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Shorter University’s Distinguished Young Alumni C ongratulations to Jeffrey Rice, DO, VCOM- Carolinas Class of 2018, recently awarded Shorter University’s Distinguished Young Alumni Award.

VCOM-Auburn Graduate Honored with 2021 AAFP GME Award for Excellence M aj. Michael P. Brisson, DO, PhD, MPH, a

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AUM Athletics Announces Newest Hall of Fame Class

graduate of the VCOM- Auburn inaugural class of 2019, was recently honored by the American Academy of Family Physicians (AAFP) with its Award for Excellence in Graduate Medical Education. This award, which grants recipients scholarship funds, recognizes outstanding family medicine residents for leadership, civic involvement, exemplary patient care and aptitude for and interest in family medicine. VCOM Graduate Explains Emotional Toll Pandemic has Taken on Frontline Workers M ona Masood, DO, a VCOM- Virginia 2012 graduate was featured on CNN’s Anderson Cooper provides mental health services for doctors and healthcare workers during the COVID-19 pandemic. Dr. Masood also spoke on the virtual OMED21 main stage in October. Her anonymous and free peer-to- peer emotional support line is supported by over 800 volunteer psychiatrists who help physician colleagues with the many intersections of their personal and professional lives. She talked on how it was developed, and some of the programs’ many successes. Full Circle television program. Dr. Masood talked about why she launched the Physician Support Line, which

Dr. Rice completed his residency at OSU

Pediatrics in Tulsa, Oklahoma, earlier this year and is now working as a pediatrician at Warren Clinic Pediatrics Springer in Tulsa, Oklahoma. Two VCOM Graduates Added to AUM Athletics Hall of Fame Class C ongratulations to two VCOM- Auburn Class

of 2021 alumni for being inducted into the Auburn University Montgomery (AUM) Athletics Hall of Fame. Nicolas Pinones-Haltenhoff, DO, was honored for his accomplishments on the tennis team and Katie Spain, DO, for excelling on the softball team.

In response to COVID restrictions, the 2020

Hall of Fame Class will be formally inducted in a joint ceremony with the Class of 2019 at a date yet to be determined.

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