A VISION for HEARING RESEARCH Message from the President

SUMMER 2019 • Volume 35 Issue 2 A VISION FOR HEARING RESEARCH Message from the President

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n May, we awarded nearly 1,900 diplomas during two commencement ceremonies. I was proud to welcome Kyle Korver, BA’03, back to campus as our commencement speaker, celebrate several distinguished honorees, and welcome an outstanding class into our alumni ranks. I felt a special kinship with this year’s graduates, as four years ago, on Aug. 25, 2015, we began the academic year together in my first year as Creighton’s president. Now, I am eager to welcome the Class of 2023 to campus. While final num- Ibers may fluctuate, we anticipate another large and talented freshman class — with as many as 1,060 to 1,070 students. That would represent our third- or fourth-largest class in history, only behind our previous two record years in 2017 and 2018. A quarter scored a 30 or higher on the ACT, nearly 60% had a high school GPA of 3.8 or higher, and 80% were involved in service in high school. Our second cohort of the Creighton Global Scholars program begins its first semester Follow me: of studies at the University of Sydney this fall. The Global Scholars, in connection with @CreightonPres our Global Engagement Office, will bring 2018 Nobel Peace Prize recipient Nadia Murad CreightonPresident to campus for a Sept. 16 talk, as part of a yearlong theme on genocide and pursuing justice in the world. Our summer immersion programs had students learning and serving in 12 countries through Faculty-Led Programs Abroad (FLPA); working on water quality and summer health programs in the Dominican Republic through the Institute for Latin American Concern; and gaining a deeper understanding of global health disparities through international trips coordinated by medical students in Project CURA. On Sept. 25, we will join government officials and dignitaries in Arizona for the ground- breaking of our new health sciences campus in Phoenix. In May, the trustees of the Virginia G. Piper Charitable Trust awarded Creighton a $10 million grant to support construction of a health sciences building in midtown Phoenix. The campus is set to open in 2021. Locally, I continue to meet with organizations and leaders, along with members of the Presidential Committee on Community Engagement, to engage in community dialogue and relationship-building. Groups we have met with include the Empowerment Network, National Black Catholic Congress, St. Benedict’s Parish Council, and the Omaha Community Council for Racial Justice and Reconciliation, to name a few. The Presidential Lecture Series will continue this fall as we welcome former U.S. sen- ator, Nebraska governor, and university president Bob Kerrey, HON’93, to campus for an Oct. 22 address. We will also celebrate our inaugural Mission Week this fall with a series of events, including a Sept. 9 keynote address by the Rev. Greg Boyle, SJ, founder of Homeboy The Kingfisher Award Industries and author of Tattoos on the Heart and Barking to the Choir. statuette, left, was created by wildlife sculptor Dan With increased enrollment in our Heider College of Business, we began renovations to Ostermiller and inspired the Harper Center this summer to provide more classroom and learning space. We also by the poem As Kingfishers Catch Fire, Dragonflies welcomed two new deans. Joshua Fershee, JD, joins us as dean of the School of Law, and Draw Flame. The new Evan Robinson, PhD, as dean of the School of Pharmacy and Health Professions. Finally, I award recognizes outstanding Creighton would like to congratulate nursing professor Amanda Kirkpatrick, PhD, BSN’05, who was faculty and staff who selected nationally as one of five Macy Faculty Scholars. (Read more on Page 12.) have demonstrated an extraordinary There, indeed, is exciting momentum as we enter another academic year at Creighton commitment to the University. Thank you for your continued support as we move purposefully forward toward enduring values, principles and practices our bold tomorrow. of the humanities. Fr. Hendrickson will announce the inaugural recipient of the award Rev. Daniel S. Hendrickson, SJ, PhD during Mission Week in September. President

1 CREIGHTON SUMMER 2019 Volume 35 Issue 2 Voices PUBLISHER “You have been selected to be “These hearings invite Creighton magazine is published in the spring, summer and here at this time because of knowledgeable panelists fall by Creighton University, the urgency of this moment, to participate, allowing 2500 California Plaza, Omaha, NE 68178-0001. because our common home discourse, knowledge is in serious jeopardy. You and insights to be shared, Contents PRESIDENT Rev. Daniel S. Hendrickson, SJ REMEMBERING ONE OF THE answered the call because which in turn can influence DIRECTOR OF COMMUNICATIONS you care.” policymaking and GREATS, HENRY LYNCH, MD Rick Davis Founder and director of DAN MISLEH, executive director of the Catholic enforcement efforts.” ASSOC. DIRECTORS OF COMMUNICATIONS Climate Covenant, at the inaugural gathering EDWARD MORSE, JD, Creighton law professor, on a Creighton’s Hereditary Cancer Cindy Murphy McMahon of “Laudato Si’ and the U.S. Catholic Church: A Federal Trade Commission hearing on competition and Center, Henry Lynch, MD, Sheila Swanson Conference Series on Our Common Home,” held consumer protection held at Creighton. at Creighton. Read more on Page 7. was a legendary international WRITERS pioneer in cancer genetics. Amanda Brandt Adam Klinker Emily Rust “It seemed to me to be a good “It was one of those things Blake Ursch idea to do one last concert where we said, ‘We’ve got to 26 ILLUSTRATION Vince Dorse and say thank you to God and finish together.’ We knew we Dung Hoang thank you to the people who could. She encouraged me.” Mirjana Walther have supported this music by LISA BECKER CHIPPS, BA’97, MS’00, EDD’19, on CONTACT singing it.” earning her third degree from Creighton alongside Address all mail to University her friend since high school, Anne Smith Harty, Communications and Marketing, THE REV. ROC O’CONNOR, SJ, former rector of BSN’97, MS’00, FNPC’00, EdD’19 — the latest a Attn: Creighton Magazine, 780480 Creighton’s Jesuit community, on a final concert doctorate in interdisciplinary leadership this May. California Plaza, Omaha, NE 68178-0480. of the St. Louis Jesuits planned for Sept. 29 at Postmaster: Send change of address Powell Hall in St. Louis. to Creighton Magazine, P.O. Box 3266, Omaha, NE 68103-0078.

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NEWS thousands of miles off other seafaring Elliot-Meisel says. “He advocated for passages, the U.S. ultimately scrapped a year-round Arctic presence with any future plans for hauling oil by sea icebreakers to assist shipping and to and instead built the Trans-Alaska protect Canadian sovereignty. But his POPULAR TALK Pipeline. support of continental security also In so doing, the U.S. essentially beat A TEDxCreightonU meant cooperation between Canada and talk on navigating the an informal retreat from the Arctic while multigenerational the U.S. which started in World War II still wishing to maintain some influence workplace by and continued during the Cold War. in the region, over and above the sover- Creighton social “He died too early, in 1990. But I psychologist Leah eignty of Canada and other nations. The Skovran Georges, PhD, think that had he lived, he would have policy continues to this day. When the BA’06, currently has advocated a different conversation Cold War ended, U.S. policy interests in more than 1.4 million around the Arctic. While he supported views. Watch this and the Arctic dropped to nothing, though other talks from the resource development, he was mindful economic and defense interests persist. 2018 event at of the indigenous people and their use For nearly 50 years, the U.S. has not tedxcreightonu.com. of the Arctic land and waters. With his signed the United Nations Convention influence in Canada and his work with on the Law of the Sea, a treaty to which Americans, we might have seen more more than 160 nations are party. U.S.-Canada cooperation and the U.S. “American hubris is such that we say, more serious about what’s happening ‘Well, we’ll do what we want,’” Elliot- ecologically and environmentally.” Meisel says. “But that’s gone for the Arctic. It’s detrimental because we’re now seeing a lot of non-Arctic countries New Deans for Law; in the Arctic. For example, China is in Pharmacy and Health the Arctic, which concerns us. Further, Professions we don’t have a seat at the table for com- peting continental shelf claims among Creighton University has named new UNIVERSAL ARCHIVES UNIVERSAL the Arctic states.” JOSHUA FERSHEE deans for the School of Law and School But the Manhattan’s voyage, given Joshua Fershee, JD, is of Pharmacy and Health Professions. Pullen’s work, also kicked off Canada’s the new dean of the Joshua Fershee, JD, joins Creighton as School of Law. icebreaker. You had, quite possibly, the northern strategy. dean of the School of Law. Most recently greatest ice captain who ever lived,” says Canada’s sovereignty, the sovereignty Fershee was professor of law and served BY ADAM KLINKER The Icebreaker Elliot-Meisel, who has written exten- of the First Nations and other indige- as director of LLM and concentration sively on Canadian history, the Cold War nous people in the Arctic, and the envi- programs in energy and sustainable While Neil Armstrong was walking on the moon, another exploration of historic and the Arctic. “It was an American ship ronmental impact being felt in the Arctic development law at the West Virginia significance was taking shape in the Arctic. Creighton’s Betsy Elliot-Meisel, PhD, and the Americans were going to get to are also now in play as competition in University College of Law. Prudhoe Bay. But while there was an the region continues between propo- Fershee’s research and scholarship EVAN ROBINSON profiles the ice pilot of the SS Manhattan. American captain, it was Pullen’s exper- nents of, among other things, develop- focus primarily on energy law and tise that safely guided the biggest ship of ment and resource extraction and those Evan Robinson, PhD, business law issues. At West Virginia, is the new dean t’s called “The Attic,” and for mil- resulted in a race at the top of the Aboard the privately owned its day and got it through the roughest committed to environmental protection of the School of he facilitated creation of the law col- lennia, the Arctic remained the world, one that strained relations not American ship was arguably the ice conditions on the planet.” and stewardship. Pharmacy and Health lege’s first LLM Program in Energy last frontier — its frigid, forbid- only between adversaries like the United world’s foremost ice pilot, retired In just under a month, the For Elliot-Meisel, it stirs up the image Professions. and Sustainable Development. He also ding climate unnavigable by all States and the Soviet Union, but also Capt. T.C. Pullen of the Royal Canadian Manhattan, accompanied by Canada’s of Pullen, the ice-hardened navy captain served as associate dean for faculty but an intrepid native popula- longtime allies like the U.S. and Canada. Navy. Now, Pullen and the Arctic voy- famed icebreaking vessel, CCGS John A. who was nonetheless sensitive to what research and development from 2015 to Ition that weathered not only the frozen In August 1969, just a month after age of the Manhattan are the subjects Macdonald, navigated some 3,000 miles was happening at the top of the world. 2018, during which time he coordinated tundra but the push of colonial powers, Neil Armstrong walked on the moon, the of a Canadian Social Sciences and of heavily iced seas and steamed into Pullen’s personal papers, recently pub- a successful accreditation site visit from Humanities Research Council grant Cold Warriors and now economic devel- SS Manhattan, a 115,000-ton, 1,000-foot- Capt. T.C. Pullen Point Barrow, Alaska, the northernmost lished and forming a large basis of Elliot- the American Bar Association. opment in the region. long oil tanker, embarked on its own, in which Betsy Elliot-Meisel, PhD, point of U.S. territory. The Manhattan Meisel’s biography, show a leader who Fershee graduated with a bachelor’s In the 1960s and 1970s, as the Arctic terrestrial voyage of exploration: Creighton University associate profes- took on its cargo, a single barrel of understood breaking the ice both phys- degree in social science from Michigan became increasingly central to the Cold from Baffin Bay in Canada’s extreme sor of history, is a collaborator, compos- Prudhoe crude, and the next day sailed ically and metaphorically. State University in 1995, and magna cum War and oil reserves were discovered northeastern islands, through the old ing Pullen’s biography. back the way it had come. “Pullen was a proud Canadian and laude from Tulane Law School in 2003. there, a renewed push to open the Northwest Passage to Prudhoe Bay, “With Pullen aboard, you had the Though the route, proven naviga- one who believed that Canada had the Evan Robinson, PhD, is the new Northwest Passage to regular travel Alaska, where oil had been discovered. last Canadian captain of an all-season ble by the intrepidity of Pullen, shaved expertise to be a leading Arctic state,” dean of the School of Pharmacy and

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Health Professions. Prior to his position at first, but remained determined. He Karimi was selected as one of 10 universities in the country conference featured addresses from at Creighton, Robinson was the dean From Carpet-Weaver to was then introduced to an English as JWL-Regis diploma graduates from recognized for undergraduate spiritual leaders and environmental at Western New England University Creighton Student a Foreign Language program through Afghanistan (including six women) to opportunities for research, advocates. Following the lectures, con- College of Pharmacy and Health Afghani student reaches for his Jesuit Refugee Service (JRS) and Jesuit receive an inaugural scholarship, funded according to U.S. News & World ference participants split up into small Sciences, where he served since 2008. dreams with inaugural Creighton Worldwide Learning (JWL). by a Creighton Global Initiative grant, to groups and discussed how to integrate Global Initiative scholarship Report. Here’s a snapshot of one Robinson facilitated the development NEMAN KARIMI He was inspired by the JWL-JRS out- enroll in Creighton’s online bachelor’s Laudato Si’ into eight areas of Catholic of the pharmacy program at Western reach, which has a scope of assisting ref- degree in leadership studies. student’s research project. life: adult faith, advocacy, creation care New England University, a private uni- Neman Karimi considers himself an ugees and other marginalized people Two scholarships were awarded to teams, energy management, higher edu- versity in Springfield, Massachusetts, optimist. But life hasn’t been easy for worldwide. He would earn a diploma in JWL students from Jordan in January, cation, liturgy, school education and as the founding dean of the universi- the 25-year-old from Herat, Afghanistan. liberal studies through a JWL program and eight more scholarships will be young adult ministry. ty’s College of Pharmacy. Beginning in “I had a tough childhood,” says with Regis University. awarded to JWL students worldwide “You have been selected to be here at 2017, he facilitated the development of a Karimi, who worked as a carpet-weaving “That had a special impact on me,” this fall. this time because of the urgency of this new entry-level doctor of occupational apprentice as a child. “I remember The Rev. Peter Karimi says. “It helped me to have a dif- “We are the first Jesuit university to moment, because our common home is Balleis, SJ, executive therapy program within the college, and working almost 18 hours a day to only president of JWL, ferent … more profound perception of offer scholarships to these students,” in serious jeopardy. You answered the oversaw the transition of the college to earn 30 rupees a week.” (farthest from camera) humanity, societies and moral issues says Martha Habash, PhD, associate call because you care,” Dan Misleh, exec- delivers books to the newly named College of Pharmacy That’s about $24 (U.S.) per week. students in Bamyan, surrounding us.” professor of classical and Near Eastern utive director of the Catholic Climate and Health Sciences. Some of that money went back to assist Afghanistan, who Like other graduates of the 45-credit studies, and the faculty advisor and liai- Covenant, told the crowd. “We all have received scholarships Robinson received his Bachelor of his financially struggling parents and through a Creighton hour diploma program, he used his edu- son for the JWL students. been chosen to be co-creators with Science in Pharmacy and Master of his five siblings. Global Initiative grant cation to teach English at local sites For Karimi, the Creighton scholar- God on this beautiful blue planet that and are enrolled in the Science in Pharmacy Administration But he remained hopeful. “I had big University’s online through JRS. “I have been able to teach ship furthers his dream of one day earn- is under threat by our own hand.” from St. Louis College of Pharmacy ideas in my mind,” he says. “I had aspira- bachelor’s degree in what I have learned to the people of my ing his PhD. Creighton President the Rev. Daniel leadership studies. and his PhD in pharmacy administra- tions of becoming an educated person.” Neman Karimi, who community,” Karimi says. “I want to serve my community and TITLE OF RESEARCH S. Hendrickson, SJ, welcomed visitors tion from the Department of Pharmacy As a teenager, he finally had an oppor- lives in the Herat In the fall of 2018, he became a stu- be an agent of social change,” he says. to campus and outlined the ways the Province, is not Care Systems at Auburn University. tunity to attend school. He struggled pictured. dent once more. Lofty goals. But Karimi is ever the “The Diffusion of University has committed itself to optimist. environmental responsibility: reduc- State Utilization of ing greenhouse gas emissions from Private Prisons” purchased electricity by almost 25%, Creighton Hosts First installing solar and wind energy systems on campus, and pledging to be in a Series of Planned STUDENT RESEARCHER Conferences on the Climate Bethany Winslow, BA’19; international relations carbon neutral before 2050. and economics major, sustainable energy minor; In addition, he said, Creighton’s We know climate change is an issue. We Austin, Texas bachelor’s degree programs in sustain- know it’s an ecological issue. We know ability and environmental science offer it’s an economic issue. We know it’s a FACULTY MENTOR students the chance to learn about eco- policy issue. Erika Moreno, PhD, associate professor of logical issues from a multidisciplinary But at the inaugural gathering political science and international relations perspective. of “Laudato Si’ and the U.S. Catholic “In a sense, we at Creighton WHAT IT MEANS During the 1980s war on drugs, Church: A Conference Series on Our University have committed ourselves Common Home,” held at Creighton June a number of states (as high as 47 at one point) began contracting with private prisons to to help the Catholic Church discern 27-29, one thing was clear: We need to handle increased incarcerations. This study adequate responses to the contempo- start looking at climate change as a spir- examines why private prison contracts are rary challenges like ecological degra- itual issue. continuing, despite relative decreases in prison dation and climate change,” he said. The gathering at Creighton was the population growth, concerns for inmate and “In many ways, this commitment first of three planned biennial confer- officer safety, and lack of proof of cost efficiency. emerges from our mission and expe- ences. All are aimed at inspiring current It concludes that a state’s decision to contract rience: Discernment is at the heart of with a private prison is influenced by political and future environmental and Church Ignatian spirituality which grounds our contributions from private prison corporations, leaders to more thoroughly execute University, and Creighton continues to Laudato Si’, Pope Francis’ 2015 encycli- larger percentages of minority populations, having neighboring states that use private discern what prudent care for God’s cre- cal decrying climate change and its dev- prisons, and a propensity to be open to initiating ation requires of us.” astating effects on poor communities new policies. Understanding the motivations around the world. behind legislation to utilize private prisons could Sponsored by Creighton and contribute to determining whether that is the the Catholic Climate Covenant, the best public policy.

