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Winter Quarter, April 22, 2013
CCM at UCLA UCLA UCLA Chicanos /Latinos for Community Medicine
Some of CCM’s main goals are to provide academic support and the tools necessary for students to become empowered to confidently pursue health care professions. Since 2004, we have continued the tradition of hosting our annual pre-health conference that incorporates high school, community college, and undergraduate students in order to expand the pool of students that we can outreach. This year CCM successfully hosted its 9th annual conference titled Improving Health Equity: Cultivating Innovative Minds for Underserved Communities. The conference featured Dr. Hayes-Bautista that discussed the history and needs that led to creation of different CCM chapters. Dr. Marco Angulo, our keynote speaker, shared his inspiring untraditional path of becoming a physician while providing advice on how to cope with the burdens of being a pre-med student. Having been a part of CCM for four years, three of which have been serving as a board member, has allowed me to see the growth that this conference has undergone since my freshman year when I was inspired as an attendee. Not only were we able to increase the number of attendants, but also we were able to expand the topics of our workshops that ranged from treating HIV positive dental patients to the process of applying to medical school. Planning for conference always challenges the board of directors because it involves working and depending on everyone to have a successful event. Most importantly, it allowed board members to see the benefit that such a conference can have on our community.
-‐Gabriela Gonzalez, 2012-‐2013 Internal Coordinator
CCM’s 9th Annual Pre-Health Conference
Improving Health Equity: Cultivating Innovative Minds for Underserved Communities
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CONFERENCE FEEDBACK
Now I know how to get into medical school and
prepare for it.
Our students loved the conference!! They found it incredibly empowering.
I have students interested in the health sciences, whom hadn’t been
interested in it before.
It makes me more
interested and anxious about college.
It helped a lot because they gave
plenty of information and it was very helpful.
Dr. Doyle’s Study Skills and Time Management Workshop
Resource Fair outside the UCLA Court of Sciences
On behalf of CCM we would like to thank all attendees, speakers,
volunteers and workshop leaders for your contribution to the success of our
conference.
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Love Carefully Event This quarter marked a record high in terms of high school visits for BLAIDS. With the effort of our External Site Director, Christina Lugo, and the rest of our directors we were able to outreach to many high school students and continue our mission of HIV/STI awareness. This quarter our annual Love Carefully event was also held on February 13th. The goal of this event is to promote safe sex in the UCLA community, as well as bring awareness to the mission of BLAIDS. The event was held on Bruin Plaza and a variety of
organizations were in attendance. On campus organizations included the Arthur Ashe Center, who provided information about their STI testing services and AIDS Ambassadors who had an STI trivia game for people to enjoy and expand their STI knowledge at the same time. Off campus included the Young Men’s Connection who provided information on sexual education for queer individuals, as well as Planned Parenthood who provided information of their services. BLAIDS distributed goodie bags
that contained candy, condoms, school supplies, and information regarding proper condom use. BLAIDS also had a table with information on safe sex and a project board with our mission and history. We also had a table with our famous trivia game, “BLAIDS Pong.” Overall, the event was very successful and bigger than previous years. BLAIDS received a lot of positive feedback from our community partners and advisors. We hope to continue to make this event a success in the future.
S.U.M.M.A Conference Trip
BLAIDS
The Stanford University Minority Medical Alliance (SUMMA) held its 13th annual premedical student conference on February 16th at Stanford School of Medicine. Thirty-one eager CCM members and directors traveled to School of Medicine campus for the daylong event featuring keynote speaker Dr. Steven Chen, medical director of
Black/Latino Aids Project
Winton Wellness Center. His message encourages students to know their story and think about the change it can bring to medicine. Workshops were designed to assist prospective students with everything from medical school applications, becoming better candidates, MCAT prep and much more. CCM
hopes to come back to one of the largest pre-medical conferences on the west coast dedicated to increasing diversity in the health professions to better care for underserved communities.
