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4A Amelia Gulling GreenPower Administrator Desert Research Institute A melia Gulling's job — to educate schools about the need for greater sustainability in the state — is one that she happens to love. While she serves a major role statewide, much of the work she conducts is right here in Southern Nevada. In fact, she helped create the Energy-Wise Educators, which is a collaboration of efforts that is housed under the Green Power program. Specifically, Gulling works with industry professionals such as NV Energy, HomeFree Nevada, and the Southern Nevada Regional Planning Coalition to provide teachers with the necessary tools, resources, and education to teach about energy efficiency in Southern Nevada. "I wear a lot of hats," says Gulling. "I work for the United States Green Building Council on a volunteer basis, chairing their Green Schools Committee and working on some really exciting thing down here in Las Vegas, especially one on one with a lot of schools. We're integrating topics rang- ing from waste and recycling to energy efficiency to topics dealing with climate change." She attended California State University in Chico to earn a dual degree in Education and Environmental Advocacy Leadership. Upon graduating, she launched her own environmental consulting business called Climate for Change Consulting LLC. She moved back to the Bay Area after receiving a position as the Sustainability Coordinator for University of California in Santa Cruz. Gulling's efforts in conservation here in own have earned USGBC a letter of commendation from Henderson Mayor Andy Hafen. She also serves as an ambassador for the Southern Nevada Regional Planning Coalition's sustainability group. She is in the final steps of completing her master's degree in Public Administration with an emphasis in Nonprofit Management from UNLV and plans to finish in the summer. During 2013, Gulling says she will also work with a recycling collaboration group partnering with the city of Henderson, Republic Services, CCSD and nonprofits to find innovative ways to empower and educate schools about recycling. Right now, she is hard at work coordinating a comprehensive "Green Boxes" program in which educators across the state will have access to environmental and climate curriculum that highlight hands-on projects that are aligned to the standards. She is also organizing a partnership with Clark High School to nominate them as a spotlight school for GreenPower. "I'm just really passionate about environmental education," she says, "and about doing some really fun and educational projects this year, something that is very new to the Valley." — Howard Riell Molly Hamrick Deborah Kuhls, M.D. President and Chief Operating Officer Associate Dean for Academic Affairs, Chief Academic Officer of the Las Vegas Campus Coldwell Banker Premier Realty University Of Nevada School Of Medicine W atching her single mother sell hearing aids for a living while raising four children brought its share of influential moments for Molly Hamrick. She recalls her mom coming home after a long day of door-to-door selling then scheduling appointments for the next workday. Hamrick's college and career path would look similar, as she worked 15-hour days to pay for her schooling at UNLV while maintaining a good GPA. "My mom taught me that hard work pays off if you keep going after it every day," Hamrick said. With business degree in hand Hamrick took to the real estate arena and met her eventual husband, Robert Hamrick, in 1990. The pair now own Coldwell Banker Premier Realty, which they bought in 1998, a branch that will likely see gross commission income of $20 million on sales of $750 million in 2013, according to Hamrick. During the recession, Hamrick and her husband's work ethic also paid off for their employees, as the pair operate a debt-free company and didn't need to lay off any staff. "Bob and I both came from modest families where if you couldn't pay for it you shouldn't buy it. That kept us on good footing through the recession," she said. 20130128_VI01_I.indd 4 A shifting market also meant a shift in business focus. A drop in homes values brought a need for short sale and foreclosure specialists. The company's Neighborhood Awareness Campaign had agents knocking on doors talking to homeowners about their options. Going into property management, a low-profit margin category, also helped cover gaps. Hamrick is also a partner in RealstiQ, a real estate technology company she started a decade ago, largely out of frustration over the lack of ability to make quick Web page changes. The company now works with about 40 large real estate clients around the country providing Web development and front and back office operations solutions too. Going forward, Hamrick is in expansion mode on all fronts. Coldwell Banker Premier Realty recently closed on the purchase of a local Better Homes and Gardens franchise and is eyeing other opportunities. Meanwhile, RealistiQ continues to find new ways to improve doing business. "We believe we've made it through the worst part of the recession and now it's about growth, moving forward, rebuilding," she added. — Brian Sodoma D r. Deborah Kuhls has always been as keenly interesting in sharing medical knowledge as in collecting it. In addition to her accomplishments in medicine — Kuhls also serves as chief of the section of Critical Care in the Division of Acute Care Surgery and associate program director of the Surgical Critical Care Fellowship program – she has several years of academic leadership experience. She was, for instance, the Surgery Clerkship Director for eight years (2002-2010), during which time the Surgery Department received the Outstanding Clinical Department award from graduating medical students in seven years. Since 2008, Kuhls has been involved in curricular reform, beginning with years one and two. She will be co-leading years three and four curricular reform, which is expected to continue through 2014. In 2009, she was appointed assistant dean for Medical Education and chief academic officer of the Las Vegas campus and in 2012 her role and time in the Dean's Office were expanded and she was appointed associate dean for Academic Affairs, which includes medical education, focusing of years three and four student education as well as institutional advancement, outreach and faculty development. Kuhls has been active in several local and national professional organizations and focuses on medical education, trauma surgery and critical care. In 2012 she assumed the role of National Chair of the Injury Prevention Committee, American College of Surgeons Committee on Trauma, and was selected as a 2012-13 Fellow in Executive Leadership in Academic Medicine at Drexel University School of Medicine. "Through that," she notes, referring to ELAM, "I identified the project that I am starting to work on, which is the feasibility of constructing a medical education and research building on the Las Vegas campus in collaboration with University Medical Center. We've completed phase one of that analysis. I look at that as a significant contribution, and one on which there is still a lot of work to do." The facility, she explains, "will really make the School of Medicine a much more prominent and visible partner in healthcare here in Southern Nevada." Kuhls and her colleagues are also working in conjunction with UMC to, as she puts it, "strengthen our relationship with it, so that they can serve as our major teaching partner, to start to be even more visible in southern Nevada for quality healthcare, and as an educational institution for both our residents and fellows. We also do a lot of outreach to the community with high school and college students who are interested in the field of medicine." — Howard Riell 1/24/13 2:14:48 PM "