KCOM students receive annual awards
Posted: April 13, 2011[cincopa AYMAiiaifXiC]
KCOM’s Student Government Association (SGA) held its annual event to honor the winner and nominees of the prestigious Student Doctor of the Year Award and the winners of the student selected Gutensohn Award on March 23 on ATSU’s Missouri campus.
The SGA announced Sara Ashley Warren, OMS III, as Student Doctor of the Year. Nominees for the award included Joseph Borup, OMS II; Heather Martin, OMS II; Eric Beal, OMS II; Ryan Applonie, OMS II; Colleen Emge, OMS II; Ben Metcalfe, OMS I; Brian Draper, OMS IV; and John Alm, OMS IV.
And the Gutensohn Award goes to …
The Max T. Gutensohn award recognizes outstanding teaching and is a special merit award decided by first- and second-year students from KCOM. The award, decided on by students who vote on the professor they believe went above and beyond to teach, honors professors who have proven to be passionate about what they do and who demonstrate that passion to their students.
The first-year OMS I class chose Anatomy Chair Peter Kondrashov, Ph.D., who earned his master’s and bachelor’s degrees in zoology and ecology from Moscow State University. He received his Ph.D. in paleontology from Russian Academy of Sciences and worked as a researcher for three years. He taught anatomy, histology, and zoology at Northwest Missouri State University for six years before coming to Kirksville in 2007. He is an avid nature photographer and goes on digs in Mongolia, Siberia, China, and all over the southwest United States.
The second-year class chose David Goldman, D.O., J.D., ’91, who graduated from the University of Illinois in Champaign before attending Washington University School of Law. He worked as secretary-treasurer and corporate legal counsel until he decided to KCOM. He completed a traditional rotating internship at Kirksville Osteopathic Medical Center, after which he began residency in psychiatry and a fellowship in child and adolescent psychiatry at Vanderbilt University Medical Center in Nashville. He serves as a medicolegal consultant and operates a private psychotherapy management practice. Most importantly, he is a professor at KCOM, as well as Southern Illinois University Medical School in Springfield, Ill.