USU Newsletter 

VOLUME 2,ISSUE 17 WWW.USUHS.MIL OCTOBER 15, 2007 

In This Issue 

Disabilities Month...........................2 

Earthquake in Peru.........................3 

CDHAM visits Chad.........................4 

Artist Sailor.........................................5 

CAPT Porvaznik................................6 

News Briefs........................................7 

Calendar.............................................8 Fit For Duty.........3 
USU Newsletter 

Editorial Staff 

Carol R. Scheman 

Vice President for 

External Affairs and 

Managing Editor 

Tech. Sgt. 

André Nicholson 

Editor 

Mass Communications 

Specialist Third Class 

Jeff Hopkins 

Assistant Editor 

Mass Communications 

Specialist 

Seaman 

Raul Zamora 

Assistant Editor 

 

Sharon Willis 

Contributing Writer 

Marla Wright 

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Cover Photo By: 

MCSN Raul Zamora 

 The Uniformed Services University of the Health 

Sciences observed National Disability Awareness 

Month during a program Oct. 10 in the USU cafeteria. The keynote speaker, Barbara J. Kornblau, 

J.D., OTR/L, gave a speech entitled “Workers with 

Disabilities: Talent for a Winning Team.” 

 Dr. Charles L. Rice, president, USU, welcomed 

Kornblau to the university, and impressed upon 

those present that the topic had special relevance 

to the military’s current situation. 

 “With the types of injuries troops are returning 

from Iraq, it is very important to us, certainly an 

issue we will be dealing with for years to come,” 

he said. 

 Kornblau is the professor of Occupational Therapy and Public Health in the Colleges of Allied 

Health and Osteopathic Medicine, and adjunct 

professor in the Sheppard Broad Law Center at 

Nova Southeastern University in Fort Lauderdale, 

Fl. As a practicing attorney, she specializes in 

health and disability related issues, including 

American Disability Act litigation and consultation. 

 Kornblau’s speech involved disability policy, 

and how it impacts employment and independence in the community. 

 “One of the biggest barriers is attitude,” Kornblau said. “I use a cane, I have arthritis; When I go 

to conferences I use a scooter. When I was president of the American Occupational Therapy Association, someone asked one of my colleagues if I 

was healthy enough to be president, if they 

should vote for me. We make assumptions, we put 

ourselves in other people’s shoes and wonder 

‘how would I be if I was that person?’ and you 

can’t do that, because you can’t make assumptions about how people get along in life and what 

they’re able to do.” 

 The second barrier Kornblau addressed were 

the physical barriers people with disabilities encounter in their work environments, such as a lack 

of ramps, or doors that are too heavy for a person 

with disabilities to safely open. 

 “Most of the physical barriers are covered under Title III of the American Disabilities act, and 

most of the changes get made if people complain, 

or unfortunately, sue people to get changes 

made,” Kornblau said. “I got a call from an attorney saying ‘You won’t believe what happened, my 

client just got sued because they said that the 

doors to this building are too heavy,’ and I asked, 

‘how much do they weigh?’ The attorney said, 

‘they’re about 15 pounds to pull,’ and I said 

“they’re right. You can go to court, or you can fix 

them.” If they’d fix it the first time someone complained, they’d have no problem, and because of 

this, a lot of the physical environment problems 

are being fixed.” 

 Another major barrier Kornblau cited was the 

lack of adequate support services for people with 

disabilities. She stated that to an extent, service 

members who are returning from war with traumatic injuries and disabilities are lucky, because of 

the great extent to which the military looks after 

its injured service members. 

 “If you have a head trauma or some other kind 

of serious injury and are not in the military, then 

you really don’t have a lot of support to help you,” 

Kornblau said. “That may be the difference between you working and living in the community, 

or living in a nursing home. When you’re a 19 or 

25-year-old person, living in a nursing home is not 

exactly a pleasant environment.” 

 Kornblau also spoke of two bills currently in the 

House and the Senate, which would greatly improve the support services that disabled individuals would receive, but also standardize medical 

equipment so that all patients, regardless of their 

disabilities, would be able to use them, or have 

access to them. 

 “The first bill is the Community Choice Act, 

which would require the state to provide attendant care services for people who meet the criteria to be in the nursing home,” Kornblau said. 

