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Hardworking Student Foursome Honored with Burnell Research Awards
Four NSU College of Osteopathic Medicine (COM) students ― third-year student and predoctoral research fellow Jaclynn Moskow and first-year students Sharien Amarnani, Louis Michaelos, and Eric Pitts — were named the winners of the Dr. Kenneth Burnell Student Research Awards. The awards are presented to NSU medical students who conduct outstanding research in either clinical medicine or biomedical science. Each student received a $500 cash award as well as elective research credit on their transcripts.
(L-R) Harvey Mayrowitz, Ph.D., professor of physiology in the College of Medical Sciences; first-year COM medical students Eric Pitts, Louis Michaelos, and Sharien Amarnani; third-year medical student Jaclynn Moskow; and Leonard Levy, D.P.M., M.P.H., NSU-COM professor of family medicine/public health and associate dean of education, planning, and research
Moskow was honored for her research project entitled “The Relationship Between Motor Function, Endocrine Function, Inflammation, Mood, and Cognition in the Geriatric Population,” while the triumvirate of Amarnani, Michaelos, and Pitts were recognized for their project entitled “Local Tissue Water Variations Among Different Races Measured via Tissue Dielectric Constant.” Raymond Ownby, M.D., Ph.D., M.Ed., M.B.A., chair of COM’s Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Medicine, served as the research faculty adviser to Moskow; and Harvey Mayrowitz, Ph.D., professor of physiology in the College of Medical Sciences, served as the research faculty adviser to Amarnani, Michaelos, and Pitts.
The award was created in December 2000 when Burnell provided a $50,000 endowment to the college for the purpose of recognizing student research. Following his death in 2005, Burnell’s will included a proviso that upped the endowment to $125,000.