DEAN’S MESSAGE
I am very pleased to welcome you to the spring 2016 issue of Health Sciences magazine. It has been nearly 20 years since the formation of the college, which in 1996 brought together several clinical and professional programs with long histories at the university, such as clinical laboratory science (formerly known as medical technology), physical therapy, and speech pathology and audiology. The new college also saw the administrative relocation of the Department of Biomedical Sciences (then known as basic health sciences) from the School of Dentistry and development of the department’s enormously successful undergraduate program bearing the same name. The biomedical sciences major would quickly grow from three students to the university’s largest undergraduate major, where it remains today at nearly 700 students. Shortly after its inception, the college launched its new master’s degree program in physician assistant studies and, later, new undergraduate majors in athletic training and exercise physiology. The last decade has seen expansions to many of these programs, the transition within physical therapy from a clinical master’s degree to a doctoral degree, as well as the development of master’s and doctoral (Ph.D.) programs in clinical and translational rehabilitation health sciences. It has been a remarkable journey to date, and I have had a particularly interesting vantage point to it all, having joined the Marquette faculty some 10 months prior to the formation of the college. While I was aware at that time of the plan to bring these units together as a new college, I never expected to have the privilege of leading it in the role of dean. In reflecting on the past 20 years, I believe the success of the College of Health Sciences can largely be attributed to three factors: 1) a wonderful collection of enormously bright, talented and highly engaged students, 2) a deeply dedicated and accomplished faculty that truly values its interactions with undergraduate, graduate and professional students alike, and 3) an extremely supportive and passionate alumni base that has tirelessly continued to promote the college and its programs, faculty and students. I invite you to take a closer look at the history of the College of Health Sciences and its destination programs, which we celebrate in our feature story that begins on page 14. As we move into the future together, I see many more exciting initiatives to come. Even within the uncertain landscape of higher education overall, demand for our clinical professional programs and undergraduate courses of study continues to climb. We stand poised to grow and to develop additional innovative programs of distinction to help meet a critical demand in the health care labor market, while taking great pride in the kind of practitioners our graduates will one day become: excellent, ethical, caring, compassionate professionals in whom people will place great trust. This is our mission, and we truly value your role in accompanying us in advancing, and living, what we have termed “The Science That Heals.” With warm regards,
William E. Cullinan, Ph.D. Professor and Dean, College of Health Sciences
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Dean of the College of Health Sciences William E. Cullinan, Ph.D. Departments: Biomedical Sciences Clinical Laboratory Science Physical Therapy Athletic Training Program Exercise Science Program Physician Assistant Studies Speech Pathology and Audiology
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