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AMWA Region 5 Conference Announcement

1/19/2020

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​Dear SJB students and faculty,

You're invited to attend the Region 5 American Medical Women’s Association (AMWA) Conference at the Luis Muñoz Marín Foundation in San Juan, Puerto Rico. Region 5 includes those medical schools with AMWA chapters in Alabama, Louisiana, Mississippi, Tennessee, Puerto Rico, and abroad. 

The conference, which will take place on February 7-8, 2020, will be a great opportunity to build bridges and develop connections among members of these different chapters. There will be multiple speakers, including two female general surgeons from the University of Alabama at Birmingham. In addition, there will be an opportunity to present your research poster. This is a fantastic way to showcase any work you would like to present and will look great on your resume! Abstracts are due February 1, 2020.

Event and poster submission information can be found here: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/amwa-region-5-conference-tickets-83506551343

On the website, you will find links to buy tickets to the conference. You must register for the conference in order to attend.

 - $15 for national student members & residents
 - $20 for students & residents without national membership
 - $20 for faculty members, physicians

To become an AMWA national member please see here.

We had a really great time at the 2018 conference and the 2019 conference so I hope to see you there!

Please let me know if you have any questions.

Cristina
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New Leadership Board 2019-2020

10/13/2019

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Hi everyone! Cristina here - AMWA-SJB's founder. I am happy to announce the new leadership board for 2019-2020! As I prepare to graduate, my role this year will be helping Casey transition into her new role as president. She has done an amazing job so far and I'm confident in our new exec team to keep AMWA-SJB going strong!

President: Casey Gilman
Vice President: Nathalie Chang
​Treasurer: Mariangely Lopez Serra
Secretary: Lorena Figueredo Rivas
​Historian: Natalie Fernandez
Event Coordinator (Conference focus): Monica Santos
Event Coordinator (General Body focus): Gabriela Diaz
Volunteer Coordinator: Gabrielle Rivera
Fundraising Coordinator: Gabriela Rodriguez Bengochea

Public Relations: Dyanet Puentes
MS1 Representative: Maria D. Rodriguez
MS2 Representative: Mayra González
MS3 Representative: Jessica M. Rodriguez
MS4 Representative: Hazel Roxas
Faculty Advisor: Dr. Maricarmen Colón Díaz
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Rosa Lizeth Frias wins AMBOSS Excellence Scholarship

6/14/2019

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By Cristina Font
A huge congratulations to Rosa Lizeth Frias, MS3 at San Juan Bautista School of Medicine, who won the AMBOSS Excellence Scholarship of $500 for her essays about the meaning of excellence and the challenges and opportunities women in medicine face. Rosa has some great advice for medical students as they learn and grow to be excellent physicians:

"To be excellent physicians, I would advise medical students to carry themselves professionally and honestly in all aspects of their lives. It is important to keep evolving and identifying areas of improvement to work on from early on; the sooner you start working on those areas, the sooner you will become a better version of yourself. To do this, focus on the solution, not on the shortcoming as this emphasis puts you in an active position to implement changes.
To provide excellent care to patients, I would advise them to not take shortcuts in patient care, listen to your patients actively and be willing to filter constructive criticism from peers. Recognize that medicine is a team effort, and although physicians have a certain skill set, the skill sets of everyone else in the team are needed in order to achieve the best patient outcomes. Likewise, aim to create an environment where patients do not feel judged and can trust you with the details of their symptoms and background freely, so that you can arrive to the most appropriate diagnosis and can provide the best patient management.
To being excellent role models for all women in medicine, I would advise to recognize that we do not have to wait to be established physicians to have an impact in other aspiring female physicians. At every level of training, it is possible to be a role model for your peers by being open to discussing their aspirations, helping them go through processes you have already been through, connecting them with people who have the expertise they can benefit from, and guiding them to access appropriate resources. When in a position of leadership, it is important to see your team members’ strengths, particularly women’s, as complements to your weaknesses not as threats to your position. Finally, recognize that mentorship is a two-way street with opportunities for learning both from the person you are trying to be a role model for and yourself."

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AMWA-SJB President attends National Leadership Meeting

3/31/2019

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Cristina Font, MS3, SJB AMWA President and National Student Awards Chair, attends the AMWA National Leadership Meeting in Washington, D.C. on March 29-31, 2019.
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SJB Attends AMWA Region 5 Conference

2/22/2019

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Laura Franqui Domínguez, MS4 and Jessica Rodríguez Hernández, MS2 attend the AMWA Region 5 Conference in Alabama on February 16, 2019, to present their research projects and represent San Juan Bautista School of Medicine. 
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SJB Goes Red For Women

2/1/2019

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AMWA-SJB Attends the PR Women's Health Conference

1/27/2019

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AMWA 103rd Annual Meeting

3/27/2018

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We had a great time in Philadelphia at the AMWA 103rd Annual Meeting this past weekend!
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AMWA at the 4th Annual SJB Health Fair

3/17/2018

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At the annual "Feria de Salud", visitors stopped by the AMWA table to learn about the menstrual cycle, menopause, and recognizing symptoms of endometriosis.
Thank you to our volunteers, Christina Amador, Ana Mustafa, and Sara Kurtevski!
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Women Who Wine: An Evening Social

3/16/2018

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Just a quick recap of last night’s social. 
Thank you to everybody that made it!
​And a special thank you to our event coordinator Sofía Matta for making this possible and for her dedication on this activity! May there be many more! 💛
Paola Colón, Chapter Vice President
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Match Ceremony Fundraiser

3/16/2018

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Jessica Hernandez, Joanie Figueroa, Andrew Blundell, and Cristina Font volunteered at the Match ceremony to raise funds for AMWA by taking orders for personalized white coat hangers, the perfect Match gift!
Congratulations to all the students who matched!

