President’s Message  By Caroll Ryan, PhD  We wish you many blessings as summer gets underway.  As we progress though the month of June, let us not forget to slow down…

Student Services: Financial Aid  The Edna Johnson Scholarship  By Venus Cruz, Financial Aid Adminstrator  The American University of Health Sciences offers The Edna Johnson Memorial Scholarship to all University students…

Spotlight: Dr. Oksana Zayachkivska, MD, PhD, DSc, Prof. of Physiology  By Brent Davis, PhD  Dr. Zayachkivska comes to AUHS from the Ukraine. She and her 94-year-old mother had to wait…

Resident Symposium and Night with Industry  By: Jennifer Nguyen, P3 and Grant D. Lackey, PharmD  The South Bay Long Beach Society of Health Systems Pharmacists (SBLBSHP) a chapter of the…

Rare Diseases Series – Monkeypox   By Radhika Kumar, MS, PhD, Asst. Prof.   A rare infectious viral disease which is prevalent in Central and West African nations recently was found in…

Alzheimer’s Disease & Memory Loss  By Jasen Chau, PharmD, APh.   Any type of dementia may cause memory loss as a symptom and this loss of memory is common in patients…

Violence in Health Care  By Michael Vallez, RN, BSN, MS  There is a growing problem of physical violence against healthcare workers. I will focus on nurses. Every experienced nurse has…

Stress Today: From Basics to COVID-19  Sandor Szabo, MD, PhD, MPH  Founding Dean and Professor, School of Medicine  The word “stress” is very often used, especially during and after the…

Restart of Salt and Light Campus Ministry  By Brent Davis, PhD  Our university is in the city of Signal Hill; it is hard to hide a city on a hill.…

Foundation News  By Brent Davis, PhD and Lieu Suss, MPH  On June 11, 2022, the AUHS Foundation hosted another Acts of Love outreach to the community. Needy residents were blessed…

Around AUHS  By Brent Davis, PhD  Summer is here and the weather is hot, but not too hot here by the beach. Summer term has just started, and students are…