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June 4, 2013
Volume 1, Issue 2 The PC Connection
Our Panther
Communities:
• Anderson
Community:
Northwest Miami
• Hippocrates
Community:
Miami Gardens
• Pasteur
Community:
Opa Locka
• Semmelweis
Community:
Northeast Miami
Student Highlights:
* Mentorship Appreciation Month
* Third Annual HWCOM
Residency Fair
* Mammography Art Initiative
Provides First Mammograms
* HWCOM hosts Latin American
Medical Association Health Fair
* Business & Medicine Students host
Senator Rene Garcia
* HWCOM Partners with Health
Information Project (HIP)
* HWCOM Participates at the 4th
Annual Brain Fair
Student Highlights
January was National Mentoring
Month. The goal of the newly
revamped Medical Mentoring and
Leadership Program is to ensure
our mentors get recognized for
the time and energy they
contribute to our medical students
who are seeking insight, advice
and guidance in their chosen
career path.
On January, 22, Dr. Ansley
Splinter (mentor to M1 students,
Punta Narain and Krista Miller)
and Dr. Krieger (mentor to M2
student, Monica Polcz) were
invited to speak to the medical
students about “Work, Life and
Balance through the Eyes of a
Physician”.
“It’s important as a female to
know the importance of learning
how to balance family and a
demanding career so I can be
Mentorship Appreciation Month
successful at both,” said M2
Caroline Carreras. “This is why
I’m so grateful to have mentors
like this.”
HWCOM mentors were
recognized at the first annual
Mentor Appreciation and
Networking Dinner on January
24. Over 120 students and
doctor mentors from Miami
Dade and Broward were in
attendance. “Mentoring for a
medical student is powerful
beyond measure because you
are shaping the lives of those
who will eventually be saving
lives themselves,” says Carmen
Ellis, the program coordinator.
Throughout this year, students
have done a variety of activities
with their mentors including:
publications, shadowing in
hospitals, research, and even
taking a break from school
and grabbing some coffee.
One of the greatest things
about our mentoring program
is the opportunity to build
formal and informal
relationships with physicians
in the community.
Above: “Work, Life and Balance through the Eyes of a Physician” with Dr. Diane Krieger and Dr. Ansley Splinter
Above: Mentor, Dr. Ramiro Perez and first-year student Allie Kovar
Above: Assistant Coordinator Krystle Brown, Assistant Dean of OSA Dr. Dollinger, and Panther Community Coordinator Carmen Ellis Below: Over 120 students and doctor mentors from the area attended the first annual Mentor Appreciation/Networking Dinner
Editor: Jessica Lewis, MA Panther Community Coordinator
A newsletter created to promote and share the activities and experiences our students gain from opportunities provided to them by the Herbert Wertheim college of Medicine and the Panther Communities (PC).
* 2013 Student Choice Talent and Award Show
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Feb. 11th, a group of AMA members went to
Capitol Hill to meet with legislators and their staff
to discuss issues that affect medical students,
such as graduate medical education funding and
student debt. Over 350 medical students from
across the country attended.
HWCOM medical students
gathered at the Graham
Center on February 1st to
participate in the medical
school’s third annual
Residency Fair. Twenty-three
programs attended, including
those from local hospital
affiliates and North Florida
university hospitals.
Organized by the Panther
Communities, the purpose of
the fair was for programs to
seek talented HWCOM
candidates, and for students
to learn more about the
different residencies. The
Third Annual HWCOM Residency Fair
April 30th, members of the
Mammography Art Initiative
conducted their mammogram
session with the Jackson
mobile “Mammovan” at the
Pentecostal Tabernacle
Church, one of our
community partners in Miami
Gardens. The
Mammography Art Initiative
provided nineteen women
with mammogram screenings
in association with the
Jackson Taylor Breast Health
Center. All of this was made
possible through funds raised
from the 2012
Mammography Art Initiative Provides First Mammograms
event generated interest in
residency programs such as,
Pediatrics, Internal Medicine,
Family Medicine, Plastic
Surgery, OBGYN, and
Emergency Medicine.
