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Loma Linda University TheScholarsRepository@LLU: Digital Archive of Research, Scholarship & Creative Works Scope Fall 2013 How do you LIVE IT? Loma Linda University Health Follow this and additional works at: http://scholarsrepository.llu.edu/scope Part of the Other Medicine and Health Sciences Commons Recommended Citation Loma Linda University Health, "How do you LIVE IT?" (2013). Scope. http://scholarsrepository.llu.edu/scope/6 This Newsletter is brought to you for free and open access by TheScholarsRepository@LLU: Digital Archive of Research, Scholarship & Creative Works. It has been accepted for inclusion in Scope by an authorized administrator of TheScholarsRepository@LLU: Digital Archive of Research, Scholarship & Creative Works. For more information, please contact [email protected]. How do you LIVE IT? MANY STRENGTHS. ONE MISSION. A Seventh-day Adventist Organization There’s a new name for the future of healthcare. LOMA LINDA UNIVERSITY HEALTH esearch, education, and clinical care unite in a common purpose at Loma Linda University Health’s eight professional schools, six hospitals, and numer- R ous physician groups: to share our message of healthy living with the world. Rooted in faith and guided by our mission, our new name reaffirms our commitment to promoting health and transforming lives. At Loma Linda University Health, this is more than something we believe—it’s something we live. Live It Loma Linda University Health’s commitment to improve health is lived out through clinical care, education, research, and our message of wellness. Our outreach efforts tie all these together as we strive to help local and international communities experi- ence healthier, fuller lives. This issue ofScope brings you stories of our efforts in these areas. Our first story is about a walking example of our new Live It campaign, which encourages our employees and students to practice what we preach and then share it with others. The stories that follow will bring to life ways in which Loma Linda University Health is practicing clinical care, education, and research in order to transform lives—wheth- er in Thailand or San Bernardino, whether through revealing the health benefits of vegetarianism or advancing cardiac care, whether through offering new degrees or winning Fulbright awards to advance scholarship. Please enjoy these stories and let them inspire you to Live It. MANY STRENGTHS. ONE MISSION. A Seventh-day Adventist Organization In this issue … I Wellness N THIS ISSUE Live It campaign · · · · · · · · · · · 2 Healthy weight in Hispanics · · · · 4· Outreach 2 8 Nursing degree offered internationally · · 6 Safer community through K-9 unit · · · 8 Clinical LLU Medical Center ranked nationally 10 New Women’s Cancer Center · · · · 11· $2.5 million for Pediatric MS Center · 12 Milestones in heart care · · · · · ·13 · Biospecimen lab advances cancer care · 14 12 24 Accreditation for bariatric programs · · 16 New pediatric pharmacy residency · · 17· Research Vegetarians have longevity advantage · 18 Research in space · · · · · · · · 19· · $1.9 million for stroke research · · · · 20 Proton research fights cancer · · · · 21 · 30 33 Education Academic options increasing · · · · 22 · SCOPE is published by Loma Linda Writers Fifty years of earth and University Health, an educational and Herbert Atienza biological sciences · · · · · · · 24· · Douglas Hackleman, MA medical institution operated by the General New School of Dentistry leadership · · 25 Larry Kidder, MA Conference of Seventh-day Adventists, Spotlight: culture and behavior lab · 26· Silver Spring, Maryland, U.S.A. Darcie Moningka Briana Pastorino Professor wins Fulbright scholarship · · 27 Fall 2013 | Vol. 48, No. 1 James Ponder Heather Reifsnyder, MA Philanthropy To contact the editorial staff, write to: Stephen Vodhanel, PhD SCOPE Nancy Yuen, MPW Testimonials from generous donors · 28· Office of Public Relations On the front cover 11157 Anderson Street Alumni Loma Linda, California 92354 Pamela Diaz and her daughter, Sybela, pick out some juicy peaches during a visit Baseball Hall of Fame E-mail: [email protected] to the Loma Linda Farmer’s Market, which honors Frank Jobe · · · · · · · 30· · takes place every Tuesday night in front of Website: www.llu.edu Olympian remembers 1964 games · · 33· Social media: www.llu.edu/social the LLU Councilors Student Pavilion. Executive editor On the back cover Campus news Susan Onuma, MBA The Tuesday night Farmer’s Market has increased engagement by students, staff, Construction links campus · · · · 35· · Campus parking gets a boost · · · · 35 · Managing editor and community. Heather Reifsnyder, MA New home for School of Pharmacy · · · 36 © 2013. Loma Linda University Health. Congress on Vegetarian Nutrition · · 37 · Associate editor/Art direction All rights reserved. Larry Kidder, MA SCOPE | Fall 2013 1 ELLNESS W Andrejs enjoys any type of hiking. However, an experience of winter hiking in the White Mountains of New Hampshire stands out as a highlight. Live It campaign