Student Organizations and Interest Groups

Student Organizations 

  • Addiction Medicine Interest Group: Rachel Domingos and Justine Newman
  • American Medical Association (AMA): Avani Yaganti
  • American Sign Language (ASL) Group: Kayla Swisher
  • American Muslim Medical Student Association (AMMSA): Yosra Nadhimi, Reem Khader, Kenan Abed and Samia Abduol-Qadir
  • American Medical Women's Association (AMWA): Molly Smith, Sidney Leno
  • Asian Pacific American Medical Student Association (APAMSA): Trisha Nair, Raya Gandhi
  • Basketball Club: Mark Overby
  • Children's Miracle Network: Elizabeth Drone
  • Christian Medical & Dental Associations: Zach Moore
  • Collaborative Nutrition Program at Schools: Jennifer Barnes
  • Culinary Medicine Interest Group: Sydney Nyquist
  • Dance Outreach (Zumba): Victoria Idowu, Sidney Leno
  • Enos Elementary Mentoring Program: Sydney Nyquist, Zach Settelmeyer
  • Environment and Health Club: Kamil Hester, Alana Goodson
  • Fitness Club: Peyton Keller
  • Financial Literacy: Stella Udoetuk
  • GLMA: James Hillard, Natalie McClure
  • Geriatric Interest Group: Gautami Galpalli, Sophia Mounce
  • Global Health: Julie Guaglianone
  • Health Policy IG (HPIG): Avani Yaganti
  • Kern National Network Student Chapter: Tayli Shekleton, Alsten Jones, Alex Kowalski, Collin Fricke
  • Knitting Club: Victoria Idowu
  • Latino Medical Student Association (LMSA): Carlos Marmolejo, Evelyn Veliz
  • Mary Bryant Home BINGO: Hannah Schmidt
  • Medical Students with Disabilities and Chronic Illness Group (MSDCI): Tommy Johnston
  • Performing Arts: Carmen Remolina
  • Physician Pipeline Preparatory Program: Skylar Ozoh, Savannah Kidd
  • Ryse and Shine: Erika Ward
  • Student National Medical Association (SNMA): Afam Maduka, Aungelique McGhee
  • Special Friends: Erika Ward, Reem Khader
  • Tar Wars: Jenna Lee, Skylar Ozoh
  • The Golf Club: Ben Gallaher, Andrew Tresslar
  • Therapeutic Music: Kevin Le Mentec
  • ThinkFirst: Justine Newman, Kyle Struck
  • Top Soccer: Sam Gubbins

Specialty Interest Groups

  • Anesthesia: Brix Clayton, Lexi Corzine (Co-Presidents) and Rachel Domingos (ASA Delegate)
  • Dermatology: Gautami Galppalli, Annah Carney
  • Emergency Medicine: Kiri Evans, Micaylen Wolf
  • Family Medicine: Erika Ward
  • Infectious Disease: Beth Daniels
  • Internal Medicine: Beth Daniels, Trent Rich
  • Medical Education: Djamina Esperance
  • Medical Humanities: Jenna Ribbing, Ireland Smith 
  • Med-Psych: Fletcher Summa
  • Neurology: Zachary Cheng
  • Neurosurgery: Noah Drewes
  • OB/GYN: Maddie Stacey, Nina Tran
  • Orthopedics: Kyle Struck
  • Otolaryngology (ENT): Victoria Idowu, James Hillard, Amy Lee
  • Pathology: Justine Newman
  • Pediatrics: Elizabeth Drone
  • Physical Medicine & Rehabilitation: Taylor Justison, Olubukola Ayegbusi, Emma Hughes, Patrick Bruch
  • Plastic Surgery: Molly Smith
  • Psychiatry: Kaitlyn Frick, Sydney Nyquist
  • Radiology: Hannah Roberts, Chelsey Wisehart
  • Research: Yiyi Ma, Imadh Khan
  • Sports Medicine: Patrick Bruch, Emma Hughes, Taylor Justison
  • Surgery: Michael Brown, Ashley-Ann Walker, Stephanie Viteri
  • Urology: Ashley -Ann Walker, Morgan McCain
  • Vascular Surgery: Garrett Sweatt

Carbondale Interest Groups

  • Advocates for Rural Health: John Salazar, Dr. Jen Rose
  • Community for Rural Outreach Program: Shrihita Ganga
  • EDI Book Club: Dr. Amanda Mulch
  • Environmental and Health Education: Alana Goodson, Dr. Amanda Mulch
  • Health Policy Interest Group: Zach Bennett, Sheila Simon (Faculty)
  • Mind and Society Research Group: Luke Manietta, Dr. Abby Bilderback
  • Hotspotting: Dr. Abby Bilderback
  • Running Club: David Farmer, Dr. Alison Sutphin