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had to ask people questions they really did not want to “If you go into medical school as an MD or DO student
answer and I had a lot of doors shut in my face.” you’re not guaranteed that you will have a surgical
career,” she said. “If you go into podiatric medicine and
Satterfield earned her bachelor’s degree in mass
surgery, you are guaranteed you will come out as a
communications from the University of Texas at El Paso.
surgeon (from) your training.”
She earned her Doctor of Podiatric Medicine degree from
the College of Podiatric Medicine and Surgery at Des She also wants to raise the profile of podiatric
Moines University, and completed her podiatric medicine medicine as a whole.
and surgery residency at Yale University School of
“Our profession is one of the best-kept secrets in
Medicine Clinical Campus/West Haven Veterans
the world,” Satterfield said. “Once a student
Administration Medical Center.
shadows a podiatrist at the hospital, or they go
She first met Harkless as a into the operating
podiatry student, and he room, or they see
would have a tremendous patients in the clinic,
influence on her career. He “Podiatric medicine is a small they love it. They ask,
recruited her to work with profession, with about 15,000 ‘Why didn’t I know
him at the University of about this?’”
Texas Health Science practitioners in the U.S., far too few Podiatric medicine is a
Center at San Antonio, and small profession, with
then, after he came to to take care of everyone with about 15,000 practitioners
WesternU, convinced her to in the U.S., far too few to
come to Pomona during the diabetic foot problems, sports take care of everyone with
College of Podiatric diabetic foot problems,
Medicine’s early years. injuries or other needs that
sports injuries or other
“He hired me first as a podiatrists are trained to address.” needs that podiatrists are
consultant, and then I came trained to address.
out as a faculty member
“There is a great need, but
and associate professor, and
we have difficulty filling our class with qualified
then rose through the ranks. It’s been a wonderful
students,” Satterfield said. “The University has been
adventure,” Satterfield said. “I really have enjoyed it. I
absolutely wonderful about not forcing us, as some
have a lot to thank Dr. Harkless for in my life.”
institutions have, to fill a class with students that may not
Now as dean she will focus the College’s recruitment on be able to make it. We fill our class with students we
Pomona and the surrounding areas, which have a lot of know can make it. That is my first goal — to get qualified
top-quality students interested in a surgical career. A large people into the seats so we fill our classes.” n
number of CPM students come from UC Riverside and
Visit https://vimeo.com/332296442
UC San Diego. CPM will increase recruiting at those
for a video interview with Dr. Satterfield
schools and all University of California branches.

Bako Foundation Western University of Health Sciences College of
Podiatric Medicine (CPM) received a gift of

grows endowment $100,000 from the Bako Medical Education
Foundation (BMEF) to increase an existing

to $120K for CPM endowment. A previous gift of $20,000 funds a
$1,000 annual scholarship and the new gift will
raise that number substantially. The latest multi-
year grant is subject to certain conditions.
“We appreciate this remarkable support from

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