SERVICE
S TAT E O F T H E S C H O O L
A new partnership
A very good year for the Pritzker School of Medicine
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he University of Chicago Pritzker School of Medicine’s Health Professions Recruitment and Exposure Program (HPREP) celebrated a new partnership with the revitalized Provident Foundation in a reception last fall. A grant from the foundation will allow HPREP to double the number of high school students in this year’s program and provide additional resources and educational materials for the group. Second-year medical student Lola Oladini, 2013-14 HPREP co-coordinator, was a featured speaker at the reception. The Provident Foundation preserves the legacy of Provident Hospital through support for low-income urban youth interested in pursuing health care careers.
PHOTO COURTESY OF THE PROVIDENT FOUNDATION
Emeka Okafor, MS1, left; Lindsay Chun, MS1; James Woodruff, MD, associate dean of students; Lola Oladini, MS2; and Miguel Barajas, MS1, at a reception celebrating a new partnership with the Provident Foundation
Service on spring break
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PHOTO COURTESY OF AAMIR HUSSAIN, MS1
welve Pritzker students volunteered at a Lakota Native American reservation in Rosebud, South Dakota, during the JOURNEES (Journeying Out to Underserved Regions of the Nation to Engage in Effective Service) student organization spring trip. The students shadowed physicians at the local Indian Health Service (IHS) hospital and volunteered with Habitat for Humanity. The Huffington Post published first-year student Aamir Hussain’s thoughtful and uplifting reflection on the trip. Read it at huffingtonpost.com/aamir-hussain/reflections-from-rosebudreservation_b_6963082.html.
Holly J. Humphrey, MD’83, dean for
medical education, highlighted the accomplishments of the University of Chicago Pritkzer School of Medicine community in the State of the School 2015 address in Billings Auditorium. Among the highlights:
Students: 99 percent of Pritzker students participated in a research project with a faculty member, well above the national Holly J. Humphrey, average (69.3 percent). Pritzker students MD’83 gave 98 cumulative presentations in 2014 at national conferences. More than 7,000 applicants applied for fall admission. Residents: More University of Chicago Medicine residents presented at the Student National Medical Association national meeting than residents from any other medical center in the country. Pritzker graduates are now chief residents here and at other top institutions in the nation, including UCSF, Johns Hopkins and Columbia. Diversity: The Visiting Clerkship Diversity Program expanded to include medicine, pediatrics and surgery. Monica B. Vela, MD’93, received the 2014 Herbert W. Nickens Minority Health and Representation in Medicine Award and was chosen as the keynote speaker at the National Medical Fellowships ceremony. Watch the speech: http://youtu.be/vwN5O-QYsrA
M E D I C A L E D U C AT I O N DAY
Faculty members honored The Pritzker School of Medicine named seven new Fellows of
the Academy of Distinguished Medical Educators and a new Master, H. Barrett Fromme, MD, MPH, associate professor of pediatrics. The Academy was founded in 2006 to support and promote research, innovation and scholarship in medical education at the University of Chicago. The 2014 inductees are Lolita Alcocer Alkureishi, MD, assistant professor of pediatrics; Brian Callender, AB’97, AM’98, MD’04, assistant professor of medicine; David Glick, MD’90, MBA’03, professor of anesthesia and critical care; Wei Wei Lee, MD, MPH, assistant professor of medicine; Alisa McQueen, MD, assistant professor of pediatrics; Amber Pincavage, MD’07, assistant professor of medicine; and Ernest Wang, MD, clinical associate professor of emergency medicine, NorthShore University HealthSystem.
Pritzker students during a service trip to South Dakota uchospitals.edu/midway
MEDICINE ON THE MIDWAY
SPRING 2015
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