{"id":247906,"date":"2026-06-25T11:11:03","date_gmt":"2026-06-25T15:11:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/?p=247906"},"modified":"2026-06-25T11:32:47","modified_gmt":"2026-06-25T15:32:47","slug":"uconn-school-of-medicines-newly-elected-alpha-omega-alpha-class","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/2026\/06\/uconn-school-of-medicines-newly-elected-alpha-omega-alpha-class\/","title":{"rendered":"UConn School of Medicine\u2019s Newly Elected Alpha Omega Alpha Class"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">UConn School of Medicine is delighted to announce its newest elected members to the Alpha Omega Alpha honor medical society based on merit, each demonstrating the characteristics of excellent physicians in alignment with A\u03a9A\u2019s mission and values.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">Alpha Omega Alpha, founded in 1902, is the esteemed national medical honor society. Its mission is dedicated to the belief that in the profession of medicine we will improve care for all by:<\/p>\n<ul style=\"font-weight: 400\">\n<li>recognizing high educational achievement;<\/li>\n<li>honoring gifted teaching;<\/li>\n<li>encouraging the development of leaders in academia and the community;<\/li>\n<li>supporting the ideals of humanism; and<\/li>\n<li>promoting service to others.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">Election to Alpha Omega Alpha is an honor signifying a lasting commitment to professionalism, leadership, scholarship, research, and community service. A lifelong honor, membership in the society confers recognition for a physician\u2019s dedication to the profession and art of healing.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">The School of Medicine offers one and all hearty congratulations to the newly elected to A\u03a9A:<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\"><strong><u>Faculty<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\"><strong>Linda Barry, MD<br \/>\n<\/strong>Professor of Surgery<br \/>\nAssociate Dean, Office of Multicultural and Community Affairs<br \/>\nAssociate Director, UConn Health Disparities Institute<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\"><strong>Lakshmi Nair, Ph.D.<br \/>\n<\/strong>Professor of Orthopedic Surgery<br \/>\nDeputy Director, The Cato T. Laurencin Institute for Regenerative Engineering<br \/>\nDirector, Skeletal Biology and Regeneration Area of Concentration-Biomedical Science Ph.D. program<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\"><strong><u>Fellows<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\"><strong>Beverly Tse, MD<br \/>\n<\/strong>Fellow in Maternal-Fetal Medicine, Department of OB\/GYN<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\"><strong>Patricia Giglio-Ayers, MD<br \/>\n<\/strong>Fellow in Minimally Invasive Gynecologic Surgery, Department of OB\/GYN<\/p>\n<p><strong>Stephanie Hallisey, MD<br \/>\n<\/strong>Fellow in Reproductive Endocrinology and Infertility, Department of OB\/GYN<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\"><strong>Kristen Moriarty, MD<br \/>\n<\/strong>Fellow in Maternal-Fetal Medicine, Department of OB\/GYN<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\"><strong>Angela Quental, MD<br \/>\n<\/strong>Fellow in Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, Department of Medicine<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\"><strong>Teresa Da Cunha, MD<br \/>\n<\/strong>Fellow in Gastroenterology-Hepatology, Department of Medicine<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\"><strong><u>Residents<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\"><strong>Nicolette Pennington, MD<br \/>\n<\/strong>Resident in Internal Medicine<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\"><strong>Albert Zhou, MD, Ph.D.<br \/>\n<\/strong>Resident in Dermatology<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\"><strong>Mitch Wright, DO<br \/>\n<\/strong>Resident in Physical Medicine &amp; Rehabilitation<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\"><strong>Kaitlin Krauss, DO<br \/>\n<\/strong>Resident in Emergency Medicine<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\"><strong>David Patrick, MD<br \/>\n<\/strong>Resident in Emergency Medicine<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A\u03a9A is the national medical honor society.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":98,"featured_media":234828,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"wds_primary_category":0,"wds_primary_series":0,"wds_primary_attribution":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2429,2721,1868,2712],"tags":[],"magazine-issues":[],"coauthors":[1873],"class_list":["post-247906","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-awards-scholarships","category-graduate-medical-education","category-meds","category-student-success"],"pp_statuses_selecting_workflow":false,"pp_workflow_action":"current","pp_status_selection":"publish","acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-07-02 15:29:05","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\/247906","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=247906"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/posts\/247906\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":247922,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/posts\/247906\/revisions\/247922"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/media\/234828"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=247906"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=247906"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=247906"},{"taxonomy":"magazine-issue","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/magazine-issues?post=247906"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=247906"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}