The School of Health Sciences and Practice

Our programs are tailored to your career situation, experience level, and schedule, giving you the best opportunity to develop your health career. We have a proud tradition of preparing health professionals to improve health and quality of life in all communities and individuals.

Whether online or on campus, our faculty utilizes evidence-based methods and in-the-field training to give you a strong professional foundation. With five active centers of excellence on campus, you’ll be immersed in exciting innovations in health science. At SHSP, research, service, and education are all integrally connected.

Our Programs

Public Health

The school is a founding member of the Association of Schools and Programs of Public Health (ASPPH). Our public health programs are accredited by the Council on Education for Public Health (CEPH) and feature online and late afternoon and evening on-campus classes to accommodate the busy schedules of working professionals.

CORE PROGRAMS:

ADVANCED CERTIFICATES:

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Speech-Language Pathology

Speech-language pathology offers a two-year master’s that is full-time weekday program and on-campus with a focus on medical speech-language pathology in hospitals, skilled nursing facilities, and clinics. Our unique pediatric dysphasia certificate is offered online and trains working SLPs and OTs to diagnose and treat swallowing disorders in children.

PROGRAMS:

Physical Therapy

Our full-time weekday professional program in physical therapy has a robust list of clinical affiliates and a community-oriented approach you won't find in most other teaching settings. Service-based learning activities integrate health sciences and public health practice with the clinical arts.

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Joint Degrees

SHSP collaborates with other NYMC and Touro schools to provide joint degree programs. These joint degrees help graduate students deepen their understanding of public health, community outreach, and health systems management to enhance their clinical expertise.

Centers of Excellence

Our Institute of Public Health houses the School’s centers of excellence – Center for Disaster Medicine, Center for Children’s Environmental Health, and Campus Collaborative Research (CCR).

These centers focus on high-priority topics of concern to communities and the nation at large. They draw upon the expertise in our academic departments and other resources outside as well as inside New York Medical College.

Research Projects

Our faculty are involved in innovative research in different areas of public health, and many of our students participate in these projects through internships, publications, and other opportunities. Learn more about our faculty’s current research projects:

Dr. Drugge (Epidemiology)

One aspect of Dr. Drugge’s research focuses on skin cancer risk assessment and detection modeling. This includes assessment of diagnostic accuracy of AI algorithms, telehealth dermatology and image processing techniques. Dr. Drugge’s skin cancer research is easily integrated into EPIM 5002 (Introduction to Epidemiology), providing great examples of risk factor analysis, prevalence, incidence, mortality rates, biases, etc.

Dr. Block (Health Policy & Management)

Dr. Block’s research focuses on how individuals make decisions in healthcare markets, specifically patient selection of hospitals and insurance plans. He has involved two Dr.P.H. students in recent articles in trade and media publications.

Dr. Knapp (Health Policy & Management)

Dr. Knapp has studied the prevalence of cognitive decline by caregiving status, explored challenges faced by family caregivers among the intellectually/developmentally disabled population, and assessed a resource guide for NYC’s low SES population. He has involved Dr.P.H. students in this work which has led to two publications with the students as co-authors.

Quick Facts

Career placement for D.P.T. and S.L.P. graduates is 100%.

9 public health faculty are current health commissioners & health directors in surrounding counties.

24 U.S. states represented.

School of Health Sciences and Practice has 4,185 alumni.

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What Sets SHSP Apart

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[AUDIO DESCRIPTION] Robert W. Amler, M.D., M.B.A. Vice President for Government Affairs, Dean; Professor, Public Health, School of Health Sciences & Practice; Professor, Pediatrics, School of Medicine

[Robert Amler] At the School of Health Sciences and practice at New York Medical College, we train our graduate students in the public health disciplines and in the rehabilitative therapies, like physical therapy, speech language pathology, and a focus on pediatric swallowing disorders in a beautiful campus location just a short drive North of New York City.

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[AUDIO DESCRIPTION] Ainsley Rossi, D.P.T., PT, OCS Assistant Professor, Physical Therapy, School of Health Sciences & Practice

[Ainsley Rossi] Being here in Westchester County, we have all of the resources available to a huge city with a really lovely, cozy campus feel.

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[AUDIO DESCRIPTION] Malik, Class of 2026, School of Health Sciences & Practice

[Malik] I love the Westchester location. The greenery is really nice.

[Ainsley Rossi] And it is a microcosm of society, all different walks of life, different cultural backgrounds. It's just a really dynamic place to be.