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Donations of Tissues and Organs DoT Org
Donate Life E-Campaign
This quarter DoT Org had the great opportunity to meet with Kathleen Hostert, an Executive Director of the Donate Life Run/Walk, and Ericka Ospina Awad, the Donate Life Ambassadors Coordinator at the Donate Life Run/Walk Headquarters. During our meeting we discussed how DoT Org would be able to work more closely with Donate Life. As a result, DoT Org plans to initiate a Donate Life e-campaign, where we will register organ donors and be able to keep track of the number of people we register! In addition, the DoT Org Directors were informed and plan to attend a Donate Life Ambassador Workshop to become official Ambassadors and learn how to become better advocates for the project. Also, with the help of Kathleen and Ericka, new ideas arose on how to help DoT Org register more people for our Run/Walk team, Super Dad, to have a huge turn out at the Donate Life Run/Walk on Saturday, April 27th at Cal State Fullerton. As one of the only collegiate organizations that focuses on advocating for the donation of tissues and organs, DoT Org has been making an effort to outreach and keep in contact with Donate Life and in doing so we will be able to more effectively spread the knowledge of organ and tissues donation.
Save the Date for Upcoming CCM Events!!
*CCM Boba and Nacho Fundraiser: April 26th
*DoT Org: Donate Life Walk/Run April 27th to
(to donate go to: http://bit.ly/YDrsEj)
*LSHP: Tecate Day Clinic May 4th
*LSHP: Our Lady of Talpa Health Fair June 2nd
*BLAIDS: Sylmar High School Site
May 15th & May 16th
Join us at our weekly meetings this spring quarter!
C o m e l e a r n m o r e a b o u t Medical School, Nursing, Health Education, Volunteering, Helping Underserved Communities, Public
Health and more!
Where | Boelter 5440
When | Tuesdays, 6-7pm
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Our Lady of Peace Health Fair
Our Lady of Peace Health Fair is the outcome of a collaborative effort among the community of North Hills and the student groups on campus that work alongside LSHP such as Pilipinos for Community Health and the Asian Pacific Health Corps. On the morning of February 17th, this collaborative effort was brought to life. Numerous service providers took part in this effort to help alleviate the disparities in underserved communities. Screenings such as vision, dental and glucose were among the many services provided at the health fair. The community of Our Lady of Peace Parish was delighted to see us there and demonstrated this by their continuous signs of gratitude. Many informational booths were set up in order to bring awareness to the community about many health related issues such as organ donation by our very own DotOrg as well as women's health and other valuable information. All in all, Our Lady of Peace Health Fair had a great turn out and we hope to only improve for the years to come!
Interested in Research? Check out these upcoming events and fellowship deadlines!
SCIENCE POSTER DAY Tuesday May 14, 2013 1-4pm in Ackerman Grand Ballroom
CARE Fellows & CARE Scholars Programs DEADLINE: July 1st, 2013
Provides a $875 stipend for 70 hours of research. 10-‐20 awards per quarter. For more information about eligibility and program components visit: http://www.ugresearchsci.ucla.edu/care.htm
Undergraduate Research Scholars Program (URSP) DEADLINE: June 15, 2013
For students in the sciences who are juniors who will be completing an honors thesis (196, 198, 199) Award: $3000 or $5000. Approximately 60 awards For more information visit: http://www.ugresearchsci.ucla.edu/ursp.htm
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CCM board members were invited to attend the kickoff of UCLA’s PRIME “Leadership in Action” lecture series talk on February 28th. The speaker of the lecture included Father Gregory Boyle, founder/director of Homeboy and Homegirl Industries and former pastor of Dolores Mission Church. Father Boyle recounted humble beginnings of Homeboy Industries, starting as an educational center in a section of church. Its mission was to train gang members, who were denied admission to other schools in the area, with skills that would enable them to enter the workforce. With time, the program provided greater employment opportunities; opening a small bakery close to the parish and a tortilla stand in the Grand Central Market. Homeboy Industries provides a safe environment for young people, an alternative to the prevalent gang violence in the community, making it the largest gang intervention, rehabilitation and re-entry program in the United States. Father Boyle’s actions of leadership certainly reinforced in each attendee the importance of working in populations that often others leave aside. As future leaders within medicine, it is our duty to establish these connections with the patient population, ensuring quality health care for everyone.
PRIME “Leadership in Action” Lecture Series
Featuring Father Boyle
We are proud to present Elia Salazar as CCM’s Alum of the Quarter! Throughout her time in CCM, Elia served on the Board of Directors as Co-Programming Director for the Latino Student Health Project (LSHP). After graduating from UCLA, she moved on to working with AltaMed Health Services under the non-profit organization, AmeriCorps. She has served as a Health Educator and Program Coordinator for the Pediatric Weight Management Program at AltaMed Clinic in Boyle Heights. Elia was recently accepted to the University of Texas School and UCLA for graduate school, and is on her way to obtaining a Masters in Public Health. She will be continuing the Blue and Gold legacy as a Double Bruin. Congratulations Elia!
