The Students Have Spoken: New Leaders Announced

Outgoing Student Government Association officers were on hand at the event to honor those newly elected for 2012-2013.

Outgoing Student Government Association officers were on hand at the event to honor those newly elected for 2012-2013.

The Student Government Association recently hosted its awards and annual installation banquet honoring its newly elected officers, outstanding faculty, students and graduating seniors.

Elected officers 2012-2013 include:

  • President: Jason Chandrapal, a first-year medical student from Houston. Chandrapal will begin his second year next semester.
  • Vice President of Communications: Dalan Gore, a senior in Speech, Language & Hearing Sciences, who will begin his master’s in the speech language pathology this summer. He is from Tulia.
  • Vice President of Operations: Steven McDonald, currently a first-year student in the Doctor of Physical Therapy program and will begin his second year next semester. He is from Lubbock.
  • Vice President of Finance: Jonathan R. Ford, currently a second-year medical student. He will begin his third year next semester. He is returning for a second term as vice president of finance and is from Bellville.
RaiderThon was named outstanding organization of the year.

RaiderThon was named outstanding organization of the year.

Awards presented included:

  • Outstanding organization of the year: RaiderThon
  • Outstanding Student Government Association committee of the year: Community Service, Chairperson Dalan Gore
  • Outstanding senator of the year: Nikki Sandt
  • Outstanding faculty School of Allied Health Sciences: Michael Taylor, MPAS, PA-C; Melinda Corwin, Ph.D., CCC-SLP; Stephen Zupancic, Au.D., Ph.D.; Timothy Pendergrass, MPT, PT; Sherry Sancibrian, M.S., CCC-SLP; Katie Bennett, Ph.D., MP (ASCP); Nick Coppola, MSA, MHA.; John P. Jackson, OTR, Ed.D.; Troy L. Hooper, MPT, ATC; Lynn Hamilton, Ph.D., MT (ASCP); Michael Keller, BS, BSN; and Melinda Corwin, Ph.D., CCC-SLP
  • Outstanding faculty Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences: Luis Cuello, Ph.D.
  • Outstanding faculty School of Medicine: Michael Phy, D.O.; Dennis Dove, M.D., FACS; Christopher G. MacGuire, D.O., