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Western University of Health Sciences celebrated One Health Day with a panel discussion and student-led events.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention definition of One Health is: “a collaborative, multisectoral, and transdisciplinary approach — working at the local, regional, national, and global levels — with the goal of achieving optimal health outcomes recognizing the interconnection between people, animals, plants, and their shared environment.”
The WesternU chapter of the Student American Veterinary Medical Association (SAVMA) provided information, trivia games and prizes centered on One Health on Nov. 3. The student-organized SAVMA One Health Symposium on Nov. 7 featured WesternU CVM Interim Dean John Tegzes (pictured above), MA, VMD, Dipl. ABVT, Christi Calhoun, PhD, Head of Food Chain Relations at Zoetis, and Marissa Horton, DVM, from Zoetis.
WesternU’s College of Veterinary Medicine and Office of the Vice President for Research and Biotechnology presented its One Health Day Panel program Friday, Nov. 4, 2022. Watch the video below.
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WesternU tech leader named
2022 Info-Tech CIO award winner
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Western University of Health Sciences Associate Vice President of IT & Deputy Chief Operating Officer Denise (NeeCee) Cornish, DBA, MBA, has been named a 2022 Info-Tech CIO Award winner by Info-Tech Research Group, one of the world’s leading IT research and advisory firms.
Dr. Cornish has been recognized as one of the top winners for the Large Business division.
Since 2016, the Info-Tech CIO Awards have recognized outstanding industry leaders for delivering exceptional value to their organizations and achieving high scores in stakeholder satisfaction in Info-Tech’s CIO Business Vision program. This program measures an organization’s satisfaction with IT’s core services and provides CIOs with the foundation to jump-start a successful IT strategy.
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College of Optometry news | |
WesternU College of Optometry students Mikala Herr (right, top) and Crystal Sin (right, bottom) are recipients of the 2022 Practice Excellence Scholarship from VSP Vision and the American Academy of Optometry Foundation (AAOF), the philanthropic arm of the American Academy of Optometry (AAO).
The Practice Excellence Scholarship is a long-standing and prestigious scholarship that represents the best in what optometry has to offer in patient care and practice management.
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Dr. Shawn Smith’s Symba Center has recently been awarded a Community Routes: Access to Mental Health Care grant in the amount of $75,000. This grant is provided by Teva Pharmaceuticals, the National Association of Free and Charitable Clinics (NAFC) and Direct Relief partnerships and will expand mental health counseling services to homeless shelter clients in Victorville, CA. Thank you for all of your ongoing work for underserved communities!
Dr. Smith also presented "New Tobacco Cessation Treatment Guideline Updates" at the 2022 National Association of Free and Charitable Clinic Symposium in Indianapolis, Ind.
| Dr. Moses Chow published the following article with an interdepartmental team, including Dr. Wang Zjijum, his former post-doc scientist at WesternU who is now an Assistant Professor at Marshall B. Ketchum University, S. Yeung, a student at Ketchum who helped with analysis, S. Yang, Dr. Chow’s research assistant at WesternU who did much of the experimental work, and COP faculty Dr. Ying Huang. Wang Z, Yeung S, Yang S, Huang Y, Chow MS. Chemosensitizing Effect and Efficacy of Wilforlide A in Combination With Docetaxel in Drug-resistant Prostate Cancer. In Vivo. 2022;36(5):2020-2031. doi:10.21873/invivo.12928 | |
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COMP Department of Translational Research faculty Drs. Vikrant Rai and Devendra Agrawal and Postdoctoral Fellow Dr. Drishtant Singh published: Singh D, Rai V, Agrawal DK: Non-coding RNAs in regulating plaque progression and remodeling of extracellular matrix in atherosclerosis. Int J Molecular Sciences. 2022; 23: 13731; https://doi.org/10.3390/ijms232213731
Drs. Agrawal and Singh published: Singh H, Agrawal DK: Therapeutic potential of targeting the HMGB1/RAGE axis in inflammatory diseases. Molecules 2022; 27: 7311; https://doi.org/10.3390/molecules27217311
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CETL Virtual Reality Workshop | |
On Tuesday, Nov. 15, CETL held its first post-pandemic, in-person CETL Session. The exciting event was a Virtual Reality (VR) Workshop that was joined by faculty and staff from across the Pomona campus, who got the opportunity to experience an immersive VR simulation. The “I Belong” VR Simulation project was developed by an interdisciplinary team of educators and using 360° video patient simulation. Research for this project is ongoing. If you’d like additional information about this project, or learn how you can create something similar, contact cetl@westernu.edu.
Pictured above (left to right): CDM Assistant Dean and Professor James Borke, MS, PhD, CGN Chief Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Officer and Assistant Professor Marsha Guillaume, MPH, COP Associate Professor Bradley Andresen, PhD, FAHA (back), and CPM Professor Stephen Wan, DPM, FACFAS, participate in the immersive "I Belong" VR project.
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Something NEW is coming: Ellucian Experience my.WesternU! | |
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Last week, the Ellucian Experience implementation team announced the exciting news that we will soon launch our personalized dashboard, my.WesternU! At the start of 2023, we will transition from the YouPortal to our new Ellucian Experience communication platform. This enhanced experience branded my.WesternU offers a cloud-based, centralized, user-friendly dashboard that allows students, staff, and faculty to access WesternU content anytime, anywhere. With single-sign-on capabilities, Ellucian Experience creates an efficient, simplified way to access university resources from one centralized location to stay connected and up to date with important announcements and information.
In our phased approach to this transition, our staff, faculty, and administration will go live on Monday, Jan. 9, 2023, with the WesternU Student Experience to follow. To help make this switch as smooth as possible, we are offering 45-minute demo and training sessions for anyone who wants to learn how to access, navigate, and personalize their my.WesternU experience. Please click here to sign up for any remote session that fits your schedule.
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We are now in flu season and COVID-19 continues to spread. Protect yourself, your family, and friends by wearing a face mask when around people you have not seen for a while or when attending a large gathering.
Please review mask requirements and guidelines from the Los Angeles County Department of Public Health and the Oregon Health Authority.
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Studio portraits Tuesday, Dec. 6 | | |
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Public Affairs and Marketing is holding an open studio portrait day:
9 a.m. to 3:20 p.m. Tuesday, Dec. 6
Please click on the link above and sign up for a timeslot that works for your schedule if you would like a new studio portrait. We will schedule additional portrait days for those who cannot come to the studio on this day.
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Please welcome the following recent hires to WesternU:
CGN: Stephen Figueroa, Clinical Instructor
CDM: Anna Chandsawangbhuwana, Assistant/Associate Professor -Pediatrics Dept.
CVM: Knia Cotton, Student Affairs Coordinator
Susan Davis, Veterinary Clinical Instructor
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