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PRE-PROFESSIONAL
Speakers & Workshops
Over 30 workshops!!!
(interactive workshops, self development workshops, informational workshops, etc.)
Mock Interview
Cadaver Tour
Personal Statement Workshop
How to be a Competitive Applicant
Interviewing Skills
Peace Corps
Dean’s Panel
Military Panel
Surgeon's Panel
Universal Healthcare
High School Program
.....and many more.....
Below is a list of the 2009 Conference Speakers. The 2010 Speakers will be available shortly.
Dr. Andrew Baldwin, LT, MC, USN
Chiropractic and Alternative Medicine
Surgeons Panel
Interview Tips and Techniques: How to Prepare for the Medical School Interview
Diversity and Serving the Underserved
Care Beyond a Cure: Veterinary Medicine
Medical Careers in the Military
Financing Professional Health School
Pre-Professional Health Student Panel
Transition from High school to College:
Research and How It Relates to School and Success
Admission, Interviewing, and Goal Setting
Learn how to best prepare yourself and represent yourself for graduate admissions.
Others:
Medical Student Panel
and More
Speakers
Dr. Andrew Baldwin, LT, MC, USN
U.S. Navy Lieutenant Andy Baldwin, M.D., 31, is an Undersea Medical Officer, Ironman triathlete, Navy Diver, and humanitarian currently stationed in Washington, D.C. at the Navy's Bureau of Medicine and Surgery. Andy has won humanitarian awards from Triathlete and Competitor Magazine for his participation on a military mission in Laos, where he treated over 600 Laotians in remote mountain villages. Andy is an accomplished triathlete, community leader, motivator, and advocate for service in our world.
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Dr. Paul Curry, MD
Dr. Curry received his MD degree in 1971 from the University of Florida. His thirty five year career has been split between two Board Certified specialties, the first being Emergency Medicine which he practiced for thirteen years and was the Assistant Director of Emergency Services at St. Mary Medical Center, running its active trauma center located in down town Long Beach. His duties included being Department Chairman, liaison physician for Long Beach’s nationally recognized paramedic program, advanced trauma, pediatric, and cardiac life support instruction and teaching responsibility for the Harbor UCLA Emergency Medicine Residents who rotated through the medical center’s Emergency Department as part of their training. In 1987 Dr. Curry left to retrain for an additional three years in Anesthesiology and Critical Care at UCLA. He holds a teaching appointment as Clinical Professor in the UCLA Department of Anesthesiology and maintains an Anesthesiology private practice at Hoag Memorial Hospital Presbyterian in Newport Beach. His career has been significant for its many system and process advances that improve patient safety during hospitalization. In the late nineties Dr. Curry teamed with the University of Pennsylvania under a grant from Nellcor (division of Tyco Healthcare, Inc) to study the problems surrounding early recognition and response to patients becoming unstable while on medical wards. Over the next four years Dr. Curry authored 10 nationally accepted abstracts and a paper on the subject and went on to create one of the finest Rapid Response Teams in the country at Hoag Memorial. He has been active in physician leadership throughout his career and is currently Immediate Past Chief of Staff for a medical staff of 1200 physicians, directing their credentialing and bylaws processes and building a leadership Institute on Hoag’s campus. During his two years as Hoag’s Chief of Staff he began a cultural transformation that redefined the mission and vision of its medical staff, facilitating the integration needed to accelerate quality outcomes and safety by decreasing variation in practice, supporting team approaches along service lines, and improving the management of health information both within the hospital and the community it serves. He is the father of four daughters, two of whom are Aztecs, one who graduated in 2005 with a degree in Sociology but now plans to have her Post Baccalaureate requisites for attending medical school completed by 2010.
