Commencement 2021
WesternU will hold virtual Commencement ceremonies celebrating the Class of 2021 May 17-21. We encourage our graduates to invite as many guests as they wish to view the ceremony and celebrate their accomplishments. #WesternUGrad2021
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COMP-Northwest student helps rescue people from car crash
Jacob Fletcher, who will graduate from COMP-Northwest on May 21, 2021, is being called a hero after he helped rescue two injured people from an overturned car that crashed into a creek near his house in Lebanon, Oregon.
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From the College of Graduate Nursing:
CGN Associate Dean and Professor Rodney W. Hicks, PhD, RN, FNP-BC, FAANP, FAAN, and his collaborators r ecently served as guest editors for a special edition on nurse practitioner learning. He also co-authored the following: Berg, J. A., Hicks, R. W., & Roberts, M. E. (2021). Strategies and techniques to enhance nurse practitioner learning. Journal of the American Association of Nurse Practitioners, 33(5), 339-341.
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Payroll ADP Town Hall
The Payroll Department will hold its second ADP Town Hall at 9 a.m. Wednesday, May 12, 2021. Payroll will provide an overview of the transition to ADP Workforce Now for timekeeping and payroll. All WesternU faculty and staff are invited to attend. Please register here (requires WesternU login) by searching for “ADP” under Course Name.
Payroll is also holding virtual information sessions every weekday through May 28. To register, please visit our
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Experience a Virtual Escape Room
Get ready to team up to follow clues, solve puzzles, and complete your mission in under 60 minutes! Open to all. 6 p.m. Thursday, May 20. Hosted by Reality Break Escapes. Deadline to register is May 13.
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alumnifriends.westernu.edu
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Welcome
Please welcome the following recent hires to WesternU:
CGN: Christy Cotner, Director, Psychiatric Mental Health Nurse Practitioner Program/Assistant Professor
CDM: Swati Chitre, Assistant Professor
Office of Medical Education: Lauren Steele, Curriculum & Assessment Specialist
CHS: Jonathan Perry, Associate Professor, DPT-Oregon
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From the College of Pharmacy:
David J. Sanchez, PhD, is featured in American Association of Colleges of Pharmacy’s Academic Pharmacy Now discussing WesternU student pharmacists’ roles with social media to advocate for the COVID-19 vaccine:
Cantlupe JA. Voicing Support for Vaccination. Academic Pharmacy Now. 2021 April 27;(2): 5-8. Link to Article
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Dr. Mark Nguyen, Dr. Quang Le, and their colleagues conducted a post hoc analysis of a randomized controlled trial that was previously published in the Journal of Critical Care (Tanios M, Nguyen HM, Park H, et al. Analgesia-first sedation in critically ill adults: A U.S. pilot randomized controlled trial. J Crit Care. 2019;53:107-13).
Their results suggest the effect of medication-associated coma, on days spent on mechanical ventilation or 28-day mortality, is similar regardless of whether the coma is related to an analgosedation or gabaminergic sedative management approach.
Maged Tanios, Huan Mark Nguyen, Quang A. Le, Hyunsoon Park, and John W. Devlin. Fentanyl- and midazolam-induced coma each influence days of mechanical ventilation and 28-day mortality: a post hoc analysis of a randomized controlled analgosedation trial. Intensive Care Med. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00134-021-06418-x.
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2021 College of Veterinary Medicine Summer Camp
CVM is offering its inaugural veterinary summer enrichment camp as a fully virtual experience June 14-18. This engaging summer camp is for high school students (grades 10-12) with serious interest in becoming a veterinarian. Applications due May 21.
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