School of Health Sciences

Associate Professor of Physician Assistant Studies Tracey Thurnes will begin a three-year term as director at large on the PAEA Board of Directors in 2025.

“Bridging Faith and Health," a new micro-credential badge program, focuses on holistic patient care

In this 3000-level course, Associate Professor of Human Service Studies Vanessa Drew-Branch guides students in exploring the evolution of Black comedy in America and its role in exposing societal injustices.

Professor of Physical Therapy Education and department chair and program director for the Department of Physical Therapy Education Charity Johansson helps shape DPT graduates into not only highly skilled professionals but compassionate and empathetic providers.

The Essential Conversations in Healthcare workshop is celebrating its sixth year helping health care providers prepare for end-of-life conversations.

Members of the department attended the national Physician Assistant Education Association conference held Oct. 8-10 in Washington, D.C.

Elon's first-person consent donors make a profound and intentional choice to invite students to learn. These "silent teachers" have intentionally decided to continue teaching even in death.

Nursing, physician assistant and anatomy faculty members, along with anatomy teaching assistants came together to offer an engaged, interdisciplinary learning opportunity to nursing students utilizing the "silent teachers" in the Anatomical Gift Program.

The first training for the new micro-credential badge will be offered in October.

Nearly three dozen local students participated in the two-week summer program organized by the Physician Assistant Studies program.