highlights individuals who live the Loma Linda University Health message By Larry Kidder Not only does he enjoy the outdoors Andrejs reveals. “We started during the personally, but he has made it his mission summer with good results. Now that the he Live It campaign, recently rolled out to influence his community to become school year has begun, we’re hoping the Tby Loma Linda University Health to more friendly to health and wellness. Farmer’s Market will grow in popularity.” share a lifestyle of wellness, features a number Andrejs graduated in June of 2013 with In addition to his personal running of faculty, employees, patients, and students his master’s of public health degree in health and biking, Andrejs is a triathlete, adding who are dedicated to living out the principles policy and leadership from LLU School of swimming to his list of activities. This past of wellness and wholeness. Public Health. For his MPH internship, Labor Day, he took part in the 48th annual Andrejs Galenieks, MPH, was the sub- he worked with the City of Loma Linda to “Run to the Top” of nearby Mount Baldy. ject of a recent Live It ad, and for good create and put in motion the Healthy Loma “It was my first time at this event,” he reason. An avid hiker, mountain biker, and Linda Initiative. Toward the end of 2012 confesses. “As part of my training regimen, I runner, Andrejs spends as much time out- and into early 2013, Andrejs led community temporarily became a vegan.” Normally, he doors as he can. While he’s out and about, workshops in which residents were asked classifies himself as a lacto-ovo-vegetarian, he likes to record the beauty and grandeur to help develop plans to make Loma Linda following a diet that allows some eggs and around him through the lens of his camera. more encouraging to wellness activities. dairy products. “I’m out in the hills and local mountains “An outcome of our workshops is the Another memory is that of going from every chance I get,” he says. new Tuesday night Farmer’s Market,” rim to rim to rim of the Grand Canyon 2 Loma Linda University Health in November of 2012. “That’s crossing the of California has chosen to set up its own Andrejs, a recent LLU graduate and new Loma Grand Canyon two times,” he explains. “I health care exchange. Titled Covered Cali- Linda University Health employee, is pictured was somewhat sore after that experience.” fornia, the state-run program has allocated in an ad for the “Live It” campaign with his Andrejs also enjoys winter trekking. $990,000 to Loma Linda University Health friend, Jaecelle Guadiz, a member of the LLU “I’ve hiked the presidential trail in the to develop and conduct outreach and edu- School of Medicine class of 2013. White Mountains of New Hampshire, cation activities on how, beginning in 2014, ending up at the peak of Mount Washing- Californians can access affordable health passions of mountain biking, running, ton,” he remembers. “The winter weather care coverage under the new legislation. and photography. “Personal wholeness is on that trail can be brutal.” Loma Linda University Health, in part- not merely eating healthy twice a week Now that school is finished, Andrejs has nership with the Community Clinic Asso- or focusing on exercise alone,” he empha- joined the Loma Linda University Institute ciation of San Bernardino County, is one of sizes. “To me, it’s a concept where I strive for Health Policy and Leadership, under 48 lead organizations receiving grants total- to balance physical, spiritual, and social the direction of Gerald Winslow, PhD, se- ing $37 million from Covered California. health altogether.” nior vice president for mission and culture Andrejs is working to set up outreach He adds, “I also believe that the concept at Loma Linda University Medical Center. and education opportunities for residents of ‘making man whole’ can further be ex- With the passage of the Patient Pro- of San Bernardino and Riverside Counties. panded to the community level and the en- tection and Affordable Care Act, the State In the meantime, he will continue his vironment that shapes it.” ± SCOPE | Fall 2013 3 Students partner with Hispanic community to address issues of obesity and being overweight ELLNESS “One cannot expect positive results from an educational … program which fails to respect the particular view of the W world held by the people. Such a program constitutes cultural invasion, good intentions notwithstanding.” – Paulo Freire By Heather Reifsnyder Alexander Fajardo. El Sol is the first orga- The participation of El Sol Neighbor- nization to use the curriculum. School of hood Educational Center and other com- cademicians possess knowledge and Public Health faculty Eddy Jara, DrPH, munity members has ensured that the cur- Atheory, but in order for that to benefit and Juan Carlos Belliard, PhD, MPH, riculum breaks down barriers of culture, others, scientists and scholars must engage served as advisers. language, and stigma. the expertise of an intended specific popu- This is further ensured because the peo- lation before change can happen.