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Back row (left to right): Mariana Curiel, participant; Bridget Parks, Olive Gardenmanager; Jennifer Ellis, participant; Jin Yi, participant; Gabriel Suarez, participant.Front row (left to right): Ricardo Nuno, participant; David Gonzales, participant;Christina Rajlal , PathPoint director of program services; Ashley Howard, PathPointemployment services program coordinator.

BY EVA RAMIREZCommunity contributor

The California Academy ofFamily Physicians has namedBakersfield’s MichelleQuiogue as 2013 “familyphysician of the year.”

“Dr. Quiogue inspires us all withher tireless efforts to provide out-standing health care,” said academypresident Mark Dressner. “She leadsinitiatives to improve health by bring-ing care to underserved communities,cultural proficiency to medicine, andcareer dreams to underprivileged stu-dents.

“Dr. Quiogue also is an activespokesperson for the specialty of fam-ily medicine and family physicians’roles in education and public health.She is well-loved by patients andrespected by colleagues locally, state-and nationwide.”

Quiogue practices family medicineas part of the Southern California Per-manente Medical Group at KaiserPermanente in Kern County, whereshe also serves as the physician cham-pion of the culturally responsive careand diversity council.

In addition to her office-basedpractice, when Kaiser Permanente in2012 began sending a mobile healthvehicle to serve patients in outlying

areas of Kern County, Quiogue wasone of the first physicians to volun-teer. She has been a strong patientadvocate and excellent clinician,ensuring that those served by mobilecare receive the same quality and

Local Kaiser doctor named 2013‘family physician of the year’

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BY CORINNE WESTERHOFF Community contributor

PathPoint, a nonprofit organiza-tion dedicated to helping peo-ple with disabilities or disad-vantages to reach their fullestpotential, has been selected to

receive a $1,000 grant as part of theDarden Restaurant Community GrantProgram from the Darden Founda-tion, the charitable arm of DardenRestaurants, Inc.

The grants program, now in its sec-ond year, empowers each restaurantin the Darden family of brands to helpaward a $1,000 grant to support localcommunity programs. The donationwill enable PathPoint to provide pro-viding comprehensive training andsupport services that empower peoplewith disabilities or disadvantages tolive and work as valued communitymembers.

Restaurants within the Darden fam-ily — Red Lobster, Olive Garden,LongHorn Steakhouse, The CapitalGrille, Bahama Breeze and Seasons 52— are helping to award local grants toexceptional nonprofit organizationsnationwide.

PathPoint’s partnership with theOlive Garden restaurant on New StineRoad was recognized as an importantcollaboration by members of the com-munity grant program. In Bakersfield,the funds will be used to advancePathPoint’s employment services in

the area, including post-secondaryvocational education, work-readinesstraining, job preparation & placement,job training and job coaching to helpparticipants with disabilities find andmaintain employment that matchestheir skills and interests.

Marielle DeFazio, vice president-director of operations, said that Path-Point programs in Bakersfield servedmore than 167 individuals with cere-bral palsy, epilepsy, autism, Downsyndrome, and other intellectual dis-abilities and economic disadvantagesover the past year.

“It is rewarding to receive mes-sages from relatives whose familymembers have benefited from Path-Point’s efforts,” DeFazio said.

DeFazio cited recent commentsfrom a parent: “My son likes going toPathPoint and he likes his job. Now hecomes home happy, he talks about hisjob, does more around the house andhis attitude is much better. Everybodyis happier.”

Christina Rajlal, Bakersfield pro-gram director, and participants inPathPoint’s employment serviceshand delivered a certificate of recog-nition to the Olive Garden.

“Our great thanks to General Man-ager Bridget Parks and the good folksat this great community-mindedrestaurant for advancing our workwith people with disabilities,” she

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She is also an advocate for familymedicine as a much-needed service tothe community. When Kern MedicalCenter considered closing its familymedicine residency program in 2012,Quiogue spent countless hours rally-ing fellow physicians and the largercommunity in an ultimately successfulcampaign to save the program. Com-bining television, newspaper, socialmedia, outreach to county supervisorsand colleagues, she also increasedcommunity understanding of theimportant role family medicine playsin keeping a community as healthy aspossible. Through primary and pre-ventive care, including expert treat-ment of chronic conditions such asdiabetes and heart disease, familyphysicians’ care is a cornerstone ofthe health care system.

Hippocrates Circle, a programdedicated to encourage students atunderprivileged middle schools topursue careers in medicine, is anotherof Quiogue’s passions. Begun morethan a decade ago in San Diego, thisKaiser Permanente program encour-ages students to consider careers inhealth care. More recently, Quioguebrought the program to Kern County,where 105 students at three schoolshave participated since 2011. The pro-gram provides physician mentors tomeet with students; individual andgroup education and support; andhands-on experience in partnershipwith the California State University atBakersfield Department of Nursingand San Joaquin Community Hospital.

