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With Special Annual Report Section Opening Shot VOL. 54, NO. 2/FALL 2019 OFFICIAL MAGAZINE OF LOMA LINDA UNIVERSITY HEALTH GLOBAL IMPACT SERVING OUR WORLD with special annual report section Opening Shot VOL. 54, NO. 2 SCOPE FALL 2019 ROGER D. WOODRUFF, MD, chair of the Department of Family Medicine at Loma Linda University School of Medicine, leads volunteers in prayer on the second day of a medical mission clinic in the Southeastern African nation of Mozambique in June. Over five days, more than 4,000 people received care at the pop-up clinic from a team of approximately 250 volunteers from around the world — including students and physicians from Loma Linda University Health. PHOTO BY SHEANN BRANDON 1 VOL. 54, NO. 2 SCOPE FALL 2019 Global Impact LOMA LINDA UNIVERSITY HEALTH EXISTS TO SERVE NEEDS WORLDWIDE — BRINGING HEALING AND OFFERING HOPE. FEATURES SCOPE is published by Loma Linda 16 28 University Health, a Seventh-day Dean Thomas on training Consulting for hospitals in Adventist organization. physicians in changing landscape developing nations VOL. 54, NO. 2 | FALL 2019 RICHARD HART 18 29 President Global service changes School of Nursing’s gift RACHELLE BUSSELL us back at home to Puerto Rico Senior Vice President for Advancement ANSEL OLIVER Editor 20 30 Loma Linda University Health and LARRY BECKER The Trauma Team’s global support Assistant Editor the Seventh-day Adventist Church KELSEY CULLER 32 Contributing Editor 24 SCOPE Fighting child smoking Influencing care throughout China MARKETING & COMMUNICATIONS in Mongolia 11157 Anderson Street Loma Linda, California 92354 EMAIL 26 34 [email protected] WEB Resident surgeons train in Malawi Students in mission service lluh.org SOCIAL MEDIA Facebook.com/LLUHealth Instagram: @LLUHealth DEPARTMENTS Twitter: @LLUHealth ONLINE From our llu.edu/news/scope President Tribute Updates 4 6 10 If you would rather receive Scope digitally, please write to [email protected]. Global service Honoring a life Clinical and changes us back of extraordinary campus news at home service Innovation Alumni Annual Report 14 36 40 Published Serving Highlights and research worldwide financials from the fiscal year ON THE COVER: A dental hygiene student cleans a local patient’s teeth during June mission trip to Mozambique. Read more about Loma Linda University’s mission trips on page 34. Photograph by Sheann Brandon. From our President Why we SERVE understanding and emotional support, among others. But let me argue once again that we are the benefactors, the ones who truly grow and are blessed by these interactions. Over 20 years ago, some of us were truly concerned about losing some of our more than 70 “mission” hospitals. Times had changed, many local country governments and economies were struggling, and these hospitals were simply not able to keep up. We have attempted to meet this challenge by creating an organization we call Adventist Health International to provide governance and management support, along with people and logistical resources. AHI now works with over 40 hospitals in low- and mid- resource countries to protect and build on their legacies. The challenges are still great, often overwhelming, but the necessity and value of these institutions are even greater. It has been particularly gratifying to watch our young professionals answer their call for help and put their own careers into these challenging situations. Richard H. Hart, MD, DrPH Are we going to “cure” the world? Not at PRESIDENT, all. Not even close. The issue isn’t so much LOMA LINDA UNIVERSITY HEALTH GLOBAL SERVICE about solving problems, but rather engaging with human need. At whatever level, in CHANGES US BACK whatever fashion, this is how the human spirit grows and connects. Is this needed, AT HOME and can it be done at “home”? Certainly, and There are few things as deeply embedded we seek to do that. But there is something in Loma Linda University Health’s DNA as powerful about stepping outside our own global service. From our very first graduating comfort zone into another culture that classes to all the generations since, this has forces a fresh look at ourselves and others. been a rallying cry for thousands of our Doing this in a non-condescending and truly students and alumni. This issue of Scope other-empowering way is an art that is not chronicles many of our current international always easy to learn. activities, which seem to only widen and Our Mission Globe sculpture in the deepen as the years go by. center of campus documents the names of It is easy to mislead ourselves and our many graduates and employees — more imagine all the wonderful benefits we than 2,000 — who have served abroad for are providing the world — professional at least one year. And the list keeps growing. volunteers, equipment, finance, software, We now have scholarship funds that cover 4 VOL. 54, NO. 2 