{"id":9173,"date":"2025-04-24T09:59:39","date_gmt":"2025-04-24T13:59:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/intranet\/?p=9173"},"modified":"2025-04-24T10:00:24","modified_gmt":"2025-04-24T14:00:24","slug":"alpha-omega-alpha-medical-honor-society-inductees","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/intranet\/2025\/04\/alpha-omega-alpha-medical-honor-society-inductees\/","title":{"rendered":"Alpha Omega Alpha Medical Honor Society Inductees"},"content":{"rendered":"<div data-olk-copy-source=\"MessageBody\">\n<p>The UNC School of Medicine is excited to announce the new Alpha Omega Alpha (AOA) medical honor society inductees.\u00a0 AOA was founded in 1902 and is dedicated to the belief that we can improve care for all by recognizing high educational achievement, honoring gifted teaching, encouraging the development of leaders in academia and the community, supporting the ideals of humanism, and promoting service to others. Election to Alpha Omega Alpha signifies a lasting commitment to scholarship, leadership, professionalism, and service. Membership in the society confers recognition of someone\u2019s dedication to the profession and art of healing. UNC\u2019s chapter of AOA was founded in 1954 and is proud to induct new medical students, residents, fellows, faculty, and alumni into the chapter each year.<\/p>\n<p><b>Students<\/b><br \/>\nNicole Didonna<br \/>\nJulian Mobley<br \/>\nMili Dave<br \/>\nSierra Parkinson<br \/>\nRachel Watkins<br \/>\nNina Moiseiwitsch<br \/>\nAnna Ilyasova<br \/>\nAmita Bollapragada<br \/>\nParsa Pazooki<br \/>\nRani Richardson<br \/>\nChristina Toval<br \/>\nAvani Desai<br \/>\nArvind Rajan<br \/>\nMichala Patterson<br \/>\nCynthia Tang<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><b>Residents<\/b><\/div>\n<div>Lauren Ahlschlager<\/div>\n<div>Miguel Locsin<\/div>\n<div>Daniel Song<\/div>\n<div>Stephen Himmelberg<\/div>\n<div>Hagar Elgendy<\/div>\n<div>Kayla Pietruszka<\/div>\n<div>Panagiotis (Panos) Tasoudis<\/div>\n<div>Caitlyn Green<\/div>\n<div>Christina Kapsalis<\/div>\n<div>Abigail Frazier<\/div>\n<div>Christopher Scheiber<\/div>\n<div>Heather Lystad<\/div>\n<div>Annika Dirkse Avendano<\/div>\n<div>Kayla Pietruszka<\/div>\n<div>Sweet Hope Mapatano<\/div>\n<div>Youlei Li<\/div>\n<div>Graham Cochrane<\/div>\n<div>Lawrence (Jack) Wood<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><b>Faculty\/Alumni<\/b><\/div>\n<div>Colette Shen<\/div>\n<div>Yueh Lee<\/div>\n<div>Lavinia Kolarczyk<\/div>\n<div>Kunal Patel<\/div>\n<div>James Roberts<\/div>\n<div>Nicolas Latchana<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><span class=\"markl3q1so7ri uM2yb\" data-markjs=\"true\">Congratulations<\/span>\u00a0to the students, residents, faculty, and alumni above for their induction\/nomination<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The UNC School of Medicine is excited to announce the new Alpha Omega Alpha (AOA) medical honor society inductees.\u00a0 AOA was founded in 1902 and is dedicated to the belief that we can improve care for all by recognizing high educational achievement, honoring gifted teaching, encouraging the development of leaders in academia and the community, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/intranet\/2025\/04\/alpha-omega-alpha-medical-honor-society-inductees\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Alpha Omega Alpha Medical Honor Society Inductees\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":103134,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"layout":"","cellInformation":"","apiCallInformation":"","footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9173","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","odd"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.8 - 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