WesternU to honor first-year Pomona Health Career Ladder students

Sixth-grade students from Pomona Unified School District will be recognized for completing the first year of the Pomona Health Career Ladder Sixth-Grade Academies.

Western University of Health Sciences will hold its sixth and final Career Ladder session of the year, an awards presentation, on Saturday, April 25, 2009 in the Health Professions Center on WesternU's Pomona campus.

Dr. Clinton Adams, dean of the College of Osteopathic Medicine of the Pacific, will present 11 students with a certificate and a reflex hammer for attending two-thirds of the Saturday Academy sessions. Three students with perfect attendance will receive a stethoscope.

PUSD and WesternU is partnering with California State Polytechnic University, Pomona, to guide students through their education and into careers as health care providers. The monthly academies, which started in October 2008, consisted of students and their parents being introduced to careers in medicine, pharmacy, physical therapy, physician assistant, veterinary medicine, podiatry, optometry and dentistry.