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Meeting Pope Francis moved Olnes to tears. worked with the media. “Trial by fire,” Olnes Students in the Creighton to Offer New Heider College of “We were looking at each other right in the eye; explains, “but it was the way I like to learn. I Business will now When it was just,” he says, “peace.” was treated as an equal with everybody in the FinTech Degree This Fall be able to pursue a FinTech degree, Olnes spent three months of his spring embassy, which was awesome.” which combines the senior semester as a public affairs intern at Olnes had a large hand in organizing Creighton’s new FinTech degree pro- finance program with the business in Rome the U.S. Embassy to the Holy See in Rome. In the embassy’s Stand Together to Defend gram was featured in Forbes in May, as intelligence and his final week, he earned a ticket to a papal International Religious Freedom symposium, one of the first of its kind in the United analytics program. “He looked me in the eyes, audience. Photographing the pope was part marking the 35th anniversary of formal States. and I started to shake a of Olnes’ internship duties, but meeting the diplomatic relations between the U.S. and the The program merges finance principles with technical skills to prepare little. I shook his hand pope was a divine bonus and one of many Holy See. The L’osservatore Romano published extraordinary experiences in Rome. “It did his photography from the symposium, giving finance students for the real-world and said, ‘I want to be a change my life,” he says, “both spiritually and Olnes his first international photo credit. financial services industry. It com- photojournalist when I by reaffirming who I want to be in the future.” Another special credit came during Easter bines Creighton’s finance degree pro- The road to the Eternal City started a year Mass in St. Peter’s Square. As the pope spoke to gram with the business intelligence and analytics (BIA) program, which are grow up, to give a voice prior, when Carol Zuegner, PhD, BA’77, chair the thousands gathered, Olnes, outfitted with to the voiceless. I want to of the Department of Journalism, Media and Creightonian press credentials, and photogra- both ranked in the top-25 by U.S. News & World Report. thank you for lending your Computing, urged Olnes to apply. It was an phers from the Associated Press, Reuters and opportunity to connect his photography Catholic News Service took panoramic shots “Compared to, say, five years ago, the voice and helping those interests and public relations major with from atop the plaza’s massive colonnades — an field of finance has become far more in need, and I want you to his faith. area open to photographers just twice a year. data-driven in all subdisciplines of At the Holy See, which refers to the “‘Wow,’ I’m thinking, ‘I’m living my dream right finance,” says Lee Dunham, PhD, asso- know I’m praying for you.’” governmental branch of the Roman Catholic now,’” he says of a moment when his faith and ciate professor of finance, chair of the Church, Olnes worked closely with Ambassador photojournalist aspirations united. Economics and Finance Department at the Heider College of Business and initi-

A.J. Olnes nearly lost his voice in the stirring Callista Gingrich and the embassy’s small staff. Self-reflection is a habit for Olnes. When he CONCES COLIN moment. “The pope put his other hand on my He collected news from the Vatican and Holy discovered the Chiesa di Sant’Andrea Apostolo, ator of the FinTech major at Creighton. arm, and said, ‘Thank you. I’ll need all the See to draft reports sent on to Washington, D.C., a small 14th-century church at Lake Como, he “Consequently, having finance majors prayers I can get, and may God bless you.’” planned events, tweeted, designed graphics and sat alone for two hours “thinking about how just acquire the relevant finance ‘text- of the University to national and inter- much my life has changed — how God works book knowledge’ is becoming increas- Farias-Eisner Named New national preeminence through new in mysterious ways.” Olnes spent his first ingly insufficient to be competitive in Director of Hereditary drug development, high-quality patient two years at Creighton as a business student the workforce.” Cancer Center care, cutting-edge research, high-quality before converting to journalism following a Creighton’s undergraduate program education, community engagement and Backpack Journalism trip to the Nogales, will begin on campus in the fall 2019 semester. Robin Farias-Eisner, MD, PhD, has a lot development.” Arizona/Mexico border. Through it all, faith ROBIN FARIAS-EISNER The new major will include five to reflect on in his professional life. In addition to heading the Hereditary was constant for Olnes, a Sunday regular at Robin Farias-Eisner, finance courses and five BIA courses, all Cancer Center, Farias-Eisner will serve Creighton’s Candlelight Mass and leader for MD, PhD, is the A medical degree from the Royal as the chair of the Department of Campus Ministry retreats. of which are closely linked to the tech- new director of the College of Surgeons in Dublin; a PhD in nologies used by firms in the financial Hereditary Cancer molecular biology from the University Obstetrics and Gynecology and associate Even in Rome, he was never too far from Center in the School services industry. dean for women’s health at Creighton. Creighton. When an Ignatian pilgrimage group of Medicine. of California, Los Angeles; patents, He will also be starting a new gyneco- from Creighton, which included Zuegner, The FinTech major will not only papers and patients’ lives saved. logic oncology program, says Robert passed through the city, Olnes joined them for a make students more competitive in In July, Farias-Eisner, formerly “Bo” Dunlay, MD’81, dean of the medi- tour of the Rooms of St. Ignatius and the Vatican the job market, but it will also “provide the chief of gynecologic oncology cal school. Museums. He also spent time with the Rev. Don them with a thorough understanding of and vice chair of administration in how these technologies are disrupting “The values that he’s demonstrated Doll, SJ, professor emeritus of photojournalism, the Department of Obstetrics and in his personal and professional life who was traveling from India and showed traditional financial institutions, and Gynecology at UCLA, joined Creighton make him a great fit for a leadership Olnes around the Jesuit Curia, the worldwide how these institutions are starting to University as the new director of the position at the Creighton University headquarters of the Society of Jesus. respond,” says Dunham. Hereditary Cancer Center in the School School of Medicine,” Dunlay says. “He “I’ve been lucky, but God has always been All the while, he says, “our amazing of Medicine. has excellent leadership skills that he’s there, and my friends, my family, the Creighton finance faculty will continue to deliver “I like the Jesuit, faith-based philos- honed through years of service at UCLA. community,” he says. “I wouldn’t say I’m more incredible instruction of the finance ophy. It’s commensurate with my own He’s also a well-known physician scien- Catholic now; I’m seeing my faith and practicing coursework, while our amazing BIA philosophy of helping those in need,” tist with an active lab.” my faith in a different way.” faculty will now deliver the necessary Farias-Eisner says. “Creighton is a Early in his career, Farias-Eisner But still seeing God in all things. technical classes on the technology side wonderful opportunity to take those of the FinTech major.” philosophies and mission and vision found himself drawn to women’s — BY RACHEL BUTTNER, BA’03

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medicine, particularly cancer cases in “This investment from the Virginia G. which patients were critically ill. This Five New Leaders Join Piper Charitable Trust will be transfor- led him to pursue surgical oncology, Board of Trustees mative as we look forward to 2021 and and after his residency, Farias-Eisner the opening of the Creighton University The Creighton University Board of accepted a fellowship in gynecologic Virginia G. Piper Charitable Trust Health Trustees welcomed five new members oncology at his alma mater, UCLA. Sciences Building,” Creighton President May 10, as the Board held its annual “(Women’s health) was an area that the Rev. Daniel S. Hendrickson, SJ, says. meeting on campus. was underrepresented, perhaps. It was STUDYING THE Creighton’s Phoenix campus will The new trustees are: Diane Duren, an area of surgery and science in which SANDHILLS serve nearly 900 health sciences stu- BSBA’81, retired executive vice pres- a need existed for high-quality academic Creighton was dents seeking degrees in medicine, ident/chief administrative officer at awarded a grant excellence,” Farias-Eisner says. “I felt nursing, pharmacy and other health Union Pacific, and chair of the Metro- from the Nebraska that I could contribute in a large way.” Environmental Trust care professions. The campus is sched- politan Entertainment and Convention After his fellowship, Farias-Eisner for an interdisciplinary uled to open in the fall of 2021, with full Authority (MECA) board in Omaha; Bob research project remained at UCLA as a professor and enrollment by 2025. Greenwood, BSPha’77, pharmacist and looking at the stability began pursuing his research interests. and vulnerability of the Arizona is facing a growing short- community and professional leader Through the university’s STAR (Specialty Nebraska Sandhills. age in most health care professions. in Waterloo, Iowa; Mark Henkels, Leading the research Training in Advanced Research) pro- Creighton’s presence is not only bring- BSBA’83, managing director at Moelis are professors Mary gram, he earned a PhD in molecular Ann Vinton, PhD, ing more health care professionals to the & Company, a global investment bank biology and eventually started his own biology; Jay Leighter, state, it’s keeping them there. Overall, based in New York; Tobin Schropp, PhD, communication laboratory specializing in women’s can- 70% of the medical residents Creighton senior vice president and general coun- studies; and John O’Keefe, PhD,

cer research. has placed in Arizona over the past NBC UNIVERSAL sel at Kiewit Corporation in Omaha; and Through his lab work, Farias-Eisner theology. decade remain in the state. Mark Walter, BSBA’82, co-founder of discovered new genetic markers for “The generous investment by the Guggenheim Partners, a financial ser- ovarian cancer, which proved to be Virginia G. Piper Charitable Trust will vices firm, chairman of the L.A. Dodgers over the past five to six years. At the Michael Galeski, He traveled with the organization to extremely accurate in distinguishing bring future Creighton physicians and above, competes on and an owner of the WNBA’s Los Angeles same time, we have consistently added Student Competes on Laos in November 2018 to learn more between benign and malignant ovar- health care providers to Maricopa the American Ninja Sparks. exceptional faculty in order to make the American Ninja Warrior; Warrior course at about the group’s efforts to build schools ian cysts. Other research has focused on County who are educated in the Jesuit the Oklahoma City The University also recognized a enrollment growth sustainable while Raises Funds, Awareness in that country’s rural areas. developing new pharmaceutical agents tradition of caring for the whole person,” regional round in trustee emeritus, Bruce Grewcock, for- maintaining a low student-to-professor for Charity April. Galeski is a “I would have loved to finish the for the treatment of ovarian cancer and says School of Medicine Dean Robert senior in the College mer vice chair of the Board of Trustees ratio.” course, but I’m proud to have made it other diseases. “Bo” Dunlay, MD’81. “With the expan- College of Arts and Sciences senior of Arts and Sciences. who has served on the Board since 2008. Undergraduate enrollment in the to the obstacle before the warped wall At Creighton’s Hereditary Cancer sion of the Phoenix campus, Creighton Michael Galeski’s appearance on NBC’s Grewcock is chairman and CEO of Peter Heider College of Business has topped (the final obstacle) in my rookie season,” Center, Farias-Eisner succeeds founder University will become the largest American Ninja Warrior combined his Kiewit Sons’ Inc. 1,000 students. The college enrolled 648 says Galeski, who trained for the show at Henry Lynch, MD, who died in June. Catholic health sciences educator in competitive spirit with his drive to bet- undergraduate students in 2010 and special gyms in Minnesota and Lincoln, “This is a wonderful opportunity to the United States.” ter the world. 1,129 in the fall of 2018 — a 74% increase. Nebraska. take the work of Jane and Henry Lynch In April, Galeski traveled to $10 Million Grant to MEDICAL With a need for more classrooms, “I’m so grateful for this opportunity further,” Farias-Eisner says. “I think Oklahoma City with his parents and a Establish Health Sciences HUMANITIES CHAIR faculty offices and collaboration and to represent Pencils of Promise and that there’s a tremendous amount of handful of friends from Creighton to Building in Phoenix The Rev. Kevin Business Enrollment Growth study space, renovations to the Harper raise awareness for global education opportunity in the School of Medicine. FitzGerald, SJ, PhD, compete in the regional round of the Spurs Renovations Center began this summer and are on a national stage,” he says. “I’m also The Department of Obstetrics and The trustees of the Virginia G. Piper PhD, was named competition. (Galeski’s mom, Laurie the inaugural chair expected to be completed by late 2020. thankful for the generosity of all the Gynecology, and the Hereditary Cancer Charitable Trust have awarded a $10 mil- With a 74% increase in undergraduate Vinduska Galeski, BS’83, MS’89, works of the newly formed The Heider Family Foundation, led by people who donated after watching the Center are outstanding academic insti- lion grant to Creighton to support the Department of enrollment and a nearly 33% increase at Creighton as an academic coach.) The Scott Heider, is donating the lead gift show. We still have work to do before we tutions. There’s amazing talent that construction of the building on the Medical Humanities in graduate enrollment in less than a episode aired on NBC in June, and part in the School of for the project. complete the school, but this progress exists in each one of these components Creighton University Health Sciences decade, Creighton’s Heider College of of his run was broadcast. Medicine, which “We’re extremely excited for the is exciting.” of the School of Medicine, and I feel that – Phoenix Campus — a 180,000-square- will support the Business is in need of more space. The Omaha Central High School future of our students and the college,” my role will be to enhance and contrib- foot, nearly $100 million campus set to mission-driven “The Heider College of Business has graduate made it through several formation of students says Hendrickson. “Alongside our phys- ute to the growth of those outstanding open in the heart of midtown Phoenix worked hard over the past several years obstacles before falling on the “coco- in the medical school. ical growth, we will be rolling out a Program Improves Health enterprises.” in 2021. Fr. FitzGerald is the to continuously enhance the quality of nut climb.” new 21st century curriculum, with our and Saves Costs The Piper Trust supports organiza- John A. Creighton our educational product, with special Galeski, a sustainability major University Professor Heider Mindsets, one of the first major tions that enrich health, well-being and attention to adding real-world skills to minoring in business and African Creighton and its clinical partner in and an associate innovations in collegiate business edu- opportunity for the people of Maricopa professor in the School drive value to employers,” says Heider studies, dedicated his performance Nebraska and Iowa, CHI Health, piloted cation in the past several decades.” County, Arizona, a mission that perfectly of Medicine. College of Business Dean Anthony on the show to Pencils of Promise, a a successful program to improve health aligns with Creighton’s expansion in Hendrickson, PhD. “This has led to national nonprofit organization that outcomes, save costs and reduce hos- Phoenix. significant growth in our enrollment builds schools in developing countries. pital readmissions due to infection.

10 Creighton SUMMER 2019 11 CREIGHTON CONNECTIONS University News 2019 COMMENCEMENT Korver Tells Graduates BY THE NUMBERS As the pipeline for antibiotics is stewardship daily during multiple rota- than 70 applicants this year, aims to Nearly decreasing and antibiotic resistance tions,” Anthone says, “and also can take identify innovators in medicine and ‘Shoot It to Make It’ is increasing, health care providers are an antimicrobial stewardship elective nursing education and give them the turning attention to the wisest use of for further training.” resources to establish new programs at 1,900 antibiotics. Antimicrobial stewardship Pharmacy residents are not the only their respective institutions. The cho- reighton journalism graduate Kyle Korver, BA’03, a 16-year NBA veteran and diplomas awarded was mandated in January 2017 by the Creighton health professional trainees sen scholars also receive mentoring and one of the premier 3-point shooters in league history, urged Creighton’s May Joint Commission, the U.S. health care who benefit from the program. Members career advice from a national committee graduates to be men and women who are “fully alive.” accrediting organization. COMPUTER SCIENCE of the ASP also work very closely with of professionals. “Don’t just shoot it to shoot it; shoot it to make it,” said Korver, Creighton’s The Creighton team was ahead of SUMMIT School of Medicine learners, including “The Josiah Macy Jr. Foundation is 2019 commencement speaker, who was presented an honorary Doctor of the curve, initially implementing an Creighton professor medical residents and students, in addi- really interested in developing the next Humane Letters degree. David Reed, PhD, was “Each of you is made up of many parts, many interests, many opinions, many experiences,” he three Antimicrobial Stewardship Program invited to participate tion to pharmacy and nursing students. generation of innovators in interprofes- Csaid. “Own these. Share these. Don’t let the world convince you that your voice isn’t important.” Honorary Degrees in the first National (ASP) at Creighton University Medical “We provide real-time education to sional education. They want to develop Kyle Korver, BA’03 Computer Science Korver, who has been inducted into the Creighton Athletics and Missouri Valley Conference Center beginning in 2011; because of providers on antimicrobial therapy and national leaders,” says Gail Jensen, PhD, Professional basketball player Summit for State Halls of Fame, helped guide the Bluejays to four NCAA Tournament appearances as a student- Doctor of Humane Letters the program’s success, it has been Leaders in Little Rock, work collaboratively to deliver the best dean of the Graduate School and College athlete at Creighton from 1999 to 2003. Commencement speaker used throughout the CHI Health sys- Arkansas, in June. patient care possible,” Anthone says. of Professional Studies at Creighton. His trip was made A second-round NBA Draft selection, Korver has played with five NBA teams, appeared in two tem, which includes 14 hospitals in the Awareness of the ASP program is “Mandy’s a delight. She’s a rock star. possible by a travel NBA Finals, and has been an NBA All-Star selection. He currently ranks fourth all-time in 3-point region. fund established spreading, as members of the team have She’s going to go far. She’s a great exam- “The positive results and success by Susan M. and presented at national infectious disease ple of what learning is all about, and field goals, with 2,351. made the program a natural fit to George F. Haddix, meetings. Catholic Health Initiatives she’s doing this for all the right reasons.” In addition to his success on the court, Korver is also noted for his philanthropy and PhD, MA’66. community service, and has used his unique position as a professional athlete to speak out on continue when CHI Health Creighton (CHI) facilities in other states are consid- The foundation seeks scholars with University Medical Center-Bergan ering expanding antimicrobial steward- the potential to change health care issues of social justice, including a recent essay on race and white privilege that appeared in The Players’ Tribune. Sr. Maurita Soukup, RSM, PhD Mercy became the primary teaching ship services modeled after the success education at the national level, says Health trustee and nurse “Class of 2019, my hope for you is that you can find purpose in your work, your relationships, hospital for the health system,” says of the Creighton-CHI Health team. Jensen, whom Kirkpatrick selected as consultant/researcher your adventures in life. But I also hope you can find meaning in how you engage with the world Doctor of Humane Letters Renuga Vivekanandan, MD, director a senior faculty mentor. Applicants outside of yourself.” of hospital epidemiology and the ASP. must identify and outline educational The expansion to all CHI Health hospi- Creighton Nursing initiatives they hope to implement at tals brought the program to facilities Professor Named home; Kirkpatrick’s goal is to expand of all sizes, including those in rural National Macy Scholar and improve Creighton’s palliative care communities. education, making it more comprehen- Amanda Boesch Kirkpatrick, PhD, The ASP consists of a collaborative sive and applicable to distance-learning Dan Semrad, BSBA’71, team that includes physicians, phar- AMANDA BOESCH BSN’05, knew she wanted to be a nurse students. MA’09, MA’18 KIRKPATRICK macists, microbiologists, nurses and at 14. She was helping to care for a neigh- “She is at the perfect stage in her Financial advisor Amanda Boesch Doctor of Humane Letters bor with dementia, and the man’s full- others. It focuses on reducing patients’ Kirkpatrick, PhD, career, where the Macy award would readmission to hospitals from infection BSN’05, assistant time caregiver encouraged her to find have maximum impact,” says Catherine with Clostridiodes difficile, also called professor of nursing, work as a certified nursing assistant in Todero, PhD, BSN’72, dean of the College was chosen as one a local nursing home. C. difficile, a bacterium that causes seri- of the Josiah Macy of Nursing. “Her proposed project could ous gastrointestinal illness, including Jr. Foundation’s 2019 “It was there, working in the become a driver for changing the health one life-threatening colon inflammation. Macy Faculty Scholars. Alzheimer’s unit, that I discovered my education system in ways that would Robert F. Kennedy Memorial Older adults in hospitals or long-term passion for nursing,” Kirkpatrick says. more adequately meet the health care Award for Teaching Achievement care facilities who have taken antibiot- That passion drove her to achieve; it needs of the public and substantially Annemarie Shibata, PhD, BS’92 ics are particularly at risk. fueled her through bachelor’s, master’s advance the conversations around pal- Associate professor The CHI Health ASP research study and PhD programs. Today, Kirkpatrick liative and end-of-life care.” Department of Biology found an immediate impact on patient is an assistant professor in the College Kirkpatrick also has pioneered College of Arts and Sciences care and safety and a sizable reduction of Nursing. And her star is on the rise. the implementation of palliative care in readmission for C. difficile, to the tune Kirkpatrick has been chosen as coursework in Creighton’s health care of about $1.3 million in one year. one of the Josiah Macy Jr. Foundation’s curriculum. Working alongside fac- Jennifer Petersen Anthone, PharmD’08, 2019 Macy Faculty Scholars. The pro- ulty in the College of Nursing, School Spirit of was the study’s lead author and is gram, open to educators in medicine of Pharmacy and Health Professions, Creighton the ASP pharmacist and Pharmacy and nursing nationwide, selects up to as well as members of CHI Health’s Awards Residency Program director at five scholars annually to receive salary palliative care and hospice teams, 2Nathan Hansen, DDS’19 support and extensive career develop- Creighton University Medical Center- Kirkpatrick and her colleagues devel- School of Dentistry Bergan Mercy. “The pharmacy resi- ment training. oped an interdisciplinary elective, in Hannah O’Hagan, BSChm’19 dents are exposed to antimicrobial The program, which received more which students engage in live-action

