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Mission To Nicaragua, Loma Linda University

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In this issue . . .

2 | Dr. Lyn Behrens announces plans to retire
LLUAHSC president announces retirement after serving the institution for 17 years

6 | What in the world is AHI?
Adventist Health International celebrates 10 years of service

12 | Mission to Nicaragua
Sixty-eight volunteers staff seven dental clinics in Nicaragua

16 | Consumed by eating disorders
Two individuals who struggle with anorexia are recovering today

20 | The Pettis papers dedication
LLUAHSC honors two individuals who chose to live extraordinary lives

26 | Comments by the Honorable Shirley Pettis-Roberson

28 | Comments by former First …

A Bold Plan, A Bright Future, Loma Linda University

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In this issue...

2 | Commencement 2007
Loma Linda University graduates 1,203 during commencement ceremonies in its 102nd year

8 | Leveling the playing field
East Campus Hospital unveils its latest efforts to create a healing environment by opening a park with no boundaries

12 | Loma Linda 360° debuts
LLUAHSC launches new broadcast to share stories of outreach, adventure, and service

14 | Patients benefit from robotic surgery
Loma Linda surgeons use robotic surgery equipment to reduce the impact of surgery

17 | A bold plan, a bright future
The CEO and administrator of Loma Linda University Medical Center …

The Physiological Consequences Of Bed Rest, Kristin J. Stuempfle, Daniel G. Drury

Health Sciences Faculty Publications

Bed rest often is used to treat a wide variety of medical conditions. However, bed rest results in profound deconditioning of the body. Bed rest reduces the hydrostatic pressure gradient within the cardiovascular system, reduces muscle force production, virtually eliminates compression on the bones, and lowers total energy expenditure. This review focuses on the deconditioning that occurs in the cardiovascular, muscular, and skeletal systems following bed rest. Reduction in plasma volume reduces cardiac preload, stroke volume, cardiac output, and ultimately, maximal oxygen consumption. Skeletal muscle volume, muscle cross sectional area, and fiber cross sectional area decrease, which results in diminished …

Commencement Program 2007, Loma Linda University

Commencement Programs

CONTENTS

2 | 2006 Events of Commencement

3 | The Academic Procession

4 | Significance of Academic Regalia

5 | The Good Samaritan

6 | The Speakers

13 | The University Honorees

21 | The School Honorees

33 | The Program

• School of Medicine, 34
• School of Pharmacy, 45
• School of Dentistry, 50
• School of Science and Technology and School of Religion, 60
• School of Nursing, 68
• School of Allied Health Professions - Physical Therapy, 75
• School of Allied Health Professions, 82
• School of Public Health, 91

Forty Years Of Transplantation At Loma Linda, Loma Linda University

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In this issue . . .

2 | Transplantation at Loma Linda
It’s been 40 years since the first kidney transplant at Loma Linda

7 | Remembering Baby Fae
Leonard L. Bailey, MD, tells the story of Baby Fae

12 | Everyday heroes
The pediatric trauma team exists to save young lives

16 | Same family, different sides
Circumstances put classmates on opposite sides of a grim 1943 battle

20 | Telehealth: miles away but face to face
Health care professionals and educators use telehealth technologies to serve outlying communities

24 | Newscope
News about Loma Linda...

Preventing And Treating Type 2 Diabetes Through A Physically Active Lifestyle, Raymond W. Leung, Jim Kamla, Man-Cheong Lee, Jennifer Y. Mak

Management Faculty Research

By the late 1960s, the increasing number of type 2 diabetic cases in children and adolescents rapidly presented a signifi cant public health issue recognized by the American Diabetes Association (2000). Since then, the prevalence of pediatric type 2 diabetes appears to be on the rise not only in the United States but all around the world (Gungor et al., 2005). In the United States, an increase from fewer than four percent to more than 50 percent of new cases of type 2 diabetes in the pediatric population was reported between the years of 1982 and 1998 (American Diabetes Association, …

Exercise Adherence: Motivational Factors Influencing Exercise Adherence And Fitness Level, Justin Recklau

Undergraduate Theses and Capstone Projects

There are many factors that influence adherence to an exercise program. This research study aimed to determine which factors most effectively ensured adherence, with the hypothesis that no single factor was indicative of exercise adherence as adherence is a dynamic item. The results target exercise professionals to assist them in retaining clientele and encouraging clientele to adhere to exercise programs. A survey was implemented that had clients self-report their stage in the transtheoretical model as well as how strongly they felt about five positive factors to exercise as well as five barriers to exercise. In addition to surveys, body composition, …

