The Health Professions Advisory Committee (HPAC) is made up of faculty and staff from a variety of backgrounds who help students prepare to apply to graduate-level health professions programs.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Most medical, dental, and optometry schools require that a committee letter<\/strong> of recommendation from the home institution accompany a student\u2019s application for admission. To seek such endorsement students must provide the Health Professions Advisory Committee with a dossier including four or five letters of recommendation (two from science faculty) by February 15 of the calendar prior to the year in which they would commence their program (16-18 months prior to entry<\/span>).<\/p>\n\n\n\n Jessica Alber<\/strong>, Ph.D. Alana Bibeau<\/strong>, Ph.D. Jodi Camberg<\/strong>, Ph.D. Holly Dunsworth<\/strong>, Ph.D. Aura Fajardo Grandidge<\/strong> Jason Kolbe<\/strong>, Ph.D. Sarah Larson<\/strong>, M.S., RD Andrea A. Rusnock<\/strong> The Health Professions Advisory Committee (HPAC) is made up of faculty and staff from a variety of backgrounds who help students prepare to apply to graduate-level health professions programs. Most medical, dental, and optometry schools require that a committee letter of recommendation from the home institution accompany a student\u2019s application for admission. To seek such […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1962,"featured_media":0,"parent":9091,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"class_list":["post-2355","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/prehealth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2355","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/prehealth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/prehealth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/prehealth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1962"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/prehealth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2355"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/prehealth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2355\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17325,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/prehealth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2355\/revisions\/17325"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/prehealth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/9091"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/prehealth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2355"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}Current committee members<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
Assistant Professor
Department of Biomedical and Pharmaceutical Sciences & the Ryan Institute for Neuroscience
E-mail: jalber@uri.edu<\/a> | Meet Jessica<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n
Teaching Professor of Sociology; Sociology Advisor
Department of Sociology and Anthropology
E-mail: abibeau@uri.edu<\/a> | Meet Alana<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n
Associate Professor
Department of Cell and Molecular Biology
E-mail: cambergj@uri.edu<\/a> | Meet Jodi<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n
Professor of Anthropology
Department of Sociology and Anthropology
College of Arts and Sciences
Email: holly_dunsworth@uri.edu<\/a> | Meet Holly<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n
Assistant Dean for Diversity & Student Success Initiatives
College of the Environment and Life Sciences
E-mail: afgrandidge@uri.edu<\/a> | Meet Aura<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n
Associate Professor
Department of Biological Sciences
E-mail: jkolbe@uri.edu<\/a> | Meet Jason<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n
Associate Teaching Professor, Didactic Program in Dietetics Director
Department of Nutrition
College of Health Sciences
E-mail: sarahlarson@uri.edu | Meet Sarah<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n
Professor
Department of History
E-mail: rusnock@uri.edu<\/a> | Meet Andrea<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"