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HEALTH BRIEFS

scenarios, making treatment deci- concentrated on issues dental patients sions for palliative care patients BlueBox Project Named an Using Tai Chi, with mobility issues and other physical played by actors. Distance learners Innovation That Inspires limitations might face, such as moving from interact with “patients” through inter- a wheelchair to the dental chair and learning how to properly clean their teeth. net video platforms, such as Zoom, The BlueBox Project was recently recog- Yoga and Pilates The interprofessional education (IPE) in what Kirkpatrick calls Virtual nized as a 2019 Innovation That Inspires activity is part of a growing collaborative Interprofessional Simulations, or by the Association to Advance Collegiate to Help Patients effort in health care, and between VISion. Schools of Business. Creighton’s School of Dentistry and School of Through her selection by the Macy The idea was conceived by Charles Pharmacy and Health Professions. Foundation, Kirkpatrick hopes to grow Braymen, PhD, associate professor of with Parkinson’s Another IPE activity at the dental clinic involves pharmacy and dental students the number of VISion scenarios, allow- economics, after he had trouble install- collaborating on medication management ing students to engage in palliative care ing educational software on outdated Disease of adult dental clinic patients. A pharmacist situations that they could encounter in computers at a school in Tanzania while and team of pharmacy students consult with actual practice, including those involv- on a mission trip in 2015. Creighton physical therapy the dental students on patient care, providing ing pediatric, multicultural or veteran Braymen collaborated with Dustin students are getting patients with medication therapy management, identifying patients. Ormond, PhD, assistant professor of drug-related problems, recommending Parkinson’s disease moving in a medications and more. “Dr. Kirkpatrick has a track record of business intelligence and analytics, JIM FACKLER leading innovative projects, with a clear and Creighton’s Radlab to create The whole new way. With techniques Creighton has made interprofessional education a priority, with the Center for vision of her research trajectory,” says BlueBox — which houses an inexpensive from tai chi, yoga and Pilates, Interprofessional Practice, Education and Joan Lappe, PhD, MS’85, associate dean minicomputer capable of disseminating students are learning alternative Research (CIPER) serving as the hub. for research in the College of Nursing. open-source educational materials to During a visit thinks research published in the Archives of methods to improve patients’ to the physical “This is a tremendous opportunity for anyone with a cell phone. In areas with- therapy lab, Suzanne Study Examines Surgery is worth further study. Dr. Kirkpatrick to focus on her pallia- out electricity, a solar version can be function and way of life. Arney, left, works Rural Homelessness The article reported in 2007 that NIH Grant Aids on improving her surgeons who played video games for more tive care initiative as a step to becoming deployed. The device has been installed “Evidence has shown movement, movement with Data gathered by a Creighton professor and than three hours a week made 37% fewer Research to Battle TB at locations in the Dominican Republic help from third-year an outstanding nurse leader who will a recent School of Medicine graduate will mistakes. They were also 27% faster than in general, is really good for slowing physical therapy An old drug may become important in advance nursing science and education and Peru by students in Creighton’s students Samantha help state and local leaders in the U.S. better surgeons who never played. the disease,” says Kelli Wrolstad, a the worldwide fight against tuberculosis, in palliative care to momentous levels.” Faculty-Led Programs Abroad. Erickson, middle, meet the needs of individuals experiencing Cote, who completed medical school and Kristine Vaz, according to the research of two scientists third-year physical therapy student. homelessness in rural communities. Their and residency at Creighton, admits to being right. in the School of Pharmacy and Health research provides insight into a public a longtime gamer, “since the days of Pong,” But, she adds, it’s not realistic to tell Professions. health issue that is currently understudied in which was one of the first video games Justin Tolman, PharmD, PhD, and Jeffrey most Parkinson’s patients to “hop research literature. produced in the early ‘70s. He had noticed North, PhD, are participating in a two-year, Sriram Ramaswamy, MD, professor in the similarities between video-game playing on a treadmill.” $600,000 National Institutes of Health the School of Medicine’s Department of and laparoscopic surgery and was aware of (NIH) grant to determine the potential for Instead, alternative exercises Psychiatry, and Anthony Easterday, BS’15, the 2007 study. the antibiotic clofazimine — synthesized 65 MD’19, recently published a study in the An “invited critique” on the original can be modified to fit the patient’s years ago, now only used to treat leprosy, Journal of Social Distress and the Homeless. research stated that further studies “are needs. This spring, Creighton and known for adverse side effects including Ramaswamy and Easterday’s study looked needed before we include video-game play severe nausea and skin discoloration — to physical therapy students did just at the socio-demographics and physical as an adjunct for skill training in laparoscopic Soaring combat TB, especially as drug-resistant and mental health of those experiencing surgery or before we relax our concerns With a little help from that, working with Parkinson’s strains of the disease arise. homelessness in rural areas, as well as their about video-game playing among children.” 6-foot-7 sophomore forward Tolman said the health care community Christian Bishop, a young patients in the physical therapy lab. ability to use technology and the barriers to Cote is doing just that, with the goal of is concerned about TB treatment options camper at the Creighton their access to care. publishing his results and encouraging the Abilities Basketball Camp The positive outcomes can as many drugs currently used are becoming adoption of video-game warmups for enjoys a slam dunk. ineffective. “Clofazimine is what you might stretch beyond improving general OB-GYN residents if a positive correlation This is the second year call a ‘bad drug,’ but we’re seeing if we use Creighton’s Department of health, says Jessica Niski, DPT’12, is found. Physical Therapy and men’s Video Games May it in a new way, it has the possibility to be basketball team have hosted BSHS’12, assistant professor of Pay Off for Surgeons effective against tuberculosis,” he says. the camp for children with physical therapy. The NIH grant stems from a study special needs. For all those parents who lament children Students Collaborate Tolman and North undertook with the “If we can maximize their playing video games too much, a Creighton in Dental Clinic aid of a Jack and Lois Wareham Faculty function and participation,” she professor may be poking a few holes in their Research Award, in which they improved argument. This May, 86 dental students and 45 upon the results of a paper that showed says, “they can maintain their It turns out, playing video games actually occupational therapy students participated clofazimine, when inhaled rather than taken independence.” may be helpful if you want to be a surgeon. in a joint activity designed to broaden their orally, is effective against a mouse model of John Cote, MD’97, assistant professor respective health care perspectives. tuberculosis. of obstetrics and gynecology in the School The “Accommodations and Transfers” of Medicine and an avid video-game player, activity, held in the Creighton Dental Clinic, DAVE WEAVER DAVE

14 Creighton SUMMER 2019 15 THE BIG QUESTION

Recent Hollywood blockbuster Avengers: Endgame is the latest in a long line of movies in which time travel features prominently in the plot. But is it plausible, considering the laws of physics?

poiler alert! We’re about to discuss plot elements of Avengers: Endgame. Time travel is central to Endgame, as the Avengers attempt to go back in time, retrieve the all- Simportant infinity stones and bring them back to the present. Scientifically, time travel to the DISNEY STUDIOS WALT future is commonplace, but there is no evidence that time travel to the past is possible. First, time travel into the future is constantly cannot travel back in time without violating Another view is the many-worlds occurring, since in one second, you will be one thermodynamics and other arguments. interpretation. It proposes that when a second into the future. If everyone else has The physics of quantum mechanics also measurement is taken, both outcomes occur, also aged one second, this may not be very relates to another important element of but each in a parallel universe. So the bit is 0 interesting. Endgame: parallel universes. in one universe and 1 in another. But an amazing fact from Albert Einstein’s In quantum mechanics, events occur The many-worlds interpretation is likely famous framework of general relativity is that with probabilities. For example, a quantum the inspiration for the Sorcerer Supreme’s clocks tick faster or slower for people depending computer bit can be a combination of 0 and explanation in Endgame, that if one of the on the strength of gravity or how fast they are 1, not simply only 0 or 1. When we measure it, infinity stones is taken, another universe will moving. Experiment after experiment has however, we get a definite value of 0 or 1. How be created. validated relativity. this combination becomes a definite value is Scientifically, however, the universes are Consider the case of black holes. still a topic of debate and research. parallel, meaning they cannot interact with Imagine a hypothetical man (John) who The most common view among physicists each other. You are in your universe, and you stays on earth, while his friend (Mary) travels is the Copenhagen interpretation, which states cannot access the other(s). near a black hole. Since earth’s gravity is less that a quantum combination simply becomes Traveling back in time. Jumping universes. than the black hole’s, time ticks more quickly definite when measured, and there is nothing For now, it’s only possible with the Avengers. for John on earth, and more slowly for Mary. more. (Assemble!) When Mary returns, 20 years may have passed for John, and only a week for Mary. To Mary, it’s like she has traveled 20 years into the future. This idea was depicted quite well in the 2015 Name-Dropping movie Interstellar. One of the ways movies sound convincing is to name-drop actual scientific terms. A perfect example from Notice that both John and Mary age, just at Endgame is when Captain America, Natasha Romanoff and Ant Man visit Tony Stark to propose using the different speeds. Neither is getting younger, quantum realm to go back in time. Tony dismisses it, saying, “Quantum fluctuation messes with the Planck which would constitute going backward in time. scale, which then triggers the Deutsch Proposition.” Is Time Travel In fact, time travel to the past defies the laws These three terms each have some meaning, but together, the sentence is meaningless. Quantum of thermodynamics, which assert that natural fluctuations refer to temporary fluctuations in energy due to Heisenberg’s uncertainty principle. The name processes increase the amount of “disorder” “fluctuations” may suggest an intimidating or worrisome instability, but they are normal, everywhere, and Possible? (entropy) of a system. This is why we see eggs constantly occurring, even playing a role in the interactions between fundamental particles. BY TOM WONG, PHD break, but broken eggs do not reassemble. To The Planck scale refers to incredibly small lengths, times and energies for which a quantum theory ASSISTANT PROFESSOR OF PHYSICS go backward in time would be to reassemble of gravity is necessary. Quantum fluctuations and the Planck scale do not “mess” with each other, broken eggs, violating thermodynamics. as Stark claims. Tom Wong’s research interests include quantum computing, So we are constantly traveling in time into Finally, there is no such thing as the Deutsch Proposition, although David Deutsch is a real scientist. and he leads the Quantum Computing Group at Creighton. Wong also serves on the editorial board of Quantum Information the future, even at different rates thanks to And while Stark’s phrase is scientific gobbledygook, at least the ideas are each related to quantum Processing, a quantum computing journal. relativity. But unlike in Hollywood movies, we mechanics, and it just might inspire a future scientist.

17 DIALOGUE

Friends Collaborate to Help Those Touched by Cancer The long-distance friendship of two Creighton students – Anthony Maranise, pursuing a doctorate in interdisciplinary leadership, and Mirjana Walther, a senior in elementary education – resulted in an award- winning book to assist people affected by cancer. Cross of a Different Kind: Cancer and Christian Spirituality was inspired by Maranise’s 21-year remission after being treated for acute lymphoblastic leukemia when he was 5 to 7 years old; Walther created four illustrations for the book. Maranise lives in Memphis, Tennessee, while Walther is a Bellevue, Nebraska, native; they met online and discovered mutual interests surrounding their Christian faith. Maranise is a board-certified chaplain and has researched and written on the intersections between sports and spirituality, education, health and religion. The book is a field guide for anyone touched by cancer, including those battling cancer, cancer survivors and those who have lost loved ones. It received a Best Book Award in the Religion-Christianity category at the American Book Fest in Los Angeles last year and has been nominated for other awards. Proceeds from sales of the book and illustration litho-prints benefit nonprofits, especially St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital in Memphis, where Maranise received his treatment.

CREIGHTON MAGAZINE: How has your personal I have seen God’s face reflected in my family, especially as a chaplain and cancer coach, I’ve experience with cancer affected your life? friends, doctors, nurses and other caregivers seen and experienced firsthand how great the who, pouring out their love in care for me and spiritual and existential struggles can be for Walther: Many people in my life have dealt with others like me, nearly constantly reflected God’s persons facing cancer in any of these ways. This cancer, and watching their battles, each story is face before me. I don’t know if, had I not experi- book is about assurance, and not necessarily the amazing and inspiring. It’s always been some- enced cancer so young, I would have this interest assurance of faith alone, but that others have thing close to my heart. and the goals of encouraging others in the faith I gone through, are going through, and will go Maranise: I’m often asked if I can remember my so dearly love. through the same things. It’s a reminder that we experiences with it — the chemo, the spinal need not face our journeys alone. Walther: I have learned a lot about the strength aspirations, etc. — because I was so young at and the significance of the battle itself. Everyone Walther: Throughout my life, I have always been the time, and that question always astounds deals with it differently. I have learned so much interested in art and loved to draw and paint. me. How could I ever forget? Though it was about how St. Jude came to be and all they do to Anthony asked if I would be interested in doing absolute hell-on-earth, especially with the nearly help their patients. I really came to understand the artwork for the book cover after seeing constant nausea from the chemo and pain from how cancer affects way more than the person some of my work. I drew a couple of ideas and the equally frequent blood tests, there were who has it. Mostly, I learned that you really can’t Anthony decided to use one for each section good — dare I even say, beautiful — moments go through something like this without faith. It’s of the book. When he told me the proceeds throughout the experience. so necessary and can turn something so ugly would go to St. Jude, I couldn’t say no. What an I actually tell people that St. Jude is the holiest into something so touching and beautiful. amazing way to give back and help. place in all of Memphis — maybe even in all the CREIGHTON MAGAZINE: What led to creating CREIGHTON MAGAZINE: What does it mean to South — because of the bravery of the children this book? you that the book has won and been nominated treated there. I remember that bravery. I remem- for awards? ber friends I made who were other patients, Maranise: I’ve felt my own “calling” to research, brilliant physicians and incredibly dedicated teach and write about matters of the heart and Maranise and Walther: We were pretty shocked nurses. I remember the generosity of my family soul, particularly through the lenses of Judeo- when we got the news of our first win, the and even total strangers who gave up places in Christian theology, for more than 14 years. I’ve American Book Fest award. It never occurred to lines or seats for me when I was so sick. personally experienced all three possible ways us that we would be an award-winning author- that a person can experience cancer. I’ve lost illustrator duo. The awards and nominations are CREIGHTON MAGAZINE: How has cancer loved ones to it; I’ve personally fought my own great and all, but we both agree that our biggest influenced your faith? battle against it; and now, I live as a survivor. reward comes in being able to help children Maranise: That early experience of standing sort Those three means of experiencing cancer at St. Jude fight (and hopefully win) their own of “at the veil” between life and life eternal en- form the three sections of the book. In my years battles with cancer. God puts the right people in couraged, strengthened and solidified my faith. of academic study and personal application, our lives; we think our story proves that.

18 Creighton SUMMER 2019 ILLUSTRATION BY MIRJANA WALTHER 19 Big Picture

REFLECTIONS A Sacred Sighting Atop Velian Hill across from Rome’s Colosseum, Pope Francis presided over the Stations of the Cross on Good Friday. The practice, dating back to the 18th century, portrays the final moments of the Passion of the Christ. While thousands gathered outside the Colosseum, Creighton student A.J. Olnes was part of a small group inside, where he photographed moments throughout the holy celebration. Read more about Olnes’ experience on Page 8.

