SGA Rounds - Summer 2015, Vol 1, Issue 3

Taheri Liberty Thornley Vallin Singh Akolkar American Osteopathic Colleges of Ophthalmology and Otolaryngology 99th Annual Clinical Assembly held May 6-10 in Orlando, Florida. OMS-IIs Nergess Taheri and Rebecca Liberty were two of three students accepted to participate in the two-week International Children’s Heart Foundation medical outreach trip to Guayaquil, Ecuador, that took place last December and allowed the duo to assist the medical team in completing 18 surgeries to repair congenital heart defects in children. Because they were profoundly impacted by the Ecuador medical outreach endeavor, Taheri and Liberty presented a poster on April 30 about the experience entitled “Medical Mission Trip to Repair Congenital Heart Defects in Children” at the American College of Osteopathic Pediatricians Conference in Fort Lauderdale. OMS-III Erin Thornley was elected as a student trustee of the American College of Osteopathic Pediatricians’ Board of Directors. OMS-I Claudia Vallin coauthored an article entitled “Increased Yolk Progesterone Interferes with Prenatal Auditory Learning and Elevates Emotional Reactivity in Bobwhite Quail (Collins virginianus) Chicks” that was published in the March 2015 issue of the Developmental Psychobiology Journal . OMS-II Anita Singh and OMS-III Shalaka Akolkar coauthored an article entitled “Age- Related Differences in Tissue Dielectric Constant Values of Female Forearm Skin Measured Noninvasively at 300 MHz” that was published in the June issue of the Journal of Skin Research and Technology . In addition, Singh was one of three South Florida medical students to receive a paid summer preceptorship at a Humana-owned primary care medical center. Humana presented the Terry G. Smith, M.D., Memorial Primary Care Medicine Preceptorships at a reception held March 31. Singh, who was chosen based on recommendations and her interest in primary care medicine, will complete a four- to six-week paid summer preceptorship at a Humana-owned primary care medical center in South Florida. Anita Singh receiving congratulations at the preceptorship ceremony.

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