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COM Outlook . Summer-Fall 2014
included heading up the graduation
resolution that helped accommodate
the students’ schedules. She also helped
to orchestrate and design the HPD
Student Lounge renovation and other
projects central to student life.
Her efforts and successes as a
leader include serving as PanSGA
HPD Committee chair, a President’s
64 member, Omega Beta Iota Political
Action Honor Society national director,
NSU’ s Re l ay for L i fe Educat ion
Subcommittee member, and A Day for
Children graduate student director.
Carisa also serves on multiple American
Osteopathic Association state and
national boards and committees as
the one student representative for all
osteopathic medical students and the
COSGP Executive Board.
Carisa lives NSU’s core value of
innovation as she helped create NSU’s
D.O./J.D. pilot program and is its
inaugural student. She is now the first
person in the world to pursue D.O., J.D.,
and M.P.H. degrees at the same time.
She excels at juggling each program,
performing at the top in her classes in
all three disciplines. In addition, her
passion for the underserved prompted
her to establish a student-led free clinic
for the Broward County homeless.”
Other nominees representing NSU-
COM with distinction were
Executive of the Year
Margaret Wilkinson, Ph.D.
Alumni of the Year
Kenneth Johnson, D.O.
Staff Person of the Year
Donna Chase, M.B.A.
Co-Curricular Adviser of the Year
Doris Newman, D.O.
s tudent cent ered, oppor tuni t y ,
scho l ar sh ip/ resear ch , int egr i t y ,
diversity, innovation, and community
within the university community.
E x c e r p t s f r o m C h a m p i o n -
Lippmann’s nomination entry clearly
illustrate why she was selected as NSU’s
Student of the Year.
“As a four-year member of the SGA
Executive Board, student doctor Carisa
Champion-Lippmann proves more than
capable of handling the daunting tasks
of managing her personal life and her
academic career. In fact, her record of
the highest-ever recorded commitment
to community service—around 700
hours—has helped both the NSU
community and neighborhoods in need
across the world.
Under her leadership, the NSU-COM
SGA thrived in advocating for students
and their interests. Carisa worked
on many important causes, which
Carisa Champion-Lippmann Snares STUEY
Win as NSU Student of the Year
The College of Osteopathic Medicine
walked away with three wins at the 15
th
Annual NSU Student Life Achievement
Awards (STUEYS) held April 2 in the
Miniaci Performing Arts Center on
campus, including the most coveted
award of the night: NSU Student of
the Year for the indefatigable OMS-III
Carisa Champion-Lippmann
.
In addition to Champion-Lippmann’s
significant triumph, the
NSU-COM
Student Government Association
was
the recipient of the university’s Student
Government of the Year STUEY, while
John the Baker
, which was nominated
by NSU-COM’s Student Government
Association, was named Corporate
Partner of the Year.
For those who are unfamiliar with
the STUEY Awards, the event was
created in 2000 to honor the people
and organizations that best exemplify
the core values of academic excellence,
