COM Outlook Spring 2020

24 | DR. KIRAN C. PATEL COLLEGE OF OSTEOPATHIC MEDICINE As a child growing up in a tight-knit historical neighborhood in Jacksonville, Florida, Kelsey Reinsch, M.S., embraced her creative side, which she felt precluded her from ever pursuing a career in law or medicine. “Both of my parents were lawyers, so I knew I definitely did not want to go into law, but I never entertained the idea of becoming a physician either,” said Reinsch, a first-year student at the Dr. Kiran C. Patel College of Osteopathic Medicine (KPCOM) at the new Nova Southeastern University (NSU) Tampa Bay Regional Campus. “The idea of becoming a doctor didn’t really occur to me until I was in my mid-20s.” Reinsch’s fondest childhood memories revolved around the house she grew up in with her parents, brother, and sister—a Victorian mansion in Jacksonville that was going to be demolished before her parents purchased it. Her parents had the mansion cut in half, placed on a barge, and relocated down the St. John’s River to a plot of land they had purchased on the Cedar River. FORENSIC ARCHAEOLOGIST TRANSITIONS TO STUDENT PHYSICIAN BY SCOTT COLTON, B.A., APR RISK EQUALS REWARD