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Department of Nursing Welcomes: Herb K. Schultz   Topic: National Health Care Innovation   Thursday, October 11, 2012 Guzman Lecture Hall, Dominican Campus 1:30 - 3:30 p.m.    A Presidential appointment, Mr. Schultz serves as the Regional Director of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), Region IX. Region IX includes the states of Arizona, California, Nevada, Hawaii; the territories of American Samoa, Commonwealth of the Northern Marianas Islands, and Guam; as well as the island nations of the Federated States of Micronesia, Republic of Marshall Islands, and the Republic of Palau. He serves as HHS Secretary Kathleen Sebelius' key representative in the Region, ensuring that close contact is maintained by the federal government with state, local, tribal, and territorial governmental officials on a wide range of health and social service issues such as the new health care reform. Mr. Schultz received his BA in Political Science and International Studies from The American University in Washington, DC and has a Masters Degree in Public Policy from Georgetown University, also in Washington, DC.     For more information, contact Ellen Christiansen, RN, MSN at ellen.christiansen@dominican.edu
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Medical Mission to Uganda Africa

Dr. Anita Hunter, Chair of the nursing department will be taking senior nursing students to Uganda Africa on a medical mission from December 31, 2011 to January 14, 2012. For more information please contact John Kennedy 

• VP for Student Life / Dean of Students
• Student Services
• 415-485-3282
• Anne Hathaway
• John.Kennedy@dominican.edu

Dr. Anita Hunter featured in the Marin Independent Journal

On September 5, 2010, Marin Independent Journal wrote a story about Dr. Anita Hunter, the Chair of the Department f Nursing. Dr. Hunter studied resilience in children and young adults. Her research brought Hunter from her former practice in Amherst, Mass., to hospitals and orphanages in Cuernavaca, Mexico; Belfast, Northern Ireland, and Mbarara, Uganda.

Religious, Cultural Influences in Pediatric Healthcare

ABC news, MSNBC, the Boston Globe, Scientific American, and numerous daily newspapers in Asia, Europe, and Australia were among the news outlets carrying a Reuters story about nursing chair Dr. Luanne Linnard-Palmer's book examining religious and cultural influences on healthcare treatment.