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The SCMM was founded in 1983 in Colton, California, and program in 2007 with Pomona Unified School District and
was in the San Bernardino County Medical Society building Cal Poly Pomona.
in Riverside for about 10 years. The Society recently moved The program brings together middle and high school
to Redlands, but its new building was not a good fit for students and their parents with teachers, professors, health
exhibiting the museum’s collections, said SCMM Director professionals and graduate health professions students to
Bert (Hans) Davidson, MD, PhD, who is also a WesternU explore health professions career pathways and science
clinical professor. through hands-on activities. HCL sessions are held during
Saturday academies and collaborative multi-week summer
The museum interprets and preserves medical, academies. WesternU expanded the HCL program to COMP-
pharmaceutical and dental artifacts and publications. Northwest in Lebanon, Ore. in 2011, to serve disadvantaged
Through its exhibits, publications and programs, the rural students and families.
museum stimulates, informs, and educates the general
public, medical professionals, and students concerning the College of Graduate Nursing receives HRSA
history of health care, with emphasis on Southern funding for sixth straight year
California and the West, according to the museum's The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services’ Health
website. Resources and Services Administration (HRSA) has awarded
Western University of Health Sciences’ College of Graduate
YWCA honors WesternU associate Nursing nearly $400,000 to assist nurses obtaining their
vice provost Rega doctoral degrees.
Western University of Health Sciences Associate Professor of
Anatomy and Associate Vice Provost for Academic This is the sixth year that HRSA has provided support to the
Development Elizabeth Rega, PhD, was one of nine women College of Graduate Nursing (CGN) through the National
honored by the YWCA San Gabriel Valley during its 30th Faculty Loan Program (NFLP). Funds from this 2014-15
annual Women of Achievement Awards. award -- $396,456, the highest amount ever awarded to
WesternU -- will be used to prepare nurse educators enrolled
The YWCA honored in the Doctor of Nursing Practice (DNP) program. CGN
“Women of Achievement expects to support as many as 20 DNP students with the
in the Field of Health award.
Care: Honoring Passion,
Dedication, and “Schools of nursing are turning away qualified students,”
Accomplishment” during said College of Graduate Nursing Founding Dean Karen
its awards event on June Hanford, EdD, RN, FNP. “Faculty shortages are expected to
12, 2014 at The Pavilion exceed the current estimates of 1,358 vacancies in BSN and
in the Industry Hills Expo graduate schools, and are expected to increase due to
Center, City of Industry. upcoming faculty retirements.”
Scott Scoggins, WesternU “The NFLP program is the only dedicated source of federal
Elizabeth Rega, PhD
community outreach funding that prepares future nurse educators. The award
coordinator for American Indian Health Career Ladder and provides loan forgiveness for up to 85 percent of the cost of
director of the Native American Summer Pipeline to College doctoral education when nurses agree to teach for a
program at Pitzer College, said he nominated Rega because minimum of four years in an accredited nursing school,”
she has leadership and vision, and has shown a strong said Rodney Hicks, PhD, RN, FNP, FAANP, FAAN, CGN’s
commitment to community health care and programs such Director of the DNP Program. “Doctorally prepared nurse
as WesternU’s Health Career Ladder (HCL). educators are needed to fill the vacant faculty positions
across the many schools of nursing within California.”
Rega implemented the Pomona Health Career Ladder – Jeff Keating
WesternU View Summer 2014 37
was in the San Bernardino County Medical Society building Cal Poly Pomona.
in Riverside for about 10 years. The Society recently moved The program brings together middle and high school
to Redlands, but its new building was not a good fit for students and their parents with teachers, professors, health
exhibiting the museum’s collections, said SCMM Director professionals and graduate health professions students to
Bert (Hans) Davidson, MD, PhD, who is also a WesternU explore health professions career pathways and science
clinical professor. through hands-on activities. HCL sessions are held during
Saturday academies and collaborative multi-week summer
The museum interprets and preserves medical, academies. WesternU expanded the HCL program to COMP-
pharmaceutical and dental artifacts and publications. Northwest in Lebanon, Ore. in 2011, to serve disadvantaged
Through its exhibits, publications and programs, the rural students and families.
museum stimulates, informs, and educates the general
public, medical professionals, and students concerning the College of Graduate Nursing receives HRSA
history of health care, with emphasis on Southern funding for sixth straight year
California and the West, according to the museum's The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services’ Health
website. Resources and Services Administration (HRSA) has awarded
Western University of Health Sciences’ College of Graduate
YWCA honors WesternU associate Nursing nearly $400,000 to assist nurses obtaining their
vice provost Rega doctoral degrees.
Western University of Health Sciences Associate Professor of
Anatomy and Associate Vice Provost for Academic This is the sixth year that HRSA has provided support to the
Development Elizabeth Rega, PhD, was one of nine women College of Graduate Nursing (CGN) through the National
honored by the YWCA San Gabriel Valley during its 30th Faculty Loan Program (NFLP). Funds from this 2014-15
annual Women of Achievement Awards. award -- $396,456, the highest amount ever awarded to
WesternU -- will be used to prepare nurse educators enrolled
The YWCA honored in the Doctor of Nursing Practice (DNP) program. CGN
“Women of Achievement expects to support as many as 20 DNP students with the
in the Field of Health award.
Care: Honoring Passion,
Dedication, and “Schools of nursing are turning away qualified students,”
Accomplishment” during said College of Graduate Nursing Founding Dean Karen
its awards event on June Hanford, EdD, RN, FNP. “Faculty shortages are expected to
12, 2014 at The Pavilion exceed the current estimates of 1,358 vacancies in BSN and
in the Industry Hills Expo graduate schools, and are expected to increase due to
Center, City of Industry. upcoming faculty retirements.”
Scott Scoggins, WesternU “The NFLP program is the only dedicated source of federal
Elizabeth Rega, PhD
community outreach funding that prepares future nurse educators. The award
coordinator for American Indian Health Career Ladder and provides loan forgiveness for up to 85 percent of the cost of
director of the Native American Summer Pipeline to College doctoral education when nurses agree to teach for a
program at Pitzer College, said he nominated Rega because minimum of four years in an accredited nursing school,”
she has leadership and vision, and has shown a strong said Rodney Hicks, PhD, RN, FNP, FAANP, FAAN, CGN’s
commitment to community health care and programs such Director of the DNP Program. “Doctorally prepared nurse
as WesternU’s Health Career Ladder (HCL). educators are needed to fill the vacant faculty positions
across the many schools of nursing within California.”
Rega implemented the Pomona Health Career Ladder – Jeff Keating
WesternU View Summer 2014 37
