Advisors

Health Professions Advisors

Who are health professions advisors?

Students exploring or planning a career in medicine should seek out the health professions advisor on their campus to assist them.  Most U.S. colleges and universities designate an individual as the school's health professions advisor.  That person may be a faculty member, often in the sciences, who advises health professions students as well as teaches them, and perhaps even performs scientific research.  The health professions advisor may be a member of the academic dean's office that oversees all academic advising at the institution.  Another possibility is that the advisor is housed in the school's career center, specializing in advice regarding health careers.  The common denominator is that health professions advisors are knowledgeable, supportive individuals whose role is to provide information and guidance as you prepare for your chosen profession.

How can a health professions advisor help you?

Your advisor can help you determine which courses satisfy premedical requirements, how to best sequence them, and how to find tutoring or other academic support if you are having difficulty.  An advisor can guide you in incorporating study abroad, a double major or a senior honors thesis into your course of study and still prepare well for medical school.  Your advisor will encourage you to seek experience in the health care field as a way of informing yourself about the profession as well as strengthening your application to medical school.  Your advisor will encourage and support you as you try to determine the right career path for yourself, by assessing your own strengths and weaknesses, values and life's goals.  Although it may be possible to choose the proper courses, find meaningful health-related experience, explore your own personal strengths and weaknesses and negotiate the complexities of the medical school admissions process independently, seeking the advice of your health professions advisor will greatly ease your burden.

Who can be aided by a health professions advisor?

All health professions advisors meet with students individually at their campuses to offer the assistance described above.  But while many students applying to medical school are traditional college-age, some are not. Increasingly advisors work with older or "nontraditional" students who have graduated from their institution or who have come to the school to pursue postbaccalaureate course work.  All students, regardless of age or status, should seek out the health professions advisor where they are currently studying or at their alma mater.  Policies differ from school to school, but some students with access to health professions advising are unaware of this valuable resource.

How can you find a health professions advisor?

Many health professions advisors are members of the National Association of Advisors for the Health Professions or its regional affiliates.  By supporting and informing health professions advisors, the association helps insure that students receive accurate, up-to-date information and skilled counseling from their advisors.  The association maintains close working relationships with health profession groups such as the Association of American Medical Colleges to keep advisors informed and to plan collaborative efforts to benefit students.  In addition, NAAHP offers several official publications to aid students in their preparation for medical school.

A significant service that NAAHP provides to students is a mechanism for identifying a health professions advisor.  Its belief is that all students should be able to find affordable, quality health professions advising.

 

Locating Your Advisor

The majority of colleges and universities throughout the country have designated an individual to serve as advisor to students applying to health professions schools.  Whether you are a current student or an alumnus/a, you are encouraged to contact that individual for information and advice.  If you are uncertain, you should first contact your Academic Dean to determine if there is an advisor who serves this role.

NAAHP is pleased to have among its members, advisors from the below list of colleges and universities.  If you see your current institution or alma mater listed, you can be assured that there is an advisor at that institution.  More than that, you can assume this individual is committed to staying informed so they can be as helpful as possible to their students.

However it is sometimes the case that a student's institution does not have an NAAHP member or even a health professions advisor.  Some institutions are not able to offer advice to their alumni.  In these situations a student may want to contact one of the advisors listed below.  These NAAHP members have volunteered to be available to those individuals who have no other access to advising.  The association appreciates their generosity.

Volunteer Advisors

Nancy Blass
University of Oklahoma
nblass@ou.edu

Rob Cannon
UNC Greensboro
recannon@uncg.edu

Julie Chanatry
Colgate University
jchanatry@mail.colgate.edu   

Princess Currence
University of Michigan Medical School
plj@med.umich.edu

Jean DeSaix
University of North Carolina at Chapel
jdesaix@email.unc.edu

Charles Ferguson
University of Colorado - Denver
Charles.Ferguson@cudenver.edu

John Friede
Villanova University
john.friede@villanova.edu

Glenda Hill
Boise State University
GHILL@boisestate.edu

Herbert House
Elon University
househ@elon.edu

Barbara Weeks Huntington
San Diego State University
bhunting@sunstroke.sdsu.edu

W. Thomas Langhorne, Jr.
Binghamton University
tlanghor@binghamton.edu

Gina Moses
American Association of Colleges of      Osteopathic Medicine (AACOM)
gmoses@aacom.org  

Laurie Nelson
Pepperdine University
Laurie.Nelson@pepperdine.edu

Ken Revis-Wagner
Clemson University
RC@clemson.edu

Laurence A. Savett
Macalaster College and
University of St. Thomas
savet001@tc.umn.edu

Daniel Schadler
Oglethorpe University
DSchadler@oglethorpe.edu

Jerry Yutrzenka
University of South Dakota
gyutrzen@usd.edu
 

C. Larry Sullivan
Avila University
larry.sullivan@avila.edu
 
Robert V. Blystone, Ph.D.
Trinity University
rblyston@trinity.edu 

Anthony Hilger
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
thilger@med.unc.edu

Laura K. Thompson
Furman University
laura.thompson@furman.edu

Lolita Wood-Hill
Hunter College, CUNY
lolita.woodhill@hunter.cuny.edu

 

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