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EDITORS’ MESSAGE

Humanism Magazine Committee: Hannah Fadenrecht, COMP student; Yash Dara, Dental Medicine student; Hicret Islamoglu, Dental Medicine student;
Tyler Thompson, COMP student; Preet Kaur, Biomedical Sciences Student; Lisa Nguyen, COMP student; Julia Ramirez, COMP student; and Nicole
Barcega, COMP student. Not pictured: Sara Drake, Optometry Student; Jeremy Coleman, Veterinary Student; and Nicholas Woo, COMP-Northwest
student
Tyler Thompson, COMP student, Editor-in-Chief thoughts on paper in some form or another helps root me
Working on “Staying Human” and leading this year’s in the value of humanism- keeping me present in my goals
team of editors has been an honor and a pleasure. to be an impactful health care professional.

In the first week, our team engineered a novel Hicret Islamoglu, Dental Medicine student, Editor
organizational structure and stream of workflow that I am a first-year dental medicine student at WesternU. I
allowed us to meaningfully engage the whole of was born in Turkey but have spent most of my life in
WesternU. In the second week, we came together and Colorado and now California. As we all get lost in our
forged a clear mission that was timeless and true to endeavours to be competent health care providers,
Humanism in the Health sometimes we forget our creative
Sciences. By the third week, we side, and Humanism is a great
were fully operational; our collaboration to remind us that
Promotional Director, Hannah The power of touch the creativity inside us is never
Fadenrecht, OMS I, and I began Is a gesture of healing lost. I am very excited to be a
our efforts to inspire you with part of this project and to
weekly fliers and challenges. Outside and within.... contribute to its creation.
As your works of art began to
By Suzana Tkalcic, DVM, PhD Julia Ramirez, COMP student, Editor
flow in with messages of
Associate Professor
resilience and reassurance, stake Hi there, I’m a first-year medical
College of Veterinary Medicine
and sapience, health care and student at WesternU COMP and
humanism, it became obvious also a part-time painter, writer,
how much this magazine means and photographer. I’ve always
to our community of healers. So, dear reader, it is my found an incorporation of the arts to be crucial in my
pleasure to present to you “Staying Human.” ability to understand the biological world (if you could
see them, my study guides would attest to this) as much as
Sara Drake, Optometry student, Editor a means of realigning myself after grueling med school
Hello! I am a first year in the College of Optometry. Art days. I hope that you enjoy this year’s edition and find
and creativity have always been an important part of my something that inspires you to incorporate more of the
life and are key to me surviving grad school. humanities into your day to day.
Remembering to take time to put my emotions and

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