The fair also provided a venue
for residency programs to
network with regional
colleagues and further build
relationships between
institutions.
Next year, HWCOM will be
joining with other area medical
schools and hosting the first
South Florida Residency Fair.
Mammography Art Initiative
Art Show.
Miami Gardens is one of our
NHELP neighborhoods with a
high rate of late-stage breast
cancer diagnosis. Many
women at the event would
have been unable to get a
mammogram otherwise
because of lack of insurance,
the cost of copay, or inability
to travel to a radiology center.
The HWCOM Mobile Health
Center also provided services
at the Pentecostal Tabernacle
Church where NHELP
patients were able to see
their primary care providers and get
a mammogram at the same
appointment.
At a glance:
@FIUMedicine Instagram
Medical students volunteered to be part
of the ING Miami Marathon Medical staff
on January 27.
Balancing school and fun, medical students took part in an Xbox “Just Dance”
competition on March 6.
The 4th Annual Student
Ball was held on February 22nd. The MSC Social sub-committee chose “Masquerade Ball” as their theme this year. The ball was held at the Sonesta in Coconut Grove and sponsored by MSC and the Panther Communities.
Panther Communities:
Spring Ball!
Top: Jacksons “Mammovan” and the Mobile Clinic at Pentecostal Church. Above: Inside the “Mammovan”
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March 15th
, 2013 the HWCOM Latino
Medical Student Association chapter
(LMSA) co-hosted the national
conference with the University of
Miami and Miami Dade College.
LMSA actively promotes the efforts of
outreach programs for the local and
national Latino community, a
community that suffers from cultural
disparities in healthcare and access
to care. When the opportunity to co-
host conference arose, co-presidents
M3 Jennifer Pernas and M3 Silvia
Coronel were eager to undertake the
challenge. They knew that co-hosting
the conference would allow the
chapter to serve its mission, provide
ample leadership opportunities for its
members, and display FIUCOM’s
unique service-learning curriculum to
a national audience.
In Conjunction with the national
conference, the HWCOM LMSA
chapter hosted a health fair that took
place on March 17th
at Palm Springs
United Methodist Church. The event
exemplified the conference theme
“Tomando Acción: Ensuring health
equity for all!” Students provided
health information and resources to
attendees to improve their overall
health outcomes.
Several groups emphasized the
importance of prevention and early
detection to educate attendees about
how early intervention could facilitate
treatment improving overall health
outcomes. Students educated the
health fair attendees on breast health
HWCOM hosts Latin American Medical Association Health fair
January 31, The HWCOM student interest
iroup Business & Medicine (BMIG), invited
Senator Rene Garcia to visit the HWCOM to
speak to large group of students, faculty, and
staff. During his conversation, he challenged
students to consider the incredible difficulty in
balancing cost, access, and quality when it
comes to medicine from every perspective-
patient & physician, business, and political.
Most importantly, Senator Garcia advised the
audience to be active in the political arena as
both medical students and as physicians.
Senator Garcia speaks on Healthcare and Politics
as well as education on skin cancer
awareness by specifically targeting dark
skinned minorities.
“The most powerful realization I had
was the significance and uniqueness of
our contribution. There are many
resources in the community as well as
the internet, but we created a custom
made event tailored to fit the needs of
the Latin community. I’m still in awe that
one carefully planned day in the
community can added months, and even
years, to the lives of those who
benefited”, said Angelica Delgado, an
M2 LMSA member. “In the future, the
FIU LMSA chapter will most definitely
continue to organize and participate in
health fairs to improve the health of
Hispanics and decrease healthcare
disparities.”
In addition, the BMIG group also
hosted the CEO of Cleveland Clinic
Bernardo Hernandez, CEO of FIU
Health Dr. Fernando Valverde, and
Regional Medical Scientist of Novo
Nordisk, Anup Sebharwal, MD.
