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M.D. STUDENTS, GRAD STUDENTS, POSTDOCS, RESIDENTS

Shermeeka Hogans-Mathews is getting a $10,000 Minority Scholars Award from the American Medical Association Foundation. Clicking her name will take you to a detailed story about her journey from underserved patient to medical student.

Rachel Tripoli, who last summer won a research fellowship, this summer accepted the Whitaker Prize for Best Platform Presentation at the Consortium of

Multiple Sclerosis Centers’ annual conference. The prize is presented to “a young and emerging scientist whose work is judged to have a substantial promise to increase the understanding of the pathophysiology, immunology, genetics, and/or epidemiology of multiple sclerosis.” Tripoli (Class of 2014, Sarasota campus) was lead author of “Deficient Contrast Visual Acuity in Patients with Multiple Sclerosis Degrades Gait Performance Under Conditions of Low Illumination.” She accepted the award in behalf of her co-authors: Kelly Schwirian (Class of 2014, Pensacola campus), Megan J. Walley (Class of 2016), Barbara Kiourgas, Professor Harold Bland, M.D., Communication Science and Disorders Professor Leonard LaPointe, Ph.D., and Professor Gerry Maitland, M.D.

Marielys Figueroa-Sierra, former Bridge student and now a first-year med student, was awarded first place for the David Lowenthal award in the poster competition at the annual Florida Geriatrics Society meeting in June. Associate Professor Niharika Suchak, MBBS, and Program Director Suzanne Baker, M.A., were co-authors on the poster, “interRAI Contact Assessment in Transitional Care.”

These 16 students from the Class of 2013 have been named members of the Gold Humanism Honor Society: Jason Boothe (pictured here), Laura Davis, Zach Folzenlogen, Amy Haddock, Zachary Hale, Austin Henkel, Brittany Jackson, Jennifer Owen, Shannon Scott, Shawn Shah, Joshua Smith, Heather Staples (pictured here), Cindy-Sue Turco, Melissa Velarde, Sarah Weaver and Claudia Zapata. They were selected based on their clinical excellence, service to others, patient-centered approach to care and compassion.

Heather Staples (Orlando regional campus) wrote a blog on asthma for the Arnold Palmer Hospital for Children.

GRAD STUDENTS AND POSTDOCS
Oscar Cabrera, a grad student in the Megraw lab, has won a $5,000 Wilson-Auzenne Graduate Student Assistantship. This is the second year in a row that one of the winners of this award has come from Biomedical Sciences. Last year Janel Rodriguez from the Horabin lab was among the recipients.

Gina O’Neal-Moffitt, a grad student in the Olcese lab (pictured below), received a $2,000 Fall 2012 OLLI Scholarship from Florida State’s Osher Lifelong Learning Institute.

Four graduate students were awarded research project grants at the 14th Annual Bryan W. Robinson Endowment Dinner. Deborah Morris was awarded a $1,250 research grant for “Monitoring Edema and Cellular Metabolism in Ethanol and Trauma-Induced Brain Injury by Magnetic Resonance Imaging at 21 Tesla”; Gina O’Neal-Moffitt, $1,250 research grant, “Melatonin’s Neuroprotection in an Alzheimer Brain”; Matthew D’Alessandro, $500 honorable mention award, “BTRCP1/2 play critical roles in the circadian clock mechanism”; and Molly Foote, $500 honorable mention award, “Schizophrenia-Related Abnormalities in the 14-3-3 Functional Knockout Mice.”


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