A Two-Hour Basketball Practice Increases Landing Error Scoring System Scores In Female Collegiate Basketball Players, Caroline Wesley

Undergraduate Theses and Capstone Projects

The high rate of knee injuries in women’s athletics has been well documented in recent years. There are multiple factors which contribute to the increased risk of injury in female athletes, including biomechanics when landing. Fatigue has also been examined as a contributing factor to injury, but few studies have utilized actual sport participation as a fatiguing protocol. No study has used the Landing Error Scoring System (LESS) to examine the changes that may result from fatigue. The objective of our study was to use the LESS to examine the effects of a two-hour basketball practice on the landing biomechanics …

Downstream Pathway Activation In Cultured Hepatocytes Following Treatment With Francisella Tularensis, Nicole Wakefield

Undergraduate Theses and Capstone Projects

Francisella tularensis, the intracellular pathogen that causes tularemia, was investigated to determine how it infects and replicates within mammalian hepatocytes. To date, it has been shown that hepatocytes can be infected by F. tularensis and that this causes considerable change in the protein phosphorylation state of several vital signaling molecules within the host cell. Protein kinase pathways can be mapped as signatures of infection. Hepatocytes tend to be susceptible to infection by F. tularensis, thus stimulating internal signaling. The Francisella strains used were selected with the goal of producing a model that can be used to elucidate the cell signaling …

Perceived Racial Discrimination And Nonadherence To Screening Mammography, Amy B. Dailey, Stanislav V. Kasl, Theodore R. Holford, Beth A. Jones

Health Sciences Faculty Publications

Objective. We examined whether African American women were as likely as White women to receive the results of a recent mammogram and to self-report results that matched the mammography radiology report (i.e., were adequately communicated). We also sought to determine whether the adequacy of communication was the same for normal and abnormal results. Methods. From a prospective cohort study of mammography screening, we compared self-reported mammogram results, which were collected by telephone interview, to results listed in the radiology record of 411 African American and 734 White women who underwent screening in 5 hospital-based facilities in Connecticut between October 1996 …

Adequacy Of Communicating Results From Screening Mammograms To African American And White Women, Beth Jones, Kam Reams, Lisa Calvocoressi, Amy B. Dailey, Stanislav V. Kasl, Nancy M. Liston

Health Sciences Faculty Publications

Objective. We examined whether African American women were as likely as White women to receive the results of a recent mammogram and to self-report results that matched the mammography radiology report (i.e., were adequately communicated). We also sought to determine whether the adequacy of communication was the same for normal and abnormal results.

Methods. From a prospective cohort study of mammography screening, we compared self-reported mammogram results, which were collected by telephone interview, to results listed in the radiology record of 411 African American and 734 White women who underwent screening in 5 hospital-based facilities in Connecticut between October 1996 …

Ponderal Somatograms Assess Changes In Anthropometric Measurements Over An Academic Year In Division Iii Collegiate Football Players, Kristin J. Stuempfle, Daniel G. Drury, David F. Petrie, Frank I. Katch

Health Sciences Faculty Publications

Ponderal somatograms evaluate body size and shape by converting muscular (shoulders, chest, biceps, forearm, thigh, calf) and nonmuscular (abdomen, hips, knee, ankle, wrist) girths into ponderal equivalent (PE) values. Anthropometric measurements, including stature, body mass, girths, and percent body fat by densitometry were collected in 54 Division III football players in preseason camp (fall) and at the beginning (winter) and end (spring) of the team strength and conditioning program. PE values were calculated for each girth as PE, kg = (girth, cm / k) squared x stature, dm, where k = k constant from Behnke's reference man. PE values were …

Tgfβ3 Inhibits E-Cadherin Gene Expression In Palate Medial-Edge Epithelial Cells Through A Smad2-Smad4- Lef1 Transcription Complex, Ali Nawshad, Damian Medici, Chang-Chih Liu, Elizabeth D. Hay

College of Dentistry: Faculty Publications

Dissociation of medial-edge epithelium (MEE) during palate development is essential for mediating correct craniofacial morphogenesis. This phenomenon is initiated by TGFβ3 upon adherence of opposing palatal shelves, because loss of E-cadherin causes the MEE seam to break into small epithelial islands. To investigate the molecular mechanisms that cause this E-cadherin loss, we isolated and cultured murine embryonic primary MEE cells from adhered or non-adhered palates. Here, we provide the first evidence that lymphoid enhancer factor 1 (LEF1), when functionally activated by phosphorylated Smad2 (Smad2- P) and Smad4 (rather than β-catenin), binds with the promoter of the E-cadherin gene to repress …