Students in the group also submitted
articles to the American College of
Physician executives, the online
publication LeadDoc.com, and are
creating Aps with the Engineering
College for the Americas Venture
Capital Conference in December 2013.
Above: Dr. Eneida Roldan, M3 Melissa Cardenas, and
Panther Community Assistant Director Scarlett Aldana-
Bosch. Below: M2 Varsha Rumnarine, M3 Joshua
Kelley, Alumnus Miguel Flores, MD and other Health Fair
Participants
Above: M2s BMIG members Tyler Haertlein, Mark Haimes, Matt Franco, Senator Rene Garcia, Aws Al-Abdullah, Omer Shahab, Manesh Gopaldas
Above: M3 Joshua Kelley Below: M2 Annie Rouza, M2 Christina Gauthreaux, and Health Fair Participants
Above: Members of LMSA at the Palm Springs United Methodist Church Below: Alumnus Miguel Flores, MD
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April 4th was HIP Day, the
culminating event of the
Health Information Project
(HIP) program year, was
hosted by FIU HWCOM.
HIP Day gave high school
student peer health
educators from across
Miami-Dade County the
opportunity to discuss the
impact they have had on
the health and well-being
of their peers and their
school communities.
HIP, an official partner of
the Herbert Wertheim
College of Medicine, is a
not-for-profit organization
located in Miami, Florida,
home to the nation's fourth-
largest school district.
HIP's purpose is to educate
adolescents about their
health and to encourage
and assist them in
accessing existing
community health
resources. HIP educates
high school students
through an innovative
school-based, peer-to-peer
comprehensive health
education model.
HWCOM Partnership with HIP and HIP day!
& HIP Day!
March 23rd, The Herbert
Wertheim College of
Medicine participated for the
third year in a row at the
annual Miami Brain Fair at
the Miami Museum of
Science. The Brain Fair is a
community outreach
educational event designed
and coordinated by the
Miami Chapter of the Society
HWCOM Participates at the 4th annual Brain Fair
During the 2012-2013
school years, 300 HIP peer
health educators provided
comprehensive health
education to over 6,000 9th
grade students in Miami-
Dade County public and
private high schools. At its
partner public high schools,
students would receive no
health education at all if not
for HIP’s dedicated 11th
and 12th grade peer health
educators.
for Neuroscience (SFN). Of
the 279 local university
volunteers, 19 were faculty,
103 were postdoctoral fellows,
medical students or graduate
students, 132 were
undergraduates, and 25 were
high school students.
HWCOM provided services to
over 2,000 kids and their
families who attended this
annual event. The HWCOM
Neuroscience Interest Group
and Pediatrics Interest Group
students provided health
education on brain anatomy
and prevention of concussions
to the children and adults in
attendance. The HWCOM
medical students also assisted
Dr. Dollinger and Dr. Anthony
Oliva with preparing quiz
questions and served as
judges for the Brain Bee and
Brain Jeopardy high school
competitions that were held
throughout the day. Other
universities that participated in
the Miami Brain Fair were:
University of Miami, Barry
University, and St. Thomas
University.
Jan. 30,- Orthopedic Surgery and Sports Medicine ( OSSM) presented The Value of Timely Orthopedic Assessment with Dr.Alejandro Badia
Jan. 31, Business & Medicine (BMIG) hosted Healthcare and Politics – Senator Rene Garcia
Feb. 1, OB-GYN (OGIG) and Medical Humanities Club (MHC) host Ethics and Obstetrics Feb. 10-11, American Medical Association (AMA) attended Medical Student Advocacy Day, Washington, DC Feb. 14, Neuroscience (NSIG ) hosted “Sleep Medicine: Mayhem and Murder on the Midnight Express”
Feb. 15-17, Pathology Interest Group ( PaIG) members attended 39
th Annual Anatomic
Pathology Conference, Lake Buena Vista, Fla.