Alumni of the Quarter:
Elia Salazar
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Possible Path to Vaccine for AIDS Is Suggested
In what may be an important step toward a
long-elusive AIDS vaccine, American
researchers have minutely tracked one
person’s powerful immune response to the
virus to see how a series of mutations led to
an antibody that can defeat many H.I.V.
strains.
A vaccine still remains far off, but the
research lighted up one complex path that
may someday be followed to
that distant goal.
Thirty-four million people in
the world are H.I.V.-positive,
and 2.5 million are newly
infected each year, 50,000 of
them in this country.
“The beauty of this is that it’s a big clue as to
the sequential steps the virus and the
antibody take as they evolve,” said
Dr.Anthony S. Fauci, director of the National
Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases,
which financed the research.
The study was led by scientists at Duke
University and also drew in researchers from
Columbia, Stanford, the University of
Pennsylvania and elsewhere. It was published
online Wednesday in the journal Nature.
Scientists have so far failed to produce an AIDS vaccine because H.I.V. mutates so rapidly. Influenza viruses mutate so often that flu shots must be reformulated every year; H.I.V. mutates in one day as much as flu viruses do in a year.
The study analyzed many sequential samples
of the blood of one African man from shortly
after he was infected until about two years
later, when he started to
produce “broadly
neutralizing antibodies.”
Antibodies are Y-shaped
proteins that neutralize
virus particles by
grabbing onto all the
surface receptors they
use to attach to cells. The antibodies the
patient eventually evolved were called
“broadly neutralizing” because they were able
to jam up about 55 percent of all known
H.I.V. strains.
Scientists have been isolating broadly
neutralizing antibodies for several years now,
and more than a dozen have been found.
About 20 percent of all H.I.V. carriers eventually produce broadly neutralizing antibodies, Dr. Fauci said.
Source: The New York Times
Written by: Donald G. McNeil Jr.
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But that usually happens only after they have
been infected for between two and four years, and
by that time the powerful antibodies cannot save
them because they are overwhelmed with so
much mutating virus.
In theory, if such antibodies could be cloned in
bulk, a cocktail of enough variants to match all known H.I.V. strains could be given to newly
infected patients. That is the equivalent of an
immune globulin shot, which was once the only
treatment for some diseases, like hepatitis.
But it would be very expensive,
and the treatment would have to
be given for life. And
antiretroviral drugs, which cost
pennies to make, do the same
thing: prevent the virus from
replicating.
However, if a healthy patient
could be given a vaccine that would induce his
own white blood cells to produce the same
cocktail of antibodies, they might knock out any
infection that patient got later.
Because the cells that produce antibodies have to
go through up to 100 mutations before they make
broadly neutralizing ones, Dr. Fauci said, a
vaccine to induce that would require many shots,
given month after month, to “push” the cells
through those mutations. Whether that is
possible, let along financially practical, remains to
be seen.
go through up to 100 mutations before they
make broadly neutralizing ones, Dr. Fauci said,
a vaccine to induce that would require many
shots, given month after month, to “push” the
cells through those mutations. Whether that is
possible, let along financially practical, remains
to be seen.
Other H.I.V. vaccine experts reacted cautiously
to the research, saying it was first-rate work but
hedging on its practical implications.
Dr. Louis J. Picker, an H.I.V. vaccine specialist
at Oregon Health & Science University,
described the work as “a
road map to vaccine
development, yes — but it’s
like one of those maps of
the world from the year
1400. We still don’t know
how to turn this into a
vaccine.”
Dr. Mike McCune III, head of experimental
medicine at the University of California, San
Francisco, called it “clarifying science, with a lot
of data I hadn’t seen before.”
But he said it was not clear if one patient’s
immune process could be applied to others.
“Eighty percent of all patients don’t create
broadly neutralizing antibodies,” he said. “What
do we do for them? Do we know how protective
this strategy is against new infections? And
would we have to tailor-make batches of vaccine
for people with different backgrounds?”
“If a healthy patient could be given a vaccine that would induce his own white blood cells to produce the same of antibodies, they might knock out any infection that patient got later”.
Newsletter created by LMSA Liaison and Publicity Coordinators