Dr. Steven Jaffe, DC
Dr. Steven Jaffe ; Interim Director of The School of Professional Studies. is a native of New Jersey and was introduced to Chiropractic following a wrestling injury in high school. His undergraduate studies were at the University of Florida. In 1980, he moved to Los Angeles to study Chiropractic. Dr Jaffe graduated Magna Cum Laude in 1984 and went into private practice in Moreno Valley, Ca. He practiced until 1994 when he became disabled from private practice. Following stopping active patient care, Dr Jaffe worked for several major insurers performing peer treatment record reviews. Due to a lack of excitement, he earned his Emergency Medical Technician certification and worked as a First Responder for 8 years. Dr Jaffe has been with the Southern California University of Health Sciences since 1998. He has served as Director of the Preceptorship program and the Clinical Business Education Coordinator
Jenny Yu, L.Ac., Associate Professor and Clinic Director of AOM at Southern California University of Health Sciences, a graduate of the University of Southern California and later proceeded her studies in Oriental Medicine at South Baylo University, where she obtained her M.S. degree in Oriental Medicine and Herbology. Being the daughter of the former Chairman of the Oriental Medicine Association of the Republic of China, Jenny had exposure to TCM medical knowledge since childhood, which had developed her interest in helping patients to relieve their symptoms naturally and lead a healthy life. She had carried on her achievements and goals into the professional world in treating patients. Jenny specializes in gynecological diseases by acupuncture and herbal medicine.
Dr. Shelli McAlpine attended University of Illinois, UCLA, and Harvard University in the Department of Chemistry. Dr. McApline was honored the George Gregory Prize for Excellence in Resarch. She is a tenured professor in San Diego State University and has established a full-fledged research program in organic synthesis. Dr. McAlpine’s lab has published 21 papers since her lab started at SDSU in 2001. Dr. McAlpine is a dedicated professor that loves to teach her students. She was nominated as the most outstanding faculty member in the Deparment of Chemistry in 2007.
Dr. Hector Flores attended UC Davis School of Medicine and upon graduation was honored with Heineman Pulmonary Medicine Award and the Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundational Fellowship. He completed his internship and residency in Family Medicine at Kaiser Permanente Medical Center, Los Angeles. He is a founding member and Co-director at White Memorial Medical Center Family Medicine Residency Program. The Family Care Specialist program has consistently been ranked as the top program in California serving approximately 30,000 patients in the East Los Angeles area, over half of whom are low income families.
Co-founder of California Lobby Day and current CAPA medical student fellow. Parker is an MS4 at UC Irvine. He has also completed a Masters in Public Health at Cal State Long Beach. This year he serves as the inaugural California Physician Alliance (CAPA) Fellow to work to educate California health professional students about a truly universal single payer health care system and California’s single payer bill SB 840. He is a graduate of Duke University, majoring in political science and served in the Persian Gulf.
Alan Bernstein, Ph.D. is the Director of Admissions at Saba University School of Medicine where he has been for the last three years. Saba is one of the select group of Caribbean Schools that is approved by the Medical Board of California. Dr. Bernstein has forty years of teaching and administrative experience in higher education and professional training. He was a professor of psychology (now professor emeritus) teaching graduate and undergraduate courses in biologically based areas of psychology. He has taught and advised thousands of students in his academic career and now enjoys his role of assisting students as a dream-maker in achieving their goal of becoming a physician.
Peggy Wallace, the founder of Making Conversation, is a graduate of University of Pennsylvania/Wharton School and Boston University School of Law. With over 25 years business experience as a corporate attorney, fundraiser and financial services sales consultant, Peggy has a first-hand appreciation of the value of making conversation and marketing your best self, while being authentic and enthusiastically showing your own unique personality. She provides one-on-one communication and interview skills coaching and is a Career Support Professional in the AWIS Coaching Program. An admit to USC’s Baccalaureate Medical Program, Medical School Class of 2015 commented, “Thank you so much for all of your help! I want to let you know that I feel that meeting with you the day before both my USC and Yale interviews probably helped to bump me into their admit pool.”
Dr. Randall Mohler graduated from the Ohio State University College of Medicine, completed his internship at Penn State, residency training at UCSD and additional training at the University of Washington. He is a board certified orthopaedic surgeon with specialty certifications in hand surgery and orthopaedic sports medicine who practices at the California Orthopaedic Institute.
