New England School of Acupuncture,
MCPHS explore merger
New England School of Acupuncture (NESA) and MCPHS University, also known as Massachusetts College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences, have entered into an agreement to explore a merger, the schools announced Monday.
Founded in 1823, MCPHS is the oldest university in Boston and has a campus on Elm Street in Manchester, N.H, with 450 students. NESA, founded in 1975 is the first school of acupuncture in the United States.
“With NESA, we would gain world-class expertise in holistic medical practice that will add breadth to our well-established programs, spark the development of new inter-professional majors, and strengthen our existing collaborations with universities in China and Japan,” MCPHS President Charles F. Monahan, Jr. said in a news release.
NESA President and CEO Susan L. Gorman added: “We are excited to potentially combine our unique program with one of the world’s leaders in health care education.
NESA would continue to fulfill and extend its mission of integrating acupuncture and oriental medicine with western allopathic therapies, bringing acupuncture into the mainstream of modern medicine.
NESA, whose campus is in Newton, Mass., offers master’s degrees in Acupuncture and Oriental Medicine, including a dual master’s degree in Pain Management in collaboration with Tufts University School of Medicine. MCPHS, with campuses in Boston, Worcester and Manchester, N.H.,offers undergraduate, first-professional and graduate degrees in pharmacy, nursing, physician assistant studies, optometry, physical therapy, premedical and health studies and more than 60 other health care programs.
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