“There are already programs in place in different 

states and areas that do this, but this will require 

that it be available everywhere, so that the 25-

year-old with disabilities won’t have to live in a 

nursing home and can go to work, because they 

are able to get the attendant care that they need, 

and be able to go out in the community and be 

contributing citizens.” 

 “The second bill is the Health and Wellness Bill 

for individuals with disabilities, and it does three 

things: it creates standards of acceptability for 

medical equipment that would make it suitable for 

all people, to include those with disabilities,” Kornblau said. “Everybody needs access to the same 

diagnostic and treatment equipment. The second 

part of this bill creates plans for creating wellness 

programs for people with disabilities. This looks at 

how we can create model programs so that we 

can reach people with disabilities in an appropriate manner so that we can meet the needs of the 

disabled community.” 

 “The third part of the bill, which I think is really 

fascinating, requires medical schools and residency programs to teach medical students, dentists, and other professionals how to work with 

people with disabilities,” Kornblau said. ” 

 “There are many ways to make accommodations for people as they age to keep good workers 

on the job, and hire people who are motivated 

and want to work,” she said. 

USU observes National Disability Month 

By MC3 Jeff Hopkins 

Assistant Editor, Office of External Affairs 
PAGE 3 

 It’s that time again. Service members all over the country have been ditching the snack foods and lacing up their running shoes for the fall 

physical fitness testing. Sailors from the Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences’ (USU) enlisted Navy division performed their PFA 

as a group Oct. 10 on the USU softball field to promote unity and morale. 

Photo by MCSN Raul Zamora 

Fit for duty 

 Sometimes countries are in need of help. In March 2006 a 

group of seven of the Uniformed Services University of the Health 

Sciences (USU) staff and faculty members went to Chad to teach 

first responder training. As a follow-up to that trip three staff and 

faculty members went to Chad to make sure everything was still 

running smoothly. 

 Chad is located in North Central Africa and is about three times 

the size of California. 

 The three USU members who went on the trip this year were 

Col. Charles Beadling, USAF, MC, Center for Disaster and Humanitarian Medicine (CDHAM); CWO (Ret.) Ray Handel, USCG, MEM; 

HM1 Ebenezer Atekwana, USN, MEM. 

 For nine days the trip consisted of lots of meetings with the 

chairman of the United Nations Development Program (UNDP) 

and the U.S. Embassy personnel. These meetings were held so 

that the USU staff and faculty could find out important information about Chad, such as who to talk to and where the hospitals 

were located. 

 “We had to meet with the new chairman of the UNDP so that 

we could see what his actions were going to be with de-mining 

the area,” said Atekwana. “He had only been appointed the day 

before we got there and he seemed to have a good head on his 

shoulders. He wants to realign the program and be more 

efficient.” 

 Land mines are a serious threat in Chad. Many adults and children are injured or killed in explosions. Due to these injuries some 

of the locals have lost their limbs and have to use prosthetics. 

 “We spoke with a local prosthetics clinic who use obsolete prosthetics, and we helped them out by teaching them how to better 

their prosthetics and how to update their skills,” Atekwana said. 

“We are also thinking about donating better prosthetics that we 

no longer use in the U.S.” 

 The American Red Cross is also in Chad doing a lot of humanitarian work. Atekwana said that they got some good advice from 

the Red Cross. 

 “One was that we should not give the Chadians technology 

that is too advanced, we wanted to keep it simple for them. We 

want to give them physical therapy techniques or prosthetic technicians from Walter Reed Army Medical Center as soon as we 

can.” 

 “This experience changed me because it made me realize that 

we should go out there and help these people,” Atekwana said. 

“They are grateful that we would take the time from our busy 

schedules and families and help out some one we don’t know. We 

don’t get paid for it and the whole experience comes straight 

from the heart. It’s very heart touching, I didn’t realize the magnitude until we got there.” 

CDHAM provides first-responder training to Chadians 

By MCSN Raul Zamora 

Assistant Editor, Office of External Affairs 
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 On the evening of Aug. 15, at 6:41 p.m., a powerful earthquake measuring 8.0 on the moment magnitude scale hit the 

central coast of Peru. The Peruvian government reported 510 

deaths, and the destruction of more than 58,000 homes. All of 

America heard the stories of confusion and chaos, but a few experienced it first-hand. 

