August 2019

OFFICE OF ADMISSIONS

U M A S S S c h o o l o f

M e d i c i n e

m a t r i c u l a t e s o u r

5 0 t h c l a s s !

T o p 1 0 U n d e r g r a d u a t e

S c h o o l s R e p r e s e n t e d B Y

F i r s t Y e a r c l a s s

• B o s t o n C o l l e g e

• B o s t o n U n i v e r s i t y

• B r o w n U n i v e r s i t y

• C o l l e g e o f t h e H o l y C r o s s

• G e o r g e t o w n U n i v e r s i t y

• H a r v a r d U n i v e r s i t y

• N o r t h e a s t e r n U n i v e r s i t y

• T u f t s U n i v e r s i t y

• U n i v e r s i t y o f C a l i f o r n i a

• U n i v e r s i t y o f M a s s a c h u s e t t s

Public presentations Research Community Service Volunteerism Military Ser-vice

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Bacc MD Pro-gram Honors/Awards Hobbies/Artistic Endeavors/

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Admissions Staff

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Inside this issue:

Under the guidance of Mariann Manno, MD, Associate Dean for Admissions

and Prematriculation Programs, the Admissions Committee selected 162

students for matriculation into the first year class of the School of Medicine. Our

class was chosen from 4,094

applications. About the First Year

UMMS Baystate (PURCH)

Students

28

Health Science Preparatory

Program

3

Baccalaureate MD Program 2

Graduates of UMASS

system

19

Students from groups

under -represented in

medicine

14

Economically and/or

educationally disadvantaged

24

Average age: 24

Gender mix 98F

64M

Class Composition:

MD-MA 108

MD-Non MA 45

MD/PhD 9

Total Matriculates 162

Average Total GPA: 3.77

Average MCAT: 88th

percentile

P A G E 2 A N N O U N C I N G T H E S O M C L A S S O F 2 0 2 3 !

Community Service /Volunteerism

Global Medical Brigade to Nicaragua

UMASS volunteer and Camp Discovery Counselor

EMT for Brown University Emergency Medical

Services

Hospital Volunteer with UCLA Care Extender Pro-

gram

Baystate Franklin Medical Center Volunteer

Mary S. Easton Center for Alzheimer’s Disease

Research-research volunteer, Los Angeles

American Red Cross Club at Yale University

National Alliance on Mental Illness-Helpline Nurs-

ing Home Volunteer-Glamour Gals, Nashville, TN

Senior Counselor, Philipinos for Community

Health, Los Angeles, CA

Playspace Activities Leader-Horizons for Homeless

Children, Roxbury, MA

Thanksgiving Soup Kitchen and Midnight Run

Volunteer

French-American School of New York

Appalachia Volunteers of Boston College

Super Dog Adoption Day Volunteer, Always

Adopt, RI

Volunteer-Johns Hopkins Animal Necropsy Service

San Francisco Chinese Chamber of Commerce

Suffolk House of Corrections GED Tutor-Boston

MA

Publications/Presentations/Research

Impulsive Choice and BMI: An fMRI Study-NIH Postbac

Poster Day

Implantable Device for Male Birth Control, McGill Uni-

versity

Skin Cancer Prevention Presentations-University of

Texas

Cholinergic Signaling in Myelination-NIH

Senior Thesis: Rare Earth Metal RecyclingWPI

Methicillin-Resistant Staphylococcus Aureus

Endocarditis-Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center

Affordable Care Act Presentation-Children’s Hospital,

Oakland, CA

2018 IMPACT Program Presenter and Student Profile,

Cavanaugh Council and President’s Circle, Notre Dame,

IN

UMASS Medical School SRFP Poster Presentation-NIH,

Washington, DC

Drug Discovery and Pharmacognosy Research-MUSC

College of Pharmacy, Charleston, SC

Harvard Medical School Psychiatry Research Day

First year students served on the planning

committee to create a dynamic recruitment

day for accepted applicants:

2nd Look Day 4/5/2019

Alice Berenson Jacob Maalouf

Amberly Diep Sheikh Moinul

Hans Erickson Leslie Panella

Meghan Harrington Alexandra Rabin

Rose Healy Simone Thibault

Jason Lui Megan Yuen

Military Service Cryptologic Technician-US Navy

325th Expeditionary Military Intelligence

Batallion-Puerto Rico National Guard

P A G E 3

UMMS Baccalaureate MD Pathway

Hobbies/Artistic Endeavors

2nd Years Host the Annual

Massachusetts Outdoor Experience

(MOE) to welcome Incoming 1st Years!

Eagle Scout Award with Gold Palm, Boy Scouts of America, Egg

Harbor Township, NJ

Salisbury Prize-Worcester Polytechnic Institute

Crispell Forbes/Ferber Memorial Award Recipient, Washington

DC

10 Years in Girl Scouting Award, Girls Scouts of the USA

Medical Scribe of the Year, Scribe America, Worcester, MA

Pennsylvania State University Academic Excellence Scholarship

Award

Winner, Inaugural Infectious Disease Mapping Challenge-US State

Dept., Washington DC

A U G U S T 2 0 1 9

Honors/Awards/Recognitions

Left photo (left to right): Sarah Ferreira (MS1) and Amberly Diep (MS2) during their BLS Training during the BaccMD Summer

Clinical Immersion Experience.

Right photo (left to right): Richard Macdonald (MS1), Ernesto Barbosa and Michael Pires during Summer Enrichment Program closing program.

Hobbies/Artistic Endeavors:/Athletics

New York Road Runners Member

WPI Ultimate Frisbee

Dandiya Rass Dance Troupe

UCLA Marching Band-Blue Devils Drum and Bugle Corp, Con-

cord, CA

Barefoot Monkeys Circus and Fire Arts Troupe-Vassar College

Tufts Women’s Rugby Football Club

Mimes and Mummers-Fordham University

Harvard Fallen Angles A Cappella

Professional level culinary technique training-International Culi-

nary Center, New York, NY

Brown University Fusion Orchestra Public Relations Chair

University of Massachusetts School of Medicine Office of Admissions Room S1-300 55 Lake Ave, North Worcester, MA 01655

Phone: 508-856-2323 FAX: 508-856-3629 Email: admissions@umassmed.edu Website: http://www.umassmed.edu/som/

Admissions Office Staff:

Mariann Manno, MD Professor of Pediatrics and Emergency Medicine Associate Dean for Admissions-School of Medicine and Prematriculation Programs Karen Lawton, MBA Director of Admissions Paul Charles, BA Program Coordinator, Baccalaureate MD Program Brenda Fusaro Interview Coordinator Jennifer Lee Shea, MTA Admissions Coordinator

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