NEOMED honor society inducts 6 from area
Staff report
rootstown
The Alpha Omega Alpha Honor Medical Society at Northeast Ohio Medical University has inducted 28 new members including students, graduate trainees, honorary faculty and alumni.
The new class of inductees includes six Youngstown-area natives: Colin Cooper (’12); Lauren Dalvin (’13); Andrew Yocum (’13); Dr. James D’Apolito (’88); Dr. Dianne Bitonte Miladore (’81), member of the NEOMED Board of Trustees; and Dr. Thomas Boniface, (’83).
The Alpha Omega Alpha Honor Medical Society was founded by William Webster Root and five medical students at the College of Physicians and Surgeons in Chicago in 1902 and is the only national honor medical society in the world.
Election to Alpha Omega Alpha is a distinction that accompanies a physician throughout his or her career.
Members can be elected as students, graduates or faculty of an affiliated institution, or because of distinguished achievement in any field or on an honorary basis.
Chapters elect undergraduate members from students in their last two years of medical school.
Scholastic excellence is not the only criterion for election; integrity, capacity for leadership, compassion, and fairness in dealing with one’s colleagues are considered to be of equal significance.
Northeast Ohio Medical University, formerly known as the Northeastern Ohio Universities Colleges of Medicine and Pharmacy (NEOUCOM), is a community-based, public medical university with a mission to improve the quality of health care in Northeast Ohio working in collaboration with its educational and clinical partners.
With a focus on scientific and medical research, and the interprofessional training of health professionals that is unique to the state of Ohio, the University offers a doctor of medicine (M.D.) and a doctor of pharmacy (Pharm.D.) degree, in addition to graduate-level coursework and research opportunities leading to master’s and doctoral degrees in other medical areas.
Northeast Ohio Medical University is a founding member of the Austen BioInnovation Institute in Akron.