{"id":216279,"date":"2024-07-16T16:51:05","date_gmt":"2024-07-16T20:51:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/?p=216279"},"modified":"2024-07-16T16:51:06","modified_gmt":"2024-07-16T20:51:06","slug":"uconn-medical-school-faculty-fellows-and-residents-inducted-into-national-honor-medical-society","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/2024\/07\/uconn-medical-school-faculty-fellows-and-residents-inducted-into-national-honor-medical-society\/","title":{"rendered":"UConn Medical School Faculty, Fellows, and Residents Inducted into National Honor Medical Society"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>UConn School of Medicine has elected its new class of faculty, fellows, and residents into its <a href=\"https:\/\/medicine.uconn.edu\/student-life\/honor-society\/\">Alpha Omega Alpha Honor Medical Society\u00a0<\/a>(A\u03a9A) chapter.<\/p>\n<p>UConn is home to the national Honor Medical Society\u2019s 130th\u00a0active chapter established in 2019. It is only the second chapter to be established in the state since\u00a0Yale School of Medicine\u2019s Alpha chapter was founded in 1920.<\/p>\n<p>Member election to A\u03a9A chapter is an honor that signifies excellence and commitment to scholarship, leadership, professionalism, and service.<\/p>\n<p>This year\u2019s elected honorees include:<\/p>\n<p><strong>Faculty:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>James M. Watras, Ph.D., associate professor, Cell Biology<\/li>\n<li>Jayesh Kamath, M.D., Ph.D., professor, Psychiatry<\/li>\n<li>Jonathan P. Shepherd, M.D., M.Sc., professor, Medicine<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Residents\/Fellows:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Christian Gronbeck, M.D., PGY3-Dermatology<\/li>\n<li>Kaitlyn Gooding, M.D., PGY3-Internal Medicine<\/li>\n<li>Erin Mulry, M.D., PGY4-Otolaryngology-Head &amp; Neck Surgery<\/li>\n<li>Neeharika Krothapalli, D.O., chief resident-Neurology<\/li>\n<li>Michelle Zur, D.O., chief resident-Internal Medicine<\/li>\n<li>Erika Faircloth, M.D., fellow-Cardiovascular Disease<\/li>\n<li>Matthew Partan, D.O., fellow-Orthopedic Sports Medicine<\/li>\n<li>Erin Pastor, D.O., fellow-Pediatric Hematology-Oncology<\/li>\n<li>Jyotirmayee Lenka, M.D., fellow-Sleep Medicine<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.alphaomegaalpha.org\/\">A\u03a9A<\/a> is dedicated to the belief that the\u00a0profession of medicine will improve care for all patients by recognizing high\u00a0educational achievement, honoring gifted teaching, encouraging the development\u00a0of leaders in academia and the community, supporting\u00a0the ideals of humanism and\u00a0promoting service to others.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A\u03a9A is a National Honor Society recognizing and advocating for excellence in scholarship and the highest ideals in medicine<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":98,"featured_media":203181,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_crdt_document":"","wds_primary_category":0,"wds_primary_series":0,"wds_primary_attribution":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2429,1868],"tags":[],"magazine-issues":[],"coauthors":[1873],"class_list":["post-216279","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-awards-scholarships","category-meds"],"pp_statuses_selecting_workflow":false,"pp_workflow_action":"current","pp_status_selection":"publish","acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-04-26 00:35:54","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/posts\/216279","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/users\/98"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=216279"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/posts\/216279\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":216280,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/posts\/216279\/revisions\/216280"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/media\/203181"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=216279"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=216279"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=216279"},{"taxonomy":"magazine-issue","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/magazine-issues?post=216279"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=216279"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}