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Senator Steven Bradford Secures CSUDH Face Shield Donation for Harbor-UCLA Medical Center

April 28, 2020

Kamal Hamdan, Annenberg-endowed professor and director of the Center for Innovation in STEM Education (CISE)
Kamal Hamdan, Annenberg-endowed professor and director of the Center for Innovation in STEM Education (CISE) at CSUDH. Hamdan’s leadership has enabled CISE to expand its medical face shield distribution to several states across the nation in just a few weeks.

(Carson, Ca.) California Senator Steven Bradford (35th District) secured 1,000 face shields produced by CSUDH students with 3D printing to protect Resident Physicians at Harbor-UCLA Medical Center who are on the frontlines of the pandemic.

California Senator Steven Bradford
California Senator Steven Bradford

The face shields will protect medical professionals during procedures that might expose them to blood or other infectious fluids, and support their own health and safety as they work with COVID-19 positive patients.

“The face shields being donated are life-saving protective gear for our doctors and our communities. Harbor-UCLA serves some of the most vulnerable members of our community and ensuring their safety is extremely important to me,” said Senator Bradford. “We have labor, doctors, students, and university systems all working together to protect this community and ensure everyone is safe and taken care of in this unpredictable and scary time in our lives.”

The face shields were produced under the direction of Kamal Hamdan, Annenberg-endowed professor and director of the Center for Innovation in STEM Education (CISE). Hamdan heeded the call for face shields from health care professionals and immediately began working with students to produce the shields with CISE’s large bank of 3D printers, with the capability to produce 700 shields per hour.

“Supporting communities experiencing crisis is deeply rooted in CSU Dominguez Hills’ culture,” said CSUDH President Thomas A. Parham. “The work that Dr. Hamdan and the students are doing stems from a mission-driven desire to help others, and is guided by their years of experience applying learned skills and knowledge to better people’s lives in the broader community, and now to support and protect healthcare workers confronting this global pandemic. This is an authentic illustration about why what we do on this campus matters to this community and region of the state.”

(left) Alexa Golden, resident physician at Harbor UCLA Medical Center, and Erica Barrios, regional vice president at Harbor UCLA Medical Center.
(left) Alexa Golden, resident physician at Harbor UCLA Medical Center, and Erica Barrios, regional vice president at Harbor UCLA Medical Center.

“Resident physicians at Harbor-UCLA are extremely grateful for this donation of Personal Protective Equipment (PPE). As front line providers, we are doing everything we can to care for our communities during this pandemic,” said CIR/SEIU Regional Vice President Dr. Erica Barrios. “We thank Senator Bradford, as well as the students and faculty at California State University, Dominguez Hills for stepping up in this difficult time and helping us secure this important protective equipment.”

Senator Bradford represents the Los Angeles County communities of Carson, Compton, Gardena, Harbor City, Hawthorne, Inglewood, Lawndale, Lennox, San Pedro, Watts, Willowbrook, and Wilmington.

Toyota Center for Innovation and STEM Education at CSUDH.
CSUDH students manufacturing face shields in the Toyota Center for Innovation in STEM Education.
Medical face shields designed by CISE and manufactured by CSUDH students.
Hal Yee, chief medical officer for L.A. County Department of Health Services.
(left to right) Erica Barrios, regional vice president for Harbor UCLA Medical Center, Alexa Golden, resident physician for Harbor UCLA Medical Center, and California Senator (34th District) Steven Bradford.

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