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  • 1.  Question of the Week: Do we have any Olympians in our community?

    Posted 02-07-2022 08:00:00 AM

    The Winter Olympics are underway!

    Do we have any current or former Olympians in our community? Or at your institutions? Tell us about them!

    A casual internet search reveals that Erica Ogwumike, who competed in the most recent summer Olympics for the Nigerian women’s basketball team, is a student at UT Southwestern medical school. And University of Kentucky School of Medicine is the proud home of at least one (two? @John Perry, do you know how many it is?) Olympic fencing champions. Kamali Thompson, an orthopedic surgery resident at Temple (and Rutger's medical school alumna) is a fencer, currently representing Team USA! @Douglas Reifler, Did you know this? 

    USA! USA!

     

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    Penny Schnarrs
    Virtual Communities Program Manager
    Association of American Medical Colleges
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  • 2.  RE: Question of the Week: Do we have any Olympians in our community?

    Posted 02-08-2022 04:14:00 PM
    I loved this story about a paralympic athlete, Sam Grewe, a first-year medical student at the University of Michigan Medical School, who competed last year in Tokyo as a high jumper. 

    https://labblog.uofmhealth.org/med-u/first-year-medical-student-wins-gold-at-paralympics

    Sam Grewe, a first-year medical student at the University of Michigan Medical School, competes as a high jumper. Credit: The Grewe Family


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    Stephanie Weiner
    Director, Digital Strategy & Engagement
    Association of American Medical Colleges
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  • 3.  RE: Question of the Week: Do we have any Olympians in our community?

    Posted 02-09-2022 09:23:00 AM
    One of our family medicine doctors served as an IOC physician in 2018:

    https://www.siumed.edu/pr/highlights/olympic-feat.html

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    Carolyn Pointer
    Assistant Professor
    Southern Illinois University School of Medicine
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