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Page A14 • January 26, 2012 • Inland Empire Community Newspapers Professor goes above and beyond for students and subject due University. She currently teaches early child - hood development. One of the things that made her stand out as a candidate is that she shows her dedication to students by teaching many classes and being involved with many extracurricular activi - ties. “Professor Wilcox-Herzog is the best of the best when it comes to teaching - a real teacher’s teacher,” said Tapie Rohm, chair of the se - lection committee for the Golden Apple Award. She teaches 11 un - dergraduate courses and one grad - uate course, she also is the faculty IECN PHOTO NAIMA FORD adviser for the Child Development The Golden Apple Award was announced by surprise during one of Club and supervisor of the Early her classes. Childhood Quality Improvement Project and the Center for Quality Early Childhood Program. She also works to secure grants

IECN PHOTO NAIMA FORD for First 5 and makes presentations Amanda Wilcox-Herzog received the Golden Apple Award for Ex - about parenting and childhood de - cellence in Teaching from Cal State San Bernardino. She is pic - velopment in the community. “She loves the subject because tured here with university president Dr. Al Karnig . she loves her subjects,” said By Naima Ford walked into her classroom in the Karnig about her commitment to middle of class. It was a surprise her field. Besides her obvious dedication to manda Wilcox-Herzog both to her and her students. According to university president her work, the comments made by was surprised to learn students are what have set her that she was the recipient Dr. Al Karnig, the reason profes - sors are told about the awards this apart for the award. Many students ofA the Golden Apple Award for said that she makes each subject way is because their students are Excellence in Teaching from Cal easy to understand, she brings real State San Bernardino. Not because able to witness it. “You are the principal reason world examples to class and is of the reward itself but the univer - available outside of class for help. sity’s “ambush” style presentation. why she received this award,” said Karnig to the class. Despite all that she does her stu - The university gives the award dents are first. away every year to one professor Wilcox-Herzog has been a pro - fessor at Cal State San Bernardino “This is the most important part chosen by students and colleagues. of the job,” said Wilcox-Herzog. since 1999. She received her bach - IECN PHOTO NAIMA FORD It is one of the university’s most RICHARD elor’s degree from the University IECN PHOTO COURTESY She will officially receive her Wilcox-Herzog received the prestigious teaching awards. WHITEHEAD award at San Bernardino Mayor’s of , Irvine and received award because of her dedica - The award was presented to her The award is one of the most Golden Apple Awards dinner on her master’s degree in human de - tion to students and the subject on Thursday, January 19 when a prestigious teaching awards that Thursday, March 29, at Cal State group of administrators and former velopment and doctorate in early she teaches - early childhood childhood development from Pur - the university gives. San Bernardino’s Obershaw Din - Golden Apple Award winners ing Room. development. Noted Medical Center eye surgeon taps YouTube to teach other doctors for others. He is one of three re - opened the first Out-of-Hospital always video recorded his surger - cipients of this year’s prestigious operating rooms for in ies and from these he edits teach - Charles Elliot Weniger Award for because of his long wait - ing segments of current Excellence during the 4:30 p.m. ing list for the radically different innovations to present at seminars worship service Jan. 28 at Loma new small incision cataract sur - and conferences around the world. Linda University Church. gery, combined with the revolu - His passion for teaching has led “I think it’s wonderful to be able tionary intra-ocular lens implants, to 26 satellite and teleconferencing to share our experience and inno - that he started doing in 1975. He video broadcasts of live eye sur - vations through that medium,” said was one of the pioneers in these gery to major world conferences. Dr. Gimbel, chairman of the De - procedures and developed innova - He continues his operating room partment of at tions in the surgical techniques that and classroom teaching of stu - Loma Linda University Medical have become world standards. Pa - dents, residents, and fellows at Center. A believer in the use of tients and visiting surgeons came Loma Linda University and at the multimedia tools to teach, Dr. from all around the world. He has University of . Gimbel started videotaping some of his surgeries more than 30 years ago. He saw the advent of the In - ternet and digital video in recent years as a chance to share his knowledge to even more students. “Dr. Gimbel is known world- wide for his knowledge and skill as an eye surgeon, and he is a IECN PHOTO COURTESY LLUMC teacher at heart,” said Dr. Michael Dr. Howard Gimbel (sitting) visited recently with ophthalmology Rauser, Vice-Chair and Residency residents, Janie Hea-Ryung Yoo and James “Chris” Hartley, at Program Director of the Loma Loma Linda University Medical Center Department of Ophthal - Linda University Department of mology. Ophthalmology. “The popularity of the videos on YouTube reflects the respect and admiration that res - noted eye surgeon at the first video he uploaded on YouTube, which has since idents and fellow surgeons have Loma Linda University for him, and his passion to share Medical Center is creat - spawned an entire YouTube chan - nel, the Gimbel Library: his skills with others." inAg a stir on the World Wide Web, Dr. Gimbel completed his med - (http://www.youtube.com/user/Gi where his videos teaching innova - ical degree from Loma Linda Uni - tive techniques in surgery have mbelLibrary), encompassing more than 100 videos. The videos, many versity in l960 and his residency in been viewed by medical students, ophthalmology at the White Me - residents and practicing surgeons of which show Dr. Gimbel demon - strating complex and innovative morial Medical Center in Los An - more than 72,000 times. geles in l964. He then decided to Dr. Howard Gimbel recently surgical procedures, have become indispensible learning resources practice in his birthplace of Cal - marked the second anniversary of gary, , Canada. In l984, he