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	February 17, 2023 at 5:20 PM	Approved	WHMS Easter Baskets for Premie Babies - Grady's Decision Non-Profit	Womens Health Club	02/17/2023	03/20/2023	This will be our first event of the semester. Students will be donating highly needed items for Grady's Decision non- profit organization that helps families who are experiencing financial, spiritual, and emotional hardships as they care for their premature babies. We are hoping to collect for 20 - 30 families. The items needed/donated include the following supplies: -Rattles -Pacifier / Wubbanub -Gas Gift Card -Food Gift Cards -Books -Burp Clothes -Diapers -Wipes -Children's outfits -Chocolates/gum / candy for Mom -Handwritten Notes -Travel size stuff for an apartment for 30 days / mental health (for mom): Hand sanitizer / lotions / journals 20 - 30 families if possible - Grady's Decision will supplement if we cannot They will provide reusable shopping bags we can use w/ Grady's decision logo, for baskets. A spreadsheet will be sent out to the student body to 'sign up' for needed items that together will comprise 20-30 Easter baskets. Ex: 20 spaces for people to sign up for pacifiers/Wubbanub, 20 spaces for people to sign up for rattles, etc. This will ensure we have equal materials for each basket being donated. We will set up a collection box in LECOM's front office during the week so students can drop off their donated items. We wanted to hold a box by security in the front lobby for the week of March 20 - March 24th. Then the following week on March 27th we would like to hold an event at LECOM, where members would put the baskets together for the NICU and deliver them to Grady's Decision non-profit for distribution. In addition we where hoping to have an in-person (or zoom) event with Ryan Smith to come and talk about his experience of giving these gifts and what it means to the patients family. I think this would be amazing for the students to see their impact on the patients and where their donations are actually going. This event would take place in the Vora lounge on March 20th, the first day of our collection. Event with Ryan Smith on March 20th in Vora lounge (or zoom) Donations collected the week of March 20th - March 24th by security in the front lobby Event to build and put together the Easter baskets 27th - Vora lounge
	February 21, 2023 at 10:43 AM	Approved	Basic/Clinical Neuroscience Review Nights	SOMA	02/21/2023	03/20/2023	SOMA students (primarily second-years) will lead review sessions to help guide first-year students on study strategies of high-yield topics for Basic and Clinical Neuroscience, especially neuroanatomy. These sessions have been requested by first-year students. As first-years work their way through the systems curriculum of Basic and Clinical Neuroscience, OMS2s will host short, virtual review nights of the material and high yield topics. SOMA students will coordinate review content with Dr. Kulesza for the specific aspects of neuroanatomy as well as other faculty members for other content areas that are covered. These reviews will be held over Zoom, which will allow for social distancing because of the virtual nature of the event and no in-person assembly is required. SOMA members will be notified of review nights and it's corresponding review material via email. Our goal in doing so is to help bridge the gap that OMS1's have had with transitioning into more difficult content and systems.
	February 21, 2023 at 11:56 AM	Approved	DOnuts for DO's	SOMA	02/21/2023	03/30/2023	SOMA will be handing out donuts from Mighty Fine Doughnuts and coffee from the LECOM cafe- free to students, faculty and staff that stop by the LECOM cafeteria the morning of March 30th paid for by SOMA and SAAO. "DOnuts for DOs" will be a celebratory event in honor of National Doctors’ Day but, it will also serve as a mental health & wellness break for OMS-IIs who will be starting Convergence and for OMS-Is who will have finished the first part of their Basic Neuro block as well as a thank you for the LECOM community that has helped all of get to this point in the semester! We will make sure the station will be set up in a socially distant way as well as require those helping pass out the items to wear masks. We will have hand sanitizer available as well!
	February 21, 2023 at 12:32 PM	Approved	Holi Cultural Festival	APAMSA	02/21/2023	03/24/2023	Holi, also known as the "Festival of colors" or "Festival of Love," is a Hinduism tradition celebrated across every part of India. The festival is celebrated in March of every year that marks the end of winter and welcomes in the arrival of spring. Holding this event for the student body of Asian Americans at LECOM would be a great way to honor and commemorate the tradition. The event will be available to students, staff, and faculty. We will take precaution/abide by LECOM's COVID protocol by limiting the maximum capacity to 80 people. Using our club funds, we will provide/purchase art supplies to create colorful t-shirts in honor of Holi. This interactive event would be a great way to celebrate the tradition and to spread diversity within LECOM's community.