Quiogue serves, and has served, ina number of prominent local, stateand national positions to help improvehealth care, health access and medicaleducation. She is president of theacademy’s Kern County chapter, adelegate to the annual academy’s Con-

gress of Delegates, and editor of thestatewide California Family Physicianmagazine. She also is a member of theKern County Medical Society board ofdirectors. She serves on the AmericanAcademy of Family Physicians Com-mittee on the Health of the Public andScience and its subcommittee forHealth Equity, and has been a dele-gate to the American Academy’sNational Congress for Special Con-stituencies, representing minority andwomen’s delegations.

Working with local, state and fed-eral legislators to improve health poli-cy, Quiogue is a champion of nationalhealth care reform, including theexpansion of health care coverage tomillions more Californians by 2014.She has advocated extensively in localmedia, presenting the benefits ofhealth care reform to news reportersand, in turn, the public.

Educating her peers through con-tinuing medical education, she is anexpert on the prevention and treat-ment of chronic illness; cultural profi-ciency in medicine; health care forlesbian, gay, bisexual and transgenderpatients; and ending health disparitiesthat occur based on race, ethnicity,gender and sexual orientation.

Quiogue received her medicaldegree from Brown University in 2003and was named “family physician ofthe year” by Kaiser Permanente KernCounty Medical Center in 2011.

About the California Academy ofFamily Physicians: With more than8,500 members, including active prac-ticing family physicians, residents infamily medicine, and medical stu-dents interested in the specialty, theacademy is the largest primary caremedical society in California. Familyphysicians are trained to treat anentire family’s medical needs,addressing the whole spectrum oflife’s medical challenges. Familyphysicians serve patients in urban,suburban and rural areas, often inCalifornia’s most underserved areas.

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BY BRYAN BURROWCommunity contributor

The Bakersfield SymphonyOrchestra music director JohnFarrer recently announcedthat the 2013-14 year will behis final season in that capaci-

ty. Beginning with the 2014-2015 year,Farrer will assume the title of theorchestra’s music director emeritusand conductor laureate.

Farrer will be completing 39 yearsof service as music director. Hisimprint on the musical life of Bakers-field and Kern County is large andlong lasting. Year after year, tens ofthousands of music patrons haveapplauded the exceptional quality ofmusicianship he has brought to theorchestra. Similarly, hundreds ofthousands of school children receivedtheir first exposure to classical musicvia the Young People’s Concerts ledby Farrer.

Under the leadership of Farrer, thesymphony prepared students fromKern High School District and otherSouthern California districts for themusic portion of the AcademicDecathlon. Some of those teams wonnot only state competitions, but alsoplaced first or second in the NationalAcademic Decathlon.

Farrer will continue as music direc-tor of the Roswell, New Mexico Sym-phony Orchestra and the Santa MariaPhilharmonic.

In making the announcement, Far-rer stressed that this move will givehim more time to expand his workabroad.

He will continue to do conductingworkshops in England and France. Heis in the planning stages for additionalconducting workshops in Italy, Aus-tralia and South Africa.

Farrer is looking forward also tocompleting the recording of two of thefour symphonies of Brahms with theNew Queen’s Hall Orchestra of Lon-don. Symphony No. 2 has alreadybeen released and Symphony No. 4 isscheduled for release in June.

He will continue as an officer in theConductors Guild, an internationalorganization of 1,400 members.

In making the announcement, Maes-tro Farrer praised the high level ofmusicianship of the orchestra saying:

“It has been my privilege to conductthe Bakersfield Symphony Orchestra.The BSO is a special orchestra con-sisting of highly skilled musicians

who have played in the orchestra fortwenty, thirty or more years. The con-sistency of membership has producedcohesion of ensemble that is remark-able. This unanimity of sound fromthe string sections is rarely encoun-tered. The orchestra and I know eachother well musically and have a com-mon idea about how to go aboutpreparing and performing the greatorchestral masterpieces entrusted toour care.”

Farrer has conducted the Bakers-field symphony in more than 400 ofthe great masterpieces of orchestralliterature, most of which were per-formed from memory.

When Farrer became music directorin 1975, the orchestra was doing fiveconcerts a year and had an annualbudget of $35,000. At its peak, severalyears ago, the orchestra was perform-ing 30 concerts a year with a budgetof $1,250,000.

The symphony holds a very specialrelationship to Bakersfield and KernCounty. Longterm board member andimmediate past president Joe MacIl-vaine said:

“It is unique in this day of economicuncertainty that a city of our size hasa fine professional symphony orches-tra in residence. Having performed inthe Masterworks Chorale with thesymphony, I have witnessed firsthandthe quality of the orchestra under thedirection of Maestro Farrer.

“The BSO is a tremendous asset forour city and county,” he said.

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