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Pathways in Achievement to Total Health in Students (PATHS), a partnership between Sierra Health Foundation’s Elevate Youth project, Touro University California, The Mentoring Center, and Kaiser Permanente, helps connect mentors with Vallejo youth in an effort to reduce the occurrence of and education around substance abuse among this age group, improve resiliency, increase graduation rates and improve overall community wellness.

Dr. Prabjot (Jodie) Sandhu has taken over as the head of the School of Nursing during an important period of growth and transition for this vital program.

By Christina Kinnevey, MD, Assistant Professor and Co-Chair of Drug Safe Solano Opioid Coalition and College of Osteopathic Medicine Student Doctors Svitlana Eckmann and Colburn Yu

The opioid/substance use epidemic claims the life of one person approximately every five minutes in the United States.  That means by the time you are done reading this newspaper, another person will likely have died from overdose.  Combined with the COVID-19 pandemic mortality, the opioid epidemic drove the life expectancy in the U.S. to its lowest point in 25 years.  Solano County is not sheltered from this tragedy, with certain areas of the County seeing up to four times the overdose rates of the state in 2021.  These are our neighbors, our colleagues, our family, our friends.  Clearly, something needs to be done in our community.

According to a report from the Association of American Medical Colleges, the United States could see a shortage of up to 124,000 physicians by 2034, with an especially high number in California’s Central Valley. This builds upon Touro’s academic partnership with St. Joseph’s Medical Center to continue to grow and develop new residency programs in Stockton.

The American College of Diabetology (ACD) today announced a big step forward to increase diabetes education, access, and care across the United States. 

Paying for college is a major consideration for any student, but for those in professional career programs, those challenges can be magnified.

People old enough to remember vintage peanut butter cup commercials will know the slogan, “two great things that go great together.”

By: Chandani Khana

As a first-generation student, Chandani had quite an adventurous journey ahead of herself. Although she had an older sister, Dr. Puja Khana, whom attended college and graduate school, times were very different between them two as an age gap of 18 years was present. Therefore, she writes this to explain her journey and inform others to follow their passion.

Earning an educational grant is more than just a gold star on a resume.

Many parents send their children off to college or off to graduate school and hope for the best. For Touro University California College of Pharmacy Program Coordinator Iris Dreu, she doesn’t have to hope – she can check in on and support her daughter, Joey, every day.