Dr. Jane Ann Munroe serves as the Director of Admissions at the Southern California College of Optometry. She informs potential students about SCCO, which involves speaking at different academic venues in the western US. She will be speaking about the optometry school application process and a career in optometry. Dr. Jane Ann Munroe received a Doctor of Optometry degree from Southern California College of Optometry graduating in 1977. She then entered into private practice in Corona, California. In 1993, she joined New Vista Eye Care Medical Group as Clinic Director and was on staff at Riverside General Hospital through Loma Linda University. There, she was granted hospital privileges and worked with the ophthalmological residents. In 1995 and 1996, she served on the Expert Board of Examiners for the National Board of Examiners in Optometry. In 1999 after the General Hospital moved, she went back into private practice in Buena Park, California just prior to joining the Student Affairs Department in 2006.
Dr. Melanie Wang graduated from Poway High School in 1996. A native San Diegan, she attended UCSD with a major in Biology and a minor in Education. At UCLA Dental School, she was appointed president of her class. After graduation, Dr. Melanie and Husband Dr. Jim Wang, DDS. moved to Saint Louis, MO so that Dr. Melanie Wang could complete her orthodontic residency at Saint Louis University.
After completion of her residency, they realized how much they missed California. They decided to settle in San Diego to raise their family. Today the Wangs are proud parents of a handsom son, Tyler Wang. Dr. Melanie currently has a beautiful orthodontic office in the 4S Ranch community of San Diego.
Edward D. Dagang graduated from UC Davis with a Bachelors in Biological Sciences. He is the Director of Admissions & Outreach at the U.C. Davis School of Medicine for over 15 years and was the former U.C. Davis Health Professions Advisor for the Health Sciences Advising Office. He has worked with pre-health profession students for over 20 years and is committed to supporting students in their professional development.
Tim Barnard graduated with a degree in industrial design, and worked as an architectural designer for several years before deciding to pursue a career in medicine. Last Fall, he completed a two year pre-medical post-baccalaureate at San Diego State. While at SDSU he founded and the Post-Bac Association, an organization which serves to create community and inform current and prospective post-bacs.
Peter Dean is a Recruitment Coordinator from the USC School of Pharmacy. This involves informing, advising students about the admission process and how to best prepare oneself for the application process that includes Academic performance, Interviewing, writing and experience. Peter also has a background in Career Advising and Staffing.
Dr. Gary Vilke is a Professor and physician on the faculty in the Department of Emergency Medicine at the University of California, San Diego (UCSD) and is the former Medical Director for the County of San Diego Emergency Medical Services. He did his undergraduate training at University of California, Berkeley and attended medical school at UCSD. He finished his residency in Emergency Medicine at UCSD in 1996 and has been on the emergency medicine faculty since that time. Dr. Vilke currently serves as the Co-Director for Custody Services at UCSD as well as the Director for Clinical Research for the Emergency Department, which includes the Research Associate program. His research focus has been in the areas of tactical medicine, restraint physiology, less lethal weapons, and prehospital care and has published over 130 original articles and 25 book chapters.
Linda Diane Smith, Ph.D. is a licensed clinical psychologist and meditation practitioner. Dr. Smith has pursued an interest in Buddhist and other forms of meditation for 42 years. Her experience includes training in Zen meditation, Kundalini yoga, and Tibetan Buddhist traditions. As a professor at San Diego State University, Dr. Smith has coordinated the psychology doctoral intern training program for Counseling and Psychology Services, offered therapy to students, and taught Buddhist meditation to students under the auspices of the department of Counseling and Psychological Services.
