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Alumni Class Notes
College of Osteopathic Medicine of the Pacific Olegario Lara, DO ’93, completed a diagnostic radiology residency at
Tamara Arthur, DO ’83, is board certified in occupational medicine and Michigan State University/Botsford General Hospital and a breast imaging
practicing in Portland, Ore. fellowship at UCLA. He is board certified in diagnostic radiology, and has
been practicing with Kaiser Permanente in Santa Clara, Calif. since 2005.
Herman Bell, DO ’83, has published his autobiography, “String of Perils,
from Hobo to DO,” the story of his determination to excel in spite of the Lead by Robyn Dreibelbis, DO ’95, on the Lebanon campus and
tumultuous racist climate in America. The book takes the reader from his Marcel Fraix, DO ’03, on the Pomona campus, student leaders have
youth in Baton Rouge to his descent to homelessness, and then to success come together to create the “Nutrition in Medicine” series that provides 14
as a licensed osteopathic family physician and surgeon. Dr. Bell is a hours of elective nutrition education into the medical school curriculum.
principal of PromptCare Medical Centers located in Southern California In promoting this innovative series, Drs. Dreibelbis and Fraix have become
and provides anti-aging services and medical weight management. the first directors of wellness in the nation as they seek to pioneer and
grow this ever important aspect of medicine. Dr. Dreibelbis also recently
Martin Jan Pryor, DO ’83, is an adjunct professor for the Dept. of OMM completed the 2014 Chairs and Academic Administrators Management
at A.T. Still University in Kirksville, Mo. He completed a fellowship in Program (CAAMP), a top-notch interprofessional leadership and
medical informatics at MBL/NLM and earned his MPH in epidemiology management course designed specifically for department chairs and
from the University of Hawaii, School of Public Health. Dr. Pryor recently academic administrators within colleges and schools of the health
received highest honors for a poster presentation on display at the Missouri professions.
Osteopathic Annual Convention Research Symposium in May 2014.
Thomas Minahan, DO ’95, was featured in an interview on The Blaze,
Ronald Hedger, DO ’84, is an assistant dean for clinical skills training in which he shared his experience with the use of cannabis oil as a
and medical director of the physician assistant studies program at Touro desperate attempt to treat his daughter’s epileptic seizures following the
University in Nevada. failure of other treatments. Dr. Minahan is the program director for the
emergency medicine department at Arrowhead Regional Medical Center in
Alan Cundari, DO ’85, MSHPE ’92, delivered the commencement Colton, Calif.
address at his high school alma mater, Pacelli High School, in Stevens
Point, Wis. on Friday, May 30. His speech was titled “The Three P’s of Elliott Attisha, DO ’97, works as medical director of the Henry Ford
Pacelli,” which focused on pride in your school and in yourself; pay back Health System’s mobile medical clinic, HANK (Health Alliance of
your teachers who are paying it forward, and pay it forward as well, and be Neighborhood Kids), which is virtually a doctor’s office on wheels in
passionate about what you do. The address was very well received by the Detroit, Mich. With much of Detroit’s population living in medically
graduates, families, and faculty. underserved areas, Dr. Attisha and his team bring a variety of health care
services to children where they spend most of their waking hours, in
Rodney Batie, DO ’86, recently wrote: “My four years at COMP school and youth community centers. As president of the School
becoming a DO were full of wonderful busy times for me, my wife, and Community Health Alliance of Michigan and an executive committee
children. All the studying and labs, and clinical rotations provided me the member of the Council on School Health, American Academy of Pediatrics,
foundation in becoming an OB/GYN physician for the past 23 years. Our Dr. Attisha influences change on a broad scale, breaking down barriers to
third child Melissa was born my senior year, and we always said she was medical care for Detroit’s children.
my graduation gift! Now she and her husband are hoping to attend COMP
and continue the DO tradition with their lives.” Rose Marie Colombini, DO ’97, is board certified in family practice
with MultiCare Gig Harbor in Gig Harbor, Wash.
