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COM Outlook . Spring 2015
OMS-III Carisa Champi-
on-Lippmann
was elected
national chair of the Council
of Osteopathic Student Gov-
ernment Presidents (COSGP),
which is a council of the
American Association of Col-
leges of Osteopathic Medicine.
She also was appointed to
serve on the American Os-
teopathic Association (AOA)
Brand Awareness Campaign
Task Force, which is a multi-
million dollar project aimed
at raising awareness nationally
of osteopathic medicine. In
addition, Champion-Lippmann
was appointed vice chair of
the AOA Council on Student
Affairs and vice chair of the
Mentor of the Year Selection
Committee. On the schol-
arly front, she coauthored an
article entitled “The Era of Big
Data” with 1988 NSU-COM
alumnus
Tyler Cymet,
D.O., FACP, FACOFP
,
that was published in the vol-
ume 15, issue 3 edition of the
Maryland Medical Journal
.
OMS-l Kristina T. Ge-
mayel
presented a poster
entitled “Genomic Sequencing
as a Novel Mechanism for the
Comprehensive Analysis of
Polymorphisms in Disease” at
the 112
th
Annual Florida Os-
teopathic Medical Association
Convention and at the Univer-
sity of Miami Miller School
of Medicine’s Eastern-Atlantic
Student Research Forum.
OMS-II Alexandra
Grammenos
and
OMS-II
Kelly Corbitt
presented a
clinical research project en-
titled “Detecting Water Con-
tent in Male Arms Via Tissue
Dielectric Constant (TDC)
Measurements: Baseline for
Potential Use in Detecting
Lymphedema in Male Breast
Cancer” at the 112
th
Annual
Florida Osteopathic Medical
Association Convention and
at the University of Miami
Miller School of Medicine’s
Eastern-Atlantic Student Re-
search Forum.
OMS-IIs William Gun-
ther
,
Karin Hwang
,
and
Terry Parsons
were
awarded ACOFP Auxiliary
scholarships during the 52
nd
Annual American College of
Osteopathic Family Physi-
cians (ACOFP) National Con-
vention held March 12-15 in
Las Vegas, Nevada. Gunther
and Hwang won two of the
20 Osteopathic Family Medi-
cine Student Scholarships,
which recognize medical
students who have an inter-
est in family medicine and
the ACOFP. Each awardee
receives $1,000 each to help
defray medical school and/or
personal expenses. Parsons,
who was a recent president of
the college’s ACOFP stu-
dent chapter and is parlia-
mentarian of the ACOFP’s
National Student Executive
Board, won an Emerging
Osteopathic Leader Scholar-
ship, which is awarded to
emerging osteopathic student
leaders involved in family
medicine and the ACOFP.
This coveted award is given
to two osteopathic student
leaders in order to affirm
the recipients’ interest in the
association leadership and
provides $2,500 in helping
defray medical school costs
and personal expenses.
Janet Hamstra, Ed.D.
,
director of preclinical educa-
tion and associate professor of
internal medicine, presented a
workshop entitled “Walk the
Walk: Getting to the Heart
of Leadership” at the 2015
Health Professions Educational
Research Symposium held
January 24 at Nova Southeast-
ern University’s main campus.
T. Lucas Hollar, Ph.D.
,
assistant professor of public
health, presented a paper en-
titled “Public Health and an
Existential Model of Adminis-
tration: Relevance, Meaning,
and Decision Making Within
Public Health Administrative
Action” at the 142
nd
American
Public Health Association
Annual Meeting and Exposi-
tion held November 16-19
in New Orleans, Louisiana.
Dr. Hollar also served as a
coauthor on five other oral
and poster presentations at
the conference. In addition,
he coauthored an article with
Nicole Cook, Ph.D.,
M.P.A.
,
OMS-IV Sum-
mer Chavez
, and
David
Quinn, M.P.H.
, a 2013
M.P.H. graduate, entitled “Sup-
port for Smoke-Free Multi-Unit
Housing Policies Among Ra-
cially and Ethnically Diverse,
RESEARCH/SCHOLARY ACTIVITY - Faculty and Student Achievements
Champion-Lippmann
Cook
Corbitt
Gemayel
Grammenos
Gunther
Hamstra
Hollar
Hwang
Jacobs
Law
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