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it is imperative that we really reach a
higher point of research and education
and try to give back to our community
and work together with our colleagues.
I definitely feel that nurses are going to
be on the front line, especially with the
changes in health care going on right
now.”
College of Veterinary Medicine keynote
speaker Barbara Natterson-Horowitz,
MD, Professor of Medicine in the
Division of Cardiology at the David
Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA,
implored CVM graduates to work with
their physician counterparts to benefit both human and power of connection. Comparative medicine, so
animal health. foundational to veterinary medicine, has at its core an
acknowledgement of the deep and essential connection
It’s human nature to elevate our species above other between the widest array of animals,” Natterson-
animals, but there are real costs to seeing ourselves as a Horowitz said. “Translational veterinary medicine
species apart, separate and better, she said. It is connects bench research to both animal and human
patients. And veterinary public health connects the
health of individual animals in flocks, herds and schools
to water, food and our shared environment. Human
medicine needs the connecting power of your field.”
COMP/GCBS Commencement speaker Norman Vinn,
DO, president of the American Osteopathic Association,
told graduates that the profession of osteopathic
medicine has grown by leaps and bounds despite its
relatively young age (140 years), and that today’s
graduates are at the vanguard of a medical movement
that has seen more than 80 percent of all DOs ever
licensed graduate in just the past 40 years.
“I am issuing a call to adventure to you, to take part in
the mythic journey of the osteopathic profession,” Vinn
scientifically narrowing, it discourages making the kinds said. “You are our next generation of heroes.”
of connections that generate new hypotheses, and it
deprives us of the opportunity of seeing the bigger Vinn asked the Class of 2014 to keep three things in
picture. That perspective could help us understand mind as they embark on their careers:
problems from a broader perspective, and might generate
novel approaches, perhaps even solutions, to the most • Personal growth. “Never pay attention to how you
intractable problems we face, she said. compare to other people. Ask yourself, am I doing a
better job today than I did yesterday? Can I do a
“What I have most learned from veterinarians is the better job tomorrow?” Continued on page 8
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higher point of research and education
and try to give back to our community
and work together with our colleagues.
I definitely feel that nurses are going to
be on the front line, especially with the
changes in health care going on right
now.”
College of Veterinary Medicine keynote
speaker Barbara Natterson-Horowitz,
MD, Professor of Medicine in the
Division of Cardiology at the David
Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA,
implored CVM graduates to work with
their physician counterparts to benefit both human and power of connection. Comparative medicine, so
animal health. foundational to veterinary medicine, has at its core an
acknowledgement of the deep and essential connection
It’s human nature to elevate our species above other between the widest array of animals,” Natterson-
animals, but there are real costs to seeing ourselves as a Horowitz said. “Translational veterinary medicine
species apart, separate and better, she said. It is connects bench research to both animal and human
patients. And veterinary public health connects the
health of individual animals in flocks, herds and schools
to water, food and our shared environment. Human
medicine needs the connecting power of your field.”
COMP/GCBS Commencement speaker Norman Vinn,
DO, president of the American Osteopathic Association,
told graduates that the profession of osteopathic
medicine has grown by leaps and bounds despite its
relatively young age (140 years), and that today’s
graduates are at the vanguard of a medical movement
that has seen more than 80 percent of all DOs ever
licensed graduate in just the past 40 years.
“I am issuing a call to adventure to you, to take part in
the mythic journey of the osteopathic profession,” Vinn
scientifically narrowing, it discourages making the kinds said. “You are our next generation of heroes.”
of connections that generate new hypotheses, and it
deprives us of the opportunity of seeing the bigger Vinn asked the Class of 2014 to keep three things in
picture. That perspective could help us understand mind as they embark on their careers:
problems from a broader perspective, and might generate
novel approaches, perhaps even solutions, to the most • Personal growth. “Never pay attention to how you
intractable problems we face, she said. compare to other people. Ask yourself, am I doing a
better job today than I did yesterday? Can I do a
“What I have most learned from veterinarians is the better job tomorrow?” Continued on page 8
WesternU View Summer 2014 7
