Loma Linda, Calif. (PRWEB) September 09, 2014

More than a quarter of the physicians listed on Inland Empire magazines Top Doctors edition took their medical school and/or specialty training at Loma Linda University School of Medicine or are currently on the faculty.

In its latest issue, Inland Empire magazine listed the regions top doctors, based on a peer review survey conducted by an independent group.

Among the top doctors at Loma Linda University Health, their specialty, and if they are alumni of Loma Linda University School of Medicine, are:

Anesthesiology: Dr. Richard Applegate II, alumnus. Cardiac Surgery: Dr. Leonard Bailey, alumnus; Dr. Anees Razzouk, alumnus. Cardiology: Dr. Kenneth Jutzy, alumnus. Dermatology: Dr. Abel Torres. Emergency Medicine: Dr. Richard Guth, alumnus. Endocrinology: Dr. John Lamont Murdoch, alumnus. Family Practice: Dr. Gina Jervey-Mohr, alumna. Gastroenterology: Dr. Michael Walter, alumnus.

General Surgery: Dr. Richard Catalano, alumnus. Geriatrics: Dr. James Larson, alumnus. Hematology/Oncology: Dr. Chien-Shing S. Chen. Infectious Disease: Dr. Ingrid Blomquist, alumna. Infertility: Dr. John Jacobson, alumnus. Otorhinolaryngology: Dr. Christopher Church, alumnus.

Pediatrics: Dr. Michelle Loh, alumna; Dr. Ravindra Rao. Psychiatry: Dr. Cameron Johnson, alumnus. Pulmonary Disease: Phillip Gold. Radiology-Diagnostic: Dr. Kendra Fisher; Dr. Shannon Kirk, alumnus. Rehabilitation: Dr. Scott Strum, alumnus.

Graduates of Loma Linda University School of Medicine who are on the list include:

Dr. James Munson; Dr. Lawrence Robinson; Dr. Larry Potts; Dr. Lawrence Harms; Dr. Janet Ihde; Dr. Wallace Gosney; Dr. Dennis Hilliard; Dr. Douglas Hay; Dr. Shelley Thio; Dr. Lawrence Clark; Dr. Berneva Adams; Dr. Alonso Ojeda; Dr. Ray Glendrange; Dr. Richmond Roeske; Dr. Robert Rosenquist Jr.; Dr. William Smith; Dr. George Gustafson; Dr. Allen Hwang; Dr. Timothy Jung; Dr. Robert Hardesty; Dr. Robert Summerour; Dr. Theodore Shankel; Dr. Mel Cherne; Dr. Cherry Brandstater; Dr. Vance Johnson; Dr. Victor Ching; Dr. Christopher Tsai.

Inland Empire magazines Top Doctor issue highlights the regions leading physicians based on a nationwide survey of about 340,000 physicians conducted by The Center for the Study of Services, an independent, non-profit consumer organization, asking physicians who they would want to care for their loved one. The Top Doctor database contains the names of more then 23,000 doctors who were mentioned most often.

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By RICHARD PREZ-PEA

New York Times Syndicate

September 8, 2014 10:19 AM

Harvard University on Monday will announce the largest gift in its history, $350 million to the School of Public Health, from a group controlled by a wealthy Hong Kong family, one member of which earned graduate degrees at the university.

Drew Gilpin Faust, Harvards president, said the gift by the Morningside Foundation, directed to a relatively small part of the university, would have a profound effect on the School of Public Health in Boston, giving it a stable financial base and the ability to give students more financial aid while expanding programs in several fields.

Its always been, as the whole field always is, under-resourced, Faust said. Its overwhelmingly dependent on money from federal grants that are under threat.

The foundation is led by two brothers, Ronnie and Gerald Chan, whose businesses include the Hang Lung Group, a major developer of real estate in Hong Kong and elsewhere in China, and the Morningside Group, a private equity and venture capital firm. The School of Public Health will be renamed for their father, T.H. Chan, who founded Hang Lung.

Only six larger donations have been made to an American institution of higher education, according to a list by The Chronicle of Higher Education. Those include a $400 million gift by Eli and Edythe Broad to the Broad Institute, a joint arm of Harvard and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. The Chans gift is the largest to Harvard alone.

