Community Action Day: Deepening Community Bonds and Fostering Future Health Care Leaders
American University of the Caribbean (AUC)’s long-standing Community Action Day is a celebration of service, learning, and community collaboration.
In an effort to spread awareness and learn more about this disease, we sought the wisdom and advice of AUC grad Valerie Garden, MD ’89, an ophthalmologist and oculoplastic surgeon in Santa Rosa, California. We also sought her thoughts on National Women Physicians Day, which takes place February 3.
On the heels of Alzheimer's Awareness Month in November, we interviewed Izabella Shuvayev, MD ’13, a geriatric psychiatrist who specializes in Alzheimer's disease, dementia, and other cognitive and neurodegenerative disorders.
On December 1, World AIDS Day kicks off AIDS Awareness Month, a time to bring attention to this deadly disease, honor those who have been lost to it, and work to end the related stigmas. Acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS) is an advanced stage of human immunodeficiency virus (HIV), an infection that attacks the body’s immune system.
Dr. Christine Armstrong is an obstetrician-gynecologist in Connecticut. Dr. Shanique Ampiah is a pediatric psychiatrist in Florida. Different specialties. Different locations. Both share common ground when it comes to the mental health of moms.
At FemCare OB-GYN, an obstetrics and gynecology practice in Miami, a 29-year-old woman who recently arrived from Nicaragua was seeking help for severe abdominal pain. She had been suffering with it for months. She was desperate, distraught, and crying as she struggled in Spanish to voice her symptoms.
There are many reasons Shakira Rivera shouldn’t be where she is today. But the second-year medical student at American University of the Caribbean School of Medicine (AUC) refused to succumb to the obstacles she faced and is now well on her way to achieving her dream of becoming a doctor.
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