COM Outlook . Spring 2015
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COMmunications
Natalie Booth Named Student
D.O. of the Year
On December 16,
OMS-III Natalie Booth
was named
NSU-COM Student D.O. of the Year. Booth was nominated
by her peers and selected by the NSU-COM Local Selection
Committee, whose members were determined by the Council
of Osteopathic Student Government Presidents. As a result of
her being named NSU-COM Student D.O of the Year, Booth
is automatically nominated for the National Student D.O. of
the Year Award and the $1,000 monetary prize that will be an-
nounced at the AACOM Annual Conference on April 24.
Booth was selected
based on her impressive
accomplishments, which
included a range of com-
munity service activities
such as participating in
the annual REACH Fair
and medical outreach
trips to Ecuador and
Vietnam. She also served
as an anatomy fellow and
an NSU student ambassador and is the current treasurer of the
NSU-COM Student Government Association.
Art, Medicine, and
Observation Program Wins
COSGP Osteopathic Medical
Education Award
In February,
NSU-
COM’s Art, Medi-
cine, and Observa-
tion Program
was
selected as the inaugural
winner of the Council
of Osteopathic Student
Government Presidents
(COSGP) Outstanding
Advancement in Osteo-
pathic Medical Education
Award. The accolade was established to allow students to rec-
ognize their osteopathic medical school for making a robust and
durable change within their curriculum or for having instituted a
novel and successful program in accordance with the osteopath-
ic philosophy to advance their osteopathic medical education.
The Art, Medicine, and Observation Program, which edu-
cates osteopathic medical students to more effectively observe
their patients through examining artwork, was developed by
Dianna Silvagni, J.D.
(pictured left)
, clinical assistant profes-
sor of medical education. The COSGP is the official national
leadership council of the American Association of Colleges of
Osteopathic Medicine and is the only organization that repre-
sents all osteopathic medical students.
IN MEMORIAM:
OMS-II Benjamin Rau
On November 26,
OMS-II Benjamin
Rau
passed away at the
age of 30 after bravely
succumbing to an insidi-
ous brain tumor. Accord-
ing to his class of 2017
classmate and friend
Ryan Gluth, “Ben was a
compassionate, loving,
and dedicated husband.
He loved his wife Rachelle with all of his heart and cherished
every moment they spent together. Ben was always vibrant and
had the ability to make you smile, which is why he was the type
of guy you wanted to be around just because he made you a bet-
ter person in doing so. Moving forward as a class, we can honor
Ben by practicing medicine with the kindness, empathy, passion,
and respect he would have treated all of his patients with.”
