Jenny Maziad, a fourth-year student at the Orlando regional campus, received the 2008 FMA-Medical Student Section Sanford A. Mullen, M.D., Award for Outstanding Community Service by a Medicine Student.

Shawn Agee, fourth-year student at the Daytona Beach regional campus, received the 2008 FMA Foundation Medical Student Scholarship. The $5,000 scholarship is in recognition of Agee’s academic achievement and dedication to organized medicine.

The FMA said Agee’s achievements “clearly distinguish him as a future leader and exceptional physician.”

Maziad was selected by the FMA-MSS Governing Council in recognition of going beyond the classroom to exhibit outstanding community service. Nominations and selection for the award, established in 1990, are handled entirely by medical students.

One medical student in the state of Florida receives the award, which honors the memory of Sanford Mullen, a prominent Jacksonville pathologist who died in l994.  Mullen, president of the Florida Medical Association in l98l-82, was actively involved in numerous voluntary health agencies and other community service activities.

WRITE TO THE HEART

Shannon Hill and Brian Zirgibel, members of the College of Medicine Class of 2009, have published an article in Simply Seniors to share information about taking care of the heart and blood vessels. Hill and Zirgibel are based at the Tallahassee regional campus. Read their article here: Heart Health

STUDENT ELECTIONS 

Class of 2011 officers elected for the 2008/009 academic year:

President – Evan Johnson

Vice President – Jackson Hatfield

Secretary – Danielle Henry

Treasurer – Ashley Lucke

Social Co-Chairs – Brett Armstrong, Brittany O’Dwyer and Matthew Ramseyer

Historian Co-Chairs – Kate Nelson and Tiffany Vollmer

Hospitality Chair – Layla Lundquist-Smith

Intramural Co-Chairs – Greg Peters and Alex Thacker

Gala Chair – Shaila Siraj

Curriculum Chair – Ashley Newell

Library/IT Chair – Casey Cable

Class of 2012 election results:

President – Brandon Mauldin

Vice President – Jimmy Konstas

Secretary – Sarah Campbell

Treasurer – Brett Guido

Social Co-Chairs – Anup Patel and Monica Pena

Historian Chair – Belinda Gavino

Hospitality Co-Chairs – Trina Chakravarty and Allison Poimboeuf

Intramural Co-Chairs – Steven Albrechta and Megan Bevis

Curriculum Chair – Shahab Virani

ARTS IN THE ATRIUM

On the third Wednesday of each month the department of geriatrics is sponsoring "Arts in the Atrium" as an activity of the Donald W. Reynolds Foundation grant received by the College of Medicine in 2006. FSU is one of 10 medical schools nationwide to receive the grant, intended to integrate the principles of geriatric care across the four-year curriculum.

The Reynolds Foundation launched its Aging and Quality of Life Program in 1996 with the goal of improving the quality of life for America's elderly by preparing physicians to provide better care for them.

Through Arts in the Atrium, the department of geriatrics is demonstrating the health benefits of an active, involved lifestyle for elderly citizens.

Oct. 15, 12 p.m. - Multimedia event based on Cirque du Soleil's performance of The Beatles' Love album. Released in 2006 as a compilation of The Beatles' music over the years, the Love album is the basis for a slide show in which the department of geriatrics invites medical students to "meet your future patients - the Beatles Generation."

Nov. 19, 12 p.m. - Argentine Tango featuring the Tango Sur Band & Dancers from TangoTallahassee.com. A chance to learn the tango, or watch those who already know how.

MULTICULTURAL HEALTH

Third-year students at the College of Medicine’s Orlando regional campus volunteered at the Sixth Annual Caribbean Health Summit Sept. 6. The students helped provide free health screenings and testing while educating individuals about preventative health techniques.

The Center for Multicultural Wellness and Prevention (CMWP), the Caribbean American Chamber of Commerce of Florida and several community partners combined to organize the summit. The medical students volunteered to help CMWP provide health screenings and education over a six-hour period at the Central Florida Fair & Exposition Park.

Left to Right: Dr. Ana M. Viamonte Ros, Secretary of the Florida Department of Health, and College of Medicine student participants Craig Campbell, Vanessa Vasquez, Shoshana Hacker and Jill Ward.

GET UP AND GO

Second-year student Erin Golden joined Dr. Alice Pomidor, associate professor in the department of geriatrics, in a unique outreach effort during the American Geriatrics Society annual meeting in Washington, D.C. Golden, vice-president of the Geriatrics Interest Group at the College of Medicine, and Pomidor volunteered to be part of a falls prevention screening program at Union Station.

The event, providing a “get up and go” test commonly used by geriatricians to measure fall risk in elderly patients, involved 45 AGS members working in two-hour shifts. Dr. Marc Rothman, clinical research fellow in internal medicine and geriatrics at Yale University School of Medicine, organized the event.

Second-year student Sarah McIver, president of the Geriatrics Interest Group, also attended the AGS meetings. In all, the volunteers screened more than 150 people and handed out thousands of packets of information to the public.

Erin Golden with a Get up and Go participant at Union Station in Washington, D.C.