20 Creighton SUMMER 2019 PHOTO BY A.J. OLNES 21 Vision for Hearing Research BY Adam Klinker

Creighton’s new Translational Hearing Center seeks significant breakthroughs, buoyed by a gift from the Bellucci DePaoli Family Foundation and a director who, himself, experienced childhood hearing loss. 22 Creighton SUMMER 2019 ILLUSTRATIONS BY DUNG HOANGA23 Bellucci started the Bellucci DePaoli Family Hearing Center to further its work and, in May, Foundation in part to connect his longtime the Department of Biomedical Sciences hosted loves — medicine, helping his patients and his the inaugural Bellucci Symposium on Hearing alma mater. Research, sponsored by the Bellucci DePaoli “Dr. Bellucci was a very humble man, a very Family Foundation. Eighty years ago, an aspiring physician, the intelligent man,” says Kevin O’Leary, president At the symposium, physicians and son of Italian immigrants to the United States, of the Bellucci DePaoli Family Foundation, and researchers in hearing loss learned more landed at the Creighton University School of a friend of Bellucci’s in the physician’s later about Bellucci’s contributions to the field and Medicine. years. Bellucci, who died in 2005 at the age of learned about how the Translational Hearing He graduated in 1942 and returned to his 91, received Creighton’s highest alumni honor, Center will build on basic science discoveries native New York City, where he made some of the Alumni Achievement Citation, in 2004. that enhance the potential to restore hearing. the 20th century’s most important contribu- “At the end of the day, everything came The center also will collaborate with Boys tions in the fields of otology and otolaryngology, back to a few things: his love of practicing Town National Research Hospital and the loaning his name to several procedures and medicine, of helping patients and his great University of Nebraska Medical Center. The instruments that have helped the deaf to hear love for Creighton. The Translational Hearing expansive effort, Steyger says, makes it all and staved off hearing loss for many. Center fits all of those perfectly, and we at the the more likely that researchers will make About 25 years after Richard Bellucci, MD’42, foundation are looking forward to seeing what significant breakthroughs. graduated from Creighton, a 14-month-old boy great work is going to come out of the center. “We can move with more velocity,” Steyger in Manchester, England, contracted bacterial Dr. Steyger and Dr. Zuo are doing the work that says. “Creighton has a long history in auditory meningitis. Physicians managed to save the Dr. Bellucci wanted the foundation to do.” research, as does Boys Town. The kinds of child’s life through a course of aminoglycoside Steyger says Bellucci’s career is evidence credentials these researchers have and their antibiotics, but a side effect of those drugs of just how clinical and bench researchers, willingness to work collaboratively was a major robbed him of his hearing. surgical and laboratory work, can go hand in reason I came to Creighton.” Now, Peter Steyger, PhD, with a doctorate in glove in crucial, collaborative ways. Steyger arrived at Creighton with a major neuroscience and hundreds of publications on “I’ve worked with some wonderful, brilliant National Institutes of Health grant in tow and ototoxicity and cochlear anatomy, has dedicated researchers on very difficult problems, yet we another $3.5 million grant on the way from his life and career to preventing a similar fate were all in our own zone,” Steyger says. “What the National Institute on Deafness and Other for other children. He is doing so in the spirit Creighton has done across disciplines and in Communication Disorders (NIDCD). The grants and legacy of Bellucci, a man who Steyger partnering with other institutions gives us the are dedicated to preventing, through clinical says has inspired a generation of physicians opportunity to learn and discover alongside or pharmaceutical interventions, the kind of and researchers in the field of hearing loss. In one another and translate those discoveries hearing loss Steyger experienced. The center May, Steyger joined Creighton as director of to prevent hearing loss or restore hearing to a will also examine the potential to restore the School of Medicine’s Translational Hearing lot of people. Dr. Bellucci translated his vision hearing via repairing or replacing damaged Hearing Center. Graduate students and Since he was 2, Steyger has been outfitted The work of Richard Bellucci, MD’42, right, Center (THC), in a move that he says is “a dream and ideas into practice and the Translational hearing cells. undergraduates will also play crucial roles in with the latest in technological advances in continues at Creighton scenario that will help me fulfill my life’s goals.” Hearing Center seeks to recapitulate what he Ten Creighton faculty from the School of the THC laboratories. hearing aids and cochlear implants that, through hearing research being conducted by Jian “The vision here at Creighton to do the did. That we can do it at Creighton, at his alma Medicine, the School of Dentistry and the Zuo will head up drug design for the center. ironically, give him an advantage as he gets Zuo, PhD, above left, and preclinical, otoprotective work and the mater, is especially meaningful.” School of Pharmacy and Health Professions, “There is a lot of synergy on this, a lot of older and hears better. Peter Steyger, PhD, center. collaborative environment here is absolutely The Bellucci DePaoli Family Foundation with another three new faculty researchers interprofessional collaboration that is making “Many in my age bracket are now phenomenal and central to translational has donated $300,000 to the Translational to be hired, will comprise the Translational this possible,” says Zuo, who was hired in April experiencing age-related hearing loss,” he medicine,” says Steyger, who spent more than 2018 and is working on a project to target at what says. “I’m going the other way. The technology readily renewed in fish, amphibians and birds. two decades at the Oregon Health & Science point and in what populations antibiotics or is really amazing in rehabilitating hearing loss. Sonia Rocha-Sanchez, PhD, assistant dean for University and the Oregon Hearing Research chemotherapy drugs for cancer affect hearing. But what would be even better is if we could research in the School of Dentistry, has begun Center. “There are some very promising pathways that prevent hearing loss in the first place and give work on such a project and will be one of the Steyger joins the chair of the Department “ What Creighton has done across disciplines Dr. Steyger has identified, and some compounds everyone that natural ability to hear.” core faculty at the THC. of Biomedical Sciences, Jian Zuo, PhD, in that we’ve identified. The great thing is that In any given year, some 100,000 people in After several visits to Creighton, Steyger is inaugurating the work of the Translational and in partnering with other institutions our vision, our goals, are identical in this: to the U.S. are treated with aminoglycosides, the eager to begin the work that, for him, was set Hearing Center, perpetuating the work of gives us the opportunity to learn and develop the first drug that could prevent this antibiotics that caused Steyger’s hearing loss, into motion when he was a youngster. Bellucci, whose pioneering surgical and kind of hearing loss in children.” and up to another 500,000 are treated with “It gets me up out of bed in the morning,” otolaryngology work continues to inspire. discover alongside one another and translate Steyger notes the incidence of hearing chemotherapy drugs that cause hearing loss. he says. “I’m very passionate about this, and it A longtime president of the American loss for children in the U.S. under the age of 2 Developing an effective compound to forestall keeps me motivated when setbacks occur. It’s a Otological Society, Bellucci’s middle-ear those discoveries to prevent hearing loss or is about 1 in 200, typically caused by trauma, that side effect is the center’s primary aim. way to pay forward the support I have received prosthesis and his invention and advancement infection or antibiotic drugs. By 18, about 1 The THC also will be looking at the potential in the past. Hearing is vital to communication. of a procedure to remove a portion of the middle restore hearing to a lot of people.” in 20 children experience hearing loss. From to regrow the cochlear hair cells that, when Perceiving sound is integral to music, listening ear to help improve hearing remain storied PETER STEYGER, PH D there, the frequency increases with age-related depleted, lead to deafness. These sensory to stories, theater. That all contributes to the moments in the physician’s career. Director, Translational Hearing Center hearing loss added into the mix. cells, which do not regenerate in humans, are richness of human experience.”

24 Creighton SUMMER 2019 25 Remembering the life of eminent Creighton bout three years ago, Henry “ He defined the hereditary basis of common Lynch, MD, was on dialysis. researcher, professor Henry Lynch, MD And things didn’t look good. human cancers during a period when these His health had suffered in the years following the death views were considered heretical and lived to of his wife, Jane. His heart see the genetic basis of cancers become part One of the ‘Greatest Cancer Awas failing, and his fellow physicians were concerned about his well-being through what of the practice of preventive medicine.” looked to be his final days. Geneticists of the Modern Era’ So Robert “Bo” Dunlay, MD’81, dean of the KENNETH OFFIT, MD School of Medicine, approached Lynch to talk Chief of the Clinical Genetics Service, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, New York City BY BLAKE URSCH about retiring and enjoying whatever time he had left. Lynch wasn’t having it. “I’ve got a lot of work left to do,” he told Dunlay. And he began to sketch out his projects for the next 10 years. In the late 1940s, Lynch enrolled at the Cancer Center at Creighton, which aims at pre- Recounting the story at Lynch’s June 10 University of Oklahoma after taking a high vention through identifying hereditary cancer funeral at St. John’s Church, Dunlay posed a school qualifying exam. Though he originally syndromes. (The University has named Robin question, one that was likely already on the sought to become a clinical psychologist, Lynch Farias-Eisner, MD, PhD, as Lynch’s successor.) In minds of many gathered there to honor the shifted gears, eventually earning his medi- his honor, the Jane and Henry Lynch Endowed life of the renowned researcher: “What fuels cal degree at the University of Texas Medical Research Fund was established in 2016 to pro- a guy like Henry Lynch?” Branch in Galveston in 1960 after completing vide financial support for research conducted Lynch, founder and director of Creighton’s all the coursework toward a PhD in human at the cancer center. Hereditary Cancer Center and a pioneer in the genetics in Austin. He came to Creighton in 1967. Also in 1984, the term “Lynch syndrome” field of cancer genetics, died June 2 at the age It was in the 1960s that Lynch began to was coined to refer to hereditary nonpolypo- of 91. His death prompted family, friends, for- research whether certain cancers could be sis colon cancer. Lynch’s work in identifying the mer patients and medical professionals from tied to genetics. Using what doctors today call condition has helped doctors more accurately around the country to share stories of the man “shoe-leather epidemiology,” Lynch met and predict a patient’s risk for the disease, allowing whose grit and dedication to his work led to our interviewed various cancer patients and drew treatment to start earlier. modern understanding of cancer. detailed family trees. By keeping meticulous In addition to his work with the cancer cen- “Henry Lynch occupies a distinguished place records, he began to find and trace the inheri- ter, Lynch served as chairman of Creighton’s in the pantheon of the greatest cancer genet- tance patterns of certain cancers through mul- Department of Preventive Medicine and Public icists of the modern era,” said Kenneth Offit, tiple generations. Health. In 2004, he was named the inaugural MD, chief of the Clinical Genetics Service at the But the medical establishment wasn’t con- holder of the Charles F. and Mary C. Heider Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center in New vinced. At that time, most experts believed Endowed Chair in Cancer Research. York City, in the Washington Post. “He defined cancer was primarily caused by environmen- Creighton was home for Lynch, his son the hereditary basis of common human cancers tal factors. said. He was a deeply spiritual man who saw during a period when these views were con- “Nobody believed me,” Lynch once said of his work in medicine as a way to serve God, sidered heretical, and lived to see the genetic these early years. “But I knew we had something said the Rev. Jim Clifton, SJ, who delivered the basis of cancers become part of the practice of here. I knew we could potentially save lives.” homily at Lynch’s funeral Mass. preventive medicine.” Lynch’s son, Patrick Lynch, JD’75, MD’83, Lynch “saw no conflict between science and Lynch didn’t follow the most traditional compares his father’s work with that of other faith,” Fr. Clifton said. Throughout his career, path into medicine. Born in Lawrence, trailblazers from history, like the Wright broth- even through criticism and condemnation, Massachusetts, on Jan. 4, 1928, he grew up in ers. Today, the notion of genetic cancer is wide- “he never took for granted the goodness of his a poor area in New York City. In 1944, when he spread, and researchers now estimate between patients and their trust in him.” was just 16, he enlisted in the U.S. Navy under 5% to 10% of cancers are inherited, according Lynch was preceded in death by his wife, an older cousin’s name. During World War II, to the National Cancer Institute. But at the Jane, a psychiatric nurse who accompanied him he served in Europe and as a gunner on a mer- time, Lynch was pushing back against popu- on his travels and helped him collect data. He chant marine ship in the Pacific. lar opinion. is survived by three children, son Patrick and After his discharge in 1946, Lynch, who stood “He was a pioneer in some stuff that’s widely his wife, Mary Tribulato Lynch, MD’79; daughter 6-foot-5, became a professional boxer, compet- become mainstream,” Patrick said. “Somebody Kathy Pinder and her husband, Pat; daughter ing in New York state and the San Francisco Bay had to be persistent.” Ann Kelly and her husband, Jim; 10 grandchil- Area under the nickname “Hammerin’ Hank.” In 1984, Lynch founded the Hereditary dren; and nine great-grandchildren.

26 Creighton SUMMER 2019 27 Switching Gears From law graduate to racing cyclist to ‘cyclist lawyer,’ Hottman follows her passion

BY Amanda Brandt, BA’14 D. SCOTT CLARK SCOTT D.

28 Creighton SUMMER 2019 29 passion for cycling and the law While working another judicial clerkship, this time with Judge Jack “After the third one, I remember lying on the concrete, thinking, ‘OK, about cycling and cyclists’ rights. She even co-authored a legal book has led Megan Hottman, BA’01, Berryhill in the 1st Judicial District in Colorado, Hottman continued to God, or the universe, it’s clear this is not what you have in mind for me,’” about cycling and the law, titled Bicycle Accidents, Crashes, and Collisions: hone her cycling skills and improve her performance. She took the leap Hottman says. Biomechanical, Engineering, and Legal Aspects. JD’04, to a career representing to full-time racing in 2008, but the financial crisis and recession meant After this tough decision to forego her cycling career, Hottman decided In 2015, Outside Magazine featured Hottman in an article in which bicyclists and advocating for money for sponsorships dried up. It was then that Hottman took an to once again practice law full time, but to do it on her own terms. While she addressed the conflicts between bikes and cars on the road, and how safer cycling across the U.S. associate job at a law firm, trying to pursue her cycling passion on nights training and racing, she had sporadically agreed to represent fellow cyclists have to be part of the solution. That led to being interviewed on Hottman, aptly nicknamed and weekends. cyclists who had been hit by cars or involved in collisions. HBO’s Real Sports with Bryant Gumbel. the “cyclist lawyer,” started her In early 2010, she decided to commit herself to training for the 2012 Today, she focuses mainly on personal injury cases involving cyclists “Life turns out in funny ways,” Hottman says. “I’m a lawyer from Summer Olympics in London. “I knew it was a long shot, and I never and bikes. Common situations include a cyclist hit by a car or attacked by Omaha who wanted to race her bike, and I started my own firm, and the own law firm at the age of 29 thought it was realistic, but I wanted to see how far I could go,” Hottman a dog, issues with malfunctioning equipment, or street and construction- next thing you know, I’m in front of Bryant Gumbel.” in Golden, Colorado, where she says. She quit her job to train full time. site problems. Hottman says there’s no doubt her experience at Creighton set her up specializes in cases involving cyclists. It’s a far leap The 2010 season was one of her most successful racing campaigns. “It’s been incredible,” Hottman says of growing the firm she started at with a good foundation to pursue the success she’s experiencing. from what she foresaw as her future as a Creighton She raced all over the world and trained with someone who went on to age 29 to a successful business. “I’m doing what I’m supposed to be doing.” “It comes down to going to an institution that teaches you to be the ASchool of Law student in the early 2000s. compete in the Olympics. Hottman liked her underdog status and enjoyed She is passionate about cases involving motorist behavior — from right kind of person, an upstanding member of society. That helped figuring out the marketing angle of the sport. In 2011, she signed with a distracted driving to impaired driving due to alcohol or drugs. reinforce what my parents taught me,” she says. “Seeing people you admire “I thought, ‘Yes, this is my passion,’ but I thought ‘adulting’ had to team, poised for more success. It didn’t come. “Hit-and-run-type stuff, I really get fired up about that,” Hottman says. live out their principles and ethical standards, that makes sure your moral look a certain way,” Hottman says. “Practicing law wasn’t going to be “The universe showed me that this was not where I was going to be,” “We have a chance to make a statement and make a difference.” compass is pretty doggone strong. I would hope I’m a better person and enjoyable, I thought, and I had to be responsible, but that wasn’t going she says. A handful of bad crashes sent her to the hospital. Hottman also gives educational presentations to law enforcement lawyer for it, and I’m grateful for the experience I had at Creighton.” to be much fun.” When she first dabbled in cycling during law school, Hottman described it as a “distraction” from the rigorous coursework and schedule. Now, she’s a national advocate for biking, and has appeared in the national media for her prominence in the field of cycling law. She’s also cool. So cool, in fact, that she was named one of “Colorado’s top resident badasses” CYCLING RIGHTS by Elevation Outdoors magazine. Every state in the U.S. has a law But long before she caught the cycling bug or had even an inkling of stating cyclists have the same rights opening her own law firm, Hottman was a graduate of Millard North High and obligations as the operators of School in Omaha who decided last-minute to attend Creighton rather motor vehicles, Hottman says, who is than a larger state school, a decision she is grateful for today. pictured at left. This means they have “I had some molecule of maturity in me at that age,” Hottman says. the right to use the road, and have to “When you look back, you can see these inflection points where my future follow the same rules as the driver of was affected by this small and spontaneous decision.” an automobile, including stopping at She majored in communication studies, which sharpened her writing lights, signaling turns, having lights and public-speaking skills. During her sophomore year at Creighton, on at night and obeying posted speed Hottman became “grossed out with myself” after going all-in on a not- limits. Many cities have ordinances so-healthy lifestyle, and pledged to make some changes. She gave up that make it illegal for cyclists to ride late-night fast-food runs and decided to get into shape. That willpower bikes on sidewalks. In a majority of and determination made her fall in love with fitness, and Hottman began states, motorists are beholden to a teaching group fitness classes and personal training as a part-time job. mandatory 3-foot passing law, which After earning her undergraduate degree in 2001, law school seemed means when passing a cyclist, an like a natural fit for Hottman, and following a “humbling” first semester, automobile driver must give the she stretched herself to succeed. She loved the close relationships students cyclist clearance of at least 3 feet. developed with the faculty, and one of her favorite law professors was “It goes both ways,” Hottman says of G. Michael Fenner, who retired this year after 45 years at the law school. the behavior expected of cyclists and Hottman first got into cycling her third year of law school, while she drivers. “That’s one of the big things was training for a triathlon. “All those years of teaching spin class at we educate cyclists with — you don’t the gym had helped me,” she says. And while many of her law school get to act like you own the road.” classmates were finding associate jobs at law firms, Hottman was looking for something different. “I wasn’t motivated by money,” she says. “I was motivated by how I would have time to try bike racing.” She ended up serving as a clerk for Judge Peggy Stevens McGraw, in the 16th Circuit Court in Missouri, which allowed weekends free to race. A few years later, she moved to Colorado with the hope of breaking into

the professional cycling realm. MARK WOOLCOTT

30 Creighton SUMMER 2019 31 Phoenix medical students volunteer at a medical clinic in Mexico started by a Creighton alumnus

