For Aleah Siwula ’25, the trip was “life changing.” “Not only seeing those communities but being able to make the tiniest impact on those people’s lives is something I’ll cherish forever,” she said.

DeFrank’s mother, grandmother, aunts, and uncle all worked in healthcare. “It just felt like something that I wanted to be able to do someday,” she said.

As a kid, a dentist told Kevin Cloud that Nintendo games readied him for work. “I thought it was the coolest thing ever that he got to play video games to do his job.”

Three of 2023’s DNP graduates talked to Pulse@ChathamU about why they chose Chatham for their doctorate degree and how the program has affected their practice.