COMMUNITY IS OUR CAMPUS
Day of Hope
Students Help Rebuild Playground
Third-year dental students Brianne Wade, Leah Wyssmann, Judy Marcovici, Jasmine Shafagh and Joslyn Rubin participated in a Day of Hope. LECOM dental students participated in two Day of Hope events: at First Baptist Church in Bradenton and Church of the Palms in Sarasota.
Sarah Manners (OMS2, foreground) helps clear an overgrown playground in Detroit. LECOM Bradenton medical students traveled to Detroit July 29-Aug.1 as part of the American Osteopathic Foundations Human Touch Leadership Project. Manners and secondyear students (not pictured) Robert Cooper, Melissa Huynh, David De la Pe単a, Anthony LaHood, Christina Mesoraca, Katherine McCarthy and Swetapadma Pattanaik were honored by the AOF for their service.
Students Travel to Nicaragua
Dental Students Teach Proper Flossing
Led by LECOM Clinical Associate Professor of Family Medicine, Thomas Quinn, DO (center), medical and pharmacy students and faculty participated in a medical mission trip to Nicaragua. Those joining Dr. Quinn included: Lauren Gabriel (OMS2), Christina Mesoraca (OMS2), Shabnam Khoie (OMS2), Melanie Duhamel (OMS2), Kristina Bettencourt (P4), Danielle Moore (P4), Julie Krapfel (P4), James Ghattas (OMS2), Evander Meneses (OMS2), Matthew Soberano (OMS2), Millet Yang (OMS2), Andrew Corbett (OMS2), and Charles Doerner (OMS2). Faculty members making the trip included Kathryn Samai, Pharm.D., and Susan and William Spielberg (adjunct).
Rania Abdel-Malak (D2) and Taylor Minkus (D1) participated in a Day of Hope at Church of the Palms in Sarasota. Day of Hope is a community outreach event that provides back-to-school medical check-ups for children in need.
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