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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 

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.