The WesternU Summer Health Professions Education Program (SHPEP) started virtual learning on June 12, 2023, and in-person learning on June 26 on its Pomona, California campus.

WesternU SHPEP’s goal is to strengthen the academic proficiency, clinical commitment, compassion and enhance the career development of students underrepresented in the health professions by preparing them for successful application and matriculation to a health professions program.

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The student editors of WesternU’s Humanism in the Health Sciences magazine are pleased to announce the release of the 2023 digital issue: Buoyancy.

We hope you enjoy and share our interactive digital magazine.

"This theme was inspired by our collective experience of duck syndrome. A duck in the water appears calm but below the water they are furiously paddling. This issue of Humanism in the Health Sciences is a space for people to share their stories and what keeps them buoyant, floating above the water, and thriving in this ever-changing world" - Jonathan Ibanez, DPM ’23, Editor-in-Chief, Humanism in the Health Sciences, 2022-2023.

Founded in 1996, Humanism in the Health Sciences magazine is a student-led literary and arts journal for Western University of Health Sciences. We accept non-fiction essays, fiction short stories, poetry, fine art, photography, audio, video and animation submissions from our whole WesternU community. Our mission is to cultivate a diversity of minds, cultures, experiences and points of view in order to enhance the humanistic principles that guide this University’s mission.

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CHS Department of Physical Therapy Education Associate Professor Christine Eddow, PT, PhD, DPT, OCS, WCS, CHT, CLT, has been elected to the American Society of Hand Therapists (ASHT) Board of Directors.

She will begin her term on the Board at the ASHT National Conference in San Antonio Sept. 27-Oct. 1. Dr. Eddow will also serve as a speaker and poster presenter at this conference.

COMP Assistant Professor Vikrant Rai, MBBS, MS, PhD, published the following book chapter:

Rai, V. (2023). Immunotherapy for Hepatocellular Carcinoma. In: Rezaei, N. (eds) Handbook of Cancer and Immunology. Springer, Cham.