 Eight first-year medical students from the Uniformed Services 

University of the Health Sciences (USU) were in Peru as part of an 

annual trip for select students, during which the participants visit 

the Naval Medical Research Institute detachment and shadow 

various doctors and researchers to learn about the type of work 

done there. 

 The students were in a hotel on the shore of the small coastal 

village of Paracas, receiving a briefing on navigation, employing 

the use of global-positioning satellite (GPS) technology, when the 

powerful earthquake hit, lasting two minutes, and throwing the 

students into darkness and confusion. 

 “I grew up in Alaska, so I’ve been in earthquakes before. Some 

people ran out of the room or under the table right away,” said 

2LT Hunter Winegarner, one of the medical students participating 

in the trip. “I’ve been in violent, short earthquakes where you 

don’t want to be the guy cowering under the table while people 

laugh, so I was hesitant to get under the table right away. The 

lights went out pretty quickly, and the fellow next to me asked if 

we should get under the table, and at that point we did.” 

 “It was a modern style constructed hotel, and I believe that 

played a big part in our safety,” he said. 

 With the hotel’s proximity to the ocean, the students and instructors were worried about the possible dangers of a tsunami, 

and decided their best bet was to move inland. 

 “We all had images of the damage done by the tsunamis earlier 

in the year, and we all thought it would be a good idea to move 

away from the shore,” said 2LT Alain Abdellada, another student 

present. “Hunter had the presence of mind to go back and get a 

flashlight and the commander’s Blackberry phone. During our trek 

we picked up a lot of civilians; they saw our light and heard us 

speaking English, and they all sort of fell in with us.” 

 Fortune shined on the group that night; a short time after 

reaching the major nearby road, the bus driver who had dropped 

them off at the hotel earlier that day had felt the earthquake 

where he had been cleaning out his bus, and decided to return to 

the hotel to check up on the students. 

 “We all piled on the bus. It was crowded because of all the civilians, but we turned around and drove inland,” Winegarner said. 

“We pulled off to this half-collapsed restaurant. They fried up 

chicken in the dark with no electricity, and everyone was starving 

because it was 10 at night, and we’d been walking for hours. It 

was amazing.” 

 Winegarner said the group, along with the others they had 

picked up along the way stayed the night on the bus; although 

no one was prepared for the cold of the night, they had shelter 

and transportation for the next day. 

 “The bus driver really ended up being our hero,” he said. 

 Abdellada said that thanks possibly to the dedication of some 

hotel guards who braved the threat of a tsunami, the groups’ belongings were still in the hotel the next morning. 

 “The hotel was a wreck the next day, but all of our stuff, including our passports, was still there,” he said. 

 Winegarner said that although the group was shaken up, the 

mood was mostly light and jocular during the trek through the 

desert, but upon surveying the damage the next day, the jokes 

were over. 

 “The next morning we kind of saw the effects of what happened. The night before it was pitch black so we couldn’t see the 

damage that had been done,” Winegarner said. “We went to 

Pisco that day; it was only about five or 10 miles down the road, 

but it took several hours to get there because of the traffic. It was 

way more populated than where we were, and it was a poor 

area; the construction style was mud brick, and it really didn’t hold 

up to the quake.” 

 “The big news in the area was this one church, whose whole 

roof collapsed during a mass. The front stayed up, so it was difficult to get through to the injured people in the rubble. It was kind 

of surreal after we were back in Lima; people were talking and 

joking about how they felt the quake while they were at dinner, 

and none of them had any idea that an hour south, lots of people 

were dead. 

 Thanks to the efforts of the U.S. Embassy, the group managed 

to return stateside on schedule, and the consensus was that, despite the incident at the end of the trip, the experience was a very 

rewarding one. 

 “Thanks to the cell phone, we managed to contact the Embassy, and they got things straightened out for us. That night, 

most of us flew to Lima on a jet, while a few stayed on the bus; 

they flew out the following day. Then we got on our flight to return stateside,” Winegarner said. 

 “It was very reassuring to see how the embassy took care of us 

in a situation like that,” Abdellada said. 

 “It was a very interesting program,” Abdellada said. “We were 

working with the Naval Medical Research Institute detachment in 

Lima. We spent time getting lectures, touring the facility, and visiting a lot of the different research sites, like the jungle and the 

Amazon.” 

 “One of the things we participated in was a two day humanitarian effort for villages with no health care. It really helped remind me of why I want to become a doctor, because you realize 

that these people can’t pay you back. It’s absolutely free medicine. 

