BUSM 2016 AOA Inductees Announced
Karen H. Antman, MD, Dean, BUSM; David McAneny, MD, AOA Councilor, BUSM and Robert Lowe, MD, AOA Secretary-Treasurer, BUSM, have announced that the following students from the BUSM class of 2016 have been elected to membership in Alpha Omega Alpha (AOA), the national honor medical society organized exclusively for educational purposes.
| Christopher Bobbitt | Sara Liu |
| Anthony Christiano | Nicholas Lowe |
| Shashank Dwivedi | Leslie Maness |
| Anna Eisenstein | Benjamin Nelson |
| Kenneth Fan | Douglas Ridyard |
| John Feller | Robert Rothbaum |
| Ivy Gardner | Sunjay Sethi |
| James Gaylor | Andrew Simon |
| Varun Gorantla | Justin Slade |
| Jill Harrington | Grant Smith |
| Amy Holmstrom | Tania Torres-Sanchez |
| Sara Holmstrom | Daniel Wallman |
| Mita Hoppenfeld | Chi-Fong Wang |
| Garrick Horn | Vanessa Wu |
| Tyler Hughes | Jennifer Xiao |
| Christopher LaChapelle | Molly Zielenbach |
AOA aims to promote scholarship and research in medical schools, encourages high standards of character and conduct among medical students and graduates, and the recognizes high attainment in medical sciences, practice, and related fields. Its motto is: “Be worthy to serve the suffering.”
The students will have an opportunity to participate in an energetic Chapter that is a vital part of the BU Medical Campus. A formal induction ceremony will be held in the spring.