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Medical Student Competition
for Medical Research at the
Florida Chapter of the American
College of Physicians Associ-
ates Meeting held March 2-3 in
Orlando for her project entitled
“Does Living Arrangement
Impact Hospitalization Rate
Among Enrollees in Program
of All-Inclusive Care for the El-
derly?” She will also present this
research project at the Annual
Scientific Meeting of the Ameri-
can Geriatrics Society being held
May 3-5 in Grapevine, Texas.
12 Arif M. Rana, Ph.D.,
M.Ed. , assistant professor of
Research/Scholarly Activity - Faculty and Student Achievements
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Analysis of Nine Open-Label,
Randomized Controlled Trials
in Patients with Type 2 Diabe-
tes” in the February edition of
Drugs and Aging.
11 OMS-IV Elizabeth Phung
was awarded first place in the
Affiliation Between NSU-COM and Slovakian Universities Going Strong
Students from NSU-COM and the Col-
lege of Medicine at Comenius University
in Bratislava, Slovakia, have experienced
rich student exchanges over the past year.
Recently, fourth-year NSU-COM student
Richard Sanchez completed a one-month
international selective rotation in Slovakia.
Under the direction of Daniela Ostat-
nikova, M.D., Ph.D., associate dean of the
College of Medicine at Comenius Univer-
sity, Sanchez was able to spend one week
in Dr. Ostatnikova’s physiology laboratory,
where she is conducting state-of-the-art
research in autism and testosterone. He
spent the remainder of his time rotating
through various hospitals and clinics in
Bratislava—the capital city of Slovakia.
Similarly, NSU-COM recently welcomed
Silvia Lakatosova, Ph.D., who serves as a
postdoctoral research fellow and works as
a researcher in Dr. Ostatnikova’s labora-
tory. During her stay, she will work with
Anna Maria Castejon, Ph.D., associate
professor of pharmaceutical sciences in
the College of Pharmacy. Dr. Lakatosova
will also seek to publish articles on autism-
related research through her collabora-
tion with Leonard Levy, D.P.M., M.P.H.,
associate dean for education, planning,
and research, and Cecilia Rokusek, Ed.D.,
RD, assistant dean for education, planning,
and research. Dr. Lakatosova is the third
research fellow from
Slovakia to join NSU-COM
in the past year.
Through an ongoing
partnership with the
University of Zilina in
Slovakia, Dr. Rokusek
also worked with Lukas
Bomba for five months
on a research project
that examines how stu-
dents value education in
Slovakia and compares
those findings to the
value that American
students have for their
biomedical informatics and
medical education, presented
a lecture entitled “Design-
ing Effective Presentations
Using PowerPoint” for the
2013 Public Health Workforce
Development Series held
January 15 at the Broward Re-
gional Health Planning Coun-
cil in Hollywood, Florida.
He also coauthored an article
with Kenneth Johnson, D.O.,
FACOOG, associate professor
and chair of the Department
of Obstetrics and Gyne-
cology, and Frank Voehl,
director of process improve-
ment at NSU’s H. Wayne
Huizenga School of Business
and Entrepreneurship. The
article, entitled “Using Health
Information Technology and
Lean Six Sigma to Optimize
Health Care,” was published
in the January edition of
South Florida Hospital News
and Healthcare Report .
13 OMS-IV Lauren We-
stafer authored a case report
entitled “Role of Bedside
Ultrasound in CMV Retini-
tis: A Case Report” that was
published in the volume 2012
edition of Case Reports in
Emergency Medicine.
higher education. Bomba, who is com-
pleting his Ph.D. in Slovakia, is a faculty
member at the University of Zilina School
of Education and Sociology. Bomba
spent five months at NSU-COM with Drs.
Rokusek and Levy before returning to
Slovakia on February 28; Dr. Lakatosova
arrived on February 25.
Pictured (from left) are
Dr. Silvia Lakatosova,
Dr. Cecilia Rokusek, and
Lukas Bomba.