‘ItBY JONATHAN Feels HIGUERA Good to Give Back’

nce a month, medical students The care ranges from treating relatively scheduled at the off-site clinic. The timing from the Creighton University minor cases of back pain or prescribing often depends on when a volunteer specialist Health Sciences – Phoenix Cam- medications for ongoing issues to handling is available. pus embark on a four-hour drive more serious cases of diabetes complications, “If he had come into our hospital at St. to the Mexican seaside town of hypertension and open wounds. A surgical Joseph’s, we probably would have done a Puerto Peñasco, better known site is available at another location, so cases swallow study on him,” says Hoyt. to U.S. tourists as Rocky Point. requiring certain types of surgery can be For fourth-year medical student Justin They go to be part of a larger referred there. Kochanski, the volunteer experience serves as all-volunteer group of medical On this beautifully sunny Saturday in a reminder of why he wants to be a physician. professionals staffing a health clinic that is February, about 30 medical volunteers — phy- “Third-year students often get slammed Oproviding needed medical care to the town’s sicians, medical students, nurses and nursing with a lot of responsibilities and it’s go, go, go,” residents. Those residents are the ones often students — are in full help mode. The volun- he says. “For me, this is more of a spot check far from view from the city’s popular tourist teers hail from several hospitals and medical of why I got into medicine. It just feels good to sites and sandy beaches on the Sea of Cortez. schools, including Creighton and Dignity Health give back and be engaged.” The Rocky Point Clinic, as it is named, St. Joseph’s Hospital and Medical Center. It’s also a valuable student-learning offers a free medical clinic one day a month. On this trip, Hoyt gets a medical history experience of practicing medical care with The stocked shelves of prescription drugs, from the wife of a 55-year-old wheelchair- fewer resources than they are accustomed to. medical equipment and other resources are bound patient who has had multiple strokes “Seeing people who don’t have constant access donated by U.S.-based hospitals and other and who is unable to speak. Now he is having to care changes your plan,” says Kochanski. “It health care providers. But the biggest resource a hard time swallowing. This is a good example requires you to think in a different way.” the clinic provides are the professional medical of the challenging cases the volunteers will see For example, he suspected a kidney infection volunteers, who mostly come from Arizona to on this day that would likely not get the needed in one patient, but instead of taking a culture staff the clinic. On any given clinic day, between medical attention were it not for the clinic. and getting back to the person with the results, 100 to 200 or more patients are seen and treated After obtaining as much history as possible, the attending physician and his team of by 20 to 40 medical volunteers. Hoyt consults with Robert Garcia, MD, assistant students decide on a different plan. Creighton medical students have been dean of the School of Medicine at the Phoenix “You might decide to give them antibiotics part of this medical entourage to the clinic campus, and John Anwar, MD, an emergency based on what you suspect because you may since 2017. In return, they are getting a strong room physician at St. Joseph’s Hospital and not see that person for a month or longer,” international experience without having to Medical Center and a Creighton associate Kochanski says. “It’s more like a rural clinic in miss a day of clinical or classroom time. faculty member. Both are serving as attending that respect.” “The resources aren’t the same as we would physicians. Garcia says the international experience find in a Phoenix clinic,” says Briggs Hoyt, a The patient’s wife is given advice on how gives students a “firsthand look at underserved fourth-year Creighton medical student who has to better prepare soft foods until the clinic populations in other countries.” It also gives volunteered four times at the clinic. “But the can further evaluate when and how a feeding them a chance to see the dramatic differences standard of care and the reach are the same.” tube can be surgically inserted. Surgeries are in the health care systems of different countries. At least one Creighton medical school faculty member is required to be on the volunteer trips. Fourth-year medical About five Creighton faculty members rotate students Justin Kochanski, the assignment among themselves so it doesn’t left, Emily Peterson, BS’16, and Briggs Hoyt have fall to one person to staff each clinic. volunteered at the Rocky Thomas Gillespie, MD, a Creighton professor Point Clinic in Puerto Peñasco, Mexico. of surgery, was one of the faculty members in

32 Creighton SUMMER 2019 PHOTOGRAPHY BY JARED SEGER 33 attendance at one of the free clinic days last year. Campus. “They work side by side with faculty Stavroses’ religious convictions, clients do He spent his day at the surgical site repairing members to give excellent medical care and take receive a healthy dose of Gospel in the form hernias. His wife, Jaya Raj, MD, who directs time to reflect on their experience.” of prayer to start off the day and are asked to the internal medicine residency program at The Rocky Point Clinic’s existence is a be in a prayer group. Most of the clients gladly St. Joseph’s, spent her day in the clinic as an testament to the Stavros family. Co-founders accept the spiritual offerings. attending physician for 10 Creighton medical George, MD’62, and Susie Stavros moved to The medical volunteers also benefit from students who were there that day. Rocky Point in 2011 after successfully starting, the couple’s generosity. “Much of what we provided wasn’t direct owning and managing methadone clinics in Many, particularly students, are provided medical care,” says Gillespie, who also serves as Phoenix and other areas around the country. a place to stay at one of several homes the clerkship director. “Many of the patients lacked George, a 1962 medical school alumnus, Stavroses own in their development, which basic medical knowledge and just needed also practiced family medicine for decades sits between two luxury condo towers along someone who would listen to them and offer before moving into owning and running drug Sandy Beach. They also provide volunteers basic advice.” addiction clinics. with a home-cooked meal in the evening after He notes that the Creighton students’ open During his time as a family medicine the clinic is done. All is free for the volunteers. and thoughtful manner in dealing with the physician, he met Susie, who had been an “This wouldn’t be possible if someone didn’t patients opened the door for a better experience RN at drug addiction clinics in Phoenix. They house us and feed us,” says Hoyt. “Medical for them and all involved. “I will say the level began focusing on helping drug addicts and students usually don’t have much expendable of respect and dignity the Creighton students opened their first methadone clinic in 1984 in income.” showed them is what the patients really the Arcadia area of Phoenix. In 1998, they did Both Hoyt and fourth-year student Emily responded to,” Gillespie says. “You could tell their first mission trip to Rocky Point with their Peterson, BS’16, say another positive takeaway they really appreciated it.” church. from their volunteer experience has been As Creighton’s Phoenix campus expands Last year, the Stavroses sold Community practicing their Spanish-language skills. Hoyt with programs in nursing, pharmacy, Medical Services to a group that has expanded says he wants to build on the Spanish he already occupational and physical therapy, and a services as the country’s opioid addiction knows, and Peterson says she doesn’t want to physician assistant program, there will be problem has grown. Their two sons and a lose her current level of proficiency. more opportunities for Creighton students and daughter remain with the organization. One “It makes a difference when you can talk to faculty to engage in service throughout the U.S. son, Nick, is currently the chief executive officer people in their own language,” adds Peterson. Southwest and extended region. of the Scottsdale, Arizona-based company, and The clinic experience was her first time in “Our students have had the opportunity the other, Mark, MD’93, is medical director for Mexico, despite growing up in Huntington to see the needs in Puerto Peñasco, Mexico, several of the clinics. Beach, California, which is only a couple hours and reach out to them with the same spirit of The deeply religious family had been active north of the U.S.-Mexico border. compassion and service that we offer here in in providing medical services in Rocky Point While medical care is a staple at the clinic Phoenix,” says Randy Richardson, MD, interim prior to moving there, but as residents they and the need for more supplies is ongoing, vice provost and regional dean of medicine for stepped up their time commitment to the the facility is growing and will provide other Creighton University Health Sciences – Phoenix medical clinics. services. In between clinic days, the facility As George Stavros notes, “Retirement is serves as a community center named Palabras not in the Bible.” They began running a mobile de Esperanza. It offers a food-assistance “ Our students have had health clinic, which led to a permanent spot at program, youth clubs, tutoring services, a local church. The patients were mostly poor computer lab, English classes and education the opportunity to see and uninsured. classes that allow youth to get the Mexican the needs in Puerto Eventually, their good work got the attention equivalent of a GED. It also provides preschool Peñasco, Mexico, and of the town’s then mayor. Grateful for the and sports programs. services they were providing, the mayor found Hoyt, who plans to continue volunteering a permanent facility for them deep in a barrio at the clinic even as it gets more challenging reach out to them Top: Susie and George with the same spirit away from the beaches. They have been at the Stavros, MD’62, are because of the rigors of medical school, has had current location for nearly four years. And it founders of the Rocky several international volunteer experiences. Point Clinic. of compassion and is growing, with the help of volunteers, many He likes this clinic’s ability to have continuity of whom come from Arizona churches and Middle: Matt Baer, fourth- in care. service that we offer year medical student, congregations to volunteer as part of their plays basketball with “I’ve done a lot of volunteer work and a here in Phoenix.” children visiting the clinic mission. lot of groups don’t have the best model for and greets a patient. RANDY RICHARDSON, MD “I always wanted to be a missionary and international care because there is no follow it took me 50 years to do it,” says George, only Bottom: Fourth-year up,” he says. “This clinic is held monthly and Interim Vice Provost and Regional Dean medical student Matt of Medicine, Creighton University Health half joking. Borchart and other the people who come often return every month Sciences – Phoenix Campus On the land where the Rocky Point Clinic is volunteers pray for the for prescriptions and care.” speedy recovery and located, the volunteers are building dormitories health of their patient Indeed. The entire experience has extended to house volunteers who provide children and who had a stomach cyst Creighton’s legacy of caring for the whole removed during her visit others with myriad services. Because of the to the clinic. person and the underserved around the world.

34 Creighton SUMMER 2019 35 Soaring, Flying BY Emily Rust with Billy Bluejay

n 2015, right before a Creighton four years were going to look like. It truly was “smile and wave” cheerleader, but an animated men’s soccer match, Nathan Hansen, the change of Billy Bluejay.” mascot whose passion became an essential part DDS’19, sat in the Wayne and Eileen Hansen was one of the most animated and of the fan experience. Ryan Athletic Center for a pregame acrobatic Billy Bluejay mascots ever. In his four With this change, Creighton had to classify briefing as he prepared for his debut years in the role, he not only cheered for the Hansen as a student-athlete, getting mascot as Creighton’s beloved mascot, Billy Bluejays, but flipped, dunked and spun on his insurance for the first time. He was even Bluejay. head for them, too. required to complete a physical exam, just like “Nathan had a lot of elaborate ideas,” recalls He is also believed to be the only professional any other Division I athlete. And for his role as IAdrian Rider, BA’04, assistant athletic director, student in Creighton’s history to don the Billy Billy, Hansen received an athletics scholarship. who, along with Joe Willman, director of Bluejay suit. Hansen graduated third in his class “Because of his energy and antics, our crowd marketing and broadcast services, was leading this May from Creighton’s dental school and is goes crazy and this energy carries over into the the meeting. “And we said, ‘We would love to currently in an orthodontics residency at Saint game,” says Bruce Rasmussen, the McCormick implement them, but let’s just ease into it.’ Louis University. Endowed Athletic Director at Creighton. “Billy “We said, ‘In the first half, Nathan, whatever Hansen did gymnastics as a child, and has assisted us in building a strong sense of you do, do not go down onto the field.’” his first year of college at Brigham Young community and tremendous school pride.” Prior to the starting whistle, Hansen — now University-Hawaii befriended a fellow student Hansen constantly pushed himself as Billy, fully outfitted as Billy — ran down the Morrison who was a break dancer and another who did trying new stunts. Stadium concourse to the north endzone, where parkour. Together, the trio would practice “We beat Villanova last year at home, and he jumped onto the field and ran over to the dancing and tricks, and even cliff dived. Hansen the game ends. We’re all excited and you turned referees. and one of the friends eventually enrolled your head, and there’s Nathan. He’s standing on He was just getting warmed up. at BYU’s main campus in Provo, Utah, and top of the backboard,” Willman says. He rubbed the bald referee’s head, jumped continued flipping, this time as members of Then there was the time at Madison Square into the grandstands, sat next to two young the university’s competitive mascot squad. Garden, during the BIG EAST Tournament, when fans, teased them, re-entered the field, sprinted Around the time of his arrival at Creighton, Hansen challenged Villanova’s mascot, Will D. down the sidelines, climbed a wall to join the the Athletics Department had undergone a Cat, to a dance battle. student section, high-fived his way back behind rebranding to coincide with the University’s “I don’t know why he decided to do it, but the team bench, and did a backflip off the wall entrance into the BIG EAST Conference. That he decided to roll like a log,” Hansen says of to return to the pitch. rebranding included a more sleek and athletic Villanova’s mascot. “I was like, ‘I’ve got to take “And we said ease into it,” Rider says, mascot costume. “Billy’s rebrand kind of fit advantage of this.’ So, I ran up toward him, did laughing now. “At that point in time, Joe and what Nathan brought to the mascot position,” a flip over him, kind of in his face.” I looked at each other, and we knew we had Willman says. “When Nathan was destroying the zero control.” Gone were fuzzy gloves, replaced by ones competition in front of 20,000-plus fans, you “What he did in his first three or four worn by athletes. He sported a team jersey at knew that he not only had the love of our fans, minutes in a suit determined what the next basketball games. Billy was no longer just a he had the love of all New York,” Rider says.

36 Creighton SUMMER 2019 ILLUSTRATIONS BY VINCE DORSE 37 But there were limits, too. Like the time undergraduates, and she was supportive of Nathan asked if he could repel down from his work as Creighton’s mascot. “There have been the CHI Health Center Omaha rafters for a “I was excited for him, because it’s something basketball game honoring Wounded Warriors. he’s passionate about,” Amy says. “It is a good times we are at Rider and Willman looked into repelling outlet for him when he’s not studying.” certification classes for Hansen, but it was It wasn’t until six months into their ultimately decided the stunt was too risky. relationship that Amy found out about Nathan’s basketball games “The feedback on Billy is that he is sincerely role as BYU’s mascot. the best mascot in the country,” Rider says. “We “He would randomly disappear sometimes where he has his know what the power of a good mascot can be.” and say, ‘I have to go,’ and say he was part of a Billy was not Hansen’s first foray into the dance group,” Amy says. notes with him. In mascot world. As an undergraduate at Brigham One day, while hanging out with friends who Young University, Hansen was a member of were also on Team Cosmo, someone spilled “Team Cosmo” — a group of students who Nathan’s secret identity. But Nathan already between certain performed as BYU’s Cosmo the Cougar. had a plan in place to surprise his future wife. Hansen practiced every morning at 6 a.m., “We were at a football game and Cosmo breaks, he’s studying focusing on strength and conditioning. Three came up to where I was sitting,” Amy says. “He times a week, he would go to an additional two- had … a rose. All the girls were like, ‘Pick me, away in his suit.” hour practice. pick me, I want it.’ He gave it to me, and all the “Training was really intense,” Hansen says. girls were so jealous I got a rose from Cosmo.” NEIL NORTON, PH D He continued to train at Creighton — a must for It was because of Amy that Nathan Professor of Oral Biology the backflips, handstands, high-flying aerial considered dental school in the first place. School of Dentistry acts and other acrobatics he performed in the Before they met, he seriously thought of 25-pound Billy costume. dropping out of school and going to California “What he does in a full suit is not normal,” to be a stunt double. Rider says. “It took lots of practice to get to “Then I met my wife, Amy, and I thought I which is given to students who represent the that level.” better take my future seriously and thought spirit of the University’s founders in their He also had to balance the rigors of dental about my life and what I need to do,” Nathan dedication to service and consistent effort to school. He would wake up daily at 6 a.m. to work says. examine and engage the world. It is the highest out, before heading to class. After a full day of By the time he graduated in May, Hansen student award presented by the University. classes, he either went to the Rasmussen Center had been involved in five major dental research “He really wants to make the world a better on campus to practice flips or, on basketball projects, presented at two national conferences, place,” Norton says. game days, to CHI Health Center Omaha. been president of the Creighton chapter of the Between the School of Dentistry and “There have been times we are at basketball American Dental Education Association, and Creighton Athletics, Hansen will be missed at games where he has his notes with him. In served at dental clinics locally and abroad. the University. He, too, will miss the support of between certain breaks, he’s studying away “He’s an extremely intelligent young man, the Bluejays, who he says, “made me feel like in his suit,” says Neil Norton, PhD, professor a very driven man,” Norton says. family.” of oral biology in the School of Dentistry and His undergraduate Spanish degree proved “Coming here to Creighton, hearing people Creighton’s NCAA faculty representative. valuable in interacting with diverse patient say, ‘Oh, it’s so fun to watch you. It’s so cool what “There would be days where I would just populations at Creighton’s Dental Clinic, and you did. Good job. Thanks for all the hard work.’ get two hours of sleep at night, then take a test at service sites such as Omaha’s OneWorld Things like that really mean a lot,” Hansen and go do a basketball game,” Nathan says. Clinic and the Institute for Latin American says. “I think that’s one of the biggest things “You’ve got to be prepared if that’s what you Concern (ILAC) in the Dominican Republic. As I’ll remember.” want to do.” president of Creighton’s Spanish Dental Club, From the time he raced onto Morrison Oftentimes, Hansen’s wife, Amy, would he also taught fellow students Spanish words Field, this high-flying Bluejay has brought join him in the locker room, keeping him and phrases useful in dentistry. Creighton’s lovable mascot to new heights. company during breaks and encouraging At May commencement, Hansen was “He’s raised the bar for Billy Bluejay,” him in his studies. Nathan and Amy met as honored with the Spirit of Creighton Award, Willman says.

A Day with Nathan Hansen During the basketball season, a typical day for Nathan Hansen, DDS’19, would include arriving at the dental school around 8 a.m. and leaving at 4:30 p.m. During service trips to elementary schools in Omaha, Hansen would don the Billy costume and entertain and educate students on good oral health care. After arriving at the CHI Health Center Omaha, Hansen would study in the locker room with his wife, Amy, by his side. After warming up, Hansen would hit the court and entertain the thousands of fans in the arena.

