance what these colleges and the NSU Art Museum are doing for our students and community as we all work together toward preeminence.”

Currently, NSU’s Barry and Judy Silverman College of Pharmacy has almost 1,000 students enrolled at its three locations, as well as more than 6,000 graduates who are researchers, innovators and advocates for their patients. The Pharm.D. program was recently granted another full eight-year re-accreditation from the Accreditation Council for Pharmacy Education (ACPE). Its Pharm.D. graduates are among the highest NAPLEX pass rates for Florida’s private colleges of pharmacy, and it’s the only program in the United States to operate a full-service campus-based community pharmacy and an institutional pharmacy. The college is known for its many research successes and its commitment to diversity, volunteerism and community service.

This gift is a major step in NSU reaching its goal of $500 million by 2025, with our giving total so far in 2023 now at $412 million. The Silvermans are the latest visionaries to join a list of NSU supporters and benefactors who are helping the university on its path to preeminence.

“What a month of achievement this has been for NSU, with two new national accreditations last week and now this naming gift for one of our world-class colleges,” said Dr. George Hanbury, NSU’s President and CEO. “It’s been a privilege to work with Barry and Judy over the past few months to secure this gift and accomplish the many impacts they wished to see and how they wanted their efforts to benefit the students most of all.”

For example, in addition to the scholarship and endowment support already mentioned, and in further recognition of this gift, each year during the commencement exercise of the Barry and Judy Silverman College of Pharmacy, the dean of the college will present to the graduating Pharm.D. student exhibiting the highest scholastic achievement in his or her class, and who best exemplifies the exemplary characteristics of a preeminent pharmacist, the Barry and Judy Silverman Award.

“This leadership gift from the Silvermans will help fuel the college’s continuing path to preeminence,” said Michelle A. Clark, Ph.D., dean of NSU’s Barry and Judy Silverman College of Pharmacy. “It will allow us to offer more students scholarships so they can become inclusive leaders in the science and practice of pharmacy who will improve health and well-being through discovery, innovation, advocacy and the delivery of optimal patient care.”

Please join NSU in celebrating this generous gift and in recognizing the Silvermans as champions in the university’s rise to preeminence as we work together to make yours a healthier world.

NSU Receives Two Milestone Accreditations

When Nova Southeastern University President and CEO George L. Hanbury II, Ph.D., unveiled NSU’s Vision, Mission, and Core Values, he challenged all the deans to work with their faculty and staff to obtain recognition from their respective accrediting bodies.

 That challenge was not only accepted, but today, we can announce that it has been met, as NSU’s H. Wayne Huizenga College of Business and Entrepreneurship and Dr. Kiran C. Patel College of Allopathic Medicine both earned the highest level of accreditation in their disciplines.

In the case of the H. Wayne Huizenga College of Business and Entrepreneurship, NSU earned accreditation from AACSB International – The Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business (AACSB) – the world’s largest business education alliance. With the accreditation, NSU joins the ranks of less than six percent of the world’s schools offering business degree programs. Currently, 980 institutions in 60 countries and territories have earned this prestigious accreditation, which requires a rigorous approval process. READ MORE.

As for the Dr. Kiran C. Patel College of Allopathic Medicine, it has been granted full accreditation by the Liaison Committee on Medical Education (LCME)—the nationally recognized accrediting authority for medical education programs in the United States and Canada. Achieving this final, essential approval involved a three-step accreditation journey, which included numerous site visits spanning more than six years. The accreditation grants NSU MD the privilege of officially conferring the Doctor of Medicine degree (M.D.) and state licensure upon its student graduates. READ MORE.

Posted 02/22/23

Health Foundation of South Florida Gives NSU $1 Million Grant

The Health Foundation of South Florida recently announced that it is investing $2 million in two regional universities to advance health equity in underserved communities in Broward and Miami-Dade counties.

Nova Southeastern University and the University of Miami will each receive a $1 million grant to name and launch unique initiatives that will bring together multidisciplinary experts from across their respective institutions and the community to inform the development and implementation of innovative and community-based programs and collect and evaluate data – all aimed at identifying and address the root causes of health inequity across South Florida.

NSU’s Julie A. Jacko, Ph.D., is the Principal Investigator and Project Director for the grant and François Sainfort, Ph.D., is the Co-Principal Investigator.

As part of the investment the universities will forge partnerships and coordinate with regional health systems and community organizations to support the adoption of promising interventions.

The award was made to the Dr. Kiran C. Patel College of Allopathic Medicine and specifically, to its Department of Population Health Sciences. The grant will involve NSU’s H. Wayne Huizenga College of Business and Entrepreneurship and clinical partners including NSU Health, Memorial Healthcare System, as well as value-based primary care provider Cano Health.

“We believe this is groundbreaking for our region, and an important step toward informing, shaping and implementing population health efforts that can ultimately help us achieve health equity,” said Loreen Chant, president and CEO of the Health Foundation of South Florida.

The investment aligns with all three of the Health Foundation’s three focus areas: working at a systems level to improve access to healthcare in uninsured and underserved communities, advance the integration of social needs and clinical care delivery, and foster economic stability and other community conditions that promote physical, mental, and emotional well-being.

Posted 02/23/23

Graduate Spotlight: Dreams Come True for Aspiring M.D. Student

Samantha Marazita

Samantha Marazita possesses a personality fueled with honesty, vivacity, and a passion for helping others. In fact, her zeal for life is so powerful that it’s hard to imagine the hurdles she had to clear enroute to a promising path to be a doctor. Obstacles aside, this M.D. graduate now finds herself headed to clinicals in internal medicine at Cleveland Clinic in Ohio — the No. 2 hospital in the world.