In keeping with university practice, Harvard did not disclose the timing or form of the gift. Large donations are often spread over several years, and can consist of securities or real estate, in addition to cash.

Harvard officials said the gift would be used to address four broad areas: pandemics, which they define to include threats like obesity and cancer; harmful environments, ranging from pollution to violence; poverty and humanitarian crises; and failing health systems. Faust cited the Ebola outbreak in West Africa as an example of the need for such resources, hitting on three of those four areas a rapidly spreading disease, abetted by poverty, that existing health systems cannot handle.

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For the 16th consecutive year, faithful and dedicated John Cooper School students are helping a family build a new home from foundation to roof shingles over the next 10 months and are learning much more than construction work.

The Habitat for Humanity house is a project that encompasses the whole school. Students from every grade level help in different ways, all of which are crucial to the success and completion of the home, said Maci Billiot, construction co-lead chair of the project.

The Lower School helps through the Quarters for Quarters campaign to raise money and participates in the landscaping workday at the end of the year to help put the finishing touches on the house. The Middle School contributes snacks for our workdays to help feed our hungry workers and joins us on-site to help paint. Upper School students have the opportunity to go on-site and help with the construction of the house, from small walls to roofing, and everything in-between, Billiot said.

Select Upper School students who have demonstrated a true passion and dedication for this endeavor make up the Habitat Steering Committee. They lead the construction on-site and behind the scenes, and hope to raise a minimum of $27,500 this school year through fundraisers, such as T-shirt and sweatshirt sales, a car wash, babysitting nights, and a barbecue during Spirit Week, according to Christopher Zupan, co-lead chair.

Zupan has participated in the Habitat project since he was in kindergarten, helping to plant flowers in one familys yard.

I really enjoy giving back to the community, Zupan said. Seeing them smile makes it all worth it.

When I first began helping, I started because I needed the community service hours, Billiot said. But then, I got to know the family we were building the house for and it became a more personal experience for me.

The 16th house built by John Cooper students is for a woman named Rosa Cardenas and her two children, Carlos and Sarai, who said, I am happy to finally start building on the house.

Families who receive homes from Habitat for Humanity do not receive free houses, they have a house payment each month and pay it down until the loan is paid off.

Kevin Dural said he really enjoys the unity of his classmates getting together to help others.

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9/4/2014 - West Side Leader

CUYAHOGA FALLS Walsh Jesuit High School, located at 4550 Wyoga Lake Road, will host a celebration of its 50th anniversary Sept. 27.

Walsh Jesuit was funded by a gift from Cornelius Walsh, a prominent businessman in Cuyahoga Falls in the early 1900s, according to school officials. The gift, along with funding from the Cleveland Catholic Diocese and the purchase of 50 acres of Conway Farm, established the location and concept of Walsh Jesuit High School. On Sept. 27, 1964, the Rev. Francis Dietz, SJ, Walsh Jesuits first president, held a blessing of grounds ceremony, and on Sept. 7, 1965, Walsh Jesuit opened its doors to 153 freshmen.

The 50th anniversary celebrations to mark that occasion will begin with a Mass in the Chapel at 5 p.m. and continue with a party in the dome from 6 to 11 p.m. The party will include more than 20 local food vendors, live music and dancing beginning at 8 p.m.

The live music will include country music artist Mark Leach, a 2008 alumnus of Walsh Jesuit, and 2001 alumni Kira Leyden Andrea and Jeff Andrea, of The Strange Familiar. In addition, the Dave Banks Big Band, a 17-piece swinging big band with Walsh Jesuit Theater Director Dave Banks as lead trumpet, will perform.

We are excited to celebrate all that Walsh Jesuit has accomplished in just 50 short years, said Karl Ertle, Walsh Jesuits president. This is a great time for all in our Walsh Jesuit community to come together and honor each other, our alumni, our faculty and staff all the people that truly make Walsh Jesuit an extraordinary place.

Anyone interested in attending the event is asked to register by Sept. 12 at http://www.walshjesuit.org.

BATH Old Trail School is presenting Story-Time for Toddlers as part of its Little Readers @ Your Library program. Story-Time for Toddlers will take place on Thursdays from 8:45 to 9:15 a.m., with sessions starting in September. This program is free and open to the public.