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AMWA Gen. Meeting Recap!

3/13/2018

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Hello AMWA family, 
Thank you so much for attending our Second General Meeting of the year! For those of you who couldn’t make it, please see the attached documents for details on the main topics discussed. We had the honor of having our Chapter President  (Cristina Font) as a speaker; her great presentation of Gender Bias is also attached, for your convenience!
We wanted to let you know that AMWA @ SJB is proud to be participating in the Health Fair taking place this Saturday. We encourage you to volunteer at our table and help us make a difference! If interested, you may contact Cristina Font at
cristinaf@sanjuanbautista.edu. 
Also, remember that our AMWA Chapter T-shirts are now available for sale, and they’re awesome! You may order yours via ATH movie (Cristina Font, 954-703-0770) or Venmo (preferred, @Dyanet_Puentes). If you’d like to pay with cash, you may do so by contacting our Chapter Treasurer (Dyanet Puentes, dyanetp@sanjuanbautista.edu). Please, include Name and Size in your order! Last day to order is March 23!
Lorena M. Figueredo Rivas
SJB AMWA Chapter Secretary
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amwa_2nd_general_body_meeting.pdf
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gender_bias_in_medicine_presentation.pdf
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gender_bias_in_medicine_transcript.docx
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AMWA-SJB Presents its First Ever Newsletter

3/10/2018

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AMWA is proud to present the Newsletter Spring 2018 edition. Thank you to our editor-in-chief, Shikha Gupta!
AMWA_Spring_2018.pdf
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Smoothie & cookie sale

2/12/2018

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AMWA Region 5 Conference

2/11/2018

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​By Cristina Font
The American Medical Women’s Association Region 5 Conference, held at the University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB) on February 9-10, was a great success! Three of our own second-year medical students at San Juan Bautista traveled to Birmingham, Alabama to present the research that they worked on over the previous summer. These students were Adriana Gordon, Andrew Blundell, and Cristina Font.

This was the first time that AMWA Region 5 held its own conference, and students from all over the southern states and the Caribbean came to participate. The event included guest lecturers, networking opportunities, a suture workshop, and a poster session with judges. The lecturers discussed important topics such as work life balance, negotiation skills for women in medicine, confronting bias, women leadership, human sex trafficking, and mitigating fatigue and burnout.
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Congratulations to Andrew Blundell for winning an award in the category of “Best Original Research Poster” for his project called A deep dive into the diagnostic utility of eosinophil- and basophil-C4d! 
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Adriana Gordon, MS2, presents her project, Upregulation of ABCA1 in lipid-loaded macrophages is dependent on autophagy.​
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Andrew Blundell, MS2, accepts the award for “Best Original Research Poster”.
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Student Association Fair

2/7/2018

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AMWA Goes Red For Women!

2/2/2018

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Today is National Wear Red Day! The Go Red For Women movement was created by the American Heart Association to raise awareness of heart disease & stroke as the number one killer of women and to encourage women to take charge of their heart health.
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AMWA's Newly Elected Leaders

8/31/2017

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We would like to congratulate our new board members! Thank you so much for your leadership and commitment to our growing association! 
  • Event coordinator: Sofia Matta
  • MS4 representative: Alexandra Canabal
  • Editor-in-chief of newsletter: Shikha Gupta
  • Webmaster: Melinda Delgado​
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Pizza Sale

8/22/2017

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Recruitment was a huge success!

8/1/2017

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The final list of members has just been submitted to AMWA national division. We are happy to say we gained 36 new members this summer, making us 42 members total! We would like to thank everyone who joined and invite you to stay tuned for our upcoming announcements about events and activities.
Cristina Font, Chapter President

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Establishment of AMWA-SJB

5/31/2017

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We are pleased to announce that San Juan Bautista School of Medicine has been approved by the American Medical Women’s Association (AMWA), and our school is now an official branch of this organization!
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Introducing... AMWA at SJB!

5/15/2017

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We are happy to announce that AMWA has been approved by San Juan Bautista School of Medicine as a new student organization! A big thank you goes out to Paola Colón, Dyanet Puentes, Karolyna Rey, Hazel Roxas, Lorena Figueredo, and Andrew Blundell for your commitment. As founders of this organization, the seven of us will be working diligently this summer to plan events and activities for the 2017-2018 school year. In the fall, we will hold a formal meeting with elections for the executive board. Stay tuned!
Cristina Font, Chapter President

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