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DAYTONA BEACH: TEN YEARS AFTER
The fourth-year students at the Daytona Beach Regional
Campus ended medical school with a bang. Five were
recognized by the Alpha Omega Alpha Honor Medical
Society and six by the Gold Humanism Honor Society. A total
of 167 College of Medicine alumni have come through the
Daytona Beach campus since we opened in 2007.
This year proved extra special as our campus geared up
for our 10th anniversary. At a special celebration, the guests
welcomed by Dean John P. Fogarty included Kent Sharples,
former president of Daytona State College and major leader
in bringing the College of Medicine to the area. Steve Miles
– clinical faculty member, Community Board member and
proud parent of a College of Medicine alum – reviewed the
Graduation often takes our students separate ways, but not always.
Sometimes they’re reunited at top residency programs. Case in point:
Diana Mosquera (Class of 2017), left, and Shaki Salvador (Class
of 2016), now both internal medicine residents at Duke University
Medical Center.
campus’s history. Jeff Feasel, president and CEO of Halifax
Health, described the medical school’s impact on the Daytona
Beach area and the medical community. Our Community
Partners – Florida Health Care Plans, Florida Hospital and
Halifax Health – received plaques commemorating 10 years
of tremendous support.
Sheila and Amol Gupta, M.D.s, were honored as the 2017
Guardians of the Mission. And Stephen Viel, M.D. – who
spent Years 3 and 4 at the Daytona Beach campus, graduated
FORT PIERCE: ANNIVERSARY
LEADS TO SCHOLARSHIPS
The Fort Pierce Regional Campus celebrated its 10th
anniversary with 160 participants. The planning committee
was composed of women from Stuart to Vero Beach, to
reflect our tri-c ounty medical presence for our students.
Shortly afterward, we received a financial gift from
in 2009 and now practices at Halifax – was named the Mike and Laura Brown to help build our endowed
Outstanding Community Faculty for 2017. scholarship. Marjorie and Bud Jordan are also to be thanked
More than 16 alumni who had trained at this campus
attended. It was a glorious celebration.
Luckey Dunn, M.D., campus dean; med.fsu.edu/daytona
for funding a scholarship in the name of Clerkship Director
Heidi McNaney-Flint, M.D., to benefit a student entering
obstetrics and gynecology. Our overall efforts for our first-
ever fundraiser generated enough to assist at least 10 students
in the coming years.
Our campus also welcomes Nikki Cowette as our first PA
director. She is a practicing physician assistant from the Vero
Beach area.
And our campus sponsored its first joint faculty
development session of the clerkship faculty and clerkship
directors on the topic of “Handling Challenging Teaching
Situations.” The conversations were robust and collegial. An
additional first was a joint meeting between local attorneys
and elder-care physicians presented as a faculty development
session, hosted by the Center for Innovative Collaboration in
Medicine and Law.
Juliette Lomax-Homier, M.D., campus dean; med.fsu.edu/fortpierce
The FSU Alumni Association selected Megan Bagwell (M.D.,
’10) as a Notable Nole and gave her an Askew Young Alumni Award.
Bagwell, who earned her B.S. from FSU in 2003, is practicing at
Volusia OB/GYN in Daytona Beach. VIRES magazine wrote. “...
the hallmark of her medical career is service.”