Barnes has served as vice-president for the AMWA chapter at the FSU College of Medicine and has played a key role in organizing and implementing many of the organization’s events during the recently completed academic year. 

She took part in a presentation on domestic violence at the AMWA national conference that is featured in the organization’s electronic newsletter. College of Medicine students participating in the presentation at the AMWA meeting included Barnes, Tiffany Williams, Margie Warner and Lauren Engelmann. Students unable to attend the meeting, but who helped in producing the poster entitled Awareness, Action, Advocacy: Violence Against Women included Christina McCall, Elizabeth Brooks and Jacquelyn Terry. 

The College of Medicine’s AMWA chapter gained additional attention when it was named as the campus-wide FSU Student Organization of the Year.

Student awards ceremony

Prior to moving on to regional campuses for the start of third-year rotations, members of the College of Medicine Class of 2010 held their annual Student Gala, handing out the following awards:

Excellence in Teaching
Year One - Charles Ouimet, Ph.D.
Year Two – Gene Ryerson, M.D.

Outstanding Clinical Professor
Gene Ryerson, M.D.

Medical Student Council Faculty Member of the Year
Suzanne Harrison, M.D., and Daniel Van Durme, M.D.

Student Organization of the Year
American Medical Women’s Association

President of the Year
Tanya Anim, Family Medicine Interest Group

Medical Student Council Student of the Year
Jennifer Packing-Ebuen
 
Undergrads at the med school

FSU student Liam Longo is one of numerous undergraduate students involved in research at the College of Medicine. He recently was awarded two grants to support a summer research experience working with the Department of Biomedical Sciences at the College of Medicine.

Longo received the 2008 Undergraduate Research and Creative Endeavors Summer Award ($1,000) and the James R. Fisher Fellowship ($3,000), which promotes undergraduate research experience in the broad area of cancer.

Tar Wars winner

First- and second-year students at the College of Medicine hosted “Tar Wars,’’ an interactive, anti-tobacco campaign created by the American Academy of Family Physicians.

Following an hour-long presentation by students in the Family Medicine Interest Group, fifth-graders at Buck Lake Elementary School created posters with an anti-smoking message.

Faculty and staff at the College of Medicine voted for the most positive and effective anti-smoking poster. The winner is Allison Whittier, who will travel with her family to Washington, D.C. to compete against winners from other states at the AAFP annual conference.

Dr. Alma Littles, senior associate dean for academic affairs, and Dr. Christie Sain (M.D., ’05), chief resident at the Tallahassee Memorial Hospital Family Medicine Residency Program, attended the ceremony at Buck Lake in late May to announce the winner.

Dr. Cyneetha Strong, president of the Florida Academy of Family Physicians, told the audience that 6,000 children smoke for the first time each day in the United States, making programs such as Tar Wars important tools to combat tobacco use.

Whittier’s poster will appear on the cover of the FAFP journal.