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LEAVING A LEGACY OF STRENGTH Herbert Lotman passes the PCOM torch to new chairman of the board Paul McGloin. Lotman, who will remain a board member, is credited with leading the College to fiscal strength during a particularly difficult time in the early ’90s. McGloin, a board member for 13 years, will continue to bring to PCOM his vast financial knowledge and experience.
ON THE COVER Jeffrey McCleary (PsyD), sitting left, meets with a patient at PCOM Healthcare Center Lancaster Avenue Division while Barbara Golden (PsyD) and Harry Morris, DO ’78, review his chart.
ALUMNI ASSOCIATION NEWS A revamped DO Alumni Association strives to provide service to members, while PCOM forms alumni associations for all the College’s programs.
Cover photo: Jeff Reeder
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PHYSICIAN HELPS THE NEEDY – WHEREVER THEY ARE After completing a medical mission to the former Soviet Union in 1991, Gregory P. Samano, DO ’72, was hooked. Since then, he’s led medical teams to Guatemala, Nicaragua and Peru.
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COVER STORY PRIMARY CARE AND PSYCHOLOGY: PERFECT TOGETHER There’s a new member of the health care team at PCOM’s Healthcare Centers: psychology students. Reflecting the College’s approach to treating the whole person, this collaboration between medicine and psychology is changing the dynamics of primary health care.
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HE’S GOT HEART Armed with an NIH grant, PCOM researcher Lindon H. Young, PhD, is intent on finding out how to prevent or limit heart damage during transplant surgery and heart attack.
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PCOM UPDATES Nicholas Bower (DO ’05) has big dreams for Ecuador; PCOM announces leaders of proposed Georgia branch campus; new psychology department chair named; College implements School as Lender Program; new OMM fellows announced.
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’00, was well prepared to treat the gamut of medical problems as an Air Force physician in Southwest Asia; Ellen Peterman, MS/Biomed ’03, can’t wait to practice medicine in Russia and return the generosity of the people there.
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Emergency physician Douglas L. McGee, DO ’87, has a simple message: motorcycle helmet laws save lives. He’s not happy that the Pennsylvania helmet law was repealed last fall.