38 Creighton SUMMER 2019 39 So, did they decide to steal the lunch? In one up to 60 male youths, age 14-21. Most are there mention things like parents in the curriculum, group, both the students and the youth said yes, for armed robbery convictions, as well as a or food insecurity.” because they didn’t want to lose their job. But range of nonviolent crimes. A high percentage There’s a sort of “hunger” for humanities in Breaking Down Biases they agreed, they had done so freely. They had are arrested for a new crime within five years the correctional facility, Wendling says. Prior BY EMILY RUST made a choice. of release. to her class visits, the youth had access to voca- Students in Wendling’s course, all juniors To participate in the philosophy program, tional training and high school courses, but Creighton professor finds students, incarcerated youth connecting through philosophy and seniors, engaged the youth inmates three the incarcerated youth must be in good standing there was nothing focused solely on philosophy. times a semester, in scenarios covering a vari- at the facility. If they attend three sessions, they It’s much more common for criminal justice or ety of topics — from restorative justice to for- earn a certificate. social work classes to visit the facility. giveness and trust, the ideal society and basic “The real success of this experiment though “Creighton students benefit because they’re YOU’VE BEEN WORKING AT A fallacies. There are no right or wrong answers, is why they like to come, because philosophy applying some learning material, but they’re CONSTRUCTION SITE for the past Wendling says — the goal is to formulate is weird,” Wendling says. “We’re calling upon also reflecting on this rich context of being couple of months, when, one day, thoughts and start conversations. them to have an opinion about a philosophical in a prison and interacting,” Walsh says. “So, your boss waves you over. “Philosophy, it’s cool in the sense that issue. Turns out, everybody likes that … I think when they talk about concepts … they have a He pulls you into his trailer and everyone can do it,” says Brandon Calderon, a lot of these youth just haven’t experienced real, lived experience from which to draw and sits you down at his desk. It’s close to BA’19, a student in the spring 2018 class and anything like that.” reflect upon.” lunch, and he’s hungry. Shockingly, member of Wendling’s student research team. Each thought exercise is edited in “The youthful offenders benefit because “Philosophy has a really good way of having Wendling’s class to remove scenarios that may they’re developing pro-social skills that hope- he asks you to swipe a co-worker’s nebulous ideas become concrete.” tap into insecurities in a youth’s background. fully might assist them in their successful tran- large blue lunchbox, filled with a nice In Wendling’s academic service-learning For example, one traditional thought experi- sition back into society.” big sandwich, a bag of chips and a course, the students read and discussed issues ment asks one to think about food shortage. For the past two years, Wendling and a few thermos of hot soup. around the correctional system in class while For many incarcerated youth, food insecurity of her students have worked to create a guide for If you don’t grab it for him, he also volunteering at the facility. has been a significant issue in their lives. So duplicating the course and share their findings. says, he will make up a fake worksite In the classroom, students spent the semes- Wendling’s class changed the resource to water. “Being willing to continue learning about ter looking at justification of punishment via “It was eye-opening for me. The idea of the system,” Arguello says, “to share with other violation about the table saw you various philosophical theories, including utili- privilege was really concrete when we got students, other people in our lives, to be better were using and make sure you lose tarianism, retributivism and abolitionism. They there,” Calderon says. “I didn’t know about advocates and agents of change is really a your job. You really need this job to reviewed juvenile court cases, read Discipline all of the privileges I was afforded. I couldn’t satisfying thing.” provide for your family. and Punish by Michel Foucault (a French phi- Do you steal the lunch? And if you losopher who looked at Parisian prisons in do, did you do so freely? the 1970s) and studied other texts such as The New Jim Crow by Michelle Alexander, Rise of How do you define free will? After reading the Warrior Cop by Radley Balko and Solitary What is Academic Service-Learning? this scenario, Creighton undergraduate Confinement by Lisa Guenther. As part of the Creighton Global Initiative initiated by Creighton President the Rev. Daniel S. students in Philosophy 426: The Carceral Reading about topics such as solitary con- Hendrickson, SJ, the Office of Academic Service-Learning was founded in 2017 to enhance State probed and contemplated that question finement, “those are a little bit harder hitting,” student learning by connecting community partners to courses at the University. in conversation with young adults at an area Savannah Arguello, BSBA’19, says. “Knowing “It makes us more of a Jesuit institution,” says Tom Kelly, PhD, professor of theology and youth correctional facility. what’s actually going on behind bars is some- director of the Office of Academic Service-Learning. “Our concern For three semesters, students in philosophy thing we don’t take a lot of time in our daily for the common good isn’t just in words or ideas, but in actual interaction in the community.” courses taught by Amy Wendling, PhD, lives to consider.” There has been high interest from across campus, with more than associate dean for humanities and fine arts in Through in-class and written discussions, 50 courses already receiving academic service-learning designation. the College of Arts and Sciences, visited the the students shared their thoughts and Ideally, once a course is designated as academic service-learning, it facility to engage in philosophical thought observations after each visit to the facility. Most will repeat for several semesters to continue a working relationship exercises with groups of incarcerated youth, students said they were surprised after their with the community partner and enrich learning. mostly ranging in age from 17-21. first visit. Oftentimes, the incarcerated youth “What Dr. Wendling found is that the student reflection and “Rather rapidly, (the Creighton students) and Creighton students had similar answers to Tom Kelly, PhD discussion were much richer (in the academic service-learning realized they have a lot in common with the questions in philosophical scenarios. course) than when she taught in the more traditional approach (incarcerated) youth,” Wendling says. “They “Students are breaking down biases or inside the classroom, doing case studies,” says Dan Walsh, BA’09, senior program discover they have the same answers to the assumptions of what the youth in the prison administrator in the Office of Academic Service-Learning. questions.” system might be like because they’re actually Each course is assessed by the office to ensure that its curriculum will match the self- identified goals of the community partner. Every course must also include a reflection engaging with them,” says Dan Walsh, BA’09, component. Amy Wendling, PhD, senior program administrator in the Office of professor of philosophy Other examples of academic service-learning courses include Arts and Civic Engagement: and associate dean for Academic Service-Learning. “They challenge Empty Bowls, through which students work in partnership with the Siena/Francis House humanities and fine arts, has found that student some of their expectations and emotions about Homeless Shelter; and Discovering Peru, which has students traveling to the South American reflection and discussion the subject matter and put a real human face country to engage with a Catholic health clinic operating in the slums. are much richer in her academic service-learning on the issue.” “Thinking about our subject matters and seeing how they are lived out … there’s a whole

DAVE WEAVER DAVE courses. The youth correctional facility can house other level of learning that we don’t achieve without it,” Kelly says.

40 Creighton SUMMER 2019 41 REFLECTIONS A Pioneering Spirit Creighton professor Littleton Alston, MFA, will be the first African American sculptor to have a piece in National Statuary Hall at the U.S. Capitol in Washington, D.C., when his commissioned 7-foot bronze statue of American novelist Willa Cather is installed next year. The Willa Cather National Statuary Hall Selection Committee worked with the Nebraska Arts Council to select Alston from among 70 artist applicants nationwide. The hall’s collection features two statues of historical figures from each state. Last year, the Nebraska Legislature approved replacing statues of Julius Sterling Morton and William Jennings Bryan with Cather and Ponca Chief Standing Bear. Cather, who settled with her family in Nebraska in 1883, achieved literary acclaim for her depiction of frontier life. “I aim to capture her standing, as if surrounded by nature, at home in the Nebraska prairie,” says Alston, pictured at left in his studio with a model of the statue.

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Julie Kalkowski, left, meets with Marche Damper, a participant in the Financial Albert C. Coco, DDS, Omaha, law firm of Butler Voight PC in (fall 2016); and “Key Six Early Late Michael J. Finley, BSBA, Financial Health May Equate Success Program, which is published a book titled Kearney and rejoined the law firm (Permanent) Mixed Dentition Encinitas, California, was part of the Financial Hope 66 83 Collaborative in the Heider Reflections from the South Side of Tye & Rowling PC in Kearney Class II Correction: Distalization named CEO of Boingo Wireless to Better Overall Health College of Business. detailing the assimilation of as of counsel. Butler continues Mechanics Part 2” (winter 2017). in Los Angeles in March. Boingo his family and neighbors who to serve as treasurer of the CHI acquires long-term wireless Hon. Daniel A. Morris, MBA, emigrated from southern Italy Health board of directors. rights at venues, such as airports, something about her students: They weren’t Money continues to be the top cause JD, Hartford, Connecticut, JULIE KALKOWSKI believes that a to the U.S. and the influence and 81 transportation hubs, stadiums, just saving better; they were feeling better. of stress for Americans, according to the Dr. Niva Lubin-Johnson, is serving as a temporary good financial education won’t support they gave to subsequent arenas, universities, military BSPha, Chicago, was member of the appellate court They’d become healthier. American Psychological Association, with generations by prioritizing their 79 bases and multi-family properties, just save you money; it might installed as the 119th president of for the U.S. Immigration Courts, At this point, Kalkowski and her team’s nearly three in four people reporting regular education. This story also includes and builds wireless networks. the National Medical Association called the Board of Immigration also save your life. Now she’s observations were anecdotal. She wanted hard financial stress. Kalkowski believes that finan- a section about the role Creighton Dr. Elizabeth Freund Larus, (NMA) in August 2018, and served Appeals, in Washington, D.C. data. She enlisted the help of Creighton faculty. cial stress is not an individualized budgetary played in the lives of Coco and his BA, Fredericksburg, Virginia, trying to prove it. until July 2019. NMA represents After he concludes his one-year wife, Mary Lee O’Keefe Coco, BA’64. professor of political science at the They’re now two years into a three-year problem but a national health crisis. And one more than 50,000 African appointment, Morris will continue University of Mary Washington Kalkowski is the executive director of the study, supported in part by a grant from the that can be addressed at a fairly low cost. John J. Kirby, DDS, American physicians in the to serve as an immigration judge, in Fredericksburg, was named Financial Hope Collaborative, which helps low- Robert Wood Johnson Foundation. The study If she can prove it, she might be able to give Hillsborough, California, U.S. and its territories, provides a position he has held for 10 71 the recipient of the 2019 Waple to-moderate-income families in the Omaha participated with the Mending a collective voice for African years. West Publishing Company is looking at the mental and physical health the Financial Success Program a much bigger Faculty Professional Achievement Faces Cleft Lip/Palate Mission American physicians, and is a has continuously published his area get their financial lives on track. of more than 400 single working mothers. platform, she says. Help more people. Save Award in April. Larus is an in Lucena, Quezon Province, leading force for parity and justice treatise Federal Tort Claims for Housed in the Heider College of Business, Single working mothers earning a median more lives. international expert in the politics Philippines, for a week in late in medicine. 25 years, and has issued seven the Financial Hope Collaborative’s key effort income of $35,000 or less represent 13% of U.S. She sees potential ripple effects in the of China, Taiwan and Hong Kong. January and early February. This is editions of his book Nebraska Thomas W. Moran IV, JD, She recently earned a Fulbright is the Financial Success Program, a year-long households. Half the women will go through health care system and the economy at large. the third year in a row that Kirby Trials, which he now updates and Guangzhou, China, was grant to conduct field research course that teaches single working mothers the program, half will not. “I’m optimistic enough to believe that we provided pro bono treatment 80 releases annually. Morris is also a made a full professor of foreign in Poland and parts of Eastern such skills as tracking expenses, saving for Katie Elliott Packard, PharmD’01, MS’01, can influence the national dialogue concerning for the organization, which will trustee of the Mark Twain House studies at Jinan University in Europe in spring 2020. She will emergencies and repairing credit reports. move to Kalibo, Aklan Province, and Museum in Hartford. professor of pharmacy and one of the study’s health care,” she says, “and that we can save Guangzhou. Randy K. Newby, DDS, explore the impact that China’s Philippines, next year to begin “The program taught me how to budget lead researchers, says the clinical trial was money by focusing on prevention and eliminate Wichita, Kansas, authored the John D. Barnes, BSBA, Boyds, Belt and Road Initiative — known another extended mission there. better and manage my time,” says Auntiné inspired by the hope they saw in these women. a lot of human misery in the process.” following articles for the Journal 82 Maryland, was selected as the Silk Road — will have in Holland, a 27-year-old single mother in Omaha. Now they’re measuring the positive effects of As the researchers await the data, the Daniel E. Monnat, JD, of the American Orthodontic to serve as the CEO of the Heart Eastern and Central Europe. Wichita, Kansas, of Monnat Society: “Key Four in Class II Failure Society of America located Since completing the program, Holland that hope. The researchers are looking at many Financial Hope Collaborative continues to 76 David W. Schlosser, DDS, & Spurrier, Chartered, was ranked Correction: Orthopedic Effect” in Rockville, Maryland. Dr. Ann used what she learned to get a new job and data points and hoping to show that a reduc- receive funding from several foundations Silver Lake, Ohio, was by Chambers USA 2019 as one of (spring 2016); “Key Five in Towe Glow, BSN, North Platte, 85 now has more time to spend with her children. tion in financial stress can lead to a reduction and corporations, including the Sherwood named president of the Ohio Kansas’ top litigators in white- Early Mixed Dentition Class II Nebraska, received the spring 2019 Academy of General Dentistry at More than 750 students have gone through in risk for strokes, diabetes and heart disease. Foundation, Weitz Family Foundation, collar crime and government Correction: Utilization of Leeway Excellence in Teaching Award its fall meeting. the program since 2009, many of whom went “If we can show that the program helps William and Ruth Scott Foundation, First investigations. Space” (summer 2016); “Key Six at Clarkson College in Omaha, on to get raises at work, reduce their debt and make people healthier, that would really National Bank of Omaha, Peter Kiewit in Early Late (Permanent) Mixed where she is the nurse anesthesia Larry E. Butler, JD, Kearney, purchase homes. Dentition Class II Correction: program coordinator. change the national conversation about Foundation, Sokolof Foundation and Centris 77 Nebraska, closed the Along the way, Kalkowski began to notice financial education,” Packard says. Federal Credit Union. — BY MICAH MERTES Distalization Mechanics Part 1”

44 Creighton SUMMER 2019 45 David H. Perrott, BS’77, vice chancellor at the University of profession and to the Iowa Medical Organization Study Committee ALUMNI PROFILE 86 DDS’81, MD, Sacramento, California at Santa Cruz. Society. and the Award of Excellence California, is the chair of the initiative to recognize outstanding Gregory J. Melgares, BSBA, Kelley Gannon McCaskill, Joint Commission’s Board of nonmember individuals and Oconomowoc, Wisconsin, BA, Milwaukee, was named Commissioners. In this role, 89 92 organizations that advance NGC was promoted to deputy general vice president of philanthropy at Perrott oversees activities of the causes. She also will help guide the Inaba Has counsel of Froedtert Health, Versiti Blood Research Institute in board and its executive committee. national organization and work to Inc., a large health care system Milwaukee. Perrott is responsible for working advance NGC’s mission: promoting in Milwaukee. Dr. Michelle M. with the Joint Commission’s Keith E. Kramer, BS, Omaha, civic and environmental Got the Beat Wong, BS, Englewood, Colorado, president and CEO and other was the recipient of the responsibility, as well as a love participated with the Mending 93 members of the board to set goals 2019 Alice Buffett Outstanding of gardening and floral design. Faces Cleft Lip/Palate Mission What do the Bee Gees song and identify strategic issues in Teacher Award. Given to 15 In addition, Rouch will support in Lucena, Quezon Province, support of the Joint Commission’s teachers annually, the award the organization’s major Stayin’ Alive and Uptown Philippines, for a week in late mission to continuously improve recognizes the achievements of objectives — to foster education January and early February. This is Funk featuring Bruno Mars health care. skilled and dedicated educators in and participation in NGC’s many the third year in a row that Wong the Omaha Public Schools. Kramer local, regional, national and have in common, besides Mary Lou Connolly McCartan, provided pro bono treatment is an information technology international outreach programs, BSBA, Cedar Rapids, Iowa, for the organization, which will being chart-topping hits from 87 and robotics teacher at Marrs including Plant America, an is the controller at Benchmark, move to Kalibo, Aklan Province, Middle School. Donna Morris initiative that focuses on gardens their respective eras? The Inc., in Cedar Rapids. She recently Philippines, next year to begin Rouch, PharmD, Plattsmouth, and gardening, with an emphasis became a partner of the company’s another extended mission there. ’70s iconic disco song and the Nebraska, was installed as third on community service. Kathryn ownership team. Douglas F. Steenblock, vice president of the National M. Wells, MD, Denver, was named more modern, feel-good pop AMERICAN HEART ASSOCIATION HEART AMERICAN Dr. Marlene A. Tromp, BA, 90 BA’83, MD, Marshalltown, Garden Clubs Inc. (NGC), the the executive director of the tune both have a beat that can 88 Boise, Idaho, was named Iowa, received the Award of Merit largest volunteering gardening Kempe Center for the Prevention president of Boise State University from the Iowa Medical Society. organization in the world. In her and Treatment of Child Abuse literally save lives. in April. Prior to her position The award is given to a physician role over the next two years, Rouch and Neglect in Aurora, Colorado. at Boise State, Tromp was the who has made outstanding will serve as chair of several NGC A board-certified specialist in So says a Creighton graduate who has had The song’s title and refrain made it perfect and Alson Inaba, MD, BS’83, middle, campus provost and executive contributions to the medical national programs, including the child abuse pediatrics, Wells has is joined at the American Heart a lot to do with getting that word out. easy to remember. Association ceremony in Dallas Alson Inaba, MD, BS’83, has been rec- He was on a national AHA committee at the by sons Adam Inaba, DDS’11, left, and Andrew Inaba, DDS’15, who ognized for developing a CPR protocol to the time, and within about a year, the AHA asked are Creighton dental alumni. He tune of Stayin’ Alive, used worldwide to resus- him to write an article about his technique. The received the inaugural Innovation at Heart award. citate people who experience sudden cardiac idea caught on, and eventually the AHA procured arrest. Recently, the University of Hawaii med- song rights and produced international video ical school associate professor of pediatrics public service announcements. In 2012, he was part of an elaborate media started using Uptown Funk in his CPR-training In one AHA video, actor-comedian-physician event in New York City for National CPR THANK YOU FOR SUPPORTING $897,125 classes for medical students and pediatric Ken Jeong headlines a hilarious yet instructive Awareness Week. Dancers wore all-white Total Raised residents. demonstration in which he deadpans: “Disco ’70s-era suits (like the one John Travolta wore In June, Inaba was honored with the can save lives.” A YouTube search reveals many in Saturday Night Fever) and performed the American Heart Association’s (AHA) inaugural locally produced videos as well carrying the film’s iconic theme song. Giving Day 3,176 Innovation at Heart award. At the ceremony same message. The experience was a whirlwind for Inaba, Total Donors in Dallas, Inaba rolled out his “update,” doing Hands-only CPR was approved in 2008, who did interviews with ABC, NBC, the New York Times, Men’s Health magazine and others. YOU HELPED US SOAR TO NEW HEIGHTS! Alumni: 1,514 CPR chest compressions to the beat of Uptown making it easier for the lay rescuer who The event launched a three-year, 24-city Current and Former Parents: 627 Funk, which was popularized by recording encounters an adult or teen who suddenly demonstration blitz. Current Students: 467 artist Bruno Mars in 2014. collapses and is unresponsive. “You just need A highlight for Inaba was meeting a Faculty and Staff:268 “The younger generation isn’t as familiar to follow two simple steps: No. 1, call 911, and Friends of Creighton: 276 with the Bee Gees song,” Inaba says, “so I No. 2, push hard and fast in the center of Floridian who was alive because a stranger, Other: 24 wanted to find something they could relate to the victim’s chest at a rate of at least 100 untrained in CPR, had seen a Stayin’ Alive better.” compressions a minute. To stay on track, sing demonstration on the Today show and had After graduating from Creighton in 1983 or hum Stayin’ Alive — or have someone nearby the courage to try it. $ 1,093 with a bachelor’s degree in biology, Inaba do it,” Inaba says. To date, the teaching method has saved First-time Donors attended medical school at Tufts University. In “If you haven’t been trained in conventional countless lives, and Inaba has many emails addition to teaching at the University of Hawaii, CPR, hands-only CPR can buy critical time until and other first-person accounts to show for it. he is a pediatric emergency room physician at the paramedics arrive with an AED (automated In Hawaii, he especially has helped increase the 80 the Kapiolani Medical Center for Women and external defibrillator) to shock the victim’s number of AEDs and CPR awareness. Children in Honolulu. heart into its normal rhythm.” “The beauty is, you don’t have to be a doc- Programs Supported Inaba likes to make lectures lively to Would-be rescuers sometimes are afraid tor, nurse or paramedic,” Inaba says. “Each maximize learning, first presenting a skit to they’ll break a person’s rib, Inaba says. “But I tell day about 1,000 people suffer sudden car- Stayin’ Alive in 2005. The approximate 100 them, you can’t hurt someone who technically is diac arrest in the U.S. If you have the courage beats per minute — remember “Ah-ha-ha-ha, already dead. Don’t be afraid. They can recover to start CPR, you can double or triple their Stay tuned for information about stayin’ alive, stayin’ alive”? — is the same rate from a broken rib, but without your help, it may chances for survival.” — BY CINDY MURPHY Giving Day 2020 at givingday.creighton.edu the AHA recommends for chest compressions. be too late by the time paramedics arrive.” MCMAHON, BA’74

