The primary mission of the AUN health center is to enhance the learning environment of the ºÚÁÏÍø by maintaining and improving the health, personal growth and wellbeing of the students who study here.

We do this by providing high-quality, prevention-oriented primary health care, mental health services, and educational outreach programs tailored to meet the needs of AUN students.

By supporting the physical health essential to intellectual and personal development, we support each student's full participation in University life.

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Diversity

The health center is committed to offering respectful and confidential care to all AUN students.

We value differences in race, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, age, national origin, ability, and veteran status. Our staff is responsive to the needs and concerns of all seeking care, and we are committed to offering services in an environment which is safe and supportive to all.

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Values

Respect & Compassion

We listen closely to our clients, and respond to their holistic needs—to the ‘whole person’—with understanding, patience, and kindness.

We build on our staff’s diversity—recognizing, valuing, and appreciating the different perspectives, talents, and contributions of all.Ìý

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Class Absence Due to Illness

We understand that illness and injury may impact a student's ability to attend class or to complete assignments. Students in this situation are responsible for notifying their instructors, preferably before missing a class/assignment. Conversations between students and instructors should identify how a student can work around an illness or injury to best continue academic efforts and activities. Instructors have final authority to excuse absences.

The AUN Health Center will not provide written medical excuses for class absences due to acute illness.ÌýIn the event of illness or injury requiring hospitalization or extended absence from classes, with permission from the student, we can notify the student’s Dean’s Office who will then contact the student’s faculty. We will not give any information (including verifying that a student has been seen or date of visit) without the permission of the student.

We encourage open and honest dialogue between students and instructors throughout the semester and in particular when students are unable to attend class. This approach encourages students, as emerging adults, to advocate for themselves and to take responsibility for their health and actions. This also encourages instructors to see students as emerging adults and to communicate directly with them if concerns arise.

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Confidentiality of Care

The AUN health center holds your care inÌýSTRICT CONFIDENCE.

As professionals, our staffs are expected to consult with one another, as necessary, to insure that your care is of high quality.

However, by law—and by the ethical standards embraced by our staff in the counseling and medical professions—we are not permitted to release any information about your care to anyone outside of the health center without your explicit permission.

Specifically, we will not release information about the facts or nature of your care to University officials, faculty, family, friends or roommates without this permission; a copy of medical or counseling records is available only after we receive a written request signed by you.

There are rare circumstances when we break this seal of confidentiality: when you have a very serious mental or physical health problem and are unable to assume responsibility for notifying others, when your life or that of another is in danger.

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We have competent and committed health care professionals working round the clock. All of the Center's staff members are well trained and undergo mandatory retraining to keep up with international best practices in their fields.

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Philip Eappen, BSN, MBA

Mr. Philip Eappen received a Bachelor of Science in Nursing (BSN) from Rajiv Gandhi University of Health Sciences, Bangalore, one of India’s best in the field. He then earned an MBA in Hospital & Healthcare Management from Manipal University, also in India and is pursuing a Ph.D. in Healthcare Administration from Central Michigan University in the United States.

Mr. Eappen’s working career began as an Intensive Care Unit nurse with Marble City Hospital & Research Center, Jabalpur. He later moved to Shri Ram Murti Smarak Institute of Medical Sciences, Bareilly, where he worked as a Cardiac Intensive Care Unit Manager. He also worked with the Medical Intensive Care Unit as a Shift Manager and attended many major surgeries in cardiac and neuro specialty operation theaters. Mr. Eappen later taught Medical and Surgical Nursing at Shri Ram Murti Smarak School of Nursing. Afterwards, he joined a Neuro Specialty Hospital as an ICU In-charge.

Mr. Eappen began his AUN career from India in September 2012 and was soon promoted to In-charge. He was the Interim Director of AUN Health Center from January to July 2015 and has been the chief administrator till date, winning the 2017 Best staff for Leadership and Development award.

Mr. Eappen has attended the following professional workshops and conferences: Critical Care Conference: Airway Management for Critically Ill Patients in ICT (2010), Critical Care Workshop: Mechanical Ventilation for Critically Ill Patients (2011), Critical Care Conference (2015, Bangkok, Thailand), and Trauma Care by ICRC, (Geneva), Principles of Medical Education: Maximizing Your Teaching Skills Evaluation (Nigeria) by the Harvard Medical School in March 2017.

Also, he has the following professional licenses and certificates: ºÚÁÏÍø Heart Association Basic Life Support Provider, ºÚÁÏÍø Heart Association Advanced Cardiac Life Support Provider, Kerala Nurses and Midwives Council and Karnataka State Nursing Council, Essentials of Global Health, Yale University, July 2017, Psychological First Aid, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, July 2017, Stanford Introduction to Food and Health Stanford University July 2017, Global Health and Humanitarianism, The University of Manchester, June 2017, Leading Healthcare Quality and Safety, The George Washington University, June 2017, Emergency Room Trauma Course, International Committee of the Red Cross, April 2016, 6th Critical Care Conference (Thailand), June 2015, Basic Life Support (BLS), ºÚÁÏÍø Heart Association/ºÚÁÏÍø Stroke Association, July 2012, Advanced Cardiac Life Support (ACLS), ºÚÁÏÍø Heart Association/ºÚÁÏÍø Stroke Association, July 2011, Airway Maintenance (ISCCM) 2010, Mechanical Ventilation (ISCCM), 2010, CITI Program, a division of BRANY (September 2017 to September 2020 and The Nigerian National Code for Health Research Ethics of Center for Bioethics and Research, The Center for Bioethics & Human Dignity.

Committees

• IRB committee membership 2018-2020
• Drug intervention and referral committee