College of Health News

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Celebrating 10 years of the UAA/ISU Doctor of Pharmacy program

 |  Shelby Downey-Kriegh  | 

UAA and Idaho State's University Doctor of Pharmacy program recently hosted their annual white coat ceremony, marking the 10th anniversary of the partnership’s founding.

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Della Keats program introduces Alaskan high schoolers to degrees and careers in healthcare

 |  Janelle Richards  |  , , ,

The newest iteration of the Della Keats Health Sciences Program focuses on serving Alaska Native/American Indian high school students interested in healthcare careers.

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$25M gift to bolster rural- and Indigenous-focused medical training in Alaska

 |  Rachel Cassandra  | 

WWAMI, a University of Washington medical school program that serves five western states, including Alaska, recently received a $25 million endowment for scholarships to increase the number of physicians in rural and Indigenous communities.

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College of Health team delivers critical speech and hearing screenings in rural Alaska

 |  Shelby Kriegh  | 

A team of College of Health faculty and students from the University of Alaska Anchorage recently traveled to Bethel and two nearby rural communities to provide free speech, language, and hearing screenings.

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College of Health programs support overdose response in rural Alaska

 |  Lynda Hernandez, Shelby Kriegh  |  , , , ,

Lynn Troyer, an academic advisor for the School of Nursing at the University of Alaska Anchorage, traveled to Bethel as part of the Alaska-Rural Community Overdose Response Project (AK-RCORP).