Events
We organize or co-sponsor various lively and informative events and workshops on campus.
Health-Related Programming
The Health Professions Advising Office sponsors seminars, information sessions, and workshops for prehealth students. We also collaborate with the Dean’s Office and the Career and Civic Engagement Center to sponsor programming and support other efforts to help students find volunteer opportunities, jobs, and internships and engage with alumni. HPAO co-sponsors programming with the health professions advising offices at Haverford College. HPAO also supports student-led Health Interest Programming (HIP) in considering specific areas of health care. We announce events through the Prehealth ListServ and the Postbac ListServ, as well as through the Daily Digest and other channels.
Previous Events
- Dentistry and Dental Education with Dr. Olivia Sheridan, Assistant Dean for Admissions, University of Pennsylvania School of Dental Medicine. Dr. Sheridan is an alumna of Bryn Mawr’s Postbaccalaureate Premedical Program.
- Master of Public Health panel with representatives from Columbia, Harvard, Johns Hopkins, and Yale University Schools of Public Health. Info session about Boston University School of Public Health.
- Physician Assistant and Nurse Practitioner event with alums of Bryn Mawr and Haverford and administrators of Drexel University’s programs in these disciplines.
- Women in STEM: Medical Research with Andrea Cox, M.D., Ph.D., Director, Medical Scientist Training at Johns Hopkins, Donna Mildvan '63, M.D., Professor at Icahn Mount Sinai, and Ashton Shaffer ’11, M.D./Ph.D. student at Johns Hopkins.
- Financing health professions school: Medical School admissions director presentation about the costs of applications and of attendance. Information about loan programs, government-sponsored service obligation scholarship programs, with representatives from the National Health Service Corps and the U.S military.
- Info session about Bryn Mawr 4 + 1 partnership programs: Master of Bioethics at the University of Pennsylvania and master’s degrees in public health with Boston University School of Public Health Select Scholars Program.
- Info Session about new Bryn Mawr Partnership with Johns Hopkins University Master’s Entry to Nursing Program.
- Financing health professions school: Preparing for costs, with Drexel College of Medicine’s director of financial planning. Resource info and sessions about govt.-sponsored service-obligation programs with program representatives, including the National Health Service Corps.
- “Curious about MD-PhD?” Lawrence Brass, MD, PhD, Associate Dean for Combined Degree and Physician Scholar Programs and Director, MSTP Program, Perelman School of Medicine of the University of Pennsylvania. MD-PhD Week: “Bryn Mawr College Alums Train for and Thrive in Academic Medicine,” featuring Melanie Cree-Green, MD, PhD (BMC ’99), Asst. Prof., University of Colorado School of Medicine and Children’s Hospital Colorado, Nicole Hamagami (BMC ’16), MD PhD candidate, Washington University in St. Louis, Nita Salzman, MD, PhD (BMC ’83), Prof., Medical College of Wisconsin, and Ashton Shaffer (BMC ’11), MD PhD candidate, Johns Hopkins University.
- “Dentistry & Dental Education,” Assistant Dean for Admissions, University of Pennsylvania School of Dental Medicine.
- Master of Public Health panel - representatives of Columbia, Harvard, Johns Hopkins, and Yale Schools of Public Health.
- “Career Paths in Obstetrics and Gynecology,” Hannah Connor, PB Alum and MS4, and DaCarla Albright, MD, Assoc Dean for Student Affairs and Wellness, & Professor of Clinical Obstetrics and Gynecology, Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania.
- “Gender Affirming Care for Adolescents and Adults in the Primary Care Setting,” Dane Menkin, CRNP, Main Line Health Divisional Director of LGBTQ Services and “Gender Expansive Clinical Competency.”
- “Health Disparities in Philadelphia,” Covid-19’s Impact on Philadelphia’s Vulnerable Populations. Janelle Bryan, MPH, CHES.
- “Identifying and Addressing Social Determinants of Health,” Judith Emmons, MPH, Director of Primary Care at Congreso de Latinos Unidos, Phila.
- “Patient-Centered Care: Navigating Trauma in the Clinic,” Sam Hodgins, WHNP-C, Primary Care Nuse Practitioner, Health Center of Fenway Health, Boston, MA.
- “Promoting Equitable Care Through Relational Competence,” Horace DeLisser, MD, Associate Dean, Diversity & Inclusion, and Associate Professor of Medicine, Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania.
Contact Us
Health Professions Advising Office
Park Science Building
Room 349
610-526-7350
hpao@brynmawr.edu
Open year-round
Monday-Friday, 9 a.m.-5 p.m.