	February 22, 2023 at 2:11 PM	Approved	Sticker Fundraiser	Mentoring	02/22/2023	03/28/2023	Mentoring Club - Erie would like to have a sticker fundraiser. After designing one sticker for the club, we will also incorporate designs the kids themselves will make at the club. These designs are coloring pages that promote the Mentoring Club. As a club, we will select a few kid's designs to sell to the LECOM body! These designs will be included in the sticker "pack" that will also have some uplifting stickers as well. To better facilitate the management of the sale, we will send out a Google form to club members for purchase, so we can organize the finances & sticker pack pick-up as efficiently as possible. Attached below are the designs we were thinking of selling. The sticker design is one formed by the officers, while the coloring pages are the ones the kids will have a chance to design themselves.
	February 22, 2023 at 3:08 PM	Approved	Internal Medicine Club Speaker Event: How to Succeed on Rotations	Internal Medicine Club	02/22/2023	03/21/2023	Dr. Annette T. Carron will be giving a virtual presentation to the Internal Medicine Club about "How to Succeed on Rotations." Dr. Carron graduated from the Kirksville College of Osteopathic Medicine in 1991 and completed her fellowship in Geriatrics. Club members will be able to attend the presentation to learn how to best prepare and stand out during their rotations. Dr. Carron will also answer any questions that students may have about rotations or the field of Geriatrics and Internal Medicine. As part of this presentation, the American College of Osteopathic Internists (ACOI) will be sending a medical textbook to two random participants that attend the lecture. The session will be on zoom to mitigate any COVID concerns.
	February 27, 2023 at 3:42 PM	Approved	Backpack Drive for the US Committee for Refugees and Immigrants	SOMA	02/27/2023	04/03/2023	One of our officers volunteers on her own time at the US Committee for Refugees and Immigrants here in Erie and inquired about what we as an organization can do to assist them. One thing they expressed that they are in need of are new backpacks. We plan to hold a fundraiser to collect new backpacks to donate to the USCRI. We will be asking for adult-size backpacks so even as the children grow they will still be able to use them. The goal of this is to provide a thoughtful donation to better the lives of our new community members by enabling them to get an education or travel with ease as they adjust to their new life here in Erie. There will be donation boxes set up in the main entrance lobby of LECOM Main. SOMA members will check the boxes once a day to ensure donation collection and neatness of the area and at the end of the drive deliver donated backpacks to USCRI. Since donations will be able to be made individually, students will be able to social distance and will be required to follow LECOM recommendations on masking during the duration of the drive.
	March 1, 2023 at 3:53 PM	Approved	SAAO Cookies and Cheesecake fundraiser	SAAO	03/01/2023	03/01/2023	We are requesting to hold a cookie dough and cheesecake sale from Stanganellis, a local family-owned business. This fundraiser aims to raise money to reduce the out-of-pocket expense for students who want to attend Convocation next year (2024). The cookie dough will be offered in 5 different flavors, and the cheesecake will be offered in 3 different flavors. Information will be collected through an excel sheet that will be sent out in the email announcement. Once the order has been placed and paid for. Stanganellis needs about 14 days to process the order. The order will be delivered to me, and then myself and one more board member of SAAO will set up a pick-up place in the LECOM cafeteria or Voora lounge. Once the dates become more apparent, students will be told what day to expect their order and how long we will be in the cafeteria for them to pick up the cookies and cheesecake. My contact at Stanganellis is Evelyn Swinarski. Her email is evelyn@stanganellis.com. Our COVID mitigation plan: Students who are handing out the orders will wear a mask, and students picking up their orders will also wear masks. The food will be packaged individually, so there is no issue with contamination.
