The College of Dental Medicine received a $1 million gift from the Western Regional Examining Board (WREB) to fund scholarships and carry on WREB's legacy of helping students.
Join our 24-hour fundraising challenge to support and encourage WesternU students! Click on the image below to view a message from WesternU Senior Vice President and Founding Chief of Mission Integration Dr. Stephanie Bowlin.
The College of Graduate Nursing welcomed its first class of Psychiatric Mental Health Nurse Practitioner students this month, addressing a critical need for more mental health care workers locally and nationwide. View WesternU's PMHNP video below.
WesternU, in collaboration with Brown Memorial Temple and Pomona Valley Hospital Medical Center (PVHMC), hosted a community clinic on Saturday, Aug. 14 at Palomares Academy of Health Sciences in Pomona.
Given her expertise in research design and appraisal, Dr. Jackevicius was invited to publish a paper in the Research and Scholarship Methods section of the Journal of American College of Clinical Pharmacy. The article describes risk of bias in the selection of case and controls, measurement of exposure, how to calculate odds ratios for exposure, and applicability of study findings.
Dr. Jackevicius and two former advanced elective students, Robert Cohen Sedgh (Class of 2020) and Jungyeon Moon (Class of 2020, incoming cardiology outcomes fellow) investigated the association between FDA recalls and reported angiotensin receptor blocker (ARB) neoplasm adverse events following FDA recalls of ARB agents that were contaminated with N-nitrosodimethylamine, a potential carcinogen. Amongst three ARBs, more neoplasms were reported with valsartan over irbesartan and losartan, potentially due to considerable media coverage with the valsartan recall.
CVM Professor Mohammad Mir, PhD, received an R15 grant from NIH titled “Demonstrating the mechanism of Nairovirus translation strategy." The funding started July 1, 2021. Dr. Mir served in the Emerging infectious diseases study section of the Department of Defense (U.S. Army Medical Research and Material Command). The study section was tasked to review applications focused on novel approaches for diagnosis and treatment of Emerging infectious diseases of potential interest to the US Department of Defense. Applications were reviewed and discussed from June-July, 2021. Dr. Mir also served in NIH study section (ZRG1 IDIA-W (02)), tasked to review both RO1 and R21 grants proposals focused on viral pathogenesis and therapeutics.
WesternU Telecommuting Town Hall
10 a.m. Friday, Aug. 27
The Employee Relations Demobilization Task Force (ERDMTF) Workgroup in collaboration with WesternU Telecommuting is happy to announce we will soon host a WesternU Telecommuting Town Hall.
All faculty and staff are invited to join this event. Though, we would like to specifically encourage our WesternU supervisors to attend as it will directly address inquires that relate to the newly approved Telecommuting Policy and Telecommuting Agreement, which can then be shared to your teams. Please note that the session will be recorded.
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Welcome
Please welcome the following recent hires to WesternU:
COP: Katrin Boyanova, Teaching Assistant - MSPS
Jungyeon Moon, Post-PharmD Fellow
GCBS: Shelbi Salinas, Research Assistant
COMP: Nikki Le, Research Associate, Basic Medical Sciences
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