Mark Siegel, DO ’87, co-founded Southwest Accident & Injury/Family
Medicine in the Phoenix and Scottsdale areas of Arizona. He is a clinical Natalie A. Nevins, DO ’97, MSHPE ’97, joined the WesternU/COMP
professor at Midwestern University and Southwest College of Naturopathic team as the director of clinical education for the Pomona campus. She has
Medicine. Dr. Siegel is also a physician for the Arizona Boxing Commission been the director of medical education for the Family Medicine Residency
and Arizona Film Commission and has had post education in hyperbaric Program and program director for the Neuromusculoskeletal Medicine
medicine. Residency program at Downey Regional Medical Center for the past ten
and a half years. She serves as the chair for the ACOFP CEE subcommittee
Janice Blumer, DO ’91, recently completed the 2014 Chairs and for new program approvals and basic standards and additionally is the
Academic Administrators Management Program (CAAMP). CAAMP is a chair of the AAO subcommittee for basic standards. Dr. Nevins is the CEO
top-notch interprofessional leadership and management course designed of AD+World Health, a non-profit for humanitarian aid and serves as the
specifically for department chairs and academic administrators within medical director for the Care Harbor annual free clinic. She is also the
colleges and schools of the health professions. owner and medical director of the Amrit Davaa Wellness Center in
Hollywood, an interdisciplinary medical clinic where she maintains her
Brent Allen, DO ’92, is practicing general surgery with Intermountain
Sevier Valley Specialty Clinic in Ritchfield, Utah. private NMM/OMM practice.
John Nuetzmann, DO ’97, is board certified in family medicine and the
Michael Galloway, DO ’93, MSHPE ’93, is the residency program owner/operator of Bellingham Family Medicine in Bellingham, Wash. Prior
director for Boonshoft School of Medicine, Dept. of Obstetrics and to becoming a doctor, he was a computer programmer for NASA/NIST, an
Gynecology in Dayton, Ohio.
organic chemist helping to develop the cancer drug Taxol, and a camp
counselor.
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College of Osteopathic Medicine of the Pacific Olegario Lara, DO ’93, completed a diagnostic radiology residency at
Tamara Arthur, DO ’83, is board certified in occupational medicine and Michigan State University/Botsford General Hospital and a breast imaging
practicing in Portland, Ore. fellowship at UCLA. He is board certified in diagnostic radiology, and has
been practicing with Kaiser Permanente in Santa Clara, Calif. since 2005.
Herman Bell, DO ’83, has published his autobiography, “String of Perils,
from Hobo to DO,” the story of his determination to excel in spite of the Lead by Robyn Dreibelbis, DO ’95, on the Lebanon campus and
tumultuous racist climate in America. The book takes the reader from his Marcel Fraix, DO ’03, on the Pomona campus, student leaders have
youth in Baton Rouge to his descent to homelessness, and then to success come together to create the “Nutrition in Medicine” series that provides 14
as a licensed osteopathic family physician and surgeon. Dr. Bell is a hours of elective nutrition education into the medical school curriculum.
principal of PromptCare Medical Centers located in Southern California In promoting this innovative series, Drs. Dreibelbis and Fraix have become
and provides anti-aging services and medical weight management. the first directors of wellness in the nation as they seek to pioneer and
grow this ever important aspect of medicine. Dr. Dreibelbis also recently
Martin Jan Pryor, DO ’83, is an adjunct professor for the Dept. of OMM completed the 2014 Chairs and Academic Administrators Management
at A.T. Still University in Kirksville, Mo. He completed a fellowship in Program (CAAMP), a top-notch interprofessional leadership and
medical informatics at MBL/NLM and earned his MPH in epidemiology management course designed specifically for department chairs and
from the University of Hawaii, School of Public Health. Dr. Pryor recently academic administrators within colleges and schools of the health
received highest honors for a poster presentation on display at the Missouri professions.
Osteopathic Annual Convention Research Symposium in May 2014.
