Upcoming Events
September 26th (Friday): Las Vegas Rescue Mission soup kitchen dinner service.
October 4th (Saturday): Diabetes Fest at Desert Springs Hospital. Students will be taking blood pressures and helping doctors and nurses with vascular exams.
October 5th (Sunday): ACOFP will be selling white coat embroidery at the DO12 White Coat Ceremony. Cost is $15; please see the “Activities” portion of the ACOFP page on TUN Live for details and a picture.
October 25th (Saturday): National Osteopathic Medical Association (NOMA) health screening at the Las Vegas Rescue Mission. Students will be taking blood pressures for the homeless community and getting to know other students from DO schools across the U.S.
October 26th (Sunday): Student mixer for the Fall AOA/ACOFP/SOMA convention. Come and meet other DO students from across the nation at Tao Lounge at the Venetian! Lots of people will be coming to the convention since it’s Vegas, so it’s a great time to make new friends and blow off a little steam before blocks. Time TBD.
October 26th through October 30th: Fall AOA/ACOFP convention at the Palazzo and Sands Convention Center. Volunteers will be showing physicians around the property and mingling at the exhibitor fair.
November 17th through November 21st: Canned Food Drive War!! Bring canned goods all week and let’s see which DO class can collect the most product to help needy families! Class honor is at stake, and a trophy will be awarded to the winning class.
November 20th (Thursday): Join us in Lecture Hall 2 at lunch for food and a special guest, Ronnie Martin, DO, the National ACOFP president and dean of Rocky Vista University College of Osteopathic Medicine in Colorado. If you bring a canned good to the meeting, you will receive a special prize!!
December 3rd (Wednesday): Join ACOFP and the UAAO in welcoming Shawn Centers, DO, from San Diego! Dr. Centers is a pediatrician and the clinical director at the Osteopathic Center for Children and Families, and he will be speaking on "Mind, Matter, And Motion: The Osteopathic Approach to Children With Autism Spectrum Disorder." This will be an exciting lecture, so be sure to put this on your agenda! Lunch will be served. There will also be an evening Osteopathic Demonstration session in the OMM lab, so you don’t want to miss out!
March 4-9: National ACOFP Convention/Exhibition in Washington D.C.
All members are invited to attend the annual ACOFP convention, which is being held at the Gaylord National Resort & Convention Center, which is located on the waterfront of the Potomac river. You will be able to register for the convention on http://www.acofp.org/education/DC_09/default.aspx. You can check out the hotel and convention center at http://www.gaylordhotels.com/gaylord-national/.
The ACOFP and SOMA Spring conventions coincide and are both in Washington D.C., so we will be working together to accommodate students. We can have an amazing and influential presence at both conventions in 2009!!
