COM Outlook Spring 2019

NOVA SOUTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY | 41 Third-year students Milee Patel , left, and John Wang received a first-place award for their research project “An Overview of STD Rates in Broward County’s Geriatrics Population.” They presented their research at the Best Care Practices in the Post-Acute and Long-Term Care Continuum conference held October 24–27 in Lake Buena Vista, Florida. They also received a third-place award for the same research at NSU-KPCOM’s Consortium for Excellence in Medical Education 10th Annual Scientific Research Poster Competition held November 9. Elaine M. Wallace , D.O., M.S. 4 , dean of the KPCOM, was recognized by Florida Medical Business magazine as one of Florida’s leading women in medicine and by the South Florida Business Journal as one of the Power Leaders in Health Care in South Florida. Addition- ally, Wallace, a true lifelong learner, recently earned her fourth M.S. degree— an M.S. in Education, which focused on the management of curricular programs. To acknowledge her impressive accom- plishment without listing each degree individually, Wallace’s four master’s degrees are listed as M.S. 4 Second-year students Manonmani Murugappan , left, and Regina Zambrano claimed two first-place honors during the Council of Osteopathic Student Government Presidents Research Symposium held January 18 at the University of North Texas Health Science Center. Murugappan was named the Overall and Clinical/Case Study winner for her project “Validation of Bayesian Adaptive Quick Contrast Sensitivity Function Tests in Adults Without Ocular Disease.” Zambrano earned top honors in the Basic Science Research category for her project “Modeling Melanoma-Induced Monocyte Conversion to Myeloid Derived Suppressor Cells to Identify Novel Immunotherapies.” Samantha G. Kulangara , class of 2019, passed away on November 6 at the age of 27. InMemoriam