There’s Power in the Blood By James Gulley ’95, PhD, Co-Director Center for Immuno-Oncology, CCR, NCI, NIH Clinical Director, NCI, NIH, Liaison to the LLUH Board Mark E. Reeves ’92, PhD, Director, LLU Cancer Center; VP, LLU Institutes Professor of Surgery, Medicine, and Basic Sciences, LLUH Published in the spring 2024 ALUMNI JOURNAL Immunotherapy is…
Community Affiliations: RUH and LLUSM by Douglas R. Hegstad ’80-A, MACP, Associate Professor Department of Medicine LLU School of Medicine Published in the spring 2024 ALUMNI JOURNAL In 1962, David B. Hinshaw ’47, dean of the renamed Loma Linda University School of Medicine (LLUSM), and the Riverside County Board of Supervisors signed documents motivated by…
Gridiron to Sideline: College Athlete to Team Physician By Danelle M. Taylor Johnston, MA, Managing Editor Published in the spring 2024 ALUMNI JOURNAL When Zachary Hill ’17 stepped into a Big Ten college football stadium in the fall of 2023, he was coming home. Hill had just joined Sierra Pacific Orthopedics in Fresno, California, and…
Service Is in Our DNA By Danelle M. Taylor Johnston, MA, Managing Editor Published in the spring 2024 ALUMNI JOURNAL My only thought in that moment was for Elias,” Jean E. Sprengel ’81 said about the small 3-year-old boy who was resting in her arms. He had been burned severely in an open kitchen fire…
A Community to Foster the Spirit of Loyalty By Dennis E. Park, MA, ’07-hon, Consulting Historian Published in the spring 2024 ALUMNI JOURNAL The Founding of the College of Medical Evangelists (CME), today known as Loma Linda University (LLU) has been well documented in the pages of the ALUMNI JOURNAL and other publications. Also…
100 Years of Creating Community By Steve Herber ’86, past president Published in the spring 2024 ALUMNI JOURNAL This Alumni Association was born out of a desire by our founders to foster and advance the essence of community. For all of us, the sense of community began in our first year of medical school. The…
AIMS Report: Communities Join for First-Ever Heart Surgeries Published in the Spring 2024 ALUMNI JOURNAL God’s Coordinating Circumstances By Charlene Wang ’22 We first met when I was in my fourth year of medical school on a mission elective at Malamulo Adventist Hospital in Malawi. I had never been outside the country by myself,…
DEPARTMENT REPORT: Urology By Herbert C. Ruckle ’86 Chair, DEPARTMENT OF UROLOGY Published in the Spring 2024 ALUMNI JOURNAL The Loma Linda University School of Medicine (LLUSM) department of urology has its roots in Los Angeles when the school used the White Memorial Medical Center and LA County Medical Center as their clinical teaching hospitals.…
Published in the ALUMNI JOURNAL spring 2024 “He holds the record as the longest-serving dean of LLUSM, leading for 16 years from 2003 to 2019.” H. Roger Hadley gives his acceptance speech for the Alumnus of the Year Award at the 2024 APC Gala. As a junior in medical school, he was the first student…
Published in the spring 2024 ALUMNI JOURNAL The Student Affairs Council Representative Award is presented to the student representative(s) from the graduating class to recognize their collaboration with the Alumni Association throughout medical school. This year’s recipients are Sarah Jane Rudd (’24) and Alphie Rotinsulu (’24).