College of Health Professions & Natural Sciences

Christopher E. Otto, MSN, RN, CHFN, PCCN, CCRN, is the new executive director of the Delaware Nurses Association. Otto, who earned his BSN at Wilmington University, is back at WilmU working towards his second graduate degree in the Master of Business Administration program, with a concentration in non-profit management. For more than 100 years, the DNA has been dedicated to bringing positive…

Susannah Manupule, an MSN Leadership Education student, is already a leader in the U.S. Army Nurse Corps, in which she’s served for 10 years. A captain stationed at Landstuhl Regional Medical Center in Germany, she is the Assistant Clinical Nurse Officer in Charge (ACNOIC) of the Mother/Baby Unit, where she provides obstetrical nursing and lactation counseling. In addition to managing her…

As chair of Health Sciences in the College of Health Professions, Dr. Angela Herman knows the importance of a healthy blood platelet count. It’s an issue that impacts her family outside of academia. Her husband, Mike, has been treated for multiple myeloma, a form of blood cancer, for seven years. Recently, Mike’s platelet count dropped to 30, well beneath the 150 that’s necessary needed…