46 Creighton SUMMER 2019 47 dedicated her career to protecting Program at the Drexel University ALUMNI PROFILE children and families and building Thomas R. Kline School of Law communities where children have in Philadelphia. In addition, the opportunity to thrive. She will Flanagan was selected as a also serve as the section head for Fulbright Specialist, and will be child abuse and associate professor teaching internationally in privacy, of pediatrics at the University of cybersecurity and compliance. Finding Colorado School of Medicine. Prior Hon. Susan C. Rowley, BA’90, JD, to taking this position, Wells was Lubbock, Texas, is a Lubbock the medical director of the Denver County Precinct 2 justice of the Their Voice Health Clinic at the Family Crisis peace. Center and an attending physician David J. Wenthold, BSBA, at Denver Health and with the Shakopee, Minnesota, Kempe child protection team at 00 in Words was selected as a volunteer for Children’s Hospital Colorado. the NCAA Tournament Men’s Dr. Thomas R. Flagel, MA, Basketball Final Four, which From a London history aficionado 94 Franklin, Tennessee, is the was held in Minneapolis in April author of War, Memory, and the 2019. During Final Four weekend, who also is the lead singer in a gothic 1913 Gettysburg Reunion. Flagel is Wenthold was invited on stage by progressive metal band to a Chicago an associate professor of history Katy Perry for a cameo appearance at Columbia State Community during her Jam Fest Concert at the novelist who once tiled her bedroom College in Franklin. The author Minneapolis Armory. floor in over 60,000 pennies (all of several books, Flagel also has Dr. Jason B. Dorwart, BFA, worked with multiple historic heads up for good luck) and a Xavier Erin (E.L.) Johnson, BA’05, Oberlin, Ohio, is a visiting lower left, Emily Belden, preservation groups, including the 02 assistant professor of theater University communication professor BA’08, right, and Ashley Civil War Trust and the National at Oberlin College in Ohio, Hinck, PhD, BA’08, far Park Service. who studies how being a Harry Potter right, share a love of where he recently directed the writing and are published Paul E. Flanagan, JD, West mainstage production. Dorwart, fan may spur social action, these authors. 95 Chester, Pennsylvania, was who received his PhD from the unique Creighton alumnae share one promoted to assistant professor of University of California San law and the director of the Privacy, Diego (UCSD), received the UCSD thing in common: a love of writing. Cybersecurity and Compliance Chancellor’s Dissertation Medal ERIN (E.L.) JOHNSON, BA’05 club — now numbering 1,000 readers. She also of dating and dining in the city. “That was interactions.” She challenged that natural As a kid, Erin (E.L.) Johnson, BA’05, left a chocolate auditioned for — and now fronts — the metal the hardest part, finding the time to work on instinct while working on her first book, Politics thumbprint in her father’s leather-bound J.R.R. Tolkien’s band Orpheum. When she happened upon something I was excited about,” she says of for the Love of Fandom, published in March The Hobbit. She fell hard for history — both the real and National Novel Writing Month, a creative writing at midnight after a night out, “but the by LSU Press. In it, she examines “fan-based the imagined. A Boston native, she came to Creighton to program to write a 50,000-word novel in a writing part was really easy. I love it.” citizenship,” civic action stemming from a fan study the subject. “My teachers were especially inspiring,” month, “I thought, wouldn’t it be fun to write With a growing fan base, she turned community, in cases such as Disney’s Star Wars- she says. “I thought how fun it would be to write stories of about a witch hunter and set it in medieval the posts into Eightysixed: A Memoir about inspired campaign for UNICEF. what life might have been like for people of those times.” England? So I did.” Unforgettable Men, Mistakes, and Meals The book began as a college paper on RANKED TOP 20 Then, London called. Johnson went abroad to graduate Last March, Azure Spider Publications (Pandamoon Publishing, 2014). A magazine the Harry Potter Alliance, a fan-based and school, earning master’s degrees in history and medieval published Wolf’s Blood, Johnson’s first historical spread in Michigan Avenue gave Belden the activism-oriented nonprofit. An internship studies and a Master of Philosophy, studying 16th century fantasy novel in the Witch Hunter Tales. “Some big break and film producers and book agents at former Omaha Mayor Mike Fahey’s office NATIONALLY medieval medical remedies. writers fear the blank page,” says Johnson, a came knocking. No stranger to a bit of fame, encouraged Hinck to further explore the Combating the loneliness of graduate research, Johnson communications officer for the Institute of Belden’s at-home penny project was covered on fandom-to-politics connection. “I remember for Online Graduate Programs joined the Hertford Writers’ Circle and founded a book Biomedical Science in London, “but I love it; the Today show in 2013. She inked a two-book that the (communication) professors took my in the 2019 U.S. News & World Report Best Online Programs it’s full of possibilities.” deal with HarperCollins, which published her ideas seriously and invited me to develop those restaurant rom-com Hot Mess in 2018. ideas,” says Hinck, who hosted a book talk at EMILY BELDEN, BA’08 At the Creighton Business Symposium last the Creighton Bookstore in April. After winning a contest to write for the Chicago year, Belden, a keynote speaker, told students, Fieldwork for the book — such as LEGO club Tribune Kids’ News section, Emily Belden, BA’08, “You can be successful being yourself and meetings and football games — was a bit outside wanted to be a reporter. But, while studying focusing on what you’re good at.” Belden’s her comfort zone, but the writing was not. “I journalism at Creighton, she found advertising next book, Husband Material, hits shelves in love the kind of solitude involved in writing. It’s a better match for her punchy writing style. December. really fun to imagine the future audience and After copywriting jobs with Omaha ad agencies just write,” says Hinck, an assistant professor Ervin & Smith and Turnpost, Belden returned ASHLEY HINCK, PHD, BA’08 of communication at Xavier University. “This home to Chicago. Ashley Hinck, PhD, BA’08, is most comfortable will be a lifetime of work that I’m really excited Juggling friendships in multiple cities, on the sidelines, she says, “watching social about.” — BY RACHEL BUTTNER, BA’03 Belden started a blog to easily share her tales interactions and thinking about social

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48 Creighton SUMMER 2019 49 ALUMNI PROFILE for Arts and Humanities, the UCSD Vanessa Kruse, BS, Omaha, Equal Opportunity Affirmative 05 was the recipient of the Action and Diversity University- 2019 Alice Buffett Outstanding Wide Award and the UCSD Teacher Award. Given to 15 Teaching Assistant Achievement teachers annually, the award Award. He also was inducted into recognizes the achievements of the Edward A. Bouchet Graduate skilled and dedicated educators in Honor Society at Yale University. the Omaha Public Schools. Kruse Dawn Eimers Landon, JD, Council is a first-grade teacher at Picotte Bluffs, Iowa, is an attorney at Sell Elementary. Law, PLC, in Glenwood, Iowa. She Scott V. Hahn, BA’01, JD, joined the firm after having served Omaha, is an attorney at as an assistant Pottawattamie 06 Koeing|Dunne, PC, LLO, in Omaha. County attorney in Council Bluffs Hahn joined the firm having 12 for 16 years. Landon is practicing years of experience in the area of in family, juvenile, criminal and family law, spending much of his probate matters. Hon. Amy Moore, career as an advocate for domestic Ames, Iowa, was appointed JD, violence and sexual assault by Iowa Gov. Kim Reynolds as survivors. a district court judge for Iowa Judicial District 28 in April. Kurtis Brett D. Klug, BSBA, Omaha, T. Morrison, BA, Denver, received 07 owns and operates Blue Jay an appointment from Colorado Development in Omaha. Attorney General Phil Weiser to Hon. Andrew C. Butler, JD, serve as deputy attorney general Hastings, Nebraska, was for intergovernmental affairs for 10 sworn in as district judge for the the state of Colorado. Morrison 9th Judicial District for the state ALUMNI PROFILE previously served as a deputy of Nebraska in May. Colleen E. chief of staff and deputy legal McGarry, BA’06, JD, Minneapolis, counsel for Colorado Gov. John was elevated to partner at Paula Lavigne, MBA’09, on the Hickenlooper. Rochelle Shoemaker the Minneapolis office of Fox set of ESPN’s Outside the Lines Schuka, BSN, Gretna, Nebraska, with Bob Ley, who recently Rothschild LLP. McGarry is a Lavigne Part of ESPN Team graduated from Clarkson College retired as host of the program. litigation attorney who represents in Omaha with a Master of clients in a wide range of complex Science in Nursing-Family Nurse business and commercial that Earns Peabody Award Practitioner in August 2018. disputes. She is a nurse practitioner with Since joining ESPN in understanding of the financial aspect of sports. ESPN President Jimmy Pitaro calls “Spartan Children’s Physicians in Omaha. Ryan J. Muldoon, JD, Omaha, Creighton, she says, was appealing because of Silence” the “most impactful journalism the Amy J. Skogerson, JD, Adel, Iowa, 11 joined Simpson Legal Group, 2008, PAULA LAVIGNE, its reputation and flexible scheduling. She ESPN team has produced in our 40 years of was featured in the November 2018 LLC, in Council Bluffs, Iowa, Calling all Bluejays adds that her Creighton leadership courses, exemplary storytelling.” issue of Iowa Lawyer magazine. as a partner. He will continue MBA’09, has tackled some particularly those taught by the late Roger Lavigne says the Peabody Award recognizes The cover story discusses how to practice in the areas of Skogerson and her partner, Andrea personal injury, workers’ Remember your time at Creighton with a gift serious issues within the Fransecky, PhD, remain a source of inspiration the collective efforts of numerous people at McGinn, are leading the way for compensation and commercial to the Creighton Fund. You will open doors to ESPN, with much of the credit going to the and guidance. cutting-edge law practice in Iowa and family law. sports industry — from a Creighton education, ignite student success “Journalism is oftentimes a frustrating and brave women who shared their deeply personal at their firm The Law Shop by Jason R. Dorfman, MS, agonizing job, and I am completely honest when stories with the journalists. and continue our mighty Bluejay tradition. high-stakes gambling in Skogerson McGinn LLC. Aliso Viejo, California, is I say there are times when I go back to some of “Our first thoughts went to all the women 13 youth athletics to sexual Margaret E. Douglas, the co-founder and president of his emails or suggested readings to re-center and their advocates who trusted us with the 04 BS, Omaha, was the Krisp Nutrition/Keto Krisp and assault in college football. myself, refocus and get back above the fray,” most painful, intimate details of their lives, recipient of the 2019 Alice Buffett also serves as the vice president she says. and how this award is a recognition of their Outstanding Teacher Award. Given of pet products for Medterra. “Our stories have a sports angle, but they Plus, she adds, her MBA will be very bravery,” she says. to 15 teachers annually, the award Additionally, he is the senior vice Make a difference today at dive into mainstream issues,” says Lavigne, beneficial “if I ever leave journalism or go into Lavigne and her colleagues also received the recognizes the achievements of president of sales for bDirect creighton.edu/giving skilled and dedicated educators Companies LLC. Ryan Holmgren, an investigative reporter and data journalism management within journalism.” Sports Investigation Award from Investigative in the Omaha Public Schools. BA, San Luis Obispo, California, and statistics specialist at ESPN. “Our unit has Which, given the year she has had, shouldn’t Reporters and Editors (IRE) for their Michigan Douglas is a fifth-grade teacher was promoted to senior campaign tackled stories on human trafficking, sexual be any time soon. State and Nassar coverage, and their work at Wilson Focus School. Tami manager at the Steier Group in assault and domestic violence, race relations, In 2019, Lavigne and her colleagues won a was nominated for a Sports Emmy award for Trewet-Sloop, BSDH, Atlantic, Omaha. Holly A. Schenzel, DNP, drug addiction, all sorts of white-collar crime Peabody Award for “Spartan Silence,” which journalism. Iowa, was named the teledentistry Hinton, Iowa, completed her and multiple other social issues that transcend chronicled USA Gymnastics and Michigan State Awards are gratifying, says Lavigne, but the coordinator for the University of graduate certificate in psychiatric/ sports. I work with some of the most talented University doctor Larry Nassar’s sexual abuse of stories and the truths they expose are what’s Nebraska Medical Center College mental health nurse practitioner of Dentistry in Omaha. In her role, at the University of Iowa in journalists — not just sports journalists, but more than 140 young women and athletes and most important. Trewet-Sloop will be building August 2018. Schenzel is journalists, period — anywhere.” the struggles and suppression faced by women “I really do this work because it matters,” relationships and networks to currently an acute care nurse Lavigne says her MBA degree has married who reported being assaulted by Michigan State she says. — BY MOLLY GARRIOTT, BA’89 address access to oral health care practitioner at the Mayo Clinic in well with her journalism career, advancing her student-athletes. in rural Nebraska. Rochester, Minnesota. She also

50 Creighton SUMMER 2019 51 ALUMNI PROFILE teaches as an associate professor in the Nylen School of Nursing at Morningside College in Sioux City, Iowa.

