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Gary Gugelchuk Retirement Dinner, June 20, 2019: (l-r)Vishwanath Venketaraman, PhD, Professor of Microbiology/Immunology, COMP;
Alan D. Cundari, DO ’85, MSHPE ’92, Professor of Family Medicine, COMP; Paula M. Crone, DO ’92, Vice President, WesternU Oregon, Dean, COMP
and COMP-Northwest; Gary Gugelchuk, PhD, Provost Emeritus; Rick Leeper, MBA, Senior Director of Operations, COMP-Northwest; John T. Pham,
DO, Vice Dean, COMP-Northwest, Associate Professor of Family Medicine, COMP; Dat Q. Trinh, DO ’03, MSHPE ’03, Chair of Department of Family
Medicine; Associate Professor of Family Medicine, COMP.

Alumni Class Notes Valley Medical Center, and consultant to In May 2018, Phillip Porcelli, DO ’05,
the OMBC in pain management. He also joined the Little Rock Neurosurgery Clinic
In June 2018, Donald Hsu, PharmD ’03, was owns I.E. Pain Consulting Inc. He is active in Little Rock, Ark., where he works in
appointed chair of the WesternU College in playing music and is married with six conjunction with Arkansas Surgical
of Pharmacy Department of Pharmacy children and seven grandchildren. Hospital. He is a board-certified neuro-
Practice and Administration. He had been surgeon specializing in spine surgery. He
Samuel Milstein, DO ’14, completed his
serving as interim chair since mid- holds Gamma Knife certification from the
family medicine residency with Samaritan
February. He has worked at WesternU for University of Pittsburgh and is a member
Health Services in Albany, Ore., and has
more than a decade and established an of the American Osteopathic Association,
continued working with Samaritan as a
infectious diseases rotation at St. Joseph Congress of Neurological Surgeons and
family medicine physician in Lebanon,
Medical Center in Orange, Calif. He North American Spine Society.
Ore. and Halsey, Ore.
taught many components of infectious
In May 2018, Dianna Scherlin, DNP ’12,
diseases in the didactic curriculum, and for Hari Chandana Mulamalla, MSPS ’10,
nearly 10 years he chaired our OSCE PharmD ’10, was part of a team that was was appointed dean of the College of
Oversight Committee. He has chaired the granted United States and Japanese patents Nursing at United States University in
Pharmacy Faculty Assembly and the for their project, “Targeted Liposomes in San Diego, Calif. She previously served as
Student Performance Committee and has Cancer Therapy.” provost and dean of Nursing & Health
served as vice-chair for the Department of Sciences at the American University of
Health Science (2010-17) and as dean of
Pharmacy Practice and Administration. In July 2018, Caitlin O’Shea, DVM ’09,
nursing at West Coast University (2008-10).
began a new position in equine orthopedic
Kevin Lagen, PharmD ’02, is the pharmacy
surgery and sports medicine at North In June 2018, Alexandra (Shendrik) Kloeck,
manager at Costco in Goleta, Calif.
Carolina State University. She previously DPM ’15, completed her three-year
held similar positions at Jenson Equine
Marc E. Lynch, DO ’91, is medical director podiatric medicine and surgery residency
Hospital in Sunland Park, N.M., Sharjah
and co-owner of Synovation Medical (as chief resident) at Norton Audubon
Equine Hospital in the United Arab
Group in Chino, Calif. He also serves as Hospital in Louisville, Ky., and is now
Emirates, and at Wolf Creek Equine
an OPSC board member, a CASIPP board working in a private practice in
Hospital in Lothian, Md.
member, chief of staff at Kindred Ontario, Claremore, Okla.
chair of the surgery department at Chino
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