The Maine COVID Sitters Executive Board
Student Doctor Natalie Koons, COM ‘23 was elected the American Society of Anesthesiologists Medical Student Component (ASA-MSC) President-Elect at the most recent Anesthesiology National Meeting on October 2-5th. This is a 2-year position in which Koons will assume the role of President during the second year.
“In this position, I will oversee ASA MSC activities, lead ASA MSC meetings, become the liaison between the ASA MSC and the ASA Governance, delegation of tasks, assist all other officers in the completion of their tasks, and work on career development within the ASA MSC. Currently, the ASA MSC has been working hard to create resources for 4th medical students undergoing this year’s match cycle. This includes interviewing program directors from every anesthesiology residency program in order for applicants to get a feel for what a program offers and well as help to facilitate an educational experience for 4th year medical students called ‘Virtual pre-operative calls’ started by Dr. Amanda Xi, an anesthesiologist at Massachusetts General Hospital. My goal as President-Elect is to create a career development initiative, as well as focus on mental health within the field of anesthesiology. I am very excited to lead the future of anesthesiology in this empowering leadership position!”
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David Mokler has recently had a paper accepted to the journal Cerebral Cortex. The paper is entitled “The neural basis of attentional alterations in prenatally protein malnourished rats.” Co-authors are the late Peter Morgane of UNE, Jarrett Rushmore and Doug Rosene from Boston University School of Medicine, Jill McGaughy from the University of New Hampshire, and Janina Galler and Ana Amaral from Harvard University School of Medicine. This paper looks at the differences in the neuronal networks used by rats exposed to prenatal protein malnutrition and well-nourished rats during an attentional task in adulthood. Dr. Mokler has worked with this group of researchers for the past 25 years.