{"id":6756,"date":"2012-11-29T13:09:41","date_gmt":"2012-11-29T18:09:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/busm\/?p=3309"},"modified":"2012-11-29T13:09:41","modified_gmt":"2012-11-29T18:09:41","slug":"alpha-omega-alpha-induction-ceremony-held-nov-16","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/camed\/2012\/11\/29\/alpha-omega-alpha-induction-ceremony-held-nov-16\/","title":{"rendered":"Alpha Omega Alpha Induction Ceremony Held Nov. 16"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Alpha Omega Alpha (AOA) Induction Reception and Ceremony was held Nov. 16 in Hiebert Lounge. Membership in AOA, the only national medical honor society, recognizes the highest level of excellence in scholarship, leadership, professionalism, and service. BUSM is one of the 120 chapters in medical schools throughout the U.S.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_3310\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3310\" style=\"width: 260px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/camed\/2012\/11\/29\/alpha-omega-alpha-induction-ceremony-held-nov-16\/11-16-2012-aoa_083-sized\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-3310\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/camed\/files\/2012\/11\/11-16-2012-AOA_083-sized.jpg\" alt=\"placeholder\" title=\"11-16-2012-AOA_083 sized\" class=\"size-full wp-image-3310\" width=\"250\" height=\"258\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-3310\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Michelle  Sia, DO, assistant professor Obstetrics &amp; Gynecology, with an AOA Housestaff Inductee, Victoria Pimentel, MD<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>This year in addition to 30 Class of 2013 students, three house staff, two alumni and one faculty member were inducted. AOA is dedicated to the belief that in the profession of medicine patient care is improved by:<\/p>\n<p>\u2022\tRecognizing high educational achievement<br \/>\n\u2022\tHonoring gifted teaching<br \/>\n\u2022\tEncouraging the development of leaders in academia and the community<br \/>\n\u2022\tSupporting the ideals of humanism and<br \/>\n\u2022\tPromoting service to others.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_3311\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3311\" style=\"width: 260px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/camed\/2012\/11\/29\/alpha-omega-alpha-induction-ceremony-held-nov-16\/11-16-2012-aoa_085-sized\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-3311\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/camed\/files\/2012\/11\/11-16-2012-AOA_085-sized.jpg\" alt=\"placeholder\" title=\"11-16-2012-AOA_085 sized\" class=\"size-full wp-image-3311\" width=\"250\" height=\"245\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-3311\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Phyllis L. Carr, MD, BU\u2019s AOA Chapter Councilor, with Faculty Inductee, Gregory Grillone,  MD<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><strong>Class of 2013 Inductees<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Diana Amariei<br \/>\nFaris Azar<br \/>\nMaria Badaracco<br \/>\nAllison Barker<br \/>\nGreg Bever<br \/>\nErin Brooks<br \/>\nNathan Brooks<br \/>\nStacy Brown<br \/>\nGiuseppe Cullaro<br \/>\nJeffrey Dewey<br \/>\nAnunita Garg<br \/>\nRaymond Groller<br \/>\nValerie Halls<br \/>\nSydney Katz<br \/>\nAlexander Lankowski<br \/>\nBrian Lee<br \/>\nMatteo Leveroni-Calvi<br \/>\nMelinda Marshall<br \/>\nSunil Nair<br \/>\nMegan O\u2019Brien<br \/>\nScott Purga<br \/>\nAlexandra Roussilhes<br \/>\nTimothy Ryan<br \/>\nLauren Scott<br \/>\nKunal Tandon<br \/>\nMegan Waterman<br \/>\nBjorn Watsjold<br \/>\nNatalie Witek<br \/>\nXu Xu<br \/>\nDerek Yecies<\/p>\n<p><b>House Staff Inductees<\/b><br \/>\nJonathan Hatoun, MD<br \/>\nNora Lee, MD<br \/>\nVictoria Pimentel, MD<\/p>\n<p><b>Faculty Inductee<\/b><br \/>\nGregory Grillone, MD<\/p>\n<p><b>Alumni Inductees<\/b><br \/>\nTimothy Foster, MD<br \/>\nKeyvan Nouri, MD<\/p>\n<p>See more images in the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/BUMedicine\/photos_stream\">facebook <\/a>album.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Alpha Omega Alpha (AOA) Induction Reception and Ceremony was held Nov. 16 in Hiebert Lounge. Membership in AOA, the only national medical honor society, recognizes the highest level of excellence in scholarship, leadership, professionalism, and service. BUSM is one of the 120 chapters in medical schools throughout the U.S. This year in addition to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":903,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/camed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6756"}],"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=6756"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/camed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6756\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/camed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6756"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/camed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6756"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/camed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6756"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}