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Congratulations to the Joel Byne, Manuela Gaviria, and Dustin Latimer for receiving the P.H. Jones, MD Scholarship for 2020!
One student from each medical school was selected and awarded an annual scholarship of $4,000. The selection process was conducted by LSMS's Educational and Research Foundation Board. Awardees were selected and notified in December and will be recognized at the LSMS Annual Meeting on January 24, 2020 at the Baton Rouge Marriott. The Philip H. Jones, M.D. Memorial Scholarship Fund honors an extremely influential member of Louisiana's physician community. Philip Harold Jones was born in Jackson, Louisiana in 1896. At an early age he moved with his family to Lutcher and then Baton Rouge. He was the grandson of Dr. John Welsch Jones who graduated from Tulane University School of Medicine in 1852. His father, Dr. Philip Huff Jones, had graduated from Tulane University School of Medicine in 1878. At the time of his death in 1970, Dr. Jones left a portion of his estate to the Louisiana State Medical Society's Educational and Research Foundation. A portion of these funds are invested to provide scholarships to medical students. These scholarships have provided invaluable assistance to students at the state's three medical schools: Louisiana State University's School of Medicine - New Orleans, Louisiana State University School of Medicine - Shreveport, and Tulane University School of Medicine.
JOEL BYRNE LSU SCHOOL OF MEDICINE NEW ORLEANS
Joel Byrne is a fourth year medical student at LSU School of Medicine in New Orleans. He grew up on his family’s farm in the rural community of Elton, Louisiana. He is pursuing a career in dermatology and will be the first physician in his family.
MANUELA GAVIRIA TULANE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE
Manuela Gaviria was born and raised in Colombia and first came to the U.S when she was 12. She graduated from Lusher Charter High School as valedictorian and has since received a bachelor's and master's degree in Neuroscience from Tulane University. Currently, she is a second year student at Tulane University School of Medicine pursuing a M.D-M.S dual degree. Manuela is in the USAF Health Professions Scholarship Program. She has always demonstrated determination in working and caring for others. Aside from her desire to serve as a military physician, she continuously looks for ways to help the underserved. She is a student leader at Luke's House, a free clinic serving those who are not eligible for public insurance; namely, immigrants. She is also the president for Tulane's Latin American Medical Student Association who's mission is to represent, support, educate, and unify Latinomedical students, and those supportive of such community in order to better serve this particular patient population. Manuela aspires to pursue a surgical specialty and strives to continue developing creative strategies that remove existing barriers to care in the local community.
DUSTIN LATIMER LSU SCHOOL OF MEDICINE SHREVEPORT
Dustin Latimer grew up in Denham Springs, LA where I graduated from Denham Springs High School and began attending LSU in 2011. He majored in biological sciences but had a vested interest in teaching organic chemistry as a supplemental instructor for 2 years. After graduating from LSU, he began medical school at LSUHSC-Shreveport in 2016. During his third year of medical school, I fell in love with psychiatry as a field, the patient population, and discovered the need for more mental health professionals within Louisiana’s healthcare system. His career interests involve the integration and normalization of mental health care in the primary care setting. He firmly believes that psychotherapy can be utilized as a means of preventative medicine for some of the most common disease processes affecting Louisiana’s population. Outside of medicine, Dustin enjoys filmmaking, exercising, spending time with his wife and golden retriever, and watching the LSU Tigers.
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