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“I published the feature/cover article in the America
Academy of Family Physicians’ Family Practice
LUMNI LASS OTES
Management journal: Cuenca AE. Preparing for Value- A C N
Based Payment: Five Essential Skills for Success. Fam
Pract Manag. 2017 May/Jun;24(3):25-33. You can read it at
http://www.aafp.org/fpm/2017/0500/p25.html.”
– Arnold Cuenca, DO ’04
In April, Barbara Walker, DO ’84, improvement at Monarch
assumed the role of President for HealthCare in 2007. Dr. “This past February I received ‘Outstanding PT Assistant’
the American Association of Weiss launched PE4ME a from the Academy of Geriatric Physical Therapy at the
Combined Sections Meeting in San Antonio, Texas; and in
Osteopathic Examiners, an decade ago in three local May I was a guest presenter (Topic: “Steady as (S)he Goes
organization that supports the schools with help from a - Preventing falls by maintaining personal balance and a
distinctiveness and integrity of Community Access to safe home environment.”) at the San Bernardino County
Adult Protective Services Educational Conference.
osteopathic medical licensure. She Child Health (CATCH) Currently, I am serving as the State Advocate for the
has also served on the North grant. This now Academy of Geriatric Physical Therapy.”
Carolina Medical Board since 2013 countywide health, fitness, – Celeste Dunlap, MSHS ’10
and has been a trustee of the and nutrition program
American Osteopathic Association reinvents the traditional DO ’91, and Kyle Rutledge, DO
since 2007. gym class by making it more of a ’17, were each published in the
personal training session with July/August 2017 edition of
Michael Weiss, DO ’85, is a resistance bands, body bars, and Osteopathic Family Physician, the
candidate for president-elect of the even the occasional kickboxing official peer-reviewed publication of
American Academy of Pediatrics lesson. the American College of
and, for the past three years, vice Osteopathic Family Physicians. Dr.
Rob Richardson, DO ’86, was
Several alumni on the COMP faculty were recognized for recently one of eleven DOs Blumer co-authored “Osteopathic
distinction in a variety of areas as voted on by either their nationwide to receive the ACOFP’s Approach to Anxiety,” and Dr.
fellow faculty members or current students: Rutledge co-authored “Adverse
• Outstanding Clinical Faculty – Adriana Pollak, DO ’90, Master Preceptor Award for Childhood Experiences: A Call to
and David Redding, DO ’93, MSHPE ’96 sustained commitment to
• Student Focus – Lisa Warren, DO ’01 excellence in the training, Action for Osteopathic Medicine.”
• Lifelong Learning in Teaching – Rebecca Giusti, DO ’03 education, and mentoring of
• Respect for Human Dignity – Anna Yeung, DO ’03 Jack Hall, PA ’94, is a physician
• Teamwork – Jesse Sanchez, DO ’04, MSHPE ’04 osteopathic medical students in assistant specializing in
• Community Service – Steven Lam, MSHS ’07, DO ’08 family medicine. The award was
presented during the organization’s orthopedics at Mercy Hospital in
president of the CHOC (Children’s national conference this past Joplin, Mo.
Hospital of Orange County) Health March.
Alliance, which coordinates Robyn Dreibelbis, DO ’95, and
services for thousands of members In June, Kay Kalousek, DO ’89, Lisa Warren, DO ’01, received the
through a network of practitioners MSHPE ’94, returned to WesternU Arnold P. Gold Foundation’s
and facilities. Following his as a professor of family medicine in Leonard Tow Humanism in
residency at Children’s Hospital the College of Osteopathic Medicine Award, which recognizes
Los Angeles, he worked in private Medicine of the Pacific. Vice Chair a faculty member (DO or MD) who
practice for 23 years before and Associate Professor of demonstrates clinical excellence
becoming medical director of NMM/OMM and Family Medicine at and outstanding compassion in the
quality and performance COMP-Northwest Janice Blumer, delivery of care, and who shows
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Academy of Family Physicians’ Family Practice
LUMNI LASS OTES
Management journal: Cuenca AE. Preparing for Value- A C N
Based Payment: Five Essential Skills for Success. Fam
Pract Manag. 2017 May/Jun;24(3):25-33. You can read it at
http://www.aafp.org/fpm/2017/0500/p25.html.”
