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By Rodney Tanaka, photos by Jeff Malet
W estern University of Health Sciences President Daniel R. Wilson, MD,
PhD, announced at his Inauguration that WesternU will move
forward in bold new directions while using its foundational values
of humanism and scientific excellence as its compass.
WesternU combined Wilson’s Inauguration ceremony with Convocation, the
traditional opening of the academic year, on August 12, 2017 at Fairplex in
Pomona, California. WesternU welcomed nearly 1,000 new students to its
Pomona campus.
Wilson became WesternU’s WesternU Board of Trustees Chair Richard
Bond, DO ’82, DrPH, invested Wilson into the
second president on Office of President and presented him with
July 1, 2016, succeeding the President’s Medal.
President Emeritus “He has happily and seamlessly embraced
the WesternU family to become one of our
Philip Pumerantz, PhD. own,” Bond said. “He is one who uses
authority of high office to encourage
collaboration, inspiration and invention,
believing wherever we go, we go together. All of these qualities, and many
more, make Daniel Richard Wilson the right president to lead WesternU into
the future.”
Wilson became WesternU’s second president on July 1, 2016, succeeding
President Emeritus Philip Pumerantz, PhD. Wilson honored his predecessor
and wife Harriet for their contributions to WesternU, and also thanked
founding Board of Trustees member Ethan Allen, DO, who continues to serve
as board Treasurer and is an osteopathic pioneer.
Wilson then turned to the future, saying WesternU will look everywhere
from international partnerships to new alignments and alliances, innovative
degrees, and redoubling the boldness that powered WesternU’s rise. He
announced three new centers:
• The Center for Innovation will focus on future trends in health and
education, exploring changes driven by economic, societal, political,
technological, and consumer forces. The center will “identify and deploy
disruptive creativity in education, health care and research.”
• The Center for Virtual Learning will mature rapidly from its current
adolescence to expand WesternU’s leading-edge expertise in and capacity for
adaptive learning bolstered by technically augmented intelligence.
• The Center for Clinical Research will lead mission-driven engagement of
a highly diverse city and region, and will partner with health systems,
corporations, and others. Faculty and students will move beyond learning and
providing excellent standard care to embrace the extraordinary that, beyond
curing disease, will promote health and wellness.
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By Rodney Tanaka, photos by Jeff Malet
W estern University of Health Sciences President Daniel R. Wilson, MD,
PhD, announced at his Inauguration that WesternU will move
forward in bold new directions while using its foundational values
of humanism and scientific excellence as its compass.
WesternU combined Wilson’s Inauguration ceremony with Convocation, the
traditional opening of the academic year, on August 12, 2017 at Fairplex in
Pomona, California. WesternU welcomed nearly 1,000 new students to its
Pomona campus.
Wilson became WesternU’s WesternU Board of Trustees Chair Richard
Bond, DO ’82, DrPH, invested Wilson into the
second president on Office of President and presented him with
July 1, 2016, succeeding the President’s Medal.
President Emeritus “He has happily and seamlessly embraced
the WesternU family to become one of our
Philip Pumerantz, PhD. own,” Bond said. “He is one who uses
authority of high office to encourage
collaboration, inspiration and invention,
believing wherever we go, we go together. All of these qualities, and many
more, make Daniel Richard Wilson the right president to lead WesternU into
the future.”
Wilson became WesternU’s second president on July 1, 2016, succeeding
President Emeritus Philip Pumerantz, PhD. Wilson honored his predecessor
and wife Harriet for their contributions to WesternU, and also thanked
founding Board of Trustees member Ethan Allen, DO, who continues to serve
as board Treasurer and is an osteopathic pioneer.
Wilson then turned to the future, saying WesternU will look everywhere
from international partnerships to new alignments and alliances, innovative
degrees, and redoubling the boldness that powered WesternU’s rise. He
announced three new centers:
• The Center for Innovation will focus on future trends in health and
education, exploring changes driven by economic, societal, political,
technological, and consumer forces. The center will “identify and deploy
disruptive creativity in education, health care and research.”
• The Center for Virtual Learning will mature rapidly from its current
adolescence to expand WesternU’s leading-edge expertise in and capacity for
adaptive learning bolstered by technically augmented intelligence.
• The Center for Clinical Research will lead mission-driven engagement of
a highly diverse city and region, and will partner with health systems,
corporations, and others. Faculty and students will move beyond learning and
providing excellent standard care to embrace the extraordinary that, beyond
curing disease, will promote health and wellness.
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