	March 6, 2023 at 3:51 PM	Approved	"What I wish I knew going into MS2" with Jake Kesiel	Neuropsych Club	03/06/2023	03/20/2023	The NeuroPsych Club would like to host Jake Kisiel, D.O. for an hour of answering questions and sharing his perspective on what he "wishes he knew going into M2" over Zoom. Jake is a LECOM grad class of 2022 and is currently a PGY-1 at Millcreek's Psychiatry residency program. At such a critical time point on our road to be osteopathic physicians, we believe Jake would be an invaluable resource for students deciding what to do over the Summer (as it fast approaches) and how to strategize to make M2 as successful as possible. Plus, being a fresh LECOM grad, Jake will have a better idea of what sort of opportunities exist at LECOM and Erie at large that can help maximize our next steps as M2s towards our future careers. Prior to the event we will open up a google document so students can pose questions for Jake to answer. Also, as part of our COVID mitigation strategy we will be hosting the event over Zoom.
	March 7, 2023 at 5:55 PM	Approved	APAMSA: Andora's Bubble Tea Fundraiser	APAMSA	03/07/2023	04/24/2023	APAMSA will be hosting a fundraiser in collaboration with Erie's own Andora's Bubble Tea Shop located on State Street near Gannon University. Students, faculty, and staff are welcome to present our flyer during their visit to help raise funds for our club. The fundraiser will take place during Andora's business hours from 10am- 8pm and we will offer an optional group meetup at Andora's at 6pm, open to LECOM associated individuals and APAMSA members, to encourage group interaction within the LECOM community. Andora's will offer 25% of their profits during the fundraiser and all proceeds will be kept for future APAMSA funds/spendings. LECOM protocol and COVID restrictions will be implemented during the optional meet-up.
	March 14, 2023 at 3:17 PM	Approved	Actors for Mass Casualty Drill	Emergency Medicine	03/14/2023	03/29/2023	We would like to give our members the opportunity to participate as actors in a mock Mass casualty Drill hosted by the Saint Vincent Residency program. This drill will be multi-disciplinary and multi-agency involving physicians, RN staff, pre-hospital responders, administration, radiology, and many more healthcare professionals. It will give our members the chance to interact with healthcare providers within the community and help improve mass casualty response within these agencies. A sign-up sheet will be provided for students to participate in shifts and masks will be worn to adhere to COVID Regulations. Since this event is helping with educational training, we will offer volunteer hours for participant’s time. This event will be held on March 29th at Emergycare (ECI) 1926 Peach St, Erie from 0700-1700.
	March 14, 2023 at 11:28 PM	Approved	IMS club Guest Speaker Event Dr. John Sellick D.O. "Serving Abroad"	International Medical Society	03/14/2023	04/27/2023	Dr. Sellick is an infectious disease specialist from Buffalo, NY who loves to teach and share about his experience serving abroad. He has spoke for IMS club multiple times via Zoom, specifically giving his lecture on “What you should know before you travel abroad”. As IMS club is full of students who have either served on medical mission trips before or are passionate to serve in the future, we believe that this would be a great opportunity to learn from an experienced medical missionary. Our IMS club advisor, Dr. Sarah McCarthy will be present for this event and all students will comply with LECOM's COVID-19 policies/guidelines. More information on Dr. Sellick: https://medicine.buffalo.edu/content/medicine/faculty/profile.html?ubit=jsellick
	March 15, 2023 at 2:03 PM	Approved	Q&A Session with Dr. Wilson	Internal Medicine Club	03/15/2023	04/12/2023	Dr. Gregory Wilson will be doing a virtual Q&A session open to all internal medicine club members. Dr. Wilson is a LECOM graduate who now works as a Rheumatologist with the Mount Nittany Physician Group. After his residency in internal medicine, Dr. Wilson waited several years before entering a fellowship in Rheumatology. Dr. Wilson is going to discuss with club members about his path through internal medicine, along with his decision to wait to do a fellowship. Attendees will be able to ask Dr. Wilson about the field of Rheumatology, fellowships, research, and more.
