The University of Michigan Medical School recognizes that many of our students receive awards and recognitions for their talents inside and outside the classroom in the four years they share with us. Below are a few of our student achievemts. We welcome submissions from students.

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Nell Burger

Comforter and Comforted in an Unfolding Mysterys

Anita Malone, a third-year U-M medical student is first author of a paper published May 1, 2008 in the Journal of Asthma. She was the principle investigator of the study, which looks at trends in Emergency Departments asthma care within a single large community and how these trends meet the national guidelines for the treatment of asthma. The study found that knowledge of asthma and how to treat it is lower among high risk communities of African Americans and low socioeconomic status adults. In addition, the study found that having experience with Asthma doesn't necessarily increase knowledge of Asthma and that interventions to increase the knowledge of Asthma treatment especially signs of asthma and triggers may help reduce disparities.

Jayesh Thawani, third-year medical student and Edsel B. Ford scholar, has been awarded a prestigious Howard Hughes Medical Institute/National Institutes of Health (HHMI/NIH) Research Scholars Program Fellowship for 2008-2009. Established in 1985, it gives outstanding students at U.S. medical schools an opportunity to receive research training at the NIH headquarters in Bethesda, Maryland. As one of forty-two scholars, Jayesh will spend a year living on the NIH campus at the Cloister Residence. He plans on pursuing work in the Surgical Neurology Branch at the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke (NINDS). Congratulations Jayesh.

Further information: http://www.hhmi.org/cloister/