Tanooha Veeramachaneni
DALLAS – June 10, 2022 – A pupil group at UT Southwestern Medical School has been named the 2022 Chapter of the Year by the Texas Medical Association Medical Student Section.
The chapter was honored for its work on a number of group well being initiatives. The college students joined with Brother Bill’s Helping Hand group in Dallas to fight vaccine hesitancy and misunderstanding by growing and coordinating a vaccine clinic and vaccine schooling to achieve sufferers in a number of languages. They additionally launched the Diabetes Self-Management Program, a free clinic that helps diabetic sufferers in underserved communities in Dallas study to regulate their blood glucose and make wholesome life-style modifications. Both packages had been funded by Texas Medical Association (TMA) grants.
“During a time in which COVID-19 has forced many organizations to scale back, our chapter has fought hard to continue to expand and contribute meaningful work,” stated Tanooha Veeramachaneni, a second-year UTSW medical pupil who nominated the chapter for the honor. Ms. Veeramachaneni is a earlier UTSW TMA Medical Student Section President and present Vice Chair of the Texas Medical Association’s Medical Student Section.
The chapter additionally reached out to the Dallas County Medical Society to provoke organized pupil involvement on its boards, committees, and councils; and wrote resolutions to suggest new TMA coverage, corresponding to encouraging extra equitable entry to remedy for opioid use dysfunction, amending an current coverage involving equal pay for equal work, growing the autonomy of adolescent pediatric most cancers sufferers, and defending a doctor’s means to supply care in dynamic authorized environments. Each of these resolutions was both adopted or referred inside the TMA for examine.
“We are incredibly proud to have our student chapter receive this award, which reflects the tremendous effort our hardworking students have put into making positive changes in the health of our community and their passion for health advocacy,” stated Angela Mihalic, M.D., Professor of Pediatrics, Dean of Medical Students, Associate Dean for Student Affairs, and a Distinguished Teaching Professor at UTSW.
The award was launched in 1998 and acknowledges the chapter that excels in upholding the Medical Student Section’s targets and insurance policies for a greater Texas. It acknowledges management, dedication, and repair to TMA and the American Medical Association.
UT Southwestern Medical School is ranked amongst the high 25 for analysis and the high 20 for major care amongst 192 medical colleges nationwide, in response to U.S. News & World Report’s 2023 Best Graduate Schools rankings.
About UT Southwestern Medical Center
UT Southwestern, one of the nation’s premier educational medical facilities, integrates pioneering biomedical analysis with distinctive scientific care and schooling. The establishment’s school has obtained six Nobel Prizes, and consists of 26 members of the National Academy of Sciences, 17 members of the National Academy of Medicine, and 14 Howard Hughes Medical Institute Investigators. The full-time school of greater than 2,900 is answerable for groundbreaking medical advances and is dedicated to translating science-driven analysis rapidly to new scientific therapies. UT Southwestern physicians present care in additional than 80 specialties to greater than 100,000 hospitalized sufferers, greater than 360,000 emergency room instances, and oversee almost 4 million outpatient visits a yr.
