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WesternU faculty member Tom Phillips, DVM, PhD, fellowship in addiction medicine and pain management.
passed away in his sleep on October 29, 2017. Dr. He became board certified in internal medicine, addiction
Phillips was a founding faculty member in the College of medicine and in pain management; and he received
Veterinary Medicine, coming to the University in 2003 appointments as a professor in pediatrics and psychiatry
and helping set up CVM during its initial phases of at the Loma Linda University Medical School. In 2008, he
development. He served as CVM Associate Dean of founded the Pediatric Chronic Pain and Headache Clinic
Research for five years, and remained an active faculty at Loma Linda University Children’s Hospital. He also
member in the college. He also provided critical worked at the Betty Ford Center in Rancho Mirage, Calif.
assistance in developing the organization and curriculum and published more than 40 articles in neuroscience. He
for the Graduate College of Biomedical Sciences prior to created an integrated treatment paradigm called
its opening in 2010, and chaired the WesternU neurocognitive enhancement and published his work as
Intellectual Property Committee. Most recently he served a book, Conquer Chronic Pain, in 2015. He is survived
as Managing Director of WesternU Ventures, working to by his wife, Allison (Almendras) Przekop, DO ’99, and
form the administrative focus of invention evaluation and adopted son Isaiah Kojo Przekop. The family requests
prosecution on campus.
donations be made to the Pancreatic Cancer Action
Network and the City of Hope Comprehensive Cancer
David Sellen, MSHPE ’89, a longtime professor at Center in Duarte, Calif.
WesternU in the College of Allied Health Professions’
Health Sciences Education Department passed away in
September, just prior to this issue’s print deadline. We Tiffany Trang Le, DO ’06, an emergency medicine
hope to include his obituary in our next issue. physician in New York, passed away Jan. 27, 2017.
Peter Przekop, DO ’99, was 62 years of age when he Melinda Mah, PharmD ’10, passed away quietly at her
passed away peacefully at his home in Hawaii with his home in Calexico, Calif. on the evening of Sep. 14, 2017.
family at his bedside on June 17, 2017 following a brief A viewing and short memorial were held on Sep. 29 in
but rapid decline in his health. He was born and raised in Calexico, and a funeral service was held on Sep. 30.
Connecticut and developed an intense interest in the Melinda was diagnosed with cancer prior to starting her
relationship between the brain, mind and body, first year in Pharmacy school, and staff member Julie
prompting him to earn graduate degrees in both Avila recalls her attending class with her IV pole in tow,
psychology and neuroscience. At WesternU, Dr. Przekop determined to follow her dream of becoming a
met his wife, Allison Almendras, and the two were pharmacist, which she did. In 2006, Dr. Mah opened
married days before graduation. He pursued training in Hope Pharmacy in Calexico with her sister.
internal medicine and neurology and then completed a
In 1991, the WesternU Alumni Association established the Alumni Memorial Award, which is presented each spring in memory of deceased
alumni to the one WesternU student in the graduating class who best exhibits the dedication and enthusiasm of a future alumnus or alumna.
Contributions can be made in memory of deceased alumni to the Alumni Memorial Award Fund online at www.westernu.edu/giving or mailed
to the WesternU Alumni Association, 309 E. Second Street, Pomona, CA 91766. Please note the graduate’s name and “Alumni Memorial
Award Fund” on the online form or check. Checks should be made payable to “WesternU.”
WesternU deeply appreciates being notified when a graduate passes away. If you have such news to share, please contact the Office of
Alumni Relations at (909) 469-ALUM or alumni@westernu.edu.
We would love to hear all about your exciting news to share in the Class Notes section of a future issue of WesternU View and/or on our
web site. Please tell us about new jobs, publications, presentations, awards, honors, marriages, births, etc…visit:
www.westernu.edu/ShareYourNews to submit your news!
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WesternU faculty member Tom Phillips, DVM, PhD, fellowship in addiction medicine and pain management.
passed away in his sleep on October 29, 2017. Dr. He became board certified in internal medicine, addiction
Phillips was a founding faculty member in the College of medicine and in pain management; and he received
Veterinary Medicine, coming to the University in 2003 appointments as a professor in pediatrics and psychiatry
and helping set up CVM during its initial phases of at the Loma Linda University Medical School. In 2008, he
development. He served as CVM Associate Dean of founded the Pediatric Chronic Pain and Headache Clinic
Research for five years, and remained an active faculty at Loma Linda University Children’s Hospital. He also
member in the college. He also provided critical worked at the Betty Ford Center in Rancho Mirage, Calif.
assistance in developing the organization and curriculum and published more than 40 articles in neuroscience. He
for the Graduate College of Biomedical Sciences prior to created an integrated treatment paradigm called
its opening in 2010, and chaired the WesternU neurocognitive enhancement and published his work as
Intellectual Property Committee. Most recently he served a book, Conquer Chronic Pain, in 2015. He is survived
as Managing Director of WesternU Ventures, working to by his wife, Allison (Almendras) Przekop, DO ’99, and
form the administrative focus of invention evaluation and adopted son Isaiah Kojo Przekop. The family requests
prosecution on campus.
donations be made to the Pancreatic Cancer Action
Network and the City of Hope Comprehensive Cancer
David Sellen, MSHPE ’89, a longtime professor at Center in Duarte, Calif.
WesternU in the College of Allied Health Professions’
Health Sciences Education Department passed away in
September, just prior to this issue’s print deadline. We Tiffany Trang Le, DO ’06, an emergency medicine
hope to include his obituary in our next issue. physician in New York, passed away Jan. 27, 2017.
Peter Przekop, DO ’99, was 62 years of age when he Melinda Mah, PharmD ’10, passed away quietly at her
passed away peacefully at his home in Hawaii with his home in Calexico, Calif. on the evening of Sep. 14, 2017.
family at his bedside on June 17, 2017 following a brief A viewing and short memorial were held on Sep. 29 in
but rapid decline in his health. He was born and raised in Calexico, and a funeral service was held on Sep. 30.
Connecticut and developed an intense interest in the Melinda was diagnosed with cancer prior to starting her
relationship between the brain, mind and body, first year in Pharmacy school, and staff member Julie
prompting him to earn graduate degrees in both Avila recalls her attending class with her IV pole in tow,
psychology and neuroscience. At WesternU, Dr. Przekop determined to follow her dream of becoming a
met his wife, Allison Almendras, and the two were pharmacist, which she did. In 2006, Dr. Mah opened
married days before graduation. He pursued training in Hope Pharmacy in Calexico with her sister.
internal medicine and neurology and then completed a
In 1991, the WesternU Alumni Association established the Alumni Memorial Award, which is presented each spring in memory of deceased
alumni to the one WesternU student in the graduating class who best exhibits the dedication and enthusiasm of a future alumnus or alumna.
Contributions can be made in memory of deceased alumni to the Alumni Memorial Award Fund online at www.westernu.edu/giving or mailed
to the WesternU Alumni Association, 309 E. Second Street, Pomona, CA 91766. Please note the graduate’s name and “Alumni Memorial
Award Fund” on the online form or check. Checks should be made payable to “WesternU.”
WesternU deeply appreciates being notified when a graduate passes away. If you have such news to share, please contact the Office of
Alumni Relations at (909) 469-ALUM or alumni@westernu.edu.
We would love to hear all about your exciting news to share in the Class Notes section of a future issue of WesternU View and/or on our
web site. Please tell us about new jobs, publications, presentations, awards, honors, marriages, births, etc…visit:
www.westernu.edu/ShareYourNews to submit your news!
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