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T Third-year College of Optometry student Joseph Ibarra provides a comprehensive eye examination to Veronica Ramirez, 14, of Pomona.
Third-year College of Optometry student Joseph
smoking poster contest on the WesternU campus,
and presented savings bonds to the top participants.
Ibarra believes early exposure to WesternU
influenced him to return to Pomona to become a
“Even if you don’t think much of it at the time,
health care professional and give back to his
early exposure to WesternU is great, because it ends
underserved community.
up influencing your career path later in life,” Ibarra
In 1999 – while he was in fifth grade at San Jose said. “It really is quite wonderful how everything has
Elementary School in Pomona, California – he worked out. Things have come full circle, and now
entered a poster contest called “No Butts About It, I’m providing eye care to children going to the same
Smoking is Bad for Your Health.” The campaign was schools I attended.”
a joint project of Western University of Health
Sciences, the Pomona Unified School District (PUSD) In December 2014, Ibarra participated in an eight-
and the WesternU student chapter of California week rotation at Pomona Lions Clubs Vision Center
Doctors Ought to Care (Cal- DOC). at Marshall Middle School in Pomona, providing
comprehensive eye examinations to PUSD students
Ibarra was one of the top five participants for his under the supervision of College of Optometry
grade. Former U.S. Surgeon General C. Everett Koop, Director of Community Outreach and Associate
MD, ScD, judged the finalists of the student anti- Professor Kristy Remick-Waltman, OD, FCOVD.
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Third-year College of Optometry student Joseph
smoking poster contest on the WesternU campus,
and presented savings bonds to the top participants.
Ibarra believes early exposure to WesternU
influenced him to return to Pomona to become a
“Even if you don’t think much of it at the time,
health care professional and give back to his
early exposure to WesternU is great, because it ends
underserved community.
up influencing your career path later in life,” Ibarra
In 1999 – while he was in fifth grade at San Jose said. “It really is quite wonderful how everything has
Elementary School in Pomona, California – he worked out. Things have come full circle, and now
entered a poster contest called “No Butts About It, I’m providing eye care to children going to the same
Smoking is Bad for Your Health.” The campaign was schools I attended.”
a joint project of Western University of Health
Sciences, the Pomona Unified School District (PUSD) In December 2014, Ibarra participated in an eight-
and the WesternU student chapter of California week rotation at Pomona Lions Clubs Vision Center
Doctors Ought to Care (Cal- DOC). at Marshall Middle School in Pomona, providing
comprehensive eye examinations to PUSD students
Ibarra was one of the top five participants for his under the supervision of College of Optometry
grade. Former U.S. Surgeon General C. Everett Koop, Director of Community Outreach and Associate
MD, ScD, judged the finalists of the student anti- Professor Kristy Remick-Waltman, OD, FCOVD.
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