WesternU surrounds Board of Trustees Scholars with love and support

Western University of Health Sciences celebrated three new Board of Trustees Scholarship recipients by providing them encouragement and support.

College of Veterinary Medicine student Brianna Etienne, College of Dental Medicine student Gabriela Salazar, and College of Graduate Nursing student Isabel Tabaha Satala (pictured above with Board of Trustees members John Forbing and Dr. James Lally) joined WesternU administrators, faculty and staff at a welcome luncheon on Aug. 30, 2023, on WesternU’s Pomona, California campus.

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The 13th Dr. Philip Pumerantz Distinguished Lectureship in Interprofessional Education will be held at 4 p.m. Wednesday, Sept. 27, 2023 in HEC Lecture Hall 1: Wu Auditorium, WesternU California. The lecture will be live streamed to COMP-Northwest Lecture Hall 1 and also available on Zoom (register for the link).

Keynote speaker Jeffrey Elo, DDS, MS, will present "The Role of the Oral and Maxillofacial Surgeon on the Interdisciplinary Medical Team." Dr. Elo is the Drs. Daljit and Elaine Sarkaria Professor of Advanced Oral Diagnosis and Therapeutics in the WesternU College of Dental Medicine.

This lectureship, in honor of WesternU’s founder and president emeritus, Dr. Philip Pumerantz, is made possible by a generous donation from Dr. Elaine Sarkaria and the late Dr. Daljit Sarkaria of Orange, California.

Click here to register. 

Finosh G. Thankam, PhD, Assistant Professor in the COMP Department of Translational Research, was an invited speaker in the Roberto Bolli Young Investigator Award Competition at the 10^th annual meeting of the North American section of the International Academy of Cardiovascular Sciences, Sept. 7-9, 2023 in Tampa, Florida. He delivered a presentation on “Secretome-driven intercellular communication between myocardial and epicardial stromal cells in cardiac regeneration.”

Public Affairs and Marketing is holding an open studio portrait day:

9 a.m. to 3:50 p.m. Thursday, Sept. 28

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. The schedule is filling up, so if you don't find a time that works for you, we will schedule additional portrait days in the coming months.