Chair: Keith Snyder
Faculty: Joyce Azevedo, Aaron Corbit, Ann Foster, Noemi Gonzalez, Rick Norskov, Tim Trott
Program Adviser: Randy Bishop
Program Coordinator: Randy Bishop
Medical Laboratory Science Adviser: Noemi Gonzalez
Medical Laboratory Science: Daniel Gonzalez, Tim Newkirk, Melissa Poua, Karen Reiner, Tasha Simpson
The Allied Health Professions are rapidly growing areas of specialization within the health care industry. Job openings are plentiful and pay scales are comparable to other professionals in health care. The department offers a B.S. degree in Medical Laboratory Science and A.S. degrees in a number of Allied Health fields.
The Allied Health branch of the Biology/Allied Health Department exists to coordinate the advising of students who require prerequisite courses for entrance into a variety of clinical programs in the medical, dental, and health professions, as well as to promote these professions as meaningful career options providing opportunities for Christian service.
The programs in this department vary extensively depending on the particular health career and the requirements of the specific schools which offer the clinical programs. Southern Adventist University continually monitors the requirements of these clinical programs and modifies its pre-professional curricula to meet the changes when they are made. Continual assessment is made essentially by the advisers in the department who measure their effectiveness by their success in structuring programs to meet individual student needs and to meet requirements of the professional school where the student will transfer. The entrance rate of students into professional programs is also used to assess adequacy of class offerings and program requirements.