Roslindale Resident Jennifer Wall Wins Alumni Award from DeSales University

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CENTER VALLEY, PA (10/03/2013)(readMedia)-- On September 28, Roslindale, Mass., resident Jennifer Wall was awarded the DeSales University Alumni Service Award during the school's 2013 Homecoming Weekend.

The DeSales Alumni Service Award recognizes extraordinary alumni service to DeSales, as well as a life that reflects the ideals of St. Francis de Sales, patron of the University.

Wall earned her bachelor of science and her master's degree in physician assistant studies at DeSales University. She has served the burn community as a burn and plastic reconstructive specialized physician assistant for the past thirteen years. She is the Founder and President of the non-profit organization, Africa Burn Relief. For five years, in addition to her full time job, she has been coordinating a multi-disciplinary team into Malawi, Africa, to assess the needs of the local burn victims, aid in treatment of burn victims, and provide education to the local health care workers of the rural community of Nkhoma, Malawi.

During the 2010-2011 year, Jenn was the In-Country Program Director in Nkhoma, Malawi, strengthening prevention programming and expanding services in the capital of Lilongwe.

Jennifer has served burn victims in the Lehigh Valley Hospital, Allentown, Pa., The Arizona Burn Center, in Phoenix, Ariz., and currently in Boston, Mass. Her scope of practice includes ICU care, acute burn surgery and reconstruction surgery.

Wall is currently a physician assistant at Brigham and Women's Hospital Burn Center in Boston and in fact, served many patients during the bombing attacks during the 2013 Boston Marathon. She is instrumental in burn outreach education in the Boston area and a national instructor in Firefighter Burn Prevention programming.

DeSales University, in Center Valley, Pa., is a private, coeducational, four-year liberal arts university affiliated with the Roman Catholic Church. Founded by the Oblates of Saint Francis de Sales in 1965, the 480-acre suburban campus is located 50 miles north of Philadelphia and about 90 miles south of New York City. A total enrollment of nearly 3,000 includes undergraduate day and evening students and graduate students. DeSales has approximately 100 full-time faculty members and offers more than 35 bachelor's degrees and eight graduate programs in a wide range of disciplines.