Story-Time for Toddlers provides toddlers ages 18 months to 3 years with an interactive storytelling format to help them develop language skills. Parents and children attend together. Sessions include stories, songs, finger play and more. The program is designed to instill a lifelong love of reading as early as possible.

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CARBONDALE-- Twenty-five area students from the class of 2018 began training in August at the SIU School of Medicine. The students participated in a white coat ceremony that welcomed them into the medical profession.

During the ceremony, students received their first coat from the president of the schools alumni society, Dr. James Cunnar, a family medicine physician in Naperville and a 1994 graduate. The schools alumni society provided the coats. Students also received a lapel pin that reads Compassion, Respect and Integrity from the SIU Foundation.

Dr. J. Kevin Dorsey, Ph.D., dean, provost and a 1978 graduate of the school, welcomed the students, and Dr. Debra Klamen, associate dean for education and curriculum, read the Hippocratic Oath. Students were presented by Dr. Wesley Robinson-McNeese, associate professor of internal medicine and medical humanities, executive assistant to the dean for diversity and a 1986 graduate.

Dr. John Mellinger, professor and chair of the Division of General Surgery, gave the keynote speech. He received the schools 2013 Humanism in Medicine Award.

Most of the students are from the southern two-thirds of the state, said Dr. Erik J. Constance, associate professor of internal medicine, associate dean for student affairs and admissions and a 1988 graduate. The class has 44 men and 28 women.

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There was a point when Gary Phillips didnt think he needed to graduate from Wharton.

A pre-med student at Penn in the 1980s, Phillips dropped the Wharton half of his College and Wharton dual degree in order to graduate in three years in 1987.

A year later, Phillips began studying medicine at the School of Medicine and was later presented another option: the chance to study in Wharton again, this time on an MBA track.

Phillips, still interested in business, saw the opportunity and took it. In 1991, he graduated from Wharton with an MBA. The following year, he received his M.D. from the Universitys medical school, graduating from Penns M.D./MBA program.

Today, Phillips is not a practicing doctor, although he keeps his license active. Instead, Phillips is the senior vice president and chief strategy officer of Mallinckrodt Pharmaceuticals, where he is responsible for strategy, mergers, acquisitions and other financial matters.

Phillips admits that he doesnt need his M.D. to work in his current role. But for him, as with many other graduates of Penns M.D./MBA program, it was still a worthwhile pursuit.

I feel like Im good at what I do in part because of the M.D.

In a society where health care and business are becoming increasingly intertwined, recent research has demonstrated there are benefits to having both a business and a medical background. In a paper to be published in September 2014, researchers at Wharton and the Perelman School of Medicine have found that Penns M.D./MBA program had a positive effect on the careers of its alumni.

Having both an M.D. and an MBA allows you to wear multiple hats and see unique perspectives, and theres really a need for people with that kind of training, explained Mitesh Patel, an author of the paper who also graduated from the dual degree program.

With the health care reform debate emerging into the national spotlight notably with the changes brought on by the Affordable Care Act business is playing a larger role in the medical field.

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The St. Louis County medical examiner, whose office performed the first autopsy on Michael Brown, is a Jefferson City native and Jefferson City High School graduate.

Dr. Mary Case is the chief medical examiner for St. Louis, St. Charles, Jefferson and Franklin counties. She also is co-director of the division of forensic pathology and professor of pathology at St. Louis University.

I had good memories of high school, she said in a phone interview this week. I feel like I got an excellent education there. I made lots of friends, and many of those friends are still friends today. My best friend is from high school and college.

Her office was thrust into the national spotlight after a white police officer shot and killed Michael Brown, an unarmed black teenager, in the St. Louis suburb of Ferguson.

Working on such a high-profile case hasnt affected her office, she said. Despite an increase in calls from reporters, it hasnt added much work.

We didnt know at the beginning that it was a high-profile case, she said. It was a very important case. It was a police shooting, as we refer to these cases.

For her office, however, it was a fairly routine case the type of case they might see twice a month, she said. She said her office does its job to provide answers for both sides, in such instances.

Case clarified that, contrary to media reports, she did not perform the autopsy on Brown. It was done by a member of her staff who was on-call at the time. But, she said: I stand firmly behind the job that was done here.

