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Graduating from UT

Dr. Melissa Straub, daughter of Edward and Michele Straub of Canfield, will graduate from the University of Toledo College of Medicine and Life Sciences on Friday.

Dr. Straub has served as chairwoman of UTCOM’s Gold Humanism Honor Society, and in numerous leadership roles at the university, including president of the American Medical Student Association and executive board for Student2Student Educational Society and Medical Student Council.

She has served on school administrative committees. She volunteers in the school’s free student-run Community Care clinic, in its Service Club reading to third-grade children weekly, is serving on a medical mission trip to Nicaragua and is an adviser to her college sorority, Kappa Alpha Theta.

She was selected by the Association for Medical Education of Europe as a platform speaker on her most-recent research involving academic changes in Journal Club. She was able to attend the conference in Glasgow, Scotland, funded by a grant that was selected by the AMEE Board.

At the UT graduation-awards ceremony, Dr. Straub was celebrated as Pathology Student of the Year as well as recipient of the Leonard Tow National Award funded by the Arnold Gold Foundation. Her peers selected her to lead the graduating class in reciting the Hippocratic Oath.

Dr. Straub will be attending Vanderbilt University in Tennessee as a pathology resident starting in July.

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