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Alumni Class NotesCollege of Osteopathic Medicineof the PacificCharter class members Richard Bond, DO ’82, andThomas Horowitz, DO ’82, were joined by Cat Dang,DO ’04, in Castle Connolly Medical Ltd’s Southern CaliforniaTop Doctors publication for 2012. Drs. Bond and Horowitzboth practice Family Medicine, while Dr. Dang practicesPsychiatry.During the Osteopathic Physicians & Surgeons of California(OPSC) 51st annual convention in San Diego in February,Associate Dean David Connett, DO ’84, was selected2012 Physician of the Year, and he was inducted as OPSC'svice president. In May, Dr. Connett and Jane Xenos, DO’90, were appointed by Governor Brown to the OsteopathicMedical Board of California.Susan Melvin, DO ’84, has been named the chief medicalofficer at Long Beach Memorial Hospital in Long Beach,Calif. She is board-certified in family medicine and a fellowof the American Academy of Family Physicians.William Henning, DO ’86, was keynote speaker atCOMP’s first annual “Student Clinician Ceremony,” acelebration breakfast/ceremony marking the transitionfrom preclinical to clinical education held on campus onApril 30.John Gray, DO ’88, is a commissioned officer in the U.S.Public Health Service with the rank of commander. Heserved in the USPHS from 1997 to the present in IndianHealth Service, and is currently serving as clinical directorof Schurz Service Unit which consists of five tribal clinics innorthern Nevada.Ernesto Cortez, DO ’89, is practicing with PioneerMedical Group in Bellflower, Calif.Debra Arsenault, DO ’91, is now approaching 21 yearson active duty in the Navy, and anticipating retirementin 2013.Tuan Hoang-Xuan, DO ’91, was the 2012 East WestScholarship Dinner honoree. Dr. Hoang-Xuan is a boardcertifieddermatologist, and serves as a dermatologyconsultant for the Osteopathic Medical Board of Californiaand Chino Valley Medical Center, a COMP-affiliatedresidency training program.The American Osteopathic Foundation board of directorsvoted unanimously to rename its annual Emerging Leaderaward for James M. Lally, DO ’91, MSHPE ’93, theimmediate past president of the AOF and an AOA boardcertifiedfamilyphysician.Dr. Lally wasalso awardedthe Order ofthe BlueCross forlong-termcontributionto the sportby the International Shooting Sport Federation (ISSF) inLondon in May 2012. He has been the team physician forthe USA Shooting Team since 1993 and was a member ofthe Board of Directors (1998-2012) and President of USAShooting, (2004-2008). He has also been the Chairman ofthe ISSF Medical Committee and a member of the ISSFAdministrative Committee since 2004.Susan Mackintosh, DO ’92, recently returned to COMPas associate dean of academic affairs. For the past threeyears, she has served WesternU in the capacity of director ofinterprofessional education.Geraldine O’Shea, DO ’93, was presented with the 2012Lifetime Achievement Award by the Osteopathic Physicians& Surgeons of California (OPSC). The award was presentedon Saturday, February 11 at the Hyatt Regency Mission Bayin San Diego during the President’s Banquet held inconjunction with OPSC’s 51st Annual Convention. She ismarried to and joined in practice with Mark Eastman,DO ’93.Gabriel Chiu, DO ’96, was named one of LA’s bestcosmetic surgeons in the April/May 2012 issue ofLA Confidential magazine.Patrick Cook, DO ’98, did four combat deployments;three to Iraq and one to Afghanistan. He currently serves aschief, department of surgery at William Beaumont ArmyMedical Center and is a staff vascular surgeon.(Continuted on page 53)52 Western University of Health Sciences