She said she takes no offense that her office isnt the only one to conduct autopsies in such cases. We have the initial jurisdiction, and once we have done our job, the body goes to the family, and if there is an interest in doing further autopsies, that is not looked upon by medical examiners as, Well, you didnt do a good job. Theres something suspicious about what you did.

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Theres Money in the Middle

Welcome to what economists now call the middle skills jobs gap, where theres a dire need for people to fill jobs that require workers with more than a high school diploma but less than a four-year college degree.

Some 69 million people work in middle-skills jobs, representing about 48 percent of the U.S. labor force. That about squares with South Carolina, wheremiddle-skills jobs account for half of all jobs, according to figures from the S.C. Department of Employment and Workforce.

And yet, as baby boomers retire, the middle is also shrinking. According to the Harvard Business Review, as many as 25 million, or 47 percent, of all new job openings from 2010 to 2020 will fall into the middle-skills range.

In other words, theres a great demand for people to fill solid, reliable and well-paying jobs that only require a high-school degree and some additional training of one to two years.

At Midlands Tech, a one-year certificate program runs an average cost of $5,000 for tuition and books; the cost is about $7,500 for a year and a half diploma program, and about $10,000 for a two-year associates degree. Scholarship assistance may be available through either a federal Pell grant (about $5,500 a year) depending on need or S.C. Lottery Tuition Assistance ($2,000), which is available to most applicants. Hot Fields: Health Care, Advanced Manufacturing, IT and Energy Midlands Technical College President Sonny White says there are as many as 12,000 jobs in the Midlands in four cluster areas of health care, advanced manufacturing, information technology and energy.

The boom in middle-skills jobs is reflective of what has long been an economic reality: a four-year college degree no longer guarantees a job. Thats part of the reason, White says, why 80 percent of his students start at age 25 or older. Theyve either gone to college and quit or stuck it out and found their diploma just didnt have that much purchasing power in the modern job market.

Among the top middle-skills jobs in the Midlands, White cites the boom in information technology jobs, particularly ones necessary to Columbias booming insurance industry.

A job as a web developer, network analyst or network administrator requires a two-year associates degree, and generally pays between $35,000 and $100,000 annually. The job prospects are outstanding in our area, White says.

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Posted: Tuesday, August 26, 2014 4:21 pm | Updated: 4:27 pm, Tue Aug 26, 2014.

FREEPORT - Keith Stoddard hasnt watched a whole lot of field hockey, but hell be cheering on the Freeport High School alumni team on Sept. 6, when they take on the high school varsity in the annual Falcon Pride fundraiser.

Stoddard, who is fighting stage 4 lymphoma, will see a lot of his Freeport class of 1990 classmates that day, as well as his sister, Ellen Golding, who played the sport and graduated the following year. The game and the event to follow at Bucks Naked BBQ and Steakhouse in Freeport highlight the effort that Falcon Pride is making to help Stoddard with his medical expenses. The Gray resident, a carpenter who has two daughters, is going through chemotherapy, and doing part-time office work while he undergoes treatment.

It means a lot, Stoddard said Aug. 15, as he and his girlfriend, Amanda Kesseli, met at Bucks Naked BBQ with Falcon Pride, a group of field hockey players and their friends who went to Freeport High in the late 1980s and early 1990s. Im not used to getting help from other people, so its kind of weird for me.

The Falcon Pride fundraising effort for Stoddard already has started, as the group seeks auction items and donations. Those interested can contact Becky Daniel at rebeccadan@atmsn.com, 865-0645 or see the Falcon Pride Facebook page. On Aug. 20, the group held a Bike Night fundraiser for Stoddard, which included 50-50 drawings, a donation bucket and live music, at Bucks Naked BBQ.

The big event is the alumni game at 3 p.m. on Saturday, Sept. 6, followed by the auction and 50-50 drawing, at Bucks.

Stoddard, who learned in April that he had the disease, is optimistic he will recover.

I have chemo every three weeks, he said. I think its going to be fine.

Falcon Pride is putting on the events on the heels of a tough few weeks. Members learned that one of their teammates, Lisa Marie Waterman Granville, of Durham, died at the age of 43 on Aug. 11 from mesothelioma. The first Falcon Pride fundraiser two years ago netted $4,400 to help Granville.

We really do want to focus on Keith, because he is our candidate this year, said Becky (Curtis) Daniel. Our hearts are heavy for Lisa.

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