– Arnold Cuenca, DO ’04
In April, Barbara Walker, DO ’84, improvement at Monarch
assumed the role of President for HealthCare in 2007. Dr. “This past February I received ‘Outstanding PT Assistant’
the American Association of Weiss launched PE4ME a from the Academy of Geriatric Physical Therapy at the
Combined Sections Meeting in San Antonio, Texas; and in
Osteopathic Examiners, an decade ago in three local May I was a guest presenter (Topic: “Steady as (S)he Goes
organization that supports the schools with help from a - Preventing falls by maintaining personal balance and a
distinctiveness and integrity of Community Access to safe home environment.”) at the San Bernardino County
Adult Protective Services Educational Conference.
osteopathic medical licensure. She Child Health (CATCH) Currently, I am serving as the State Advocate for the
has also served on the North grant. This now Academy of Geriatric Physical Therapy.”
Carolina Medical Board since 2013 countywide health, fitness, – Celeste Dunlap, MSHS ’10
and has been a trustee of the and nutrition program
American Osteopathic Association reinvents the traditional DO ’91, and Kyle Rutledge, DO
since 2007. gym class by making it more of a ’17, were each published in the
personal training session with July/August 2017 edition of
Michael Weiss, DO ’85, is a resistance bands, body bars, and Osteopathic Family Physician, the
candidate for president-elect of the even the occasional kickboxing official peer-reviewed publication of
American Academy of Pediatrics lesson. the American College of
and, for the past three years, vice Osteopathic Family Physicians. Dr.
Rob Richardson, DO ’86, was
Several alumni on the COMP faculty were recognized for recently one of eleven DOs Blumer co-authored “Osteopathic
distinction in a variety of areas as voted on by either their nationwide to receive the ACOFP’s Approach to Anxiety,” and Dr.
fellow faculty members or current students: Rutledge co-authored “Adverse
• Outstanding Clinical Faculty – Adriana Pollak, DO ’90, Master Preceptor Award for Childhood Experiences: A Call to
and David Redding, DO ’93, MSHPE ’96 sustained commitment to
• Student Focus – Lisa Warren, DO ’01 excellence in the training, Action for Osteopathic Medicine.”
• Lifelong Learning in Teaching – Rebecca Giusti, DO ’03 education, and mentoring of
• Respect for Human Dignity – Anna Yeung, DO ’03 Jack Hall, PA ’94, is a physician
• Teamwork – Jesse Sanchez, DO ’04, MSHPE ’04 osteopathic medical students in assistant specializing in
• Community Service – Steven Lam, MSHS ’07, DO ’08 family medicine. The award was
presented during the organization’s orthopedics at Mercy Hospital in
president of the CHOC (Children’s national conference this past Joplin, Mo.
Hospital of Orange County) Health March.
Alliance, which coordinates Robyn Dreibelbis, DO ’95, and
services for thousands of members In June, Kay Kalousek, DO ’89, Lisa Warren, DO ’01, received the
through a network of practitioners MSHPE ’94, returned to WesternU Arnold P. Gold Foundation’s
and facilities. Following his as a professor of family medicine in Leonard Tow Humanism in
residency at Children’s Hospital the College of Osteopathic Medicine Award, which recognizes
Los Angeles, he worked in private Medicine of the Pacific. Vice Chair a faculty member (DO or MD) who
practice for 23 years before and Associate Professor of demonstrates clinical excellence
becoming medical director of NMM/OMM and Family Medicine at and outstanding compassion in the
quality and performance COMP-Northwest Janice Blumer, delivery of care, and who shows
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