{"id":49372,"date":"2017-08-11T15:11:50","date_gmt":"2017-08-11T19:11:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/busm\/?p=49372"},"modified":"2017-08-11T15:12:38","modified_gmt":"2017-08-11T19:12:38","slug":"common-goal-brings-medical-campus-students-together-at-mixer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/camed\/2017\/08\/11\/common-goal-brings-medical-campus-students-together-at-mixer\/","title":{"rendered":"Common Goal Brings Medical Campus Students Together at Mixer"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_49373\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-49373\" style=\"width: 3312px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/camed\/files\/2017\/08\/COM-Medical-Campus-Diversity-Medical-Dental-Public-Health-e1502478551715.jpg\" alt=\"Standing l to r: Jason Park (PRIDE), Adam Johnson (SNMA), Oge Nwanegwo (SNMA), Aneesh Patel (PRIDE), Dr. Rafael Ortega, John Hayden (PRIDE), Eshere Gbarbea (DMD 3 - SNDA), Andrew Creadore (LMSA), Vinutha Rattehalli (SNDA), Rob Baldi (SNDA), Rowan Doyle (SNDA), Justine Yeung (SNDA), Dr. Larry Dunham, Martine Randolph (SNMA), Dr. Zea (HSDA advisor), Dr. Gladys Carrasco. Front row l to r: Miguel Moreno (HSDA), Rachel Rivero (LMSA), Florencia Zigante (LMSA), Ana de Feria (HSDA) and Andrea Alonso (LMSA)\" class=\"size-full wp-image-49373\" width=\"3302\" height=\"1299\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/camed\/files\/2017\/08\/COM-Medical-Campus-Diversity-Medical-Dental-Public-Health-e1502478551715.jpg 3302w, https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/camed\/files\/2017\/08\/COM-Medical-Campus-Diversity-Medical-Dental-Public-Health-e1502478551715-636x250.jpg 636w, https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/camed\/files\/2017\/08\/COM-Medical-Campus-Diversity-Medical-Dental-Public-Health-e1502478551715-768x302.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/camed\/files\/2017\/08\/COM-Medical-Campus-Diversity-Medical-Dental-Public-Health-e1502478551715-1024x403.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 3302px) 100vw, 3302px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-49373\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Standing l to r: Jason Park (PRIDE), Adam Johnson (SNMA), Oge Nwanegwo (SNMA), Aneesh Patel (PRIDE), Dr. Rafael Ortega, John Hayden (PRIDE), Eshere Gbarbea (DMD 3 &#8211; SNDA), Andrew Creadore (LMSA), Vinutha Rattehalli (SNDA), Rob Baldi (SNDA), Rowan Doyle (SNDA), Justine Yeung (SNDA), Dr. Larry Dunham, Martine Randolph (SNMA), Dr. Zea (HSDA advisor), Dr. Gladys Carrasco. Front row l to r: Miguel Moreno (HSDA), Rachel Rivero (LMSA), Florencia Zigante (LMSA), Ana de Feria (HSDA) and Andrea Alonso (LMSA)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>On Thursday, Aug.\u00a0 11, a social mixer was held for medical campus students with a common goal of serving underrepresented minorities in medicine (URMs) and underserved populations.\u00a0 The interdisciplinary event for dental, medical and public health students was hosted by BU students from the Student National Medical Association (SNMA), the Student National Dental Association (SNDA), the Latino Medical Student Association (LMSA), the Hispanic Student Dental Association (HSDA) and BUMC PRIDE, a medical campus-wide LGBTQ group.<\/p>\n<p>BUSM Associate Dean for Diversity and Multicultural Affairs Rafael Ortega, MD, and GSDM Director of Diversity Larry Dunham, DMD, welcomed the students.\u00a0 The students had an opportunity for casual conversation and networking.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The August mixer was held for students with a common goal of serving underrepresented minorities in medicine and underserved populations. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":903,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[124,91,123,156],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/camed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49372"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/camed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/camed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/camed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/903"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/camed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=49372"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/camed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49372\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":49376,"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/camed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49372\/revisions\/49376"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/camed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=49372"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/camed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=49372"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/camed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=49372"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}