I would dare say some of the people we treated during those two 

days had never seen a doctor before our arrival.” 

 “There were a lot of lessons learned,” Winegarner said. “All the 

tours we took of the hospitals and the patients we visited were 

really special. You see diseases that you would never see here, and 

get a chance to cement your book knowledge of medicine with 

real experience.” 

 “These people are so experienced at what they do that they 

walk in and immediately know where to go,” Abdellada said. 

 The students recently received letters of appreciation from Ambassador P. Michael McKinley at the American Embassy in Lima, for 

the assistance they provided to the victims of the earthquake. 

Shaken, but not stirred: USU medical students adapt, 

overcome uncertainty during Peru’s powerful earthquake 

By MC3 Jeff Hopkins 

Assistant Editor, Office of External Affairs 
PAGE 5 

 Most people have a hobby; something to keep them entertained, centered and sane in this busy, working world. Some people write short stories, some exercise, and others cook, clean or 

build models, for example. 

 Others, like Seaman Raul Zamora, assistant editor for the Office 

of External Affairs at the Uniformed Services University of the 

Health Sciences (USU) creates various works of art, ranging from 

designs to cartoons, to painted vinyl figures. 

 Zamora, a 25-year-old sailor from San Diego, Calif. says his entire life revolves around his art, and his personality defines his 

style. 

 “Mostly I’m into a lot of graphic style artwork. Basically I like to 

work a lot on the program Adobe Illustrator, 

using a lot of clean 

lines, and flat colors,” 

Zamora said. ”It can be 

cartoony, or an actual 

person, I guess almost 

as if it were just their 

outline.” 

 Zamora said he first 

gained an appreciation 

for art in the third 

grade, when he saw 

the graffiti-style artwork his cousin created. Zamora began 

imitating his cousin’s 

creations, and at his 

cousin’s urging began 

to create his own characters, based around 

his family’s pets. 

 “I had a pet rabbit, 

which I drew standing 

on his hind legs, and 

made him into my own 

cartoon. I started drawing all the other pets 

my family had, too,” 

Zamora said. 

 Zamora joined the Navy in April, 2005, and said his father’s 20 

years of service in the Navy had a great influence on his decision. 

 “I saw how the Navy had treated my father for 20 years, and 

decided I ought to give it a shot,” Zamora said. “So I went in to the 

recruiter’s office and took the ASVAB to see where I fit in, and 

that’s when lithographer popped up. I interpreted (somewhat 

incorrectly,) that a lithographer was a graphic designer, and I decided on that. A lithographer in actuality does a lot of printing; 

making booklets, printing documents, punching holes, things like 

that. It’s earned us the nickname ‘Combat Kinko’s,’” he said. 

 “At USU, I write stories, take photos, design the newsletter, and 

write our newest addition to the newsletter, the comic strip, featuring Dr. DC,” Zamora said. 

 All of Zamora’s art comes together to form “PROJECT peach,” 

the company he created in 2002 to market his artwork. 

 “Project peach first started as a comic strip I drew. The concept 

was a lot like the Trix Rabbit, where he never gets his Trix,” 

Zamora said. “It was about this guy who really liked this girl, and 

no matter what he tried, he’d never get the girl. It always ended in 

a comical scene. Then I decided to expand it with more characters 

that were based on people I knew, and would carry their nicknames.” 

 From the comic strip, PROJECT peach evolved into a design 

company. 

 “Project peach is now just design work, paintings, some of the 

characters are still there, but I use them as more of a design element than a character. 

 Zamora said he came up with the name PROJECT peach as a 

tribute to a former girlfriend. 

 “The original reason I chose that name was due to a girl that I 

was dating at the time who reminded me of a peach,” Zamora 

said. “Her face was 

round, and I started calling her ‘Peach’ a lot. 

When the whole idea for 

the characters for the 

strip came around, the 

original character, who 

was based on myself, had 

this project to get with 

Peach.” 

 Zamora is currently 

working with two other 

San Diego artists, to form 

a design/t-shirt company, 

which they call “Visual 

Mixers.” The partnership 

involves combining their 

styles into graphic designs for t-shirts and 

prints, which will be sold 

online as part of limitededition sets. 

