COM Outlook Winter 2019

30 | DR. KIRAN C. PATEL COLLEGE OF OSTEOPATHIC MEDICINE STUDENT COMMUNICATIONS First-year student Barbara Dominguez received a first-place award for her research project “External Demands of Manual Wheelchair Propulsion” at the Colon and Rectal Symposium. The con- ference, held September 8 at the Signa- ture Grand in Davie, Florida, was hosted by Westside Regional Medical Center. † Class of 2019 students Parth S. Gandhi , left, and Avinash Ram received first-place honors for their poster “Lost in the Forest: A Rare Case of Forestier Disease—Diffuse Idiopathic Skeletal Hyperostosis (D.I.S.H.)” at the Emergency Medicine Residents’ Association’s inaugural Case-Con Poster Compe- tition. The event was held on October 1 during the American College of Emergency Physicians national conference in San Diego, California. † Fourth-year students Veena Varki , M.S., M.P.H., left, and Maria Rathore received a second-place award for their case study “Everything Is Fine and Dandy: A Rare Case Presentation of Asymptomatic Dandy Walker Malformation in an Adult.” Varki presented the research project at the Florida Chapter American College of Physicians Annual Scientific Meeting poster competition held September 8 in Tampa Bay, Florida. † Natalie Negron , class of 2019, was appointed student adviser to the American Osteopathic Association Board of Trustees, serving as one of only two osteopathic students nation- wide on this governing board. † STUDENT acCOMplishments