Dr. Ogilvie is director of the Angel Care Cancer Center at California Veterinary Specialists and president of the Special Care Foundation for Companion Animals where he continues to care for patients, their families and teach interns, residents, veterinary students and has an active cancer research program. Prior to his move to Southern California, Greg was a full tenured professor, internist, head of medical oncology and director of the medical oncology research laboratory Animal Cancer Center at Colorado State University from 1987 until 2003. Dr. Ogilvie lectures to thousands of aspiring or graduate veterinarians and scientists each year including at several universities such as recent lectures to at San Diego State University, University of California San Diego, University of California Santa Barbara, University of Vienna and Ghent University, Belgium. Dr. Ogilvie is also on the advisory board of the College of Veterinary Medicine at Western University in California and has been a full member of the University of Colorado Cancer Center under the directorship of Dr. Paul Bunn. During this 16 year period at CSU, Greg also spent one year on sabbatical teaching and developing new, innovative cancer therapies at the medical school and the Laboratoire Nutrition, Croisance et Cancer at the Université François Rabelais in Tours France.
Dr. Ogilvie received his DVM from Colorado State University and was in private practice in Connecticut before completing a residency at Tufts University/Angell Memorial Animal Hospital. From there he joined the faculty as a professor at the University of Illionois before moving on to Colorado. Dr. Ogilvie is board certified in both the specialties of both internal medicine and oncology by the American College of Veterinary Internal Medicine.
Greg has also been recognized with: the American Veterinary Medical Association's "Veterinarian of the Year-1995"; the American Animal Hospital Association's "Veterinarian of the Year-1996"; the Colorado Veterinary Medical Association Outstanding Faculty Award-1996; and the 1999 SHARE Human Animal Bond Companion Animal Award. Greg was awarded the World Small Animal Veterinary Association Hills Award for Excellence in Veterinary Healthcare for the year 2001.
When not caring for pets and people. Greg is a certified ski instructor and enjoys camping, SCUBA and long distance cycling. He has volunteered as a counselor at the Sky High Hope Camp for children who have cancer for 15 years., His greatest joys are his daughter, Torrie and his wife, Karla.
Maureen Kelley, Director of T. B. Day Freshman Success Program
A San Diego county resident for almost her entire life, Maureen Kelley has been part of the SDSU community since 1996. She taught courses in Rhetoric and Writing Studies, English, and Information and Decision Systems and was a co-editor of Diversity in the College Classroom: Practices for Today’s Campuses, prior to taking on the Directorship of SDSU’s Freshman Success Program in 2002.
For almost twenty years, the Freshman Success program has been a partner in the University’s efforts to increase student retention and raise student performance. Its learning communities bond freshmen to their campus and a small cohort of peers to create a more integrated experience, provide greater coherence in curriculum, and increase collaboration of students and faculty in the pursuit of learning. The overall aim of the program is to provide skills that are applicable and valuable across subjects and time as students prepare for academic, career, and personal success.
Dr. Jon Kalman is a graduate of the Southwest College of Naturopathic Medicine and Health Sciences. After graduating from SCNM, Dr. Kalman completed a post-graduate clinical internship at the Shree Mumbadevi Homeopathic Hospital in Mumbai, India. Dr. Kalman is a co-owner and director of medical education for Potent Foods, a nutrition food bar developer. He also has interest in trauma medicine and currently works as Disaster Relief Services Lead for Naturopaths International. [www.potentfoods.com]
Dr. Dana Churchill attended Rutgers University in New Jersey where he obtained a BS in Nutritional Biochemistry. While at Rutgers University Dr. Churchill worked as a research assistant to a neonatologist and a respiratory physiologist at the UMDNJ, looking at specific SIDS mechanisms. After Rutgers Dr. Churchill decided to go an organic route and enrolled in the National College of Natural Medicine, the oldest college of Naturopathy in North America. He likes to educate people by speaking publicly about natural healing and especially homeopathy and works with the CNDA and NCNM to help the public gain more awareness about the health choices and credible information that are available to them. [www.heartfeltmedicine.com]
Tej Nuthulaganti, AMSA National Premedical Trustee
Tej Nuthulaganti currently serves as the American Medical Students Association (AMSA), Premedical Trustee. As the National Premedical Trustee, he leads over 9,000 premedical members in a fight to eliminate health disparities both domestically and abroad. He has planned multiple leadership institutes focused on health policy and global health and has organized many rallies and lobby visits with Senators on Capitol Hill. Concurrently, Tej works as a research assistant for Partners In Health (PIH), a non-profit based out of Boston, and the Harvard School of Public Health, where he is working to streamline access to 2nd line tuberculosis medications in resource poor countries. He graduated from Rutgers University in New Jersey with his Bachelors in Biology and a Masters degree in Molecular Biology, and is currently pursuing a Masters in public health prior to entering medical school.
