COM Outlook Spring 2020

4 | DR. KIRAN C. PATEL COLLEGE OF OSTEOPATHIC MEDICINE KPCOM UNDERGRADUATE PROGRAMS MEET HEALTH CARE DEMANDS BY JOEY GARCIA, B.S. CHALLENGE Left: B.S. in Public Health students Joshua Dela Fuente and Jasenia Beckford volunteer with the American Red Cross in New Orleans to teach elementary school students how to prepare for natural disasters. • Right: Melissa Boguslawski, Ph.D., M.P.H., assistant professor of public health, top row, in middle, and public health student Sohil Parmar, top row, right, with elementary school students in Ahwa, India, after educating them on proper sneezing and coughing prevention and proper hand-washing techniques.