student perspective
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t a recent faculty meeting, Vesna Jevtovic-Todorovic presented the 2012 Douglas Eastwood Award to NATHAN
POIRO, a fourth year medical student. Poiro will enter the An- esthesiology Residency Program at Temple University in 2013. The Eastwood Award is presented annually to a graduating
medical student who has worked closely with the Department of Anesthesiology. It is given in memory of Douglas East- wood, the first chair of the department. Dr. Eastwood served as chair from 1955 to 1971. While a medical student at the University of Virginia, Dr.
Poiro headed the Anesthesia Interest Group and served as Virginia's student delegate to the ASA 2011 annual meeting in Chicago. He worked in the Slobodan M. Todorovic labora- tory on T-type calcium channels. He leaves medical school having published a peer reviewed article and an abstract with Robert H. Thiele and Edward C. Nemergut: • Thiele RH. Scalzo D. Poiro N. Nemergut EC. Speed,
HOST Program Housing Our Students as they Travel
• Thiele RH. Scalzo D. Poiro N. Nemergut EC. Randomized Trial Comparing Google, Ovid, Pubmed, and UpToDate. International Anesthesia Research Society March, 2010: Honolulu, HI Dr. Poiro will complete a preliminary internship with the
Accuracy, and Confidence in Google, Ovid, Pubmed, and UpToDate—Results of a Randomized Trial. Post-Graduate Medical Journal 86: 1018, 2010
UVA Department of Surgery in 2012-2013 and move to Philadelphia to enter the Temple University Residency in Anesthesiology in July 2013. Although he is open to all areas of anesthesiology, his "heart" is in cardiac anesthesia at the moment.
In photos from left to right: Galina Boyarinova with Drs. Amelia and Chris Bartels. Stephanie Cooper and Caroline Reuter, MD. Sarah Rohde, MD, and Nosheen Reza.
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very fall, our fourth year medical students begin the hunt for their ideal residency placement, often interviewing at over 15 programs scattered across the country. Travel expenses, especially those for hotel accommodations, mount up quickly and add to our students' post- graduation debt loads. To help alleviate some of the financial burden these stu- dent face, the UVA Medical Alumni As- sociation and Medical School Foundation
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matches these students with alumni host volunteers with whom they can stay with during their interviews. With a class size of over 150, and students interviewing at multiple locations, you can imagine how many alumni volunteers are needed… If you are interested in joining the
over 300 University of Virginia School of Medicine alumni hosts, please visit our website to sign up and learn more about the HOST Program.
UVAMedAlum.org/alumni/host-program