Feb. 25, PaIG hosted Dr. Hyma, Medical Examiner for Miami-Dade
Feb. 26, Internal Medicine (IMIG) hosted “Cardiac Cauterization & Electrophysiology” with Baptist Cardiology
Feb. 27, Family Medicine Interest Group (FMIG) presents “Why where you live determines your health”
Feb. 28, BMIG presents: Physician in the Executive Office – Bernardo Fernandez, M.D.
Mar. 6, Internal Medicine (IMIG) hosted “The Best of Both Worlds: Advances in Gastroenterology” with Dr. Pedro Greer
Mar. 13, Military Medicine (MMIG), PaIG hosted Dr. Marty, Tropical Medicine, Infectious Disease Pathology, and Disaster medicine
Mar. 15-17, American Medical Women’s Association (AMWA) members attend 98
th
Annual National Conference, New York City AMWA
Mar. 27-31, 2013 Annual Medical Education Conference for Student National Medical Association (SNMA) in Louisville, Kentucky Apr. 11, BMIG presents: Physician Executive and Entrepreneurship – Fernando Valverde, M.D., CEO of FIU Heath Network
Apr. 12, IMIG hosted “An introduction to Thoracic Surgery” by Dr. Mark Block
Apr. 17, NSIG presented An Overview of President Obama's Call to Advance Neuroscience Research
Apr. 17, Latin Medical Student Association (LMSA) sponsors Medical Spanish Workshop
May. 1, AMWA presents: Removing Barriers to Care for Women who partner with Women – Dr. Nan Van Den Bergh
May 1, AMSA/AMWA presents the screening of the Trevor Project, a documentary about crisis intervention services for LGTBQ
Highlights:
Student Interest Groups
HIP peer health educators enjoying HIP day at FIU – sponsored by HWCOM
Above: Dr. Dollinger, Scarlett Aldana-Bosch, HIP Director Risa Berrin, and
M3 Veronica Alvarez
Left: M3 Louis Carrillo and M2 Bridgette Lasser
Right:
M2 Carl Wilkins
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Panther Community
Anderson trekked out of their
community in Northwest
Miami on Feb. 9 to
Southwest Miami; Zoo Miami!
Twenty-five students along
with new faculty member, Dr.
Irmanie Eliacin, volunteered
their Saturday to provide
patrons free blood pressure
screenings. After their
volunteer shift, the student
had free access to enjoy the
rest of their day at the zoo.
PC Anderson also combined
efforts with LMSA for their
National Conference health
fair that took place on March
17th at Palm Springs United
Methodist Church. Keeping
with the conference theme,
students provided health
information and resources to
attendees to improve their
ANDERSON – MIAMI NORTHWEST
Panther Community
Hippocrates finished the
year off strong with over
85% of its members
volunteering in their
community. Project Pipeline
was an extraordinary
program this year with an
event held every month.
Members of Hippocrates
tutored and presented
science activities to grade
students in Miami Gardens
in an effort to encourage
more science interest
among the youth.
Members of PC
Hippocrates were also in
attendance for the first
annual Orange Bowl
Community Health and
Wellness Fair at Dolphin
HIPPOCRATES – MIAMI GARDENS
overall health outcomes. In
addition to various
contributions to their
community and volunteer
organizations throughout
Miami-Dade, PC Anderson
was the recipient of the
Panther Community of the
Year award at this year’s
HWCOM Talent and
Award Show on May 24th.
Stadium that took place on
April 6th. At the health and
wellness fair, students
joined forces with the
Mammography Art Initiative
to educate women on the
proper ways of doing breast
check exams, as well as
performed blood pressure
screenings with Dr. Cheryl
Holder. In addition to
community outreach and
other events, Hippocrates
Assistant Faculty Director
Dr. Frederick Anderson,
was also recognized at the
HWCOM Talent and Award
show for his dedication to
the medical students by
receiving the award for
Faculty Mentor of the year.