SCOPE FALL 2019 2018 WORLD SERVICE FUN FACTS FACULTY AND EMPLOYEES WHO SERVED IN THE INTERNATIONAL SERVICE PROGRAM 393 the educational debt payments of any COUNTRIES THEY SERVED graduate who chooses to serve abroad after 51 completing his or her training. This is often the best time to go, before financial and STUDENTS WHO SERVED ON AN other obligations tie an individual or family OVERSEAS MISSION TRIP 570 down, though we now have a surprising number of mid-career professionals and retirees who also choose to serve. COUNTRIES THEY SERVED Over the past decade, our Global 28 Health Institute has done an incredible job of coordinating all this activity. From the APPROXIMATE NUMBER OF CHILDREN’S FACES hundreds coming here from other countries PAINTED AT ORPHANAGES IN MEXICO 1,200 for advanced observation and training, to the many faculty and staff who go out, AGE OF OLDEST PATIENT TREATED DURING to SIMS mission trips for our students, A STUDENT MISSION TRIP (CUBA) 102 the involvement is huge. Many students and residents indicate one of the primary SEVENTH-DAY ADVENTIST CHURCHES VISITED reasons they choose to study at Loma Linda University Health is the opportunity for DURING STUDENT MISSION TRIPS 104 international involvement. So we seek to meet this growing desire and commitment. MILES STUDENTS TRAVELED ON MISSION TRIPS Nearly 20% of our student body, around 8 mil 750 students, will spend time outside the country during this school year. From long PEOPLE SERVING ABROAD IN THE DEFERRED weekend trips to Mexico to multidisciplinary MISSION APPOINTEE PROGRAM 21 or discipline-specific teams traveling to many countries, the march goes on. This is truly Loma Linda University Health at its best. ¡ PEOPLE NOW IN THE PIPELINE TO SERVE ABROAD IN THE DEFERRED MISSION APPOINTEE PROGRAM 54 ICU NURSES WHO PARTICIPATED IN MALAWI ICU NURSING EXCHANGE PROGRAM 8 PEOPLE IN FIJI WHO HAD THEIR VISION RESTORED BY A TEAM OF OPHTHALMOLOGISTS VISITING FOR SIX DAYS 137 RESIDENTS WHO COMPLETED AN INTERNATIONAL ROTATION 49 POUNDS OF EQUIPMENT AND SUPPLIES SENT VIA AIR, SEA OR HAND-CARRIED 58,382 CHRISTMAS CARE PACKAGES SENT TO OVERSEAS MISSIONARIES AND THEIR FAMILIES 50 5 VOL. 54, NO. 2 SCOPE FALL 2019 Tribute REMEMBERING A LIFE OF EXTRAORDINARY SERVICE Iconic ‘Baby Fae’ surgeon Leonard Bailey dies at age 76 HIS BABOON-TO-HUMAN INFANT HEART TRANSPLANT WAS ONE OF 1984’S BIGGEST MEDIA STORIES AND PUT LOMA LINDA UNIVERSITY HEALTH ON THE NATIONAL SCENE BY ANSEL OLIVER PHOTO COURTESY OF JOURNEY FILMS PHOTO COURTESY OF JOURNEY FILMS Dr. Leonard Bailey with a patient in 2009. 6 VOL. 54, NO. 2 SCOPE FALL 2019 Leonard Bailey, MD, the renowned Loma Linda University Health surgeon who garnered international media attention in 1984 for transplanting a baboon’s heart into a human infant known as “Baby Fae,” died May 12 at the age of 76 following a battle with cancer. Bailey’s pioneering and controversial procedure spawned human-to-human infant heart transplants and other cardiac treatment breakthroughs. It was also one of 1984’s biggest news stories, drawing daily attention of national news networks to the case in which the patient died 21 days later. He went on to transplant hearts in 376 infants and became an authority on congenital heart surgery and a consultant to leading cardiothoracic surgery programs worldwide. His work also propelled Loma Linda University Health to become the world’s leading pediatric heart transplant center and led to innovations that enable surgeons to repair certain complex congenital heart defects instead of patients having to undergo a transplant. Bailey served as a distinguished professor of cardiovascular and thoracic surgery and of pediatrics at Loma Linda University School of Medicine and surgeon-in-chief at Loma Linda University Children’s Hospital. He served at Loma Linda University Health for a total of 42 years. Though widely recognized for transplantations, they were only a small part of his practice, which consisted of all types of pediatric and infant open- heart surgeries. Many of his infant heart-transplant patients came back to visit him as teenagers and adults. At least one went on to medical school. “When we operate on these babies, the hope is that they will live longer than us. It’s nice to know that’s playing out,” Bailey said in 2017 after a 36-year-old former patient visited him. “Often when we start a case we thank the Almighty that He has put us in this position to help and that the outcomes will be according to His will.” While making rounds with young patients, Bailey would often wear neckties featuring Snoopy or Looney Tunes characters. “It sedates the kids a bit,” he once quipped in an interview. The surgeon was also known to change a baby’s diaper if needed. “Our colleague and friend, Len Bailey, served this institution and the world beyond with dignity and courage,” said Richard H.
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