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[AUDIO DESCRIPTION] Stefanie Blanco, SLP.D., CCC-SLP, TSSLD, ATP Assistant Professor and Director of Clinical Education, Speech-Language Pathology, School of Health Sciences & Practice

[Stefanie Blanco] New York Medical College has really dedicated, intelligent, compassionate faculty that work very closely with the students. We have over 150 clinical affiliation sites, so students are able to go into schools, into outpatient clinics, into a hospital's acute care, inpatient, outpatient rehab centers. So they get a variety of experiences.

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[AUDIO DESCRIPTION] Angela, Class of 2025, School of Health Sciences & Practice

[Angela] Right now, I'm in my medical rotation, which allows me to work at skilled nursing facilities, children's hospitals, and Westchester Medical Center.

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[AUDIO DESCRIPTION] Vikas Grover, Ph.D., CCC-SLP -- Chair, Department of Rehabilitation Sciences; Division Chief; Academic Program Director; Professor Speech-Language Pathology, School of Health Sciences & Practice

[Vikas Grover] We start our students with the clinical education from day one. Many schools do not.

[Stefanie Blanco] For the Masters of Speech Language Pathology program, the students are participating in both academic and clinical rotations.

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[Stefanie Blanco] In students' first semester, they're going to be in our in-house clinic, and they're going to be treating and evaluating pediatric speech language clients.

[Vikas Grover] We start day one because we want them to be feeling and understanding the real world from the very beginning. And also when they are taking their foundational courses, they are actually seeing things happening in the clinic at the same time.

[Angela] So you're able to bridge that what you're learning in the classroom to what you're seeing in the clinic beginning your first couple of weeks.

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[Malik] I really liked how it went from in-class work to clinical application right afterwards, because it forced me to look at the coursework from the classroom in a different lens. For my first of four clinical rotations, I was at an inpatient facility. The best part was seeing, again, that direct carryover from what I learned in the class two months ago to being able to do those exact same things inside an inpatient facility. You are experiencing it. You are doing it, so it's kind of ingrained in your memory.

[Ainsley Rossi] Because we are also a medical school, we have access to a lot of the facilities that you may not get in other institutions. So our PT students, instead of just observing a virtual anatomy dissection, actually participate in dissections and get to do their anatomy studies in a cadaver lab.

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[Malik] Our anatomy class is taught by medical faculty. I love the fact that I, as a physical therapy student, have 24/7 access to the cadaver lab.

[Ainsley Rossi] All of the faculty are incredibly accomplished and very caring, and they know their students. We also are committed to updating facilities regularly, so there's a lot of new equipment that is always coming through.

[Angela] As an SLP student, I really like how I'm able to collaborate with both public health students and with physical therapy students. New York Medical College does a great job with connecting different disciplines. So with physical therapy, speech, public health, we're all working together.

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[AUDIO DESCRIPTION] Kenneth A. Knapp, Ph.D. Chair and Assistant Professor, Public Health; Director, Dr. P.H. Program, Public Health, School of Health Sciences & Practice

[Kenneth Knapp] Many of our public health students work in the health care sector already. One of the reasons they like us and they come to us is because of the considerable flexibility that we offer. We

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[Kenneth Knapp] We have classes that begin later in the day. We have a variety of learning formats. We have asynchronous online.

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[AUDIO DESCRIPTION] Bruno, Class of 2025, School of Health Sciences & Practice

[Bruno] The experience has been phenomenal. The faculty are really supportive and there for us. The classes are small.

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[Kenneth Knapp] We offer Master of Public Health programs. We also offer a rigorous Doctor of Public Health program, and we have Master of Science degrees in epidemiology and biostatistics.

[Bruno] I am in the doctoral program in health policy and management. It's giving me more knowledge and the ability to apply it directly into real life.

[Robert Amler] We prepare our graduates for their future roles as competent physical therapists, as insightful speech language pathologists, experts in disaster preparedness and response, global health, all of the different public health specialties. In every one of these programs, we find our way to tie what you see in the exam room, to what you see in the classroom and what you see in your community.

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[AUDIO DESCRIPTION] Edward C. Halperin, M.D., M.A. -- Chancellor and Chief Executive Officer; Professor, Radiation Medicine and Pediatrics, School of Medicine

[Edward Halperin] We are doing great things at New York Medical College. Great things are happening here. We have an honorable past, a strong and vibrant present, and the future is promising.

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