COPE Health Scholars programs provide pre-health students the experience and training needed to prepare themselves for graduate and professional school. Scholars leave our pipeline as culturally competent, technically capable and patient-centered professionals. Favio Gallegos, Jr. is a Health Scholar alumni at Adventist Health Glendale, currently completing his Doctorate of Dental Surgery at the University of […]
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The COPE Health Scholars programs were developed to impact health care workforce development by growing culturally competent and compassionate future professionals. One of our several programs that serves the pre-health community is the Junior Health Scholar (JHS) program, previously known as the Red Shirt program. The Junior Health Scholar program allows high school students between […]
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The Care Navigator Scholar program allows a select group of participants to gain invaluable health care exposure, education and career development in several Southern California hospitals. As they learn about health care and develop their career goals and trajectory, the students in the course provide support to health care providers and patients, while reducing health […]
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As a sophomore at the University of Washington I was working on finishing my prerequisites for nursing school when I found the Health Scholars program. I was so excited to join and work alongside nurses and gain experience in the field that I had always aspired to be a part of. When I got on […]
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Matthew Blitz, MD, MBA is a fellow in the Division of Maternal-Fetal Medicine and a clinical instructor for the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology at the Donald and Barbara Zucker School of Medicine at Hofstra/Northwell in New York. He has over ten years of health care experience and has received countless awards and recognition for […]
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For two years the Health Scholar program has provided aspiring health professionals from the community an opportunity to expand and supplement their training at Dignity Health’s California Hospital Medical Center. The program combines real-life experience, professional development, and a chance for Scholars to give back to the community while pursuing a career in health care. […]
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COPE Health Solutions, formerly Community Outreach Prevention and Education (COPE), started in 1995 as a community outreach program formed by a group of UCLA student volunteers with the common goal to provide health education to the under-privileged and un-insured in the Los Angeles Community. Sammy Eghbalieh is an alumnus from the initial COPE educational course. […]
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Dr. Efrain Talamantes received his bachelors of science in psychobiology at UCLA, and medical degree from the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA, and obtained a master’s degree in business administration at the Emory Goizueta School of Business. He subsequently completed his Internal Medicine Residency training at the University of California, Davis where he […]
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Nima Gharavi, MD, PhD is a board-certified dermatologist, clinical scientist and fellowship-trained Mohs micrographic surgeon. He joined COPE Health Solutions in 1998 after realizing his interest in the medical field as an undergraduate student at UCLA. After graduating summa cum laude with a Bachelor of Science in Molecular, Cell and Developmental Biology and a specialization […]
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The Health Scholar program provides immersive, hands-on education for future health care professionals. Participants experience direct patient interaction while rotating among different clinical and administrative departments in a provider setting. I asked Jericha Viduya to describe herself, and she answered confidently that she is “music, medicine, and the underserved community.” Jericha has served as a […]
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