and McArthur Game Night. Eloise Rogers was an Orientation Co-Chair, Chair of the Services for the Emergency Medicine Club, Co-President of the Orthopedics/Sports Medicine Club, student interviewer and tour guide, a member of the Sympathetic Tones (a Capella group), and volunteering at Boots on the Ground 5K, Habitat for Humanity, Delete Blood Cancer Bone Marrow Registry Drive, and McArthur Game Night. Last, but not least, Florence Sun was selected for being a champion of student diversity, being a student interviewer and mentoring at Alternative Pathways Center for alternative learners.
Every year, the New Hampshire Osteopathic Association gives the Parfitt Award to a New Hampshire student who embodies the osteopathic principles. William Kirmes, DO presented the award to Amanda O’Donnell. Finally, the Sauter Award was presented by Dean Jane Carreiro, DO ’88 to the student who the faculty would choose as their doctor. Mitchell Granoff was the recipient of the award because of his ability to listen to his patients, and for remembering the words his father told him, that the most valuable thing you can give is your time. Those words stuck with Student Doctor Granoff in everything he did, including his work on the SGA, as an OMM teaching assistant, and his involvement in the Learning by Living Hospice Program.
The ceremony closed with a few final remarks by Associate Dean Guy DeFeo, and students and their families enjoying the opportunity to relax and ruminate over the events that the next day’s graduation would bring.
COM STUDENT RECEIVES NATIONAL AWARD IN GERIATRICS
Sonia Marcello at the AGS Annual Meeting Award Ceremony
COM student, Sonia Marcello received the 2018 American Geriatrics Society Edward Henderson Student Award. The award is given to medical students who have displayed a keen interest in furthering geriatric medicine, and have actively taken on leadership roles. As part of the award, Student Doctor Marcello was asked to stand in recognition by the incoming AGS President, Laurie Jacob, MD at the 2018 AGS Annual Meeting Award Ceremony on Friday, May 4th in Orlando, Florida.