 “We keep our own 

personal styles and 

names, and create tshirts, prints, and vinyl 

figures in limited edition,” 

Zamora said. “A unique 

feature is that we offer 

subscriptions. Let’s say 

you subscribe for a year, you’d get say five t-shirts, and we’d send 

you email reminders about your choice of t-shirts coming up, you 

pick the shirt and we send it off to you with other items that we 

offer.” 

 As a hobby, Zamora has recently focused on painting vinyl 

figures he orders online called “Munnys.” The seven-inch vinyl 

figures are purchased blank, and the artists chooses the way in 

which they want to paint them, allowing for creative expression. 

 “I paint basically what ever comes to mind or if the figure has a 

specific look to it, I’ll use one of the characters I’ve made up,” 

Zamora said. 

 Zamora cites several modern artists as his inspiration, but said 

he also enjoys famous artists from ages ago. 

 “My recent favorite artists are French artist TILT, Huck Gee from 

England, and some of the works of Frank Kozik,” Zamora said, 

“but I’m still a fan of the great painters, Leonardo and Picasso.”

Staff Profile: MCSN Raul Zamora 

By MC3 Jeff Hopkins 

Assistant Editor, Office of External Affairs 

MCSN Raul Zamora enjoys drawing, illustrating, painting, and creating graphic art 

on his computer. He says it gives him with his “own world to escape to any time.” 

Zamora’s graphic style is demonstrated in this image, which he edited himself. 

Photo Illustration by MCSN Raul Zamora 
PAGE 6 

Happy Birthday, 

Navy 

 The Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences (USU) 

is represented by four uniformed branches: Army, Navy, Air 

Force and Public Health Service (USPHS). Captain Mary Porvaznik, 

MD, USPHS, the USPHS brigade company commander, is the newest member of the USU family representing the USPHS. 

 Porvaznik is not only the USPHS Company Commander, but 

also a physician in the USU clinic, and works in the Office of Public 

Health Service for the Indian Health Service (OPHS/HIS) in Rockville. 

 “My responsibilities to the OPHS/IHS are recruitment for the 

Indian Health Service and include presentations about careers in 

the HIS.” 

 Porvaznik is also a USU alumna class of 1992. 

 “My career has gone full circle,” she said. “It started in USU and 

has come back. Several professors that taught me are still here 

and remember me.” 

 Porvaznik was born in Tuba City, Ariz., which is on the Navajo 

Indian reservation. 

 “My father was in the USPHS as a surgeon, and was stationed 

there when I was born,” she said. “I grew up there, on the Reservation and didn’t leave until I went to college at the University of 

New Mexico.” 

 “Growing up on the Navajo Indian reservation is much different than growing up in any other city,” Porvaznik said. “I am not a 

Native American, but while I was attending school, I didn’t notice 

a difference, I was easily accepted and was not treated as an outcast, despite my white skin. It was a wonderful experience; I 

learned a lot about the Native American culture and made many 

friends I keep in contact with who live on the Reservation.” 

 “I spent two years at the Charleston Navy Hospital in South 

Carolina for my family medicine residency. The program was shut 

down and I transferred to the Medical University of South Carolina 

to complete my training. It was a good experience because I got 

to see the military side of medicine as well as the civilian side.” 

 As the daughter of a USPHS surgeon, Porvaznik said she was 

greatly inspired by her father, who retired as a rear admiral in the 

USPHS. 

 “I noticed how happy my father was as a surgeon and the 

great life that the USPHS had given him, so I joined the USPHS,” 

she said. 

 Porvaznik said that after growing up with the Native Americans 

she knew she wanted to work with them again.” She has worked 

with the Navajo Indians since 1995. 

 “While working with the Navajo people, I was a family physician in a 60-bed hospital,” she said. “I did full spectrum health care. 

I took care of adults, children, and delivered babies. It was very 

challenging because we treated many diseases we don’t see 

around here, like tuberculosis, alcoholism, diabetes, and complications with pregnancies. The biggest challenge was that 30 percent of the patients did not speak English; they spoke their native 

language, so we had interpreters do the talking. A lot of the patients don’t trust our medicine, so they would seek a medicine 

man or traditional healer before they would come and see me or 

agree with their healer to partake in my treatment.” 

 After 12 years with the Navajo Indians she has returned to 

USU. 

