 The newest location for UCSD Extension, the continuing education arm of the University, is off to a healthy start.
Strategically located for those working in the healthcare and safety industries, Extension’s extension into Mission Valley boasts more than 6,300 square feet of classroom space, wireless Internet access and close proximity to San Diego International Airport. All this and free parking too.
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Our Mission Valley location offers a convenient place
to learn for healthcare and safety professionals,” says Grace Miller, director of health delivery education. “This has
made our classes in disciplines such as emergency nursing and healthcare leadership more accessible to institutions such as UCSD Medical Center, Scripps, Sharp, Kaiser and an array of nearby clinics.”
Each year, approximately 20,000 individuals enroll in Extension’s 2,000 university-level professional and enrichment courses. For the convenience of working adults, classes are held evenings and weekends on the UCSD main campus and in Sorrento Mesa, Rancho Bernardo and the newest location, Mission Valley.
Extension’s OSHA Training Institute is also located at the Mission Valley site, and offers safety training to more than 2,500 students per year, 60 percent of whom come from out-of-state.
Extension’s first-of-its-kind Clinical Trials and Research Program, also at the Mission Valley location, celebrated its 10th anniversary this year. Clinical trials are critical to San Diego’s growing bio industries. These experiments evaluate new drugs, medical devices
or other interventions on patients in the strictly controlled settings that are required for regulatory approval of new therapies.
The clinical trials certificate programs were designed in partnership with leaders in the pharmaceutical and biomedical research industries, and continue to provide leading-edge practical education.
More than 2,300 students, from such local and national
companies as Amylin, Pfizer, Novartis, Gen-Probe, Biogen Idec, Neurocrine and Quintiles, have graduated from the program. And some 7 percent of the students came from across the U.S.
and the world. 
— Henry DeVries, ’79 |
