Pattie Jackel: A life in nursing photo gallery

Posted: September 23rd, 2009 | By David Blumenkrantz | 5 comments

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CNS Pattie Jakel greets Leukemia patient Michael Marra, a professor of Asian Languages and Culture at UCLA.

David Blumenkrantz

David Blumenkrantz’s professional experience includes an eight-year stint doing documentary work and freelancing in Africa, where he traveled extensively covering a wide variety of relief and development-related social issues. He ran a photography training course for Eritrean freedom fighters in Asmara, and spent more than two years running an information department for the Undugu Society of Kenya, an organization dedicated to improving the quality of life for street children and the urban poor. Upon his return to the United States in 1994, Blumenkrantz worked for the Los Angeles Times and various other publications as a freelance photojournalist. He once ran a photography class at the Watts Towers Art Center for the Cultural Affairs Department of the City of Los Angeles. He also spent eight years teaching with the Los Angeles Unified School District—seven at the elementary level and one year at Millikan Middle School Performing Arts Magnet. In 2004 he joined the journalism department faculty at California State University, Northridge, where he teaches documentary journalism and photojournalism. More

Comments (5)

  • Hi Pattie!
    This is great !
    Miss you, the whole staff at the GCRC at Westwood UCLA!

  • Great article I really enjoyed it. Your are awsome!!!
    See you soon. Love ya

  • Pattie, Ann has returned from many months off and we are working together tonight :) Teri told us about your photos. GREAT photos! You look good. I hope you are enjoying your work there.
    Good to hear about your writing a chapter for the book. You are a great teacher and we miss you.LOVE, Ann and Liz

  • What a great article! I was thinking of you while in Berlin attending the EONS symposium. Dr Kabbinavar was one of the presentors in anti-angiogenesis (Bevacizumab). Miss you a lot, hope to see you soon. Love yah!!!!!

  • Looking good here Pattie. Miss you absolutely tons. These pics are so YOU. Your patients are most fortunate. Always…. Syl

    Keep on dancin’!

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