	March 16, 2023 at 11:37 PM	Approved	Community of Caring Donation Drive	Spanish Medical Club	03/16/2023	04/10/2023	What Is The Volunteer Event: The Medical Spanish Club has recently been in contact with the Community of Caring, which is a wonderful human services agency in Erie, PA, providing shelter and resources for people experiencing homelessness. The CoC is in constant need of everyday items that are provided for the residents at their emergency shelters. Thus, the Medical Spanish Club is hoping to sponsor a donation drive for our club members and other LECOM students to participate in to provide the CoC with a surplus of goods for those in need. When This Will Occur: We are looking to collect donation items throughout the week of April 10-14th. A collection box will be placed inside the security office during this 5-day time period for students to drop off their donation items are their convenience. Angelina Stone, the President of the MSC, will then plan to drop off the donated items to the CoC on that following Saturday, April 15th. Advertisement: An email will be sent out by Dr. Shabloski on behalf of the MSC to MS1s, MS2s, and faculty. The email will contain a short excerpt of the purpose of this donation drive, the drop off dates, and a google spreadsheet to sign up. The signup sheet will display the desired items to be donated to the CoC, and students and faculty will be able to put their name down for what they would be able to provide. We will be offering 0.5 volunteer hours per product, with a cap at 2 volunteer hours per student. Volunteers/Participants: The google document will then give the MSC a headcount on the total number of participants of this donation drive. On April 14th, the end of the collection period, the items donated will be counted by MSC cabinet members in order to confirm the amount donated correlates relative to the number of items expected per the signup sheet. COVID Mitigation Plan: Since all donation items will be collected in a box within the Security Office on LECOM property, all students donating must keep within LECOM’s current COVID guidelines. As of now, students donating are required to wear face masks. Additionally, when Angelina Stone, MSC President, donates the items to the CoC on April 15th, she will be required to wear a face mask in order to abide by the school’s COVID guidelines as well. Our Primary Contact at the CoC: If there are any questions or concerns, please feel free to reach out to the interim director of the CoC, Chris Tombaugh, at (814)-456-6661. Education Purpose: To build camaraderie and foster an altruistic spirit amongst our classmates, while becoming educated on the needs of our local community. We will be asking Dr. Shabloski to send out an email to MS1/MS2 and faculty, using the following message: (Sent on behalf of the Medical Spanish Club) Paging all students doctors, Medical Spanish Club is working with the Community of Caring to host a donation drive and provide an opportunity for students to earn volunteer hours! The Community of Caring is a wonderful human services agency located in Erie, PA, providing shelter and resources for people experiencing homelessness. Students are asked to donate everyday necessities including toiletry items, bedding, and clothing. You will earn 0.5 volunteer hours for every 1 item donated, with a maximum of 2 volunteer hours that can count towards SSP hours. A collection box will be placed in the security office for donation drop-offs beginning the morning of April 10th through April 14th at 5 PM. Please use the link below to sign up! On behalf of the CoC and MSC, we thank you for donating to such a great cause! https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/107nkw5mHmDf6eqAp3H7ACSLTLrX3Us66xQWENqnx_m8/edit Best wishes, LECOM Medical Spanish Club President: Angelina Stone Vice President: Ashleigh Bonanno Treasurer: Phillip Costa Secretary: Amulya Kulkarni Communication Chair: Joseph Traver Education Chair: Priya Bandyopadhyay We will also be sending out a GroupMe Chat Message to MS1s and MS2s, using the following message: Hey everyone! Medical Spanish Club is hosting a donation drive for the Community of Caring. Not only is it a great opportunity to donate items for people experiencing homelessness in Erie, but you can also earn volunteer hours! Please use the link below to sign up! A collection box will be placed for donation drop-offs in the security office from April 10th - April 14th. Sign-up link: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/107nkw5mHmDf6eqAp3H7ACSLTLrX3Us66xQWENqnx_m8/edit
	March 21, 2023 at 10:04 AM	Approved	Food Drive for Second Harvest Food Bank	SOMA	03/21/2023	05/08/2023	SOMA is putting together a food drive to support Second Harvest Food Bank. As the semester concludes, many students are packing up to move to rotation sites or cleaning out for the summer so we think this would be a great opportunity to support the local food bank! Students will be able to donate pantry and non-perishable items for volunteer hours for a maximum of 2 service hours (.5 hours for each item). This will be a contactless event and students will be able to drop off their items by the security office. This will allow students to follow COVID guidelines in place at that time. At the end of the week, items will be picked up by SOMA board members Mia Tornel and Shreeman Nimmagadda. This event will be advertised to the Class of 2025 and 2026. At the conclusion of the event, items will be delivered to Second Harvest Food Bank of Northwestern Pennsylvania.