Panther Community Highlights
Above: Anderson Zoo Crew Above: M3 Jennifer Pernas
Above: M2 Ryan Shay
Above: CJ Kwan at Project
Pipeline
Above: PC Hippocrates Coordinator Jessica Lewis and Faculty Director Dr. Frederick Anderson
Right: PC Hippocrates Mayor M2 Mark Haimes at Hippo
Bash
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Dec. 1st, members of Panther
Community Pasteur
participated in the "Youth
Empowerment Summit" at
Robert Ingram Elementary
School in Opa-Locka, one of
Pasteur’s favorite community
partners. A panel of medical
students spoke to the Ingram
classes during a segment
called "So you want to be a
Doctor: The true story of
medical school and benefits of
the program", where members
of Pasteur encouraged and
guided grade students on a
science oriented path to
succeed in getting into medical
school.
On March 16th, PC Pasteur
took part in Opa-Locka’s Pop-
up Park Health Fair, one of
Pasteur’s last events of the
year. The Pop-up Park is a
community partnership that
develops temporary parks with
PASTEUR – OPA-LOCKA
Panther Community
Semmelweis was very
successful this year
collaborating with the Health
Information Project (HIP). In
addition to coordinating a
productive HIP day on April 4,
members of PC Semmelweis
helped HIP student Peer
Health Educators (PHE) plan
their objectives for next year.
Members of Semmelweis will
take on HIP as their Capstone
and bring together PHEs from
across Miami Dade, help
Peer Health Educators collect
quantitative and qualitative
data, discuss health issues in
their schools and
communities, and help PHEs
improve their skills to have a
bigger impact on their
classmates. In addition to the
HIP program, PC
Semmelweis has always
strived to promote healthy
eating, exercise and nutrition
in their community to prevent
SEMMELWEIS – MIAMI NORTHEAST
recreational activities, art and
cultural programs, health fairs
and farmers markets until the
parks and playgrounds are
completed in the Magnolia North
neighborhood of Opa-locka.
Pasteur was also represented at
this year’s HWCOM Talent and
Award Show, as one of its
members Lisa Podolsky won the
student award for Outstanding
Community Service of the Year.
diabetes, a prevalent health
issue in their community. In
keeping with that theme, on
April 22nd Semmelweis
members traveled to Christian
Academy in Miami-Northeast to
perform blood pressure
screenings on attendees and
educated them on food nutrition
and diabetes prevention.
Semmelweis also recently
completed a nutrition DVD - a
project that combined efforts
with FIU dietetic students.
Above: Luv Hajirawala dancing with
community partners at the Pop-Up Park
Left: PC Anderson members at Robert Ingram Elementary
Right: Winner of the Outstanding
Community Service Award, Lisa Podosky,
at the Pop-Up Park
Above: Student Peer Educators from all over Miami Dade gather at FIU Graham Center for HIP day
Above M2s Krista Miller, Nibris Chowdhury, Jason Alvarez, and Cecily Koppuzha at the Christian Academy health fair in Miami-Northeast
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Congratulations to the Winners and Performers of
This Year’s Student Choice Talent and Awards Show
Faculty Advisor/Student Mentor of the Year
Dr. Frederick Anderson
Student Tutor of the Year Clare Stevens
Outstanding Community Service of the Year – Class of 2014 Karla Diaz-Allyon
Outstanding Community Service of the Year – Class of 2015 Yoko Young Sang
Outstanding Community Service of the Year – Class of 2016
Lisa Podolsky
Outstanding Medical Student of the Year – Class of 2014
Elena Rueda-de-Leon
Outstanding Medical Student of the Year – Class of 2015
Michelle Abou-Jaoude
Outstanding Medical Student of the Year – Class of 2016
Anna Kuan-Celarier
Panther Community of the Year Panther Community Anderson
Outstanding Student Organization of the Year
American Medical Student Association (AMSA)