The HPEC frequently participates in and facilitates a number of special events with faculty in the Hunter-Bellevue School of Nursing and Hunter College Schools of the Health Professions. This page includes details and photos from past student and faculty events.

The New Normal: Life After Hurricane Sandy
HPEC 68th Street Office

Despite the occurrence of Hurricane Sandy and the closing of Hunter's Brookdale Campus, the HPEC has continued to be a pillar of support to the Brookdale community. After relocating to the 5th floor of the library at the 68th Street campus, the HPEC continues to provide academic support.
The new HPEC location includes:

• Five media enhanced classrooms
• Four smaller group meeting areas
• A Mini-Theater for viewing health related media
• A Nursing Skills Lab
• A Physical Therapy classroom with equipment
• A study space for the BESt 2.0 program

For a more detailed overview of the HPEC 68th street office, please view the following article:
"The New Normal: Life After Hurricane Sandy" by Jennifer De Jesus.

*** The HPEC has since returned to its Brookdale Campus location. We welcome students and faculty to stop by and utilize our resources!

HPEC 68th Street Office

What's Dr. Vogel Cooking Up Now...?

Not only is Dr. Donald Vogel the Clinical Director of the Hunter College Center for Communication Disorders, an Associate Professor, and an Audiologist, he is also a supernaturally gifted chef. Recently, he has created his pièce de résistance. With funding from a Graduate Research and Technology Initiative (GRTI) Grant, Dr. Vogel purchased iPads for improving patient care.

Beginning this fall, Communication Sciences students will record patient therapy sessions using the iPads, which provide high definition audio and video. The icing on this cake is the ability to create video compilations of a patient's sessions in order to better follow the progression of a treatment. The videos will then be available for student viewing at the Hunter College Center for Communication Disorders and in private screening booths at the HPEC.

6th Annual SHP-SON Student Faculty Research Conference

Organized by Carol Roye, EdD, RN, CPNP, Carol A. Silverman, PhD, MPH, and HPEC Director Martin Dornbaum, MS the 6th annual SHP-SON-SHS Brookdale Campus Research Day was held on May 2, 2012. The day concluded with The Center for Health Media and Policy's Daliah Heller's, PhD, MPH presentation on "Health Care Provider Perspectives on Caring for Patients With Substance Use" and the announcement of the winners.

For a more detailed description, read HPEC Staff Member, Jennifer De Jesus' article on Research Day.

TEDMED Live

From April 11-13, 2012, the CTSC at Weill Cornell Medical College hosted the first ever live, interactive simulcast of the TEDMED 2012 conference. The three day annual TEDMED conference brings hundreds of creative and innovative minds from a wide range of medical and non-medical disciplines to explore ideas, challenges and cutting-edge technology that will shape the future of health and medicine.

Speakers at TEDMED 2012 included Francis S. Collins, Director of the National Institutes of Health (NIH), Otis Brawley, Chief Medical Officer of the American Cancer Society, Thomas Frieden, Director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, and Katie Couric, co-founder of Stand Up To Cancer and Special Correspondent on ABC News, among many others.

If you missed the event, videos from past conferences are available on their website. Check back soon for updated 2012 videos.

We look forward to TEDMED 2013 from April 16th to 19th for new innovative technologies and ideas throughout the health professions community.