A Message from the President
At Salus University, you will help us change lives. Our mission of integrated healthcare through innovative education, research and clinical services is vitally important, and with your help and participation, Salus continues to set the standard for health, education, and rehabilitation professionals, advancing the scope of practice and excellence across our academic programs while setting a distinguished record of firsts.
You may know that we are on track to merge with Drexel University, and I am excited about this partnership between our two great institutions. The merger will create unlimited opportunities for our students, faculty, staff and alumni. Students will have access to state-of-the-art facilities, unparalleled technology, and expanded professional development and interprofessional opportunities.
The merger brings together the strengths of both institutions in graduate health sciences education, including Drexel’s programs in medicine, biomedical engineering, public health, nursing and health professions, and our optometry, audiology, biomedicine, blindness and low vision studies, physician assistant studies, occupational therapy, speech-language pathology, and orthotics and prosthetics programs. Truly, there is no better partner to help us operationalize our mission: advancing integrated healthcare through innovative education, research and clinical services. There is no better time than now to celebrate Salus’ transformative future than during this exciting integration.
Our innovative curricula offer broad-based, interdisciplinary clinical education, presenting our students with a range of challenging primary care opportunities. Well-known for our excellent clinical education, the Salus commitment to clinical training (offered early in each program) provides a genuine advantage for students when externship and other fieldwork or clinical placements begin.
The future of healthcare delivery is dynamic and exciting. Advancements in technology, unimaginable in the past, have become standard today. Changes in the nation’s healthcare delivery system are significantly altering every facet of our diversified medical fields.
Our mission concentrates on innovation and integration of essential health resources. We not only keep pace with the rapidly expanding areas of healthcare delivery, but we also work to set national trends and standards, and most importantly, we prepare you to be the next generation of leaders in healthcare. As we look to the future, the changes ahead are essential to enhance and expand our student experience, and to ensure the sustainability of all our world-class programs. In our forthcoming merger with Drexel, I am excited about how, together, we can do so much good for the students and communities we serve.
Our success as an institution derives from combining bright, motivated students with outstanding, world-class faculty, excellent facilities, and creative, diverse learning opportunities. Your interest in continuing your education at Salus reflects your commitment to enter professions that are experiencing unprecedented growth and development. Welcome to the Salus/Drexel family. The challenges will be great, but the rewards will be greater.
Michael H. Mittelman, OD ’80, MPH, MBA, FAAO, FACHE