(This story appears in the latest edition of the WSU Spokane Magazine)
By Kevin Dudley
The entrepreneurial ecosystem in Spokane now has a business accelerator that helps established businesses find investors: Ignite Northwest.
Dr. Samuel Selinger, a retired cardiovascular surgeon, is dedicated to helping others as a Prescription Assistance Network activist and volunteer.
(This story appears in the latest edition of the WSU Spokane Magazine)
By Lorraine Nelson
The research study group was small, but it demonstrated what Dr. Samuel Selinger figured it would:
If you help low-income patients obtain free or low-cost prescription medications consistently, their visits to the emergency room and admissions to the hospital decrease.
HPA instructor Anna Franklin, center, is the project coach and mentor for students Michelle Le, right, and Elyse Brokaw, left, on the Lean Six Sigma project to improve a process on campus.
(This story appears in the latest edition of the WSU Spokane Magazine)
By Sarah Schaub
A student-led “Lean” project is helping streamline campus operations at WSU Health Sciences Spokane while preparing graduate students for leadership roles in health care management.
(This story appears in the latest edition of the WSU Spokane Magazine)
By Lorraine Nelson
The new Spokane Teaching Health Clinic is creating excitement for the students and professors in health sciences programs on the WSU Spokane and Eastern Washington University Spokane campus.
(This story appears in the latest edition of the WSU Spokane Magazine)
By Judith Van Dongen
Here is a roundup of the latest research news at WSU Spokane.
Photo credit: Dean Davis
(This story appears in the latest edition of the WSU Spokane Magazine)
By Kevin Dudley
What’s next for Spokane’s University District? Will it be the hub of innovation, collaboration and higher education for the region?
Mark Mansfield envisions it will.
WSU student pharmacists at the Midyear American Society of Health‑System Pharmacists convention in Anaheim, CA.
(This story appears in the latest edition of the WSU Spokane Magazine)
By Lori Maricle
Leadership opportunities are built into the doctor of pharmacy program at WSU Spokane, some on campus in one of many pharmacy organizations, and others in the national arena where faculty have roles and contacts.
(This story appears in the latest edition of the WSU Spokane Magazine)
By Terren Roloff
As an American Indian teenager in Rapid City, South Dakota, Yvette Roubideaux (pictured above, second from left) experienced long waits when she went to the doctor at the local Indian Health Service clinic.
She heard from relatives who were frustrated at not knowing which physician they would see, and who were not happy with their care.
It got her to thinking that maybe she could be one of the solutions to the problems in Indian health.
(This story appears in the latest edition of the WSU Spokane Magazine)
By Alli Benjamin
The new dean of the College of Nursing arrived in April with more than 25 years of experience in academic nursing.
Dean Joyce P. Griffin-Sobel, Ph.D., R.N., is the college’s seventh dean and succeeds Patricia Butterfield, Ph.D., who returned to the faculty and her research.
(This story appears in the latest edition of the WSU Spokane Magazine)
By Doug Nadvornick
When Elson Floyd envisioned a Washington State University medical school, he had big dreams.
He spoke about training more doctors in Washington to alleviate the state’s physician shortage and about using WSU’s stature as the state’s land-grant university to extend the new school’s influence into every county.
Nearly a year after his passing as the new school that now bears Floyd’s name is in the process of being created, the expectations are high. Prospective students are contacting the school to find out when they can apply. Several of Washington’s health care providers have signed agreements to teach WSU medical students in clinical rotations. And Founding Dean John Tomkowiak, M.D., is leading the effort to give the state’s newest publicly-funded medical school its own unique identity.