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Domenici Center for Health Sciences Education

Educating Tomorrow's Health Care Providers

Domenici Center photo by Cathleen Rineer-Garber

The Domenici Center for Health Sciences Education serves all of the education programs at the UNM Health Sciences Center : Medicine, Nursing, Pharmacy, Diagnostic and Therapeutic Sciences, Public Health, and Biomedical Sciences. The Center incorporates state-of-the-art classroom technology to facilitate and enhance interdisciplinary education and is a focal point of the Health Sciences Center campus.
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For more information about building, hours of operation, rooms, equipment and room reservations, please see our brochure.
 



The Center serves as a gateway to the Phil and Olga Eaton Sculpture Garden of Healing. These four gardens and a Memorial Garden Walkway, when developed, will fuse traditional and contemporary sculpture to create an atmosphere conducive to healing and learning.

Students photo by Sally Bowler-Hill The Center houses the Hall of Discovery which promotes an understanding of the history, scientific advancements, and current issues surrounding health sciences in the state of New Mexico.

The Northeast building, which opened in January 2010 houses the Leonard M. Napolitano Ph.D. Anatomical Educational Center (human anatomy lab) and the Interprofessional Healthcare Simulation Center (IHSC).  The IHSC contains a mock community pharmacy, sterile/non-sterile compounding areas, simulated inpatient rooms, a drop-in skills lab, examination rooms for assessment, simulation and procedure rooms and debriefing rooms. 

Student Lounge Open 24x7

The Student Lounge at the east end of the Domenici Center auditorium building is accessible 24x7 to HSC students via proximity ("prox") card access. The lounge doors are unlocked 6 a.m.-6 p.m. weekdays, but after hours access to the lounge is now available for students registered in Pharmacy, Nursing, Medicine, Diagnostic and Therapeutic and other HSC programs.

More Information

Evening and Weekend User Guide

Room Reservations
Health Sciences Library and Informatics Center
MSC09 5100
1 University of New Mexico
Albuquerque, NM 87131-0001
Phone: (505)272-2311
via e-mail

Facilities Questions
Marcia Sletten, Manager, Division Support Services
Health Sciences Library and Informatics Center
Phone: (505)272-8687
via e-mail