Tyler J. Grevengoed, JD, Rock O, What Opportunities! 15 Valley, Iowa, joined Petersen Law PLLC in Council Bluffs, Iowa, as an associate after serving as the Creighton theater major finds success designing assistant Sioux County attorney. He will be practicing in real estate, live events and productions, including themed estate planning, probate, landlord/ tenant and civil litigation. cruises with Oprah Winfrey BIRTHS From an internship with McCoy to be the assistant stage manager for the Justin Schmidt and Debra week, but he aced the interview and was named 04 King Schmidt, DDS, Wichita, Opera Omaha to working production stage manager instead. Kansas, a daughter, Leighton with Oprah, JAKE MCCOY, “I had really great training through Wynter, Jan. 16, 2019. Brett Selk and Melissa Unruh Selk, BSN, Creighton,” McCoy says. “It was a big step up BFA’12, has had a front-row Crescent, Iowa, a son, Nolan for them.” Stephen, Dec. 1, 2018. seat to the behind-the-scenes The company was so impressed with McCoy world of live event design and that they offered him a job. But he was adamant Gavin J. Guldenpfenning, BA, and Amalie Appleton about finishing his degree before moving to 12 production. Guldenpfenning, BA, Grundy Center, the Big Apple. He worked with his professors Iowa, a daughter, Jedhavieve Marvel, The Andover, Massachusetts, native came to to take 21 credits per semester and complete Feb. 26, 2019. Adam P. Riesberg, Omaha to study technical theater. When he left, his thesis — designing the scenic, lighting, PharmD, and Casey Riesberg, graduating early with a Bachelor of Fine Arts projection, costumes and props for Creighton’s Papillion, Nebraska, a son, Charles, degree — not an easy feat — he walked straight 2012 production of Almost, Maine. April 11, 2019. into a full-time gig in New York City. After graduating, McCoy started a full- Spencer W. Werth, BA’11, “It’s been a crazy few years since I left time position as a production manager with 14 MS, JD, and Carrie Bonsutto Creighton,” says McCoy. Broadway Dreams. Then, in 2014, a professional Werth, BSHS’12, OTD’12, Omaha, a daughter, Michaela Kaye, Jan. 25, McCoy credits his professors in the associate called him up on Thanksgiving Day 2019. Department of Fine and Performing Arts for to ask if he wanted to be the assistant to the giving him opportunities within the department producer for singer Mariah Carey’s revamped He worked with Holland America Line to the case of Holland America, they are usually “We (the students) benefitted because the and getting him well-connected within the live Christmas musical show, “All I Want for produce live entertainment on its fleet of ships. a member of European royalty.) department was flexible,” he says. “My advanced DEATHS Omaha performing arts scene. Christmas is You.” Typically, a cast is on one ship for six to eight McCoy oversaw much more this time drafting class was just me and Mark (Krejci, Frances Burg Bachand, While interning with Opera Omaha, the New “I said, ‘Absolutely!’ And that’s when things months at a time, then the performers are around. technical director and theater instructor). He 47 SJN’46, BSN, Missoula, York City-based Broadway Dreams Foundation got really busy,” McCoy says. switched out. He was on hand for these swaps He did talent and operations management, had a syllabus, but asked me, ‘What do you want Montana, May 2, 2019. came through Omaha and put on a weeklong In 2015, McCoy joined RWS Entertainment to “re-tech” the shows with the new casts. designed the shows, worked with the video to get out of this class?’ So I told him, and that’s Lucille Perelman Kerr, BS, performing arts boot camp at the Holland Group as a production manager, working “I really got to see the entire world, from teams and coordinated five semitrailers full what we focused on.” 48 Mystic, Connecticut, May Performing Arts Center. The nonprofit asked primarily within the cruise line division. Japan, to the Bahamas, to Alaska,” McCoy says. of gear to Florida. And once Winfrey came on McCoy also thinks the emphasis Creighton 15, 2019. Francis P. Matthews, JD, “It was a really cool experience.” board, “that was my life for 72 hours,” McCoy places on the liberal arts has made him stand Omaha, April 12, 2019. Mary Jo And, ultimately, it was where he met his says. “I worked with her security, her chief of out, although at the time he wasn’t too keen on McGuire, SJN, Omaha, May 20, 2019. now husband, who was working on one of the staff and made everything run smoothly. It taking all the core classes. Holland America ships. was crazy.” “The way (these classes) were presented to Edward A. Dougherty, MD, In 2017, the cruise line partnered with O, the Today, he is a production director in the new us, it just opened your mind up,” McCoy says. 49 Moosic, Pennsylvania, Nov. 23, 2018. Mary Buss Merwald, SJN, Jake McCoy, BFA’ 1 2 , credits his Oprah Magazine, and the brands announced a Experiences Department at RWS. Rather than “I look at things differently because of those Omaha, Feb. 20, 2019. Dr. Ralph L. special theme cruise with Oprah Winfrey. That’s focusing on events that have a live performance, classes.” professors in the Department of Fine Smith, ARTS, Atlantic, Iowa, Nov. where McCoy came in. Due to his professional his work is about interactive and integrated His advice for those who are trying to break 21, 2018. experience, he worked with both Winfrey’s experiences that bring the senses to life. This into the performing arts industry? Make sure and Performing Arts for giving him the John F. Burke, ARTS, New team and the ship to produce all the Oprah- ranges from light shows at launch parties to you act with integrity and dependability. 50 York, May 13, 2019. Clement opportunities within the department themed activities, including a talk show on large-scale seasonal commercial décor at prop- “Especially in New York, everybody in the B. Crowley, BSPha, Omaha, March board with Gayle King, Winfrey’s friend and erties around the world. city is good at what they do,” McCoy says. “It 13, 2019. Dr. John P. Malloy, BS’47, and getting him well-connected within a CBS journalist. Another Creighton technical theater grad- doesn’t matter if you’re a performer, designer, MA, Tucson, Arizona, March Then, Holland America asked Winfrey uate, Matthew Hamel, BFA’15, works at RWS, choreographer … everybody is good. You have 18, 2019. Dr. Victor J. Rerucha, the Omaha performing arts scene. to be the godmother of a new ship they as well. to be somebody who people want to work with.” BS, Hilton Head Island, South Carolina, May 30, 2019. were launching. (It’s tradition to designate a McCoy is grateful for the hands-on experi- — BY AMANDA BRANDT, BA’14 “godmother” for a new cruise ship, though in ence he received at Creighton.

52 Creighton SUMMER 2019 53 Joseph C. Ranieri, DDS, 16, 2019. Michael E. Mullen, BS, Richard A. Cerveny, BA’65, Howard Levinsky, MD, River GRADUATE SCHOOL PROFILE 51 Olathe, Kansas, May 15, 2019. Carlsbad, California, Feb. 8, 2019. 67 JD, Omaha, Feb. 23, 2019. 76 Forest, Illinois, Feb. 14, Robert C. Rawley, BS, Omaha, April Robert P. Wintz, BSBA, Omaha, 2019. Patricia Bailey Myhre, BSMth, James M. Keefe, DDS, 21, 2019. March 25, 2019. Rosemount, Minnesota, Jan. 13, Carmichael, California, Dec. 60 2019. Edmund A. McGinn, JD, 19, 2018. Thomas J. Setter, MD, Salt William J. Lillis, JD, 52 Council Bluffs, Iowa, March Lake City, Feb. 19, 2019. 68 Urbandale, Iowa, May Katherine Stotts Theiler, Still Growing 26, 2019. Leo J. Wilwerding, ARTS, 8, 2019. James K. Williams, BA, MSGuid, Omaha, April 29, John M. McElroy, DDS, 77 Omaha, April 10, 2019. Davenport, Iowa, March 20, 2019. 2019. Former NFL offensive 61 Dannebrog, Nebraska, March Leslie Noel Shannon, BS, 14, 2019. John R. Privett, BS’57, John W. Mullen, JD, David D. Johnson, JD, Las lineman enrolls in 53 Avalon, California, Dec. 12, MD, La Canada, California, April 69 Carlsbad, California, May 78 Vegas, April 18, 2019. 2018. 9, 2019. Dianne Fellman Schachner, 5, 2019. Gary V. Wells, BSBA, Burnsville, Creighton’s financial BA, Potomac, Maryland, Aug. 28, Minnesota, March 30, 2019. William C. Ellis, BS, Omaha, Dr. Bernard A. Burton, 2018. Stephen H. Schachner, MD, March 18, 2019. James D. BSMth, Wichita Falls, Texas, Catherine J. Harris, BS’75, psychology program 54 Potomac, Maryland, May 11, 2019. 70 Rayl, BSPha, Lindale, Texas, April April 13, 2019. Eileen Fitzgerald, 79 MD, Paradise, Michigan, 16, 2019. William M. Balak, ARTS, BS, Alexandria, Virginia, May 2, March 21, 2019. Henry C. “Hank” Omaha, Feb. 21, 2019. 2019. Glen A. Ravelomanantsoa, Stork, JD, Tekamah, Nebraska, June When LEVI BROWN was Louis F. Barinaga, DDS, Bend, 62 BA, Mission Hills, California, Jan. 17, 2018. Oregon, Feb. 22, 2019. Joseph Frank F. Fernandez, DDS, researching financial 55 17, 2019. Reynold P. Welicky, BSBA, R. Gentile, DDS, Colorado Springs, Phoenix, April 8, 2019. Janet Nichols Lewis, BA, 63 Hayward, Wisconsin, Jan. 28, 2018. psychology programs, he Colorado, April 5, 2019. Michael J. Mooney, BA’59, JD, 80 Omaha, June 3, 2019. Omaha, May 10, 2019. Sr. Rosemary Weber, OSB, discovered a video of Paul Kenneth J. Kunce, BSPha, David E. Jeffries, MBA, East MSEdu, Yankton, South Bellevue, Nebraska, March Wendell P. Fleet, MD, 71 Troy, Wisconsin, Feb. 28, (Ted) Klontz, PhD, associate 56 Dakota, March 5, 2019. 81 7, 2019. Laurence D. Lucas, DDS, 65 Seattle, Feb. 28, 2019. John 2019. professor of practice at Oklahoma City, April 2, 2019. T. Houlihan, BSBA, Katy, Texas, Richard L. Swenson, JD, James E. Tresemer, BSMT, Daniel F. Shanahan, BS’52, MD, Feb. 14, 2019. Paul W. Kantack, MD, Omaha, April 7, 2019. the Heider College of 72 Papillion, Nebraska, April Phoenix, March 1, 2019. Columbus, Mississippi, May 2, 82 Richard G. Buturff Jr., DDS, 21, 2019. Steven D. Wingert, BA, Business. Klontz, who is 2019. Paul M. Monahan, MD, Zillah, Maureen Powers Dungan, Knoxville, Tennessee, March Orlando, Florida, March 18, 2019. Washington, Feb. 27, 2019. William 73 also a psychologist and “I’ve always liked learning,” Brown says. “My the field. In 2019, he joined Surevest Wealth BSChm, Pottstown, 7, 2019. Mary L. Kalamaja, BA’70, JD, 57 Poway, California, David M. Streich, JD, wife says I am a lifetime student because I’m Management, headquartered in Phoenix, Pennsylvania, March 20, 2019. L. Surber, BA, Omaha, March 21, 2019. financial planner, used the April 9, 2019. John J. “Jay” Zielinski, Ainsworth, Nebraska, May Joseph R. Von Tersch, BSPha, 83 always looking for something new to learn. We as a financial coach and behavioral finance Ocean Springs, Mississippi, Rev. Wayne W. Schlautman, 23, 2019. lullaby Hush Little Baby to Omaha, May 17, 2019. MD, aren’t meant to stay stagnant. We are meant to specialist, working remotely from his home May 10, 2019. MA, Norfolk, Nebraska, April 74 Claude L. Brinson, BA, illustrate how children are learn and develop over time.” in Austin, Texas. He specializes in clients Thomas H. Dorwart, BS, 14, 2019. Omaha, March 27, 2019. Sidney, Nebraska, April 28, Raymond J. Darwell, DDS, 84 indoctrinated, at a very young Klontz concurs and sees a natural curiosity who encounter sudden wealth, helping them 58 Lakeside, California, March Mark L. Grams, MD, 2019. Alfred H. Schwartz Jr., BSPha, 66 David E. Petersen, DDS, in Brown, calling him “incredibly bright and separate their finances from emotions. 17, 2019. Elfrida, Arizona, Oct. 3, age, into believing that buying Council Bluffs, Iowa, April 30, 2019. Charlene Swedenburg 75 South Jordan, Utah, Dec. 11, extraordinarily motivated.” “I was excited to put my money to work for Salina, Kansas, May 2018. Sr. Maria Smith, DC, MSEdu, 87 Meidlinger, BA, 2018. things brings happiness. Klontz has more than 30 years of experience me,” Brown says, “and now I can help others Gerald F. McGuire, BA, 23, 2019. Rita Osterman, SJN, San Shreveport, Louisiana, April 18, 59 Littleton, Colorado, May Diego, Feb. 9, 2019. 2019. Lance F. Gunnell, DDS, counseling high-profile individuals, such as do the same.” 89 Wellsville, Utah, March 16, “I thought, ‘This guy is either looney tunes professional athletes, entertainers, politicians A first-round pick, and the No. 5 pick overall, 2019. Steven J. Oaks, BSBA’86, JD, or on to something,’” Brown recalls. and leaders of major corporations, “with the in the 2007 NFL draft by the Arizona Cardinals, Mercer Island, Washington, Feb. Brown, a former All-American offensive universal goal of trying to close the gap between Brown dreamed of a long and storied career 27, 2019. Susan M. Rendon, BS’83, lineman at Penn State University who played what they want to have happen and what is in the NFL. But, the 35-year-old Jacksonville, Lady Lake, Florida, March 28, MD, seven seasons in the currently happening in their finances.” North Carolina, native, quoting Proverbs 16, 2019. NFL, decided Klontz And Creighton is uniquely positioned to says God had a different plan for him — one that Jennifer Ramsour Miller, was “on to something” assist adult learners such as Brown in reaching channeled his adversity (he was sidelined with Dodge City, Kansas, 94 BSChm, and is now enrolled their goals through its badge, credential and torn triceps in 2012, and ended his NFL playing Unleash your potential March 21, 2019. in Creighton’s online certification program, which allows busy days in 2014) and education into helping people Theresa Moriarty Davidson, certificate program in professionals the opportunity to dip their toe navigate their financial paths. with a graduate degree. 96 BS, Omaha, June 6, 2019. financial psychology in the academic waters while considering an Brown says he’s found in Creighton “a David P. Koelliker, DDS, Salt and behavioral finance. advanced degree. community of likeminded people, both Business Health Care Leadership Analytics 97 Lake City, Feb. 22, 2019. He hopes to eventually “It’s a pipeline into our programs of educationally and spiritually, who help me as Anita C. McGowan, MA, earn a degree from excellence,” says Tricia Brundo Sharrar, BA’93, I continue to search for purpose and meaning 98 Kingston, Pennsylvania, Creighton’s nationally acclaimed MBA program. JD’96, vice provost for academic administration in life.” Feb. 27, 2019. It would be Brown’s fourth collegiate and partnerships and head of Creighton’s Center “As you grow as a person, you find out what Kelsea M. Julian, MED, degree. He holds two bachelor’s degrees — for Professional and Corporate Excellence. is important,” Brown adds. 17 Nesquehoning, Pennsylvania, in labor and industrial relations (2005) and Brown’s interest in investments was He might just be on to something. Feb. 21, 2019. psychology (2006) — and a master’s degree in sparked when he began setting aside money — BY MOLLY GARRIOTT, BA’89 human resources and employment relations for his family and for retirement. Hesitant to gradschool.creighton.edu (2016) from Penn State. The latter he earned relinquish control of his finances to the sole while playing for the Arizona Cardinals, taking care of someone else, he learned as much as he Visit gradschool.creighton.edu/grad-cert for more courses during his off seasons. could, seeking advice from professionals in information about Creighton’s certificate programs.

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and from being a Midwest-ranked institution to being included in the more prestigious national listing. This change is meaningful because it highlights Creighton’s continuing commitment to strengthen our scholarly productivity and institutional focus on research and scholarship, which is also noted in our strategic plan. We are now included among peers in the highly regarded national category, which is clearly a new source of pride for the entire Creighton community.

How will it affect recruiting students and faculty? This new classification signals what we at Creighton have always known: We are a top- flight research institution that, at its heart, continues to be driven by a teacher-scholar educational model. The new Carnegie classification will enhance our ability to grow the scope of our doctoral and professional programs and the research being undertaken across Creighton’s nine schools and colleges. This in turn will con- DAVE WEAVER DAVE tinue to make Creighton attractive for recruit- ment of the highest caliber faculty and students. Our faculty provide outstanding men- What does Creighton’s New torship for undergraduate student research, largely through the Center for Undergraduate Carnegie Classification Mean? Research and Scholarship. It is therefore no surprise that this year two Creighton students Creighton was elevated earlier this year in What factors do you think led to Creighton received Fulbright Teaching Assistant Awards the Carnegie Classification of Institutions of being reclassified in this new category? and three received Goldwater Scholarships. Higher Education from the Master’s Colleges The Carnegie Classification of Institutions of Over the last decade, Creighton has produced A Tradition Continues and Universities category to the newly created Higher Education recently altered its metrics more Goldwater Scholars than any other Doctoral/Professional Universities category. for categorizing U.S. colleges and universi- Catholic university and ranks among the top Creighton congratulates the most recent recipients of the Pictured above, from left to right, are: The Carnegie classifications are the leading ties. The classification now includes “doctor’s 25 private universities producing such schol- Goldwater Scholarship and Fulbright Teaching Assistant Award. Mason Rhodes U.S. framework for recognizing institutional degree — professional practice” in the meth- ars — joining the ranks with Harvard, Princeton, Goldwater Scholar, Class of 2020, distinction in higher education and are used by odology. This change creates a new category Stanford and MIT. physics and mathematics major U.S. News & World Report in its annual rankings. of doctoral universities that offer at least 30 Creighton is the No. 1 producer of Goldwater Scholars among Siddharth Venkatraman For Creighton — ranked the No. 1 master’s professional practice doctorates, such as MD, How do you think Creighton’s research affected Catholic universities over the past 10 years, and places among Goldwater Scholar, Class of 2020, college/university in the Midwest by U.S. News DNP, JD, DDS, PharmD, OTD and DPT, across a the new status? biochemistry and philosophy major for 16 consecutive years — the new classification minimum of two programs. Given Creighton’s Creighton’s funding from federal and major the top 25 private universities producing such scholars — joining Spencer Thompson offers an opportunity for national distinction. professional practice doctorate programs in national organizations continues to climb. the ranks with Harvard, Princeton, Stanford and MIT. In the past Goldwater Scholar, Class of 2020, Tom Murray, PhD, Creighton provost, nursing, medicine, dentistry, law, pharmacy, The research being undertaken by both faculty 15 years, Creighton has produced 23 Goldwater Scholars, and biochemistry major shares his thoughts here on what this change occupational therapy and physical therapy, we and students has a bearing on life around the Sahil Sandhu, BS’19 means for Creighton. Murray holds a PhD far exceed the 30-degree threshold. globe in the arts, humanities, sciences, law and since 2005, 17 Fulbrights. Fulbright Teaching Assistant Award, in pharmacology from the University of medicine. With over $21 million in external teaching English and serving as an Washington School of Medicine, and first What effect do you think it will have on the research funding in 2018, our future expansion American cultural ambassador in came to Creighton in 2006 as professor and University’s reputation? of PhD programs should allow Creighton to Tajikistan chair of the Department of Pharmacology in As a result of the change in Carnegie classifi- advance to the Carnegie classification of a Mary Kate Wolken, BA’19 the School of Medicine. He was named associate cation metrics, Creighton has moved from the Doctoral/Professional University with “high Fulbright Teaching Assistant Award, vice president for health sciences research in Master’s Colleges and Universities category to research activity.” teaching English and serving as an 2010 and provost in 2017. the Doctoral/Professional Universities category American cultural ambassador in Spain

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