COM Outlook Winter 2020

48 | DR. KIRAN C. PATEL COLLEGE OF OSTEOPATHIC MEDICINE ALUMNI SPOTLIGHT ALUMNI Spotlight college’s faculty members and administration. In 2003, she earned the KPCOM’s Student D.O. of the Year Award—an accolade bestowed on her by her student peers. But that was only the beginning of her award-winning success. During her KPCOM career, Drowos also earned her M.P.H. degree and received numerous other NSU-specific honors, including the Kenneth Burnell Student Research Award, the Chancellor’s Award for Outstanding Public Health Student, and the Govern- ment and Public Policy Award. Additionally, she was the proud recipient of the Florida Medical Associa- tion’s Sanford Mullen Award for Outstanding Commu- nity Service. “All of these opportunities have been integral in getting me where I am today,” Drowos said.” After graduating from the KPCOM in 2004, Drowos pursued an active postgraduate life that included a one-year, pediatrics-based internship at Palms West Hospital in Loxahatchee, Florida, followed by an additional year in the Palm Beach County Health Department/NSU-KPCOM Preventive Medicine Residency Program. The ever-ambitious Drowos, who completed her family medicine residency at Broward Health Medical Center in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, also found the fortitude to earn an M.B.A. in health care administra- tion from Florida Atlantic University (FAU) while doing her residency training. Armed with three degrees and a penchant for making people’s lives better, Drowos accepted a position as medical director of the Riviera Beach Health Center, which is part of the network of clinics run by the Palm Beach County Health Department. “I oversaw the clinic operations, cared for our county’s vulnerable patients, and assisted with the clinical care through the county’s infectious disease programs,” she explained. “I was also involved as a faculty member in the county’s preventive medicine residency program, which is affiliated with NSU. And I maintain my involvement and teaching role to this day.” Career Course Change Although she enjoyed her role as medical director of the Riviera Beach Health Center, Drowos’s life was moving in a familial direction, which led her to reevaluate her professional future. Married since 2004 to her husband, Bryan, who is the founding member of Drowos Wealth Management Group at Wells Fargo Advisors, the Drowos family was Top, from left: Drowos poses with John Kelly, Ph.D., FAU president; Phillip M. Boiselle, M.D., dean of FAU’s Charles E. Schmidt College of Medicine; and her husband, Bryan. Above: A future physician ponders her career path. Opposite page: Drowos and her family visit the Great Wall of China during one of their global adventures. Drowos was in China to teach family medicine through her affiliation with the International Primary Care Educational Alliance.