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Cleary Elected ACP Governor LYNN M. CLEARY, MD, FACP, WAS ELECTED governor of the New York Upstate Chapter of the American College of Physicians (ACP), the national organization of internists. Her term began during the ACP’s annual scientific meeting, held April 10 to 12 in Orlando. Governors are elected by local ACP members and serve four-year terms. Working with a local council, they supervise ACP chapter activities, appoint members to local committees, and preside at regional meetings. They also represent members by serving on the ACP Board of Governors. Dr. Cleary, who has been a fellow of ACP since 1998, is professor of medicine and vice president for academic affairs at Upstate. She is a Distinguished Teaching Professor of the State University of New York.
Lynn Cleary, MD
First-year Medical Students Win Top Writing Honors
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our first-year medical students at Upstate were honored at the 28th Bruce Dearing Writing Awards. The annual writing competition is sponsored by Upstate’s Center for Bioethics and Humanities, and the students’ work, along with winning submissions in the faculty/employee category, appear in the October issue of the literary and visual arts journal, The Healing Muse. The top award for student poetry went to Brielle Stanton ’17 for “The Cough.” Honorable
mention went to Makandiwana Shoniwa ’17 for “The Forging.” The winner in the student category for prose was Kaitlin Kyi ’17 for her essay, “Roman Bridges.” Honorable mention went to Julienne Abad ’17 for “Valerie’s Secret.” Upstate Interim President Gregory Eastwood, MD, cited the importance of the arts and humanities, which “give us great joy as we go about our daily lives.” Ideally, the arts are “a part of us, not just what we do in our spare time,” he said.
UPSTATE MEDICAL ALUMNI JOURNAL | AUTUMN 2014
First-year medical students Kaitlin Kyi, Makandiwana Shoniwa, Julienne Abad and Brielle Stanton won top honors at the 28th Bruce Dearing Writing Awards, sponsored by the Center for Bioethics and Humanities.
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