Thomas Minahan, DO ’95, was featured in an interview on The Blaze,
Ronald Hedger, DO ’84, is an assistant dean for clinical skills training in which he shared his experience with the use of cannabis oil as a
and medical director of the physician assistant studies program at Touro desperate attempt to treat his daughter’s epileptic seizures following the
University in Nevada. failure of other treatments. Dr. Minahan is the program director for the
emergency medicine department at Arrowhead Regional Medical Center in
Alan Cundari, DO ’85, MSHPE ’92, delivered the commencement Colton, Calif.
address at his high school alma mater, Pacelli High School, in Stevens
Point, Wis. on Friday, May 30. His speech was titled “The Three P’s of Elliott Attisha, DO ’97, works as medical director of the Henry Ford
Pacelli,” which focused on pride in your school and in yourself; pay back Health System’s mobile medical clinic, HANK (Health Alliance of
your teachers who are paying it forward, and pay it forward as well, and be Neighborhood Kids), which is virtually a doctor’s office on wheels in
passionate about what you do. The address was very well received by the Detroit, Mich. With much of Detroit’s population living in medically
graduates, families, and faculty. underserved areas, Dr. Attisha and his team bring a variety of health care
services to children where they spend most of their waking hours, in
Rodney Batie, DO ’86, recently wrote: “My four years at COMP school and youth community centers. As president of the School
becoming a DO were full of wonderful busy times for me, my wife, and Community Health Alliance of Michigan and an executive committee
children. All the studying and labs, and clinical rotations provided me the member of the Council on School Health, American Academy of Pediatrics,
foundation in becoming an OB/GYN physician for the past 23 years. Our Dr. Attisha influences change on a broad scale, breaking down barriers to
third child Melissa was born my senior year, and we always said she was medical care for Detroit’s children.
my graduation gift! Now she and her husband are hoping to attend COMP
and continue the DO tradition with their lives.” Rose Marie Colombini, DO ’97, is board certified in family practice
with MultiCare Gig Harbor in Gig Harbor, Wash.
Mark Siegel, DO ’87, co-founded Southwest Accident & Injury/Family
Medicine in the Phoenix and Scottsdale areas of Arizona. He is a clinical Natalie A. Nevins, DO ’97, MSHPE ’97, joined the WesternU/COMP
professor at Midwestern University and Southwest College of Naturopathic team as the director of clinical education for the Pomona campus. She has
Medicine. Dr. Siegel is also a physician for the Arizona Boxing Commission been the director of medical education for the Family Medicine Residency
and Arizona Film Commission and has had post education in hyperbaric Program and program director for the Neuromusculoskeletal Medicine
medicine. Residency program at Downey Regional Medical Center for the past ten
and a half years. She serves as the chair for the ACOFP CEE subcommittee
Janice Blumer, DO ’91, recently completed the 2014 Chairs and for new program approvals and basic standards and additionally is the
Academic Administrators Management Program (CAAMP). CAAMP is a chair of the AAO subcommittee for basic standards. Dr. Nevins is the CEO
top-notch interprofessional leadership and management course designed of AD+World Health, a non-profit for humanitarian aid and serves as the
specifically for department chairs and academic administrators within medical director for the Care Harbor annual free clinic. She is also the
colleges and schools of the health professions. owner and medical director of the Amrit Davaa Wellness Center in
Hollywood, an interdisciplinary medical clinic where she maintains her
Brent Allen, DO ’92, is practicing general surgery with Intermountain
Sevier Valley Specialty Clinic in Ritchfield, Utah. private NMM/OMM practice.
John Nuetzmann, DO ’97, is board certified in family medicine and the
Michael Galloway, DO ’93, MSHPE ’93, is the residency program owner/operator of Bellingham Family Medicine in Bellingham, Wash. Prior
director for Boonshoft School of Medicine, Dept. of Obstetrics and to becoming a doctor, he was a computer programmer for NASA/NIST, an
Gynecology in Dayton, Ohio.
organic chemist helping to develop the cancer drug Taxol, and a camp
counselor.
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