 “As a graduate of USU, I feel very proud to be here,” she said. “I 

can see a lot of changes for the better. I would like to see more 

USPHS officers, and students in the School of Medicine. Right now 

there are six USPHS students; by the time I leave I would like to 

have eight. My goal is to increase the number of USPHS students 

at the university. 

USU staff profile: CAPT Mary Porvaznik, USPHS 

By MCSN Raul Zamora 

Assistant Editor, Office of External Affairs 

Photo by MC3 Jeff Hopkins 

 The Uniformed Services 

University of the Health 

Sciences (USU) celebrated 

the Navy’s 232nd birthday 

Friday, Oct. 12 in the 

Building B Lobby. The 

Navy’s birthday is actually 

Oct. 13, but due to it falling on a Saturday this 

year, the brigade celebrated it a day early. 

 The ceremonial cake 

cutting, traditionally performed by the most senior 

and junior sailors at the 

command (by age,) was 

performed by CDR Rene 

Hernandez, MC, USN, and 

HN Gregory Curtis, USN. 
2008 Field Exercises: Operations Bushmaster and Kerkesner will 

be conducted from July 10-25, 2008 at Fort Indiantown Gap, PA. 

These exercises are unique to our university and require the support of all university uniformed personnel. Only emergency leave 

will be granted during this time frame as there are over 135 uniformed personnel (not including evaluators) needed to support 

this mission. 

NNMC Disaster Preparedness Conference: The National Naval 

Medical Center will hold a Disaster Preparedness Conference on 

Oct. 18 from 7:30 -10a.m. Please see the USU website for the flyer 

on the conference at: http://www.usuhs.mil/vpe/

CMAX07TRAININGPASSPORT.doc. 

2008 Brigade Holiday Liberty Schedule: The 2008 USU Brigade 

Holiday Liberty Schedule has recently been published. To access 

this policy, go to http://www.usuhs.mil/bde/bdepolink.html. 

Alpha Omega Alpha (AOA) Medical Honor Society: On behalf of 

the Maryland Gamma Chapter of the Alpha Omega Alpha (AOA) 

Medical Honor Society, please join USU in congratulating the following individuals for being accepted into AOA: Steven Craig, 

Paul Drayna, Brent Feldt, Brian Fitzgerald, Phillip Flateau, Kelly 

Groom, Caroline Mans, Andrew McLaughlin, Sandra McLaughlin, 

Nicholas Orr, Marit Peterson, Lindsey Rath, and Kathleen Sarber. 

These individuals are selcted to AOA for their scholastic achievement, leadership capabilities, ethical standards, fairness in dealing 

with colleagues, potential for achievement in medicine, and a 

record of service to the school and community at large. 

CFC: Dr. Charles Rice, the USU President, will kick off this year's 

USU Combined Federal Campaign, Oct. 16th, at 11:30 a.m. in the 

breezeway between Buildings B and C. Hamburgers, hot dogs, 

pulled pork, and refreshments will be served starting at 11:00 a.m. 

The USU CFC Committee would like to thank everyone in advance 

for making this kickoff a success. Door prize tickets will be distributed at the event, which is open to all, and presence is required in 

order to win door prizes. Door prizes drawings will be held towards the end of the barbecue at approximately 12:30 p.m. Please 

direct any questions or concerns to CPT Nick Horton at 295-9433 

or nhorton@usuhs.mil. 

Hockey: The USU Fighting Docs are playing the Hawks Oct. 16, 10 

p.m. @ Resor; Blades of Steel Oct. 24, 10 p.m. @ Logsdon; The 

Rocks Oct. 30, 10:05 p.m. @ Logdon; Killer Whale Nov. 7, 10:06 

p.m. @ Patrick; Mayhem Nov. 15, 10:10 p.m. @ Logsdon; Moose 

Jaw Nov. 18, 2:50 p.m. @ Patrick; Starboad Sharks Dec. 8, 9:35 

p.m. @ Resor; Eagles Dec. 10:10 p.m. @ Patrick. 

USU News Briefs 

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Dr. Oid 

USU Doctors You Don’t Want to Meet

By MCSN Raul Zamora 

Dr. Awing Dr. Agon 
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Register online at: 

http://training.lrc.usuh

s.mil/lib/training_reg.p

hp. Please call Nancy 

Morell at 319-4039 or 

Linda Spitzer at 295-

3357 if you have 

questions. 

Noon - 1p.m. 

and 

5p.m. - 6p.m.

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