Fort Pierce
Fort Pierce
Juliette Lomax-Homier, M. D. Dean, Fort Pierce Regional Campus
Welcome M. D. Class of 2027 to the Fort Pierce Regional Campus
Seventeen eager medical students arrived on the Treasure Coast in June to begin their third year of medical school. They participated in three days of orientation and skills training. They then started clinical rotations in pediatrics, surgery, obstetrics-gynecology, family medicine, psychiatry and internal medicine. In their fourth year, they will tackle emergency medicine, advanced internal medicine, geriatrics, advanced family medicine and electives. All our students work under the guidance of our dean, eight clerkship directors, an informatics curriculum director and more than 300 clerkship faculty physicians, nurse practitioners and physician assistants in our community.
Physician Assistant class of 2025
Our nine PA students are quickly approaching graduation in December 2025. They have been doing very well, and we are extremely proud of them. It is always sad to see them go, but it is rewarding to know they are able to apply their knowledge and skills to taking care of patients and making a difference in our communities.
Volunteering
This year, the Fort Pierce campus has five students from the Class of 2026 who have volunteered to be on the Admissions Committee!
• Yusuf Amawi
• Jade Bryant
• Shannon Hurley
• Nausheen Merchant
• Filip Ptak We thank them ever so much for their commitment!
Emily Dolce
Bonnie Wilt
Kiana Reaves
Fourth-year students inducted into Gold Humanism Honor Society
The Gold Humanism Honor Society Selection Committee carefully reviewed the nominations of many students. Fort Pierce campus fourth-year students Emily Dolce, Kiana Reaves, and Bonnie Wilt were selected from the Class of 2026 as true exemplars of humanism, demonstrating clinical excellence, service to others and a patient-centered approach to care and compassion.
Congratulations to these scholarship recipients
Several Fort Pierce students have received scholarships from the main campus.
• Berling Joseph
• Chloe Douglas
• Emily Dolce
• Filip Ptak
• Isabella Bayramov
• Jade Bryant
• Kayla Clark
• Leana Pinas-Zade( 2)
• Lisandra Vazquez Diaz
• Logan Bassoff
• Mohamed Naas
• Nausheen Merchant
• Rossana Sassarini Benvenuto Congratulations to our wonderful students!
Emergency Medicine clerkship director promoted
Mark R. Gallagher, M. D., clerkship director in Emergency Medicine at the Fort Pierce Regional Campus for the past six years, has been named Cleveland Clinic Patient Experience Champion, a position created to assure a positive patient experience at Cleveland Clinic Martin Health.
An FSU College of Medicine alumnus( Class of’ 09), he also was recently appointed as Regional Patient Experience Officer for Team Health, a contracting company that provides physicians to hospitals.
And the honors seem to keep coming for Gallagher. Last December, he was recognized with a 5-star award from the College of Medicine’ s School of Physician Assistant Practice for having perfect scores from all student surveys from the PA Class of 2024.
After earning a B. A. in business administration at the University of Florida in 2003, Gallagher graduated from the FSU College of Medicine in 2009, completed a residency in Emergency Medicine at Michigan State University-Sparrow Hospital, and completed a fellowship in Emergency Ultrasound at the University of Massachusetts. He is a Fellow of the American College of Emergency Physicians. Congratulations!
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