Bret Langenberg, DO FACS, is a Staff Surgeon at the Naval Medical Center Department of Surgery in San Diego; he is on active duty for the United States Navy as a Lieutenant Commander. He completed his Bachelor of Science at The Citadel and received his Doctor Of Osteopathic Medicine from Midwestern University (CCOM). Dr Langenberg completed his internship and residency in General Surgery at the Naval Medical Center San Diego. He is a Fellow in the American College of Surgeons and is an Associate Professor of Surgery for the Uniformed Services University of Health Sciences, Bethesda, MD.
As a surgeon in the United States Navy, Dr Langenberg has been stationed at Camp Pendleton Naval Hospital and the Naval Medical Center San Diego. Additionally, as the surgeon for Fleet Surgical Team Nine, he has maintained a busy operational tempo with numerous deployments supporting Operation Iraqi Freedom. Dr Langenberg continues to have an active role clinically and academically training Navy surgical residents and medical students. He is also pracitices surgery at Scripps Mercy Hospital.
Audrey Marshall is a fourth year osteopathic medical student at the Arizona College of Osteopathic Medicine, Midwestern University in Glendale, AZ. She is originally from San Diego and attended the University of California, Santa Barbara for her undergraduate degree in Biopsychology. She is currently the Vice President and Speaker of the House for the National Student Osteopathic Medical Association (SOMA) and plans to enter into an Obstetrics and Gynecology Residency this summer. Please visit http://www.studentdo.com to find out further information about SOMA and osteopathic medicine.
James Sterling is the Director of Team Masters Program, Professor, and Interim VP of Academic Affairs at the Keck Graduate Institute of Applied Life Sciences
Robert M. Trombly, DDS, JD Professor and Executive Associate Dean of Western University of Health Sciences College of Dental Medicine.
Dr. Robert Trombly recently moved to southern California to accept a position as Professor and Executive Associate Dean at the College of Dental Medicine at Western University of Health Sciences, taking advantage of the unique opportunity to join an experienced leadership team to plan and build a new innovative model of dental education. He received his D.D.S. from the University of Michigan in 1984, and in 1985 completed a General Practice Residency at the Hennepin County Medical Center in Minneapolis, MN. In 1985 he established his private general dental practice and joined the University of Colorado as a part-time faculty member. After receiving his law degree from the University of Denver in 1991, he accepted a full-time position at the University of Colorado School of Dentistry, serving for many years as the Associate Dean for Clinical Affairs, and in 2006-07 serving as the Associate Dean for Community Affairs and Curriculum.
James Betbeze, Director of Admissions, UCSF
James Betbeze began his career with the University on the Berkeley campus in 1993 working as the Student Affairs Officer for the Department of Nutritional Sciences and the Graduate Group in Comparative Biochemistry. In March of 2000 he accepted the position of Admissions Coordinator for the UCSF School of Pharmacy. In February of 2007 he assumed his current position of Director of Admissions for the UCSF School of Dentistry. Mr. Betbeze graduated from UC Berkeley in 1994 with a B.A. in Anthropology, and from San Francisco State University in 2008 with a Master in Public Administration.
Briane Steele, Assistant Director of Admissions: USC
Brian is a native from Upstate New York. With a degree in Marketing from Niagara University, Brian spent the first part of his career doing public relations, prior to moving to California in 2003. In his current role as Assistant Director for the School of Dentistry he is responsible for the communication efforts of the office, as well as his role in the admissions for the 13 active programs at USC School of Dentistry.
Mary Lynch, Assistant Director of Admissions: UOP
Mary Lynch is the Assistant Director of Admissions at the University of the Pacific Arthur A. Dugoni School of Dentistry. This is her fourth year with the school.
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