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Written by Allison Farrelly \u201816, Photos by Beau Jones<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/section>\n\n\n

The University of Rhode Island\u2019s (URI) College of Health Sciences has new leadership this year. Since his arrival on campus in January, Dean Patrick Vivier says he\u2019s been struck by the vision and energy of the state\u2019s land-grant research institution.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThe college is doing lots of things that are excellent, and has the potential to get even further,\u201d Vivier says. \u201cEvery day I walk to my office I think \u2018Oh my goodness, this is an amazing place to be.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n

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PATRICK VIVIER\nDean, College of Health Sciences<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n

So far, Vivier\u2019s has been impressed by URI\u2019s combination of service in the community and cutting-edge applied and fundamental research, plus the University\u2019s focus on interdisciplinary work and inter-college collaboration.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A pediatrician by training, Vivier has spent much of his career focused on kids, their families, and related health disparities both clinically and through research.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

He comes to URI from Tufts University, and prior to that, Brown University. here, he helped develop Brown\u2019s School of Public Health and was a founding director of the university\u2019s Hassenfeld Child Health Innovation Institute. URI\u2019s College of Health Sciences houses eight undergraduate majors, eight graduate programs, three interdepartmental minors, and four certificate programs including a prevention and family sciences graduate certificate launched in April.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cWe are providing an excellent educational experience across a broad range of degrees,\u201d Vivier says. \u201cThere is a long tradition here that the faculty value education, value their students, and are invested in them.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

One of the ways URI stands out to Vivier is its opportunities for students to learn through practice. Not only are students heavily embedded in faculty research, but the college also offers two working preschools and clinics for audiology, speech therapy, physical therapy, psychology, and human development. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cI think teaching, research, and clinical or community practice inform each other,\u201d he says. \u201cThe best way to learn is to do.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Another advantage he emphasizes is the college\u2019s faculty, whose research and practice set up a culture of activity and growth.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cWe have faculty who are engaged in practice and know what\u2019s going on out there, and faculty who are engaged in research who are trying to figure out those next solutions for years to come,\u201d he says.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

On the horizon for the college, according to Vivier, are new graduate degrees in mental and behavioral health counseling and in public health, both launching in 2025.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Vivier hopes to build close relationships between this new public health department and the Rhode Island Department of Health and public health community groups. He also hopes to build interdisciplinary collaboration at the University into the department and is in talks with the deans of other colleges for synergistic opportunities like health communications.<\/p>\n\n\n

Any health problem now that we\u2019re dealing with in the world is not going to be solved by one specialty or discipline. It really needs to be interdisciplinary. So, to be the dean of a college that has breadth, and to be starting with new deans in Pharmacy and Nursing, where we can be figuring out how to do cross-college activity, is really exciting.<\/blockquote>Patrick Vivier<\/cite><\/div><\/section>\n\n\n

Vivier says the College\u2019s current offerings and initiatives provide a strong base on which to build. \u201cIn particular, we have a lot of junior faculty doing really exciting research, and to see how that could explode in the next five to 10 years, and being part of trying to make that happen, is really exciting,\u201d he says. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The University of Rhode Island\u2019s (URI) College of Health Sciences has new leadership this year. Since his arrival on campus in January, Dean Patrick Vivier says he\u2019s been struck by the vision and energy of the state\u2019s land-grant research institution. \u201cThe college is doing lots of things that are excellent, and has the potential to […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":701,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6065","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-momentum-fall-24-featured"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/momentum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6065","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/momentum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/momentum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/momentum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/701"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/momentum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6065"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/momentum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6065\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6563,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/momentum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6065\/revisions\/6563"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/momentum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6065"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/momentum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6065"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/momentum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6065"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}