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COM Outlook . Summer-Fall 2014
OMS-III Ca-
risa Champi-
on-Lippmann
,
who is also
pursuing a
J.D. degree at
NSU’s Shepa-
rd Broad Law Center, was part
of a team that won first place
as the overall champion at the
L. Edward Bryant, Jr., National
Health Law Transactional
Competition held March 21
at Loyola University School of
Law in Chicago, Illinois. The
competition required the team
to advise the physician owners
of a specialty hospital about
their options for the future,
taking into account complex
legal and business consider-
ations. In May, she was recog-
nized for her outstanding ac-
complishments by the Florida
State University (FSU) Alumni
Association, which honored
her with the Reubin O’D.
Askew Young Alumni Award.
Champion-Lippmann, a 2008
FSU alumna, received double
accolades from the association
by winning a Thirty Under 30
Award—highlighting the ac-
complishments of 30 of FSU’s
outstanding young alumni who
are age 30 or younger. Then—
from that already impressive
group—she was one of six
chosen to receive the coveted
Askew Award—the highest
honor bestowed upon young
alumni by the FSU Alumni
Association. The Askew Award
is named in honor of the late
Reubin O’D. Askew, who
started his political career at
FSU as student body president
before going on to become
one of America’s most respect-
ed governors from 1971-79.
Douglas Flemons, Ph.D.,
LMFT
, professor of family ther-
apy, clinical professor of family
medicine, and co-director of
NSU’s Office of Suicide and
Violence Prevention, recently
coauthored a book entitled
Relational
Suicide As-
sessment:
Risks, Re-
sources, and
Possibilities
for Safety.
He
also presented a workshop on
the topic at the annual confer-
ence of the American Associa-
tion of Suicidology held April
9-12 in Los Angeles, California.
Mark Gabay,
D.O., FAAP,
FACOP
, assis-
tant professor
of pediatrics,
served as
one of the
moderators for the 17
th
Annual
Pediatric Board Review Course
hosted by Miami Children’s
Hospital that took place May
15-18 in Miami Beach. In ad-
dition, Dr. Gabay played a key
role in the development of
the inaugural Internet-based
nationwide pediatrics resi-
dency in-service examination
in with the American Osteo-
pathic Board of Pediatrics that
is entering its second year of
administration in August 2014.
OMS-IV An-
drew R. Gar-
rett, M.S.
, had
his coauthored
article en-
titled “A Novel
Method for
Predicting Antioxidant Activity
Based on Amino Acid Structure”
published in
Food Chemistry
.
OMS-IIIs
Britta Gray
(pictured
left)
,
Andrew
Garrett,
and
Samantha
Berr
present-
ed a poster entitled “A Survey
of Medical School Curricula
Addressing Interprofessional-
ism and the Health Care Needs
of Individuals Experiencing
Homelessness” at the 2014
National Health Care for the
Homeless Conference and Poli-
cy Symposium held May 28-30
in New Orleans, Louisiana. The
poster summarized the results
of a student-led research
project in collaboration with
NSU-COM’s Project HOPE.
Elliot Sklar, Ph.D.,
and
Kristi
Messer, M.P.H., M.S.W.
,
served as faculty advisers.
T. Lucas
Hollar, Ph.D.
,
assistant
professor of
public health,
authored
“Healthcare
Spending and Prevention
Within the Affordable Care Act:
Contrasting Public Health and
Medical Models of Prevention,”
which is a chapter in a book
entitled
The American Election
2012: Contexts and Conse-
quences
. Dr. Hollar was also in-
vited to serve as a peer reviewer
for the
Journal of the American
Osteopathic Association
and
was appointed to the American
Association of Colleges of Os-
teopathic Medicine Council of
Osteopathic Researchers.
Robin J. Ja-
cobs, Ph.D.,
M.S.W.
,
director of
international
medicine,
presented a
lecture coauthored with
Elaine
M. Wallace, D.O., M.S., M.S.,
M.S.
, NSU-COM’s executive as-
sociate dean, entitled, “Identifi-
cation of Musculoskeletal Disor-
ders in Medically Underserved
Regions of Rural Vietnam” at
the Second International Con-
ference on Health and Medical
Sciences held May 6 in Athens,
Greece. She also authored
“Charity and Competence of
Charitable Gift Givers,” which
was published in the May edi-
tion of the
Journal of Religion
& Spirituality in Social Work
,
and “Social Media in Pharmacy:
Analysis of Pharmacists’ Use
of Twitter” in the April edition
of the
American Journal of
Health-System Pharmacy
.
OMS-IV Bri-
tani Kessler
(pictured left)
and
OMS-II
Kelly Thibert
were elected
to the Ameri-
can Medical Student Associa-
tion (AMSA) Board of Trustees
for 2014-15. Kessler became
national president on May 1,
while Thibert assumed the vice
president for internal affairs
position. As board officers, they
are representing nearly 40,000
physicians-in-training, maintain
alliances with other organiza-
tions, and visit AMSA chapters
across the country.
Nancy Kli-
mas, M.D.
,
professor
of internal
medicine and
director of
NSU-COM’s
Institute for Neuro-Immune
Medicine, was featured on
Oprah Winfrey’s Web site
Oprah.com
in an article en-
titled “Not Feeling Well? This
Could Be Why” that discussed
the symptoms of chronic fa-
tigue syndrome.
OMS-IV Milla
Kviatkovsky
,
who present-
ed her case
report entitled
“The Bloody
Aortic Stenso-
sis: A Case of Heyde Syndrome”
at the national American Col-
lege of Physicians Internal Medi-
cine Meeting held April 10-12 in
Orlando, Florida, also received
first-place honors in the sympo-
sium’s Medical Student Clinical
Vignette Competition.
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