Shefali Parikh, MOT ’99, still recalls commiserating with classmates after their occupational therapy licensing exam 23 years ago. What worried her classmates most were the hundreds of dollars it cost...
“I was born of a nurse and married a nurse,” Howard “Mike” Milliken, MD, proudly declares when asked why he has such a strong connection to Samuel Merritt University nurses. During his 40-plus years...
When nursing Professor Paulina Van decided to establish a scholarship, it made sense to create one for Samuel Merritt University nursing students who plan to care for mothers and infants. For years...
It was finals week and Carter Todd, ABSN ’15, was taking a much-needed break from his late-night bartender job at Elephant Bar Restaurant in Sacramento’s Arden-Arcade neighborhood. He was relieved to...
When Jason Saunders, MPA ’23, thinks back to being 18, he remembers many of his peers locked away in jail, involved in selling and taking drugs, or dead. He was determined to take another path. “I...
When he was a little boy in Venezuela, Yan Fernandez-Carvajal, ELMSN-FNP '23, remembers running from an old woman with tumors all over her body. “She had bumps all over her face, arms, and legs. At...
From the time his father, Jose, started working for the Southern Pacific Railroad and his mother, Bertha, took on extra jobs after moving from Chihuahua, Mexico in the 1940s, Neptaly “Taty” Aguilera...
Juliana Lainez, OTD ’22, knows what it’s like to be the parent of an occupational therapy patient. In fact, it’s the driving force behind her desire to become an occupational therapist. When her son...
One of the things Michael L., BSN ’19, wanted most growing up was to be a “superhero.” Now he’s a second-year nursing student on the verge of graduating from Samuel Merritt University. Michael...
For Dr. William Lowe, DPM, ’57 and his wife Phyllis, visiting with students who receive their scholarship is a high point of the academic year. Now retired, the Lowes visit Samuel Merritt University’s...
