Congratulations to the newly elected fourth year members of Alpha Omega Alpha Honor Medical Society listed below. They were elected in August 2022:
Molly Aldred | Hunter McSpedden |
Lauren Beal | Martin Osorio Nader |
Beau Bequeaith | Trishna Parikh |
Rachel Bergeson | Allison Petronzio |
John Biebighauser | Elizabeth Popp |
Jessi Cai | Pooja Prasad |
Zachary Cerra | Aishwarya Rao |
Courtney Cleary | Morgan Rousseau |
Chloe Denham | Michael Sehlinger |
Mariya Fatakdawala | Robert Sickler |
Parnia Forouzan | Callie Simon |
Morgan Gable | Carly Stender |
Stephanie Green | Hannah Story |
K. Bates Gribbons | Jacob Su |
Andrew Horvit | Tate Truly |
Karen Huang | Stephanie Valek |
Michael Huang | Emma Villamaria |
Andrew Huddleston | Nancy Wareing |
Harmanpreet Kaur | Amy Weinberg |
Alexis Kennedy | Olivia Weiner |
Mena Kozman | Alex Wilkinson |
Christopher Latour | Laura Winikka |
Stephanie Lee | Evan Wotipka |
Resa Magill | Jingyan Yue |
David McClendon | Melody Ziari |
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Alpha Omega Alpha Honor Medical Society is the national honorary society for medical schools in the U.S. All but a very few accredited U.S. medical schools have an AOA chapter. The UT-Houston chapter is Delta of Texas.
The national criteria specify that a maximum of one-sixth of a graduating class can be elected and all candidates must be in the top quartile. The primary criterion is academic excellence, which is defined by our chapter as the number of Honors grades received through the third year. Honors grades are assigned points based on the length or weight of the course, and there are minimum numbers of Honors grades/points for both the first two years and the third year. However, character and professionalism are important, and research, community service, and extracurricular activities are also considered.
Members are elected at the end of the third year and/or beginning of the fourth year and are formally inducted at a banquet in early March.