Faculty
Blake Christian Daniels, DC, BS
Fall 1980 - Fall 2120
Assistant Professor I
Eastern Medicine Department
BlakeDaniels@scuhs.edu
Current Position
Biography
Dr. Blake Daniels, DC earned his Doctor of Chiropractic in 2018 from Southern California University of Health Sciences after receiving a Bachelor's degree in Human Biology from the University of Southern California in 2015. Dr. Daniels is now a member of the SCU Faculty in the Eastern Medicine Department. He is currently the lead faculty for the following courses: Anatomy & Physiology I, II & III, as well as Pathophysiology I, II & III.
Degrees
D.C., Chiropractic, SCUHS, Whittier, California, United States
B.A., Human Biology, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California, United States
Professional Licensures (Healthcare)
DC, California, United States, Active, 2019, 2023-02-22
Honors and Awards
Fall 2015 - Fall 2018
SCU Deans List, 2018, SCU
Fall 2018 - Fall 2018
Cum Laude, 2018, SCU
Fall 2021 - Fall 2021
SCUHS Recognition for Kindness, 2021, SCUHS, "He has been very generous with his time and accommodating to meet with me to go over class material I have struggled with. Its nice to
feel academically encouraged and supported especially in times when I don’t feel my best about certain topics in class. Thank you Dr.
Daniels for always responding to my questions, I appreciate all your help."
SCUHS Recognition for Kindness & Determination, 2021, SCUHS, He is kind and patience when he teaches. His teaching style is well thought out and extremely organized. Dr. Daniels is determined in
helping students learn concepts and do well academically.
Spring 2022 - Spring 2022
SCUHS Recognition for Inclusivity & Kindness, 2022, SCUHS, Dr Daniels was an amazing remediation professor that helped restore confidence in me. I have never had a professor so kind and willing
to help me understand the concepts that I struggled with. We need more professors like him in the world!
SCUHS Recognition for Determination, 2022, SCUHS, He stepped up in a time of need to help out on multiple time sensitive FHS projects including remediation, syllabus completion, and
delivered ahead of the tight deadlines.
SCUHS Recognition for Kindness, 2022, SCUHS, He did a wonderful job welcoming me as a new faculty member with kindness and patience.
Summer 2023 - Summer 2023
SCUHS Recognition for Kindness, 2023, SCUHS, No matter how behind I was on assignments or exams, he treated me with the same level of respect and unbelievable kindness every step of the way. I never once felt pressured, dismissed, alienated, nor denied access to my education due to my struggles. He emailed separately a correctly label image of the blood vessels of the kidney because I struggled to do so accurately on the lab activity. He didn't have to do it, and yet he took the time to do it anyway out of the kindness of his heart! Thanks Dr. Daniels!
SCUHS Recognition for Determination, 2023, SCUHS, He worked tirelessly to help create the IPE escape room activity especially the questions and videos. He was readily available for impromptu meetings and working late hours.
Fall 2023 - Fall 2023
SCUHS Recognition for Kindness, 2023, SCUHS, He did a great job making his students feel supported during our Anatomy Physiology Midterms Lecture and Lab. He made us feel good about our performance during the midterms too.
Summer 2024 - Summer 2024
Certificate of Appreciation, 2024, SCUHS Interprofessional Education Department, For serving as an Interprofessional Education (IPE) Facilitator for Management Escape Room - August 2, 2024. This IPE learning activity provided our students with an opportunity to learn about, from, and with each other, fostering effective collaboration and changing the trajectory of integrative, whole-person health in our Southern California community and beyond.
Certificate of Appreciation, 2024, SCUHS Interprofessional Education Department, For serving as an Interprofessional Education (IPE) Facilitator for Diagnosis Escape Room - August 1, 2024. This IPE learning activity provided our students with an opportunity to learn about, from, and with each other, fostering effective collaboration and changing the trajectory of integrative, whole-person health in our Southern California community and beyond.
Certificate of Appreciation, 2024, SCUHS Interprofessional Education Department, For serving as an Interprofessional Education (IPE) Facilitator for Body Painting - July 31, 2024. This IPE learning activity provided our students with an opportunity to learn about, from, and with each other, fostering effective collaboration and changing the trajectory of integrative, whole-person health in our Southern California community and beyond.
