Dean’s welcome

It is my pleasure to welcome you to the Faculty of Health Sciences, the home of a vibrant team of faculty and staff committed to providing our students with a learning experience that is second to none and that will help prepare you for an exciting career within a multitude of health profession career options.

A quick tour of our website will at once show you the range of academic opportunities we offer all our students, regardless of program focus and highlight the many options available for extending learning beyond the classroom and into a variety of health sector and community settings. Students enrolled in our Bachelor of Health Sciences degree programs can opt for concentrated studies in kinesiology, medical laboratory sciences, health administration, public health, or human health. Our Bachelor of Science in Nursing program prepares students for an exciting nursing career, using extensive simulation and practical experiences to perfect each students’ preparation. Shared classroom and “hands-on” experiences support unique inter-professional and interdisciplinary learning opportunities where students work together on case studies, characteristic of those regularly encountered in a variety of health professional and client settings. We also provide program pathways into massage therapy, medicine, and chiropractic medicine and welcome diploma trained professionals into our Bachelor of Allied Health Sciences program.

State of the art laboratories enable students to work with the latest technologies to understand problems in human movement and performance, master skill proficiencies through simulation, and understand the impact of our environment on mental and physical performance and disease. Learn about how socioeconomic status contributes to health disparity across the population and how active changes to health policy, factors contributing to access to care and improving environmental factors can help to narrow this gap and learn what you can do to be an active change agent for vulnerable individuals in your community.

Opportunities to engage with faculty who are doing research using virtual reality and artificial intelligence to better understand various diseases and optimize rehabilitation for musculoskeletal disorders and otherwise exploring key public health and performance issues are just some of the other exciting means of learning the Faculty of Health Sciences provides for our students.

Through my term as dean, I have had the opportunity to interact with an amazing, diverse group of students and I look forward to welcoming you as part of our next wave of health professionals.

For more information about our programs, or to learn more about what the Faculty of Health Sciences can offer you, please check out the Faculty website.

Dr. Carol Rodgers
Dean, Faculty of Health Sciences