PERSPECTIVES 25th Anniversary - Fall-Winter 2018

Dr. Pallavi Patel College of Health Care Sciences 35 Community outreach and interprofessional education (IPE) have also been important components of the program’s growth. For example, for the past two years, students participated in the 16th annual Hendry/Glades Community Health Fair, organized by NSU’s Dr. Kiran C. Patel College of Osteopathic Medicine, to provide pre- ventive health care screenings to the medically under- served community of Clewiston, Florida. In 2017, 4 faculty members and 14 cardiovascular sonography students provided cardiac and vascular health screenings to 32 participants. In 2018, 15 students and 5 faculty members provided nearly 90 heart and vascular screening exams. This community outreach event also provides valuable IPE opportunities to nearly 200 NSU students from 13 medical and health care programs based at the Fort Lauderdale/Davie, Palm Beach, and Tampa campuses. In 2019, the program will see even more excitement when it, and the rest of the NSU Tampa team, moves to the new Tampa Bay Regional Campus in Clearwater, Florida. A series of philanthropic gifts from the Patel Fam- ily Foundation to NSU have coalesced into the devel- opment of a new, 325,000-square-foot facility that will be an expansion of NSU’s Dr. Kiran C. Patel College of Osteopathic Medicine, as well as the new home for all of the programs currently housed at the Tampa Campus. Groundbreaking for the new facility took place on March 7, re- sulting in much excitement from the community and nationwide press coverage. An additional site for the Dr. Kiran C. Patel Col- lege of Osteopathic Medicine and the Dr. Pallavi Patel College of Health Care Sciences programs are just a couple of the results that have occurred thanks to these amazing investments in the future of NSU and health care education. The past seven years have seen exciting growth and new opportunities for the Bachelor of Science in Cardiovascular Sonography Program. The pace is picking up with even more excitement coming with the amazing, new Tampa Bay Regional Campus in 2019. The future looks very bright for the Cardiovascular Sonography Program and the entire NSU team. ● The cardiovascular sonography team take a break after the Hendry/Glades Community Health Fair on February 4, 2017. Class of 2015 cardiovascular sonography student Amani Shehadeh works with the HeartWorks echocardiography simulator.