The Western University of Health Sciences Board of Trustees Scholars Circle of Support Dinner provided an opportunity to honor five special WesternU students and allow them to reflect on their journey to date.

The WesternU Board of Trustees created a $6 million endowed scholarship in 2021 to help remove financial barriers for students from lower socio-economic backgrounds and increase student diversity in graduate health sciences and the health professions workforce. WesternU held a special dinner honoring the first five students to receive this scholarship in January 2023 in Pomona, California. 

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WesternU College of Pharmacy alumnus Dr. Kevin Mancilla, from the PharmD Class of 2022, joined with fellow donors Dr. Lilia Xu and Dr. Ken Thai (pictured left to right) to establish the 986 Hope Endowed Scholarship.

“We started this scholarship in order to support student leaders who are using the pharmacy profession as a platform to help underserved populations and make a lasting impact in their community,” Dr. Mancilla said. “We believe philanthropic leadership is a key component of our profession and we want to encourage and support these future leaders of pharmacy to continue the great work.”

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WesternU College of Health Sciences Assistant Professor and Assistant Dean of Assessment & Strategic Initiatives Josh Matacotta, PsyD, MA, CAHIMS, serves as a Research Ambassador for the NIH All of Us Research Program. The All of Us Research Program is building a dataset to help transform the future of health research by equipping researchers with expansive health data from diverse populations, especially those underrepresented in biomedical research.

Dr. Matacotta will talk about his involvement with the All of Us Research Program at the Louisiana Chapter of the National Hispanic Medical Association (NHMA) webinar "Research It! Women's and Girls HIV/AIDS Care in the Gulf Coast" on Feb. 28, 2023.

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WesternU College of Podiatric Medicine Dean Jonathan Labovitz, DPM, FACFAS, CHCQM, was appointed to the Clinical Advisory Working Group (CAWG) which supports the Amputation Prevention Alliance (APA) of the American Diabetes Association^® (ADA).

Click here to learn about the APA’s mission and the members of the Clinical Advisory Board.

New Submission Deadline: Monday, March 13, 2023

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

Founded in 1996, Humanism in the Health Sciences magazine is a student-led literary and arts journal for Western University of Health Sciences. We encourage contributions from our whole WesternU community: students, faculty, staff, administration, alumni, and all other interested friends and associates of WesternU. Our mission is to represent the diversity of minds, cultures, experiences and points of view in order to enhance the humanistic principles that guide this university’s mission.

We accept submissions in English and Spanish.

For the full submission guidelines and more information, please visit our website.