Today - Volume 02, Number 19

              Linda University
Loma Linda University Medical Center
Adventist Health System I Loma Linda TODAY
Wednesday, November 8, 1989 LCMA LINDA UNIV. LIBRAR>
SEPIALS DEPARTMENT
Volume 2, Number 19
LOMA LINDA, CA 92350
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Winners named in learning
skills workshop drawing
T. Milford Harrison ( left), owner ( along with his wife, Cheryl) of University Travel in Loma
Linda, presents travel gift certificates to Kim Carlson, freshman medical student, and James
Genobaga, freshman dental student. The students' names were selected in a drawing from
the names of medical and dental students who attended this year's learning skill? workshops.
" WHAT'S INSIDE. ..
Norwood lecture........ 2
Extended campus........ 2
Fertilization clinic. ..... .3
Weekend get- away....... 3
Community fair. ....... .4
Health service.......... 5
Family workshop........ 5
McCune reception. ..... .6
Friends of LLU......... 7
Noted ophthalmologist.... 7
Dr. Yoon.............. 8
PUC students........... 8
Brass quintet........... 9
Excellence in teaching. . . 10
Greek, girl............. 10
Meet- the- firms ......... 11
Summer adventure. ..... 13
Warren Miller film. ..... 14
Eye Bank award........ 14
La Sierra paper........ 15
Food manufacturers..... 15
Faculty governance..... 16
Two MC anesthesiologists
are inducted into critical
care medicine society
Two anesthesiologists from
Loma Linda University Medical
Center were among 36 anesthe
siologists to be inducted into the
American College of Critical Care
Medicine during a formal
ceremony held recently in New
Orleans, Louisiana.
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Two freshmen students learned
recently that their names had
been drawn to receive free travel
tickets. They were among the
Loma Linda University freshmen
medical and dental students who
attended the learning skills
workshops held by the respective
schools.
James Genobaga, a freshman
dental student who attended the
School of Dentistry workshop
September 13- 15, won two tickets
to anywhere in the continental
United States that Continental
Airlines flies. ( The tickets were
provided by Continental Airlines
and by University Travel of Loma
Linda, owned by T. Milford and
Cheryl Harrison of Loma Linda.)
When Mr. Genobaga, who lives
with his parents, Chris and Mol
ly Genobaga of Riverside, became
Lu^ uuHXii mat nc was a toona ride
winner rather than the victim
of a practical joke perpetrated by
his friends he immediately
decided that he would give the
tickets to his parents.
" They are helping me through
school," he said, " and they haven't
had a vacation in years."
Kim Carlson, a freshman
medical student from Park City,
Utah, who attended the School
of Medicine learning skills
workshop August 2- 4, won two
tickets to San Francisco. Her
tickets were provided by Univer
sity Travel.
The three- day learning skills
workshops, which are available for
incoming freshmen medical and
dental students to attend volun
tarily, are designed to help
students maximize their educa
tional experience at Loma Linda
University. Ways to master learn
ing and study skills, as well as in
formation to help students deter
mine their own unique learning
styles, are presented. The
students have an opportunity to
meet some of the faculty who will
be teaching them during their first
year. They also have a chance to
meet classmates.
" This helps them to get rid of
the fear factor" says George M.
Lessard, PhD, professor of bio
chemistry in the School of
Medicine, and director of research
planning in the School of Den
tistry, who helped develop the .4
learning skills workshop. " Attend
ing their school's workshop is
the first opportunity that most
dental and medical students have
to get acquainted with Loma Lin
da. We try to create an environ
ment that is totally supportive and
very informal."
The School of Dentistry con
ducted its first learning skills
workshop in 1987, and the
School of Medicine had its first
in 1988.
" Our main speakers this year,"
Dr. Lessard says, " were Dr. Keith
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Medical Center
bids farewell to
Soviet Armenian friend
After a year of specialized train
ing at Loma Linda University
Medical Center, Arshak Zohra-bian,
MD, PhD, is on his way
home to Armenia.
At the invitation of Joan Coggin,
MD, LLL'MC cardiologist,
and associate dean for interna
tional programs at the LLU
School of Medicine, Dr. Zohra-bian
came to Loma Linda last
December. He arrived just before
the devastating earthquake hit
Soviet Armenia. ( Although his
family survived, two of his friends
from medical school days died in
the quake.) He left just after a ma
jor earthquake hit the San Fran
cisco / Oakland area.
In an interview a few days before
he was to depart, Dr. Zohrabian
said that Armenians have col
lected money for these latest
earthquake victims in the United
States, in appreciation for what
Americans did for the Armenian
earthquake survivors. He express
ed gratitude for the 5,000 pounds
of medical supplies that Loma
Linda sent to Armenia, in a relief
effort organized by Dr. Coggin.
While at LLUMC, Dr. Zohra
bian received training in micro
surgery, CAT ( computerized ax
ial tomography) scan, and MRI
( magnetic resonance imaging),
and observed many types of
surgery. Although CAT scans are
done in the Soviet Union, that
country has no MRI machine; at
least it didn't at the time he left,
he stated. He hopes, however,
that there will be such a machine
in Armenia in the near future.
While in Loma Linda, Dr.
Zohrabian also participated in
research at Jerry L. Pettis
Memorial Veterans Hospital in
Loma Linda. The research was
on clips used instead of some
sutures during brain surgery. The
clips cause less bleeding, take less
time to attach than it takes to
suture, and avoid the trauma caus
ed by sutures.
Dr. Zohrabian is carrying home
to his country many slides that he
took at Loma Linda to use in
teaching his students in Armenia
about MRI and CAT- scan pro
cedures. He is an assistant pro
fessor of neurosurgery at the
Medical School of Erevan in
Armenia, and also is chief of the
head- injury section. He did his
residency in Moscow from
1974- 81. His doctorate degree, he
said, is in Parkinsoris disease.
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