College of Health Sciences

Ronald De Vera Barredo, PT, DPT, Ed.D., FAPTA, Dean
Health Sciences Building, Suite 433
(615) 963-4927
rbarredo@tnstate.edu

General Statement

The College of Health Sciences is committed to preparing tomorrow’s healthcare leaders. The purpose of the College is to offer educational programs designed to produce practitioners and prepare individuals who are interested in pursuing careers as educators in the health professions; to encourage, develop and support interest in research; and to provide health care, when appropriate, and continuing education services to the community.

Vision

Preparing tomorrow’s health care leaders.

Mission

To promote academic quality and student success by preparing tomorrow’s healthcare leaders through professional programs, interdisciplinary collaboration, clinical research, scholarly inquiry, evidence-based practice, and community service.

Core Values

In the College of Health Sciences, we display an interest in each other and in you; we maintain ethical practices and conduct matters with integrity, courtesy, and dependency; we embrace learning, working, and service; and will carry out our responsibilities by being prepared to give our best.

Goals

The goals of the College of Health Sciences are to:

Develop and implement educational programs designed to produce tomorrow’s health practitioners, educators, and leaders based upon employment demands.
Recruit students interested in careers in the health field into programs offered in the College and to instill in students the basic principles of professionalism; to provide students with career counseling, academic advisement, and tutorial assistance all designed to assist them in achieving their career goals.
Identify, early, barriers to student success in order to achieve the maximal levels of preparation required to produce a healthy career.
Maintain full accreditation by appropriate agencies for programs offered in the College.
Recruit and maintain faculty capable of making significant contributions to the basic and applied research efforts of the institution, College, and world.
Encourage and promote the delivery of services to the community by sponsoring seminars, workshops, consultations, service-learning projects, and the delivery of health services when appropriate.

In addition to the Doctor in Physical Therapy, Master of Science in Speech and Hearing Science, Master of Public Health, Master of Arts in Education (Human Performance and Sport Sciences), Master of Science in Nursing, and Master of Occupational Therapy, the College offers undergraduate degrees in: