… would span four decades, including 11 deeply impactful years at the MGH Institute. From Clinical Practice to Academia After completing her undergraduate studies at the … I said I would never do, I did do, so through a lot of consideration and advice from friends and family, I decided to take the leap.” Motivated by her family and … would become the class of 2017 at the MGH Institute, Smith has taught everything from research sequences to an elective on disabilities in society, to leadership and …

… segments remained connected and fully functional.  “Lives were being disrupted from multiple directions,” says Johnson. “That day had a bit of a September 11 … priority for President Paula Milone-Nuzzo and other leaders, who sent more than 30 email messages and held more than 20 virtual town halls over five months with the IHP … we know we can make it a very memorable and special day,” wrote Milone-Nuzzo in an email to the community.  The closed campus prompted other operational changes. …

… programs this summer. On August 30, the members of the 40th graduating class from MGH Institute of Health Professions took their rightful place as alumni, with … as an historical event by summer of 2020. First, we pushed the date for the event from May to July and then to August, thinking by then we could have an in-person … system because they have seen the disproportionate impact on minority populations from COVID-19. These graduates, our future health care leaders, will be the resilient …

… to a well-respected and successful career culminating in the role she is retiring from, chair of the Department of Communication Sciences and Disorders at the MGH … ‘I want to become a speech-language pathologist.” By 1985, she had graduated from Boston University with a master’s in communication disorders. After a year in a … therapy department and Spaulding Rehabilitation Hospital where students from both programs work with clients and features 1-on-1 and group therapy sessions, …

… Brigham employees, the complexity of the conditions sometimes discouraged some from fully utilizing them. Not anymore. Last summer, the MGH Institute introduced a … program, which enabled her to take more classes at a time and speed up her move from research coordinator to nurse practitioner. Employees like Vatcher say the … to go back to school to advance a career – or change one – the financial savings from the IHP’s tuition reduction can be the nudge that makes all the difference. “The …

… a nursing veteran of 37 years who earned her Doctor of Nursing Practice degree from MGH Institute of Health Professions in 2016. “As leaders, we need to … key. “When you're in the chief nursing officer position, it can be pretty lonely from a nursing perspective,” she says. “But I was able to network with other nurses … working in leadership roles or aspiring to be in those roles, and I could learn from them. It created such a wonderful community. I still have friends from my …

… advice for aspiring PTs who want to follow similar path If there was one takeaway from the Paris Olympics for MGH Institute alum Deirdre McLoughlin, it was the sense … “You couldn't hug anyone or say hello to them back then, because if I got Covid from you, then I'm out,” recalled McLoughlin from her California home. “So, this just felt like a relief; it was really nice to be …