Medicine

In a recent installment of its LA Catholics video series, the Archdiocese of Los Angeles profiles TAC alumna Michele (Grimm ’81) Loughman — mother of 10, cancer survivor, and executive director of the Life Centers of Ventura County.

“At the time my education felt like it would be an obstacle,” alumna psychologist Dr. Helena Orellana (’11) admitted to a group of Thomas Aquinas College students at a career talk last week. “But the formation I received at TAC was exactly what I needed to pursue a doctorate in psychology. Not only that, it prepared me for work as a clinician and later as a professor.”

An MD-PhD candidate at Creighton University, Maggie McCann (’13) recently completed a prestigious two-year fellowship with the Paul Ramsey Institute, which trains young leaders from a wide range of disciplines in a morally grounded approach to bioethics.

One of the College’s newest alumni, Patrick Caughron (’21), is the subject of a new story in the National Catholic Register,