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D.P.T. Class of 2025 Receives Their White Coats
Feature | Feb 14, 2023
The School of Health Profession’s Doctor of Physical Therapy Class of 2025 gathered in Riland Auditorium to receive their white coats, marking the start of their journey as physical therapists.
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Improving Health, One Posture Check at a Time
Feature | Jan 25, 2023
The School of Health Professions’ Department of Physical Therapy has long been a source of information about how to improve body movement to recover from, and ideally avoid, injury. With its service initiative, Posture Patrol, physical therapy students are working to improve the posture, and health, of the New York Tech community, one member at a time.
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Healthy and Fit for the New Year
Feature | Jan 03, 2023
New York Tech faculty members Mindy Haar, Ph.D., RDN, and Alex Rothstein discuss current nutrition and exercise trends and the direction these keys to health may be headed toward in 2023.
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Alumni Profile: John Karaptis
Profile | Dec 01, 2022
Inspired by his grandfather, John Karaptis (B.S. ’03) pursued a career in medicine. Since graduating with a degree in physician assistant studies, he is now the director of surgical services and digestive disease at NewYork-Presbyterian Queens.
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News Byte: Future Nurses Receive White Coats
Feature | Nov 02, 2022
Students in the nursing program’s Class of 2024 received their white coats during a ceremony on October 19.
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A Spooktacular Pumpkin Carving Contest
Feature | Oct 25, 2022
On October 18, the Long Island campus was a ghoulish sight. Students, faculty, and staff in NYITCOM and the School of Health Professions participated in their seventh annual pumpkin carving contest.
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New York Tech’s Center for Esports Medicine Announces Research Collaboration with GE Healthcare
Feature | Oct 18, 2022
The Center for Esports Medicine announced a research collaboration with GE Healthcare that seeks to analyze the lean body mass of competitive esport athletes and help establish the sport’s first body composition benchmarks.
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New York Tech Welcomes New Faculty
Feature | Sep 08, 2022
After a pandemic-driven hiatus, New York Institute of Technology once again welcomed new faculty in person at an August 30 reception at the newly renovated Salten Hall Café on the Long Island campus.
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D.P.T. Grads Score Highly on Licensure Exams
Feature | Aug 29, 2022
The School of Health Professions celebrates the success of its Class of 2022 physical therapy graduates, who passed their licensure exams with flying colors.
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News Byte: Two New York Tech Deans Named to Healthcare Power List
Feature | Aug 17, 2022
Dean of the College of Osteopathic Medicine Nicole Wadsworth, D.O., and Dean of the School of Health Professions Gordon Schmidt, Ph.D., were name to Long Island Business News’ 2022 Power Health Care list.
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