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Long Nguyen, DO ’16, is starting his third and final year at his family medicine HELP DISCOURAGE WASTE
residency at Inspira Health Network in Vineland, New Jersey. A COMP-
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awarded the AOA Bureau of Emerging Leaders OMED 2019 Scholarship. He (909) 469-5392 or AIS@westernu.edu.
also won a $20,000 grant through Inspira and Rowan University to seed a

“bettering-the-community” project, which he is dedicating to improving the
public transportation model in Cumberland County, the largest and poorest
county in New Jersey.
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three-year study to assess risk factors for suicidality and self-harm behavior
among adolescents in Napa and Solano counties, and we hope to make changes
in the clinic to better support adolescents and identify at risk youth. Many
thanks to the WesternU family for your integral role in this journey!”

Justin Ross, DO ’16, is in a graduate emergency medicine residency and was
assigned to the Forward Resuscitative Surgical Team, Fort Carson, Colorado.

Evita Lopez, DO ’15, graduated from the Corpus Christi Medical Center-Internal
Medicine Residency program in July 2018, and is working as an internal
medicine hospitalist at Legacy Meridian Park in Tualatin, Ore. She married
Andrew Holstad (Seattle native) in August 2018 at McMenamin’s Edgefield in
Troutdale, Ore. “Excited to be serving the state that cultivated my medical
school education!”

Eva Bowers Shay, DO ’91, was appointed Chair of the Osteopathic Principles &
Practices Department at William Carey University College of Osteopathic
Medicine in December 2018. “Shaved my head as part of a SOMA pediatric
cancer research fundraiser through St. Baldrick’s. I challenged the students to
donate $2,000 in my name in exchange for over 18 inches of my long curly hair.
More than $13,300 was raised at this first event! It was a reminder of when
many in our class of 1991 did a similar fundraiser for one of our class-mates
who was diagnosed with cancer during the 1988-89 school year. Here’s to you
Greg!”
Janice Blumer, DO ’91, was selected for a three-year term as Editor-in-Chief of the
American Academy of Osteopathy Journal.

Alea Morningstar, DO ’96, is in the process of writing a book on her PTSD
techniques. “After getting wounded in Iraq in 2007, I didn’t think life could ever
be good again. I have been 100 percent VA disabled for some years now. I am
bodysurfing and getting my shoulder and leg injuries slowly but surely working
again thanks to the Hawaiian ocean. Head injuries are tough, but I can cook
again, drive, and do a lot I could not do even five years ago. So remember the
brain and body HEAL — and never give up! I placed fourth in a surf meet
against 20-year-olds two years ago, so life is good. Aloha to all my class of ’96
classmates! B ALIVE!”
Associate Professor/Assistant Dean of Academic Affairs Jesus Sanchez, DO ’04,
and Associate Professor/Vice Chair of NMM/OMM Janice Blumer, DO ’91, are @WesternUNews
recipients of the Arnold P. Gold Foundation’s Leonard Tow Humanism in
Medicine Award. The award recognizes a faculty member (DO or MD) who #WesternUWay
demonstrates clinical excellence and outstanding compassion in the delivery of
care, and who shows respect for patients, their families, and health care
colleagues.

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