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FEATURE
C O N V O C A T I O N 2 0 1 4
Welcoming the
next generation
N
No law or public policy will change health care as
powerfully or meaningfully as the next generation of
health care providers will themselves, Western
University of Health Sciences’ incoming class heard
Saturday, August 9, 2014.
California State Sen. Norma Torres, D-32nd District,
told more than 1,000 students entering WesternU’s
nine graduate health professions colleges that new
health-care laws passed at the state and federal levels
“cannot succeed without the work of skilled, and
trained, health care providers. It is your leadership,
your training, your dedication and your skills that
will help fight cancer, cure deadly diseases,
rehabilitate patients and provide care to those who
need it.”
we are building. You will be the change,” she
Torres was the keynote speaker for WesternU’s annual concluded.
Convocation and White Coat Ceremonies, held at The Convocation ceremony also included a special
Fairplex in Pomona. Students and their families presentation of the 2014 WesternU faculty awards by
celebrated the beginning of their graduate health
sciences education during the event, which was Fadi Khasawneh, BPharm, PhD, chair of WesternU’s
presided over by Philip Pumerantz, PhD, founding Academic Senate.
president of WesternU. College of Veterinary Medicine Professor Wael
Khamas, BVM&S, MS, PhD, received the Harriet K.
Torres, a former 911 dispatcher, Pomona mayor and
state assemblywoman who was elected to the 35th and Philip Pumerantz Award for Leadership and
U.S. Congressional District seat this November, told Service. The award recognizes a faculty member for
the new students that “the men and women you are exemplary leadership, service and contributions to
sitting with today will be the ones leading us into a university committees, local and professional
new era of health care in this country. This new era communities and societies, the development and
will be characterized by a system of patient-centered implementation of university policies and programs
care – a system where the needs of the patient come through non-administrative roles, and for making
first. documentable impact on the quality of the university
and demonstrating a commitment to high standards
“You will be the face of this better health care system of professional life. Continued on page 10
WesternU View Fall/Winter 2014 9
C O N V O C A T I O N 2 0 1 4
Welcoming the
next generation
N
No law or public policy will change health care as
powerfully or meaningfully as the next generation of
health care providers will themselves, Western
University of Health Sciences’ incoming class heard
Saturday, August 9, 2014.
California State Sen. Norma Torres, D-32nd District,
told more than 1,000 students entering WesternU’s
nine graduate health professions colleges that new
health-care laws passed at the state and federal levels
“cannot succeed without the work of skilled, and
trained, health care providers. It is your leadership,
your training, your dedication and your skills that
will help fight cancer, cure deadly diseases,
rehabilitate patients and provide care to those who
need it.”
we are building. You will be the change,” she
Torres was the keynote speaker for WesternU’s annual concluded.
Convocation and White Coat Ceremonies, held at The Convocation ceremony also included a special
Fairplex in Pomona. Students and their families presentation of the 2014 WesternU faculty awards by
celebrated the beginning of their graduate health
sciences education during the event, which was Fadi Khasawneh, BPharm, PhD, chair of WesternU’s
presided over by Philip Pumerantz, PhD, founding Academic Senate.
president of WesternU. College of Veterinary Medicine Professor Wael
Khamas, BVM&S, MS, PhD, received the Harriet K.
Torres, a former 911 dispatcher, Pomona mayor and
state assemblywoman who was elected to the 35th and Philip Pumerantz Award for Leadership and
U.S. Congressional District seat this November, told Service. The award recognizes a faculty member for
the new students that “the men and women you are exemplary leadership, service and contributions to
sitting with today will be the ones leading us into a university committees, local and professional
new era of health care in this country. This new era communities and societies, the development and
will be characterized by a system of patient-centered implementation of university policies and programs
care – a system where the needs of the patient come through non-administrative roles, and for making
first. documentable impact on the quality of the university
and demonstrating a commitment to high standards
“You will be the face of this better health care system of professional life. Continued on page 10
WesternU View Fall/Winter 2014 9