	March 21, 2023 at 2:26 PM	Approved	Shahnaaz Sakkaria	Oncology Club	03/21/2023	03/30/2023	Pediatrics and Oncology Club will be presenting a guest speaker, Dr. Louis Rapkin in a virtual Q&A session on March 30 at 5 pm. He is a Pediatric Hematologist and Oncologist at UPMC Children's Hospital in Pittsburgh and will be discussing his path into medicine, application into residency and opportunities, daily routine as a physician working with children diagnosed with cancer, and advice for our fellow LECOM students. He has worked with our clubs for the last few years and has experience on what the LECOM students are interested in and have concerns/questions about regarding his lifestyle, work and home balance, and the struggles he faced during the COVID pandemic and how he adapted to those adverse changes.
	March 21, 2023 at 2:42 PM	Approved	Erie Cancer Wellness Donation Drive	Oncology Club	03/21/2023	04/03/2023	We are hosting a Donation Drive for the Erie Cancer Wellness Center from April 3-April 17. There is a list of items that the Wellness Center is currently in need of: unused scarves/hats, new earrings, plastic/metal wig stands, wig shampoo/conditioner, office supplies (pencils, markers, post-its), hand sanitizers, cancer related books for their library, anti-slip socks, and heating pads. Each item will be worth 0.5 volunteer hours, with a maximum of 2 volunteer hours possible for each student. I have emailed the Security Office asking for their approval to place boxes in the front for the students to place their items in. The Oncology Club will be picking up the donations daily at 5pm and will be placed in Shahnaaz Sakkaria's car. The donations will be dropped off on April 17th at 10 am to the Erie Cancer Wellness Center by Shahnaaz and two of the club members assisting her. We have also partnered with SSP with 2 volunteer hours counting towards that club as well.
	March 21, 2023 at 8:25 PM	Approved	Building a career in Psychiatry: An evening with Dr. Jafry, M.D.	Neuropsych Club	03/21/2023	04/24/2023	The NeuroPsych Club would like to host Dr. Asmat Jafry, M.D. for an hour of answering questions and sharing her experience as a board certified Psychiatrist. She did her medical school at Al-Ameen Medical College, residency at Austin State Hospital, and completed a Child and Adolescent fellowship from Northwestern University in Chicago, IL. With over 15 years of experience as a privately practicing physician she brings valuable insight for students interested in psychiatry in general and the ins and outs of running your own practice. During the event, Dr. Jafry will answer questions asked by students and provide her understanding on what we as students can see as the “light at the end of the tunnel”. Prior to the event we will open up a google document so students can pose questions for Dr. Jafry to answer. Also, as part of our COVID mitigation strategy we will be hosting the event over Zoom.
	March 22, 2023 at 1:17 PM	Approved	Special Lecture Event on the Mesolimbic Pathyway by Dr. Kulesza	SOMA	03/22/2023	04/24/2023	SOMA's Opioid Task Force Co-Director, Heather Chafe has arranged for Dr. Kulesza to give a special lecture event to the club as well as any other interested LECOM students! He will be giving a talk on the mesolimbic pathway via Zoom. The purpose of this lecture is to help students understand the widespread and important effects of opioids on the brain structure and function in greater detail than typically learned in class. Since the lecture will be held over zoom, students will be able to social distance and follow LECOM's COVID guidelines at that time.
	March 22, 2023 at 3:11 PM	Approved	A "Convo" about Convocation	SAAO	03/22/2023	04/12/2023	SAAO is planning on hosting an event with the students and faculty who attended this year's American Academy of Osteopathy convocation in Colorado Springs, CO. This event will be an opportunity for the students who attended convocation to practice their newly learned OMT skills and also provide students a setting to ask questions about convocation. The goal is that after this evening interest will be built among the members of SAAO to plan to attend convocation in the Spring of 2023. The event will be on April 12th at 5 pm in the OPP lab.
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