Samantha’s journey was a bumpy one. She was raised in a mobile home park in Reno, Nevada, about 500 miles outside Las Vegas. Her parents, who didn’t finish high school, worked casino and service industry jobs to provide for Samantha and her older brother Anthony.

Samantha’s father incidentally gave her the first taste of the medicine. When he would complain of illnesses that he believed he had, Samantha would get on the family’s computer to do some research on his symptoms. She would bring her findings the next day to the dinner table. Her father continued to feed her medical curiosity routinely, she says.

Growing up, Samantha wasn’t much of a fan of academics, maintaining that she – as well as her parents – were more “street smart than book smart.” But that would all change when she went to high school. Initially though, she said, she struggled, and her grades reflected it.

“My first two years of high school, I was a terrible student,” she said. “It was C’s, D’s, and F’s. I told my teachers that I was just going to drop out.”

But then she met Dr. Sharon See, her sophomore English teacher. Samantha didn’t have a printer like the other students in the class so she would hand write her essays. Dr. See would sit down with her and go over them as she graded them.

“Having read many of my essays, she told me things could be different for me, that I could break the cycle and do whatever I want,” Samantha said. “She said that I could do well and go to college someday. Nobody ever said anything like that to me, and somehow it just stuck.”

Suddenly, Samantha says, she started turning her bad grades into A’s and did so well in school that she earned an in-state scholarship to go to college.

“Being in school was an escape for me once I opened myself up to learning,” she said.

Her quest for medical knowledge continued, and she would often offer unsolicited medical advice to people she knew.

Samantha studied film initially, having grown up often glued to the tube and her love for movies. She subsidized her income in the hospitality industry wearing such hats as a casino worker or concierge. For a moment, Samantha thought that hospitality might be the career for her, but something was missing, she said.

She was inspired by her husband, who she met after he had moved from the country of Georgia to Las Vegas get a graduate degree in medical physics. He told me to “Make my hobby my passion,” she said.

When the couple moved to Denver, Samantha headed back to school, getting degrees in chemistry and biology. Samantha then set her sights on Florida, because she loved the state and it had “plenty of medical schools.” She had heard about NSU and its reputation, she said, so she applied to the College of Osteopathic Medicine. Her application was denied, but she didn’t give up. She applied for the College of Allopathic Medicine and was accepted into its Doctor of Medicine (M.D.) program.

“I was so excited about being a part of the charter class of graduates of NSU,” she said.

With her latest degree and impending clinical experience, Samantha says she hopes to bring a positive impact to patients the field of internal medicine.

“Being in the hospital is one of the worst times in your life,” she said. “I just want to be a friendly face in the hospital for people and listen to their stories. I want to be the kind of hospitalist that spends time with patients and helps put the puzzle together for them.”

Posted 05/23/22

Students Place Third in American College of Healthcare Executives Contest

From left, Kenneth Wong (past president of ACHE of South Florida), Tania Perez, Samanta Gomez, Professor François Sainfort, and Abby Stout.

Our Complex Health Systems graduate students team of Samanta Gomez, Tania Perez and Abby Stout placed third at the 2022 American College of Healthcare Executives (ACHE) of South Florida Graduate Case competition. This was the first time a team from NSU competed in this event, and what a great result!

Tania, Samanta and Abby did a marvelous job and set a high bar for their fellow students to surpass next year! Professor Timothy Page, Ph.D., and Associate Professor Eleanor Lawrence, Psy.D., provided invaluable mentorship to the students in the CHS program.

Congratulations and thank you for your hard work and dedication!

Posted 05/22/22

Master of Biomedical Sciences Program Coming to Puerto Rico

Earning a coveted spot in medical school, dental school, and other competitive health professions programs is increasingly challenging. Many applicants have impressive credentials but still may not receive an acceptance letter on their first attempt. Applicants are often looking for a way to stand out.

Now students in Puerto Rico have an opportunity to gain a competitive edge in applying to health professions degree programs. Florida-based Nova Southeastern University (NSU), a leader in health professional education is launching its highly successful Master of Biomedical Sciences (MBS) program at the university’s San Juan campus this Fall.

The 30-credit MBS program is delivered in a hybrid format or can be taken fully online. It can be completed in as little as one year and offers part-time options and other support for students who work and have other obligations. Students receive one-on-one advising and career counseling from leading faculty members who know what it takes to get into medical school.

The MBS program is housed in NSU’s Dr. Kiran C. Patel College of Allopathic Medicine (NSU MD) and was developed by the medical school faculty to enhance students’ academic backgrounds. With a focus on clinical correlation, the 30-credit curriculum provides a solid foundation for rigorous health professions programs. The interdisciplinary program also includes courses in test preparation, business and interview skills, and a variety of other electives that help students round out their resumes before applying to professional schools. MBS graduates who meet program-specific requirements will be guaranteed an admission interview in select NSU health professions programs. The program also prepares students for Ph.D. programs and research careers.

Graduates of NSU’s MBS program, which also has a teaching site in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, have earned admission into programs in medicine, osteopathic medicine, dental medicine, physician associate, anesthesiologist assistant, and psychology at NSU and at other colleges and universities throughout the United States.

The MBS program is now accepting applications on a rolling basis. Primary and secondary applications are due by July 29, 2022, for the Fall semester.

The MBS program does not require an entrance exam for admission. Applicants must have a bachelor’s degree from an accredited U.S. college or university, or international equivalent; a minimum cumulative GPA of 2.5 on a 4.0 scale; submit letters of recommendation; and meet other prerequisite requirements. A full list of admission requirements and additional information on the program is available at www.nova.edu/mbs.

To learn more about the program, contact James Redding at jredding@nova.edu or 954-262-1124.

Be a Shark in a sea of applicants! Apply to NSU today!

Posted 04/24/22

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