May 4, 2025
5:00 – 8:00 p.m.
Health Professions Education
AWARDS AND RECOGNITION CEREMONY
Program Remarks & Recognitions
Department of Health Professions Education
Dr. Roger Edwards
Department Chair
School of Healthcare Leadership 2025 DEGREE CANDIDATES
DOCTOR OF PHILOSOPHY IN HEALTH PROFESSIONS EDUCATION
Raed Alawi Albar
Research Mentor: BA White, EdD, MA
Dissertation: The Experience of Conflicts among Health Professionals and the Capacity to Effectively Engage in Interprofessional Conflicts
Saima Ali
Research Mentor: BA White, EdD, MA
Dissertation: Bridging Differences, Building Connections: Evaluating, Enhancing and Exploring Communication Skills among Emergency Medicine Physicians and Nurses in Pakistan's Diverse Healthcare Landscape
Raquel Bertiz
Research Mentor: Suzie Kardong-Edgren, PhD, RN, ANEF, FSSH, FAAN
Dissertation: New Academic Nurse Educators’ Academic Preparation and Facilitation of Experiential and Technology-enhanced Learning
Michelle Jennifer Clarke
Research Mentor: Roger A. Edwards, ScD
Dissertation: Milestones and Assessment in Surgical Graduate Medical Education
Emma Joyce D’Arpino
Research Mentor: Anshul Kumar, PhD
Dissertation: Unpacking Weight Bias in Healthcare: A Mixed Methods Exploration of Perspectives from Practitioners, Patients, and Pre-Licensure Students
Jasline Moreno
Research Mentor: Suzie Kardong-Edgren, PhD, RN, ANEF, FSSH, FAAN
Dissertation: Strengthening Faculty Development Initiatives in Simulation Based Education
Rosemary Samia
Research Mentor: Suzie Kardong-Edgren, PhD, RN, ANEF, FSSH, FAAN
Dissertation: Addressing the Stigma of Substance Use Disorder: A Community Partnership Between Undergraduate Nursing and Addiction Recovery Programs
Caroline Suzan Zeind
Research Mentor: Anne Thompson, PT, EdD
Dissertation: Female College Presidents at Health Professions Focused Institutions: Learning from their Leadership Journeys
Master of Science in Health Professions Education
Natasha Susana Afonso
Mohammad Suleiman Mohammad Alamar
Daij Hussain Aldaiji
Fatimah Abdullah Alkhalifah
Abdurahman Salem S. Almahmadi
Iman Ahmad Almukhtar
Lama Naif Alotaibi
Ibrahim Saeed Alqahtani
Elmira Andreeva
Nuha Birido
Hannah Kaitlyn Blakely
Pascale Chrisphonte
David Fernandez
Brendan Freeman
Adam Scott Hockman
Wuttipat Iammeechai
Yan Jiang
Gwendolyn Larsen
Steven Lichtenberg
Sadek Obeidat
Lisa-Marie O'Brien
Christopher Reilly
Abdullah Mohammadsaud I. Sakkat
John Michael Woodward
Joel Xianguang Yee