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Honored Alumni 2011

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Linda Ferry '79-B. Linda Ferry works as an associate professor of preventive medicine and family medicine at the Loma Linda University School of Medicine. She is also chief of the preventive medicine section at the Jerry L. Pettis Memorial Veterans Medical Center. In her efforts to help patients with smoking cessation, she became the first to study bupropion (Zyban), which became the first nicotine-free treatment to be approved by the FDA. To date nearly 3 million people have been able to quit smoking as a result of Dr. Ferry’s research. Her other research projects look at spirituality and smoking, gender differences in smoking cessation, and the treatment of high-risk smokers in the veteran population who have other psychiatric conditions. Dr. Ferry is the founder and president of the Foundation of Innovations in Nicotine Dependence (FIND), and she started the Internet self-support program Stop Smoking Today Online Project (SSTOP). She has been interviewed on NBC’s Today Show and on Dateline. Anton N. Hasso '67. In addition to his work as a professor and director of neuroimaging research at the College of Medicine at the University of California, Irvine, Anton Hasso also works as that institution’s division chief of neuroradiology and the program director of their neuroradiology fellowship training program. He is also a professor of otolaryngology/head and neck surgery at the University of California, Irvine’s, College of Medicine and a voluntary clinical professor of radiology at the Loma Linda University School of Medicine. In 1986 he won both the Student/Faculty Research Award and the Clinical Investigator of the Year Award from the Walter E. Macpherson Society. Dr. Hasso has been a fellow in diagnostic and cardiovascular radiology, in neuroradiology, and in orbital and ENT radiology. He has done research in the areas of cranial computed tomography, contrast-enhanced magnetic resonance angiography of the head and neck in patients 18 years of age or less, and Alzheimer’s among SDAs. Rebecca J. Patchin '89. Rebecca Patchin is a clinician and assistant professor of anesthesiology for Loma Linda University. Active in leadership, she is a trustee, chair of the membership committee, a member of the committee on organization and operations, and a member of the executive committee for the American Medical Association. Dr. Patchin is also secretary of the Joint Commission Board. For the Riverside County Medical Association, she is a member of the board of directors, chair of the committee on legislation, liaison to medical students, and chair of the CME committee. She serves the California Medical Association as a delegate to the CMA house of delegates, as a member of the technical advisory committee, and a member of the council on legislation. She is also a member of the American Society of Anesthesiologists, the Children’s Spine Foundation, the California Society of Interventional Pain Physicians, and the Joint Commission on accreditation of Health Care Organizations. Elsie A. Tupper '53-A. Although Elise Tupper will be 90 years old in November, she still practices full-time and makes house calls. After her first husband was killed in a plane crash during World War II, Dr. Tupper decided to attend Walla Walla College. While there, she met Clarence Tupper. Clarence was willing to sacrifice his own ambitions for a medical career to support Dr. Tupper in hers. Dr. Tupper is a fellow of the American Academy of Family Practice and a life member of the American Academy of American Family Physicians. She currently practices in the Goldendale Medical Clinic in Goldendale, Washington, and lives on a cattle ranch in the same town. She and Clarence donated 480 acres of their property to Project PATCH, a non-profit organization that serves troubled youth and builds stronger families. They have also hosted Pathfinders on their property, 1,000 of them, for camporees. Beverly Cox and Henri Wiebe met in medical school when they were in the same anatomy lab. They married during their residency years and, since then, have committed their lives to medical mission service. They spent four years at the Weimar Lifestyle Medicine Institute, which helped them develop the lifestyle programs they then took to the rest of the world. They have served in Thailand, Puerto Rico, Nepal, Sri Lanka, Guam, Kazakstan, China, the Dominican Republic, Mexico, and Canada and have created training programs for healthy living, started cooking schools, integrated health into church evangelism and applied simple treatments for common diseases. One of their programs involves teaching youth to be leaders in living a healthy life, with an emphasis on spirituality. Between the two of them, they have given a combined 90 years of service. Beverly Cox and Henri Wiebe met in medical school when they were in the same anatomy lab. They married during their residency years and, since then, have committed their lives to medical mission service. They spent four years at the Weimar Lifestyle Medicine Institute, which helped them develop the lifestyle programs they then took to the rest of the world. They have served in Thailand, Puerto Rico, Nepal, Sri Lanka, Guam, Kazakstan, China, the Dominican Republic, Mexico, and Canada and have created training programs for healthy living, started cooking schools, integrated health into church evangelism and applied simple treatments for common diseases. One of their programs involves teaching youth to be leaders in living a healthy life, with an emphasis on spirituality. Between the two of them, they have given a combined 90 years of service. Lester Wright works as Deputy Commissioner and Chief Medical Officer for the New York State Department of Correctional Services. He is responsible for providing healthcare to over 60,000 inmates in 70 facilities. Because about 4,000 of the inmates are infected with HIV, Dr. Wright has developed special methods to better treat and serve his patients. He has been an international HIV prevention advisor, and started a new clinical education program with the Albany Medical Center which broadcasts educational HIV information to prisons. In addition to his work for the Department of Correctional Services, Dr. Wright is a senior lecturer at Columbia University School of Nursing. He also has degree from the Harvard University School of Public Health. His interest in public health and epidemiology gave way to a preventive program that tracks disease in the prison system. Alumnus of the Year David J. Baylink '57

 

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