Certificate of Appreciation, 2024, SCUHS Interprofessional Education Department, For serving as an Interprofessional Education (IPE) Facilitator for Integrating Modalities - July 29, 2024. This IPE learning activity provided our students with an opportunity to learn about, from, and with each other, fostering effective collaboration and changing the trajectory of integrative, whole-person health in our Southern California community and beyond.
Fall 2024 - Fall 2024
SCUHS Recognition for Integrity, 2024, SCUHS, He is always keeping honesty, transparency and integrity at the forefront of his classroom. I also appreciate him for his patience with our class and for my ongoing issue with ExamSoft. He is the best!
Certificate of Appreciation, 2024, SCUHS Interprofessional Education Department, Teaming for Health - November 20, 2024
This IPE learning activity provided our students with an opportunity to learn about, from, and with each other, fostering effective collaboration and changing the trajectory of integrative, whole-person health in our Southern California community and beyond.
Spring 2025 - Spring 2025
SCUHS Recognition for Kindness, Evidence-Based Practice, & Determination, 2025, SCUHS, He is so patient and thoughtful in doing everything possible in understanding the most difficult course, Human Anatomy.
Professional Membership
Spring 2016 - Fall 2018
Delta Sigma Honorary Scholastic Society, January 2016
Summer 2024 - Ongoing
Food as Medicine Global, May 2024, Ongoing
Fall 2024 - Ongoing
Integrative Medicine for the Underserved, February 2024, Ongoing
Fall 2023 - Ongoing
Chiropractic Educators Research Forum, March 2023, Ongoing
Fall 2022 - Ongoing
Quality Matters, November 2022, Ongoing, Quality Matters (QM) is the global organization leading quality assurance in online and innovative digital teaching and learning environments. It provides a scalable quality assurance system for online and blended learning used within and across organizations. QM professional development is designed to help educators deliver the promise of quality online learning opportunities to every level of learner.
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I chose SCU when looking for a PA program because of their Integrative Medicine approach. I am from Michigan, and not many programs focus on this Integrative, Holistic approach when it comes to patient care in the Midwest, and I felt that was very important for me to learn as a future provider. My transition to semi-virtual learning has been very smooth and quite enjoyable. [su_accordion][su_spoiler title="Read More..." open="No"]My favorite part about attending SCU is how tight-knit and diverse the community is. Coming from a large undergrad university and moving so far, it was very important for me to have a PA program that made me feel valued and invested in my success. At SCU, they do a great job of making you feel that.[/su_spoiler][/su_accordion]
Brianna Hadley
MSPA Class of 2022
One of the great things about SCU is we do have a campus layout, so all your classes aren't in a single room. We have our cadaver lab. We have different specialty rooms for physical assessment classes vs. acupuncture classes. All our acupuncture-specific classes have all the herbs in the room. You can pull out the herbs and look at them, whether in class or in between classes to get that extra studying in.[su_accordion][su_spoiler title="Read More..." open="No"]My favorite part of SCU is the collaboration from our beginning terms. We were working alongside chiropractor students, PA students, and ayurvedic students. It's a unique community where we get to learn about these different fields and sit in classrooms with them and work with them in the clinic. It allows you to get an understanding of all the different fields and how they can work together, and what is unique about your field. I think that is a wonderful aspect that I didn't think was going to be as prominent as it is here; even now, in my upper term classes and I am not in class with chiropractic students, I can still reach out to them about a certain aspect I may not understand or if I am working on a case. I want another perspective I know I have them to reach out to, so that has been a great networking community to have resources for.[/su_spoiler][/su_accordion]
Dr. Jamie Kuljis
Graduate, Doctor of Acupuncture and Chinese Medicine
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Portia Harris
Student, Ayurveda Program
Some of my favorite courses at SCU have to be the chiropractic procedure classes; those are the classes you get to hone in on your chiro skills, your palpation skills and ultimately work on the adjustments that make you a chiropractor. Those are the classes I feel enhance my knowledge the most and are some of the reasons I chose to become a chiropractor here are SCU.[su_accordion][su_spoiler title="Read More..." open="No"]On top of chiropractic procedures classes, my favorite is the cadaver lab experience. The cadaver classes opened up my perception of what the human body is made up of. It allowed me to get an in-person perspective of how the body works and looks on the inside. I am genuinely thankful for those experiences because they opened and broadened my horizons to the human body and anatomy in general.[/su_spoiler][/su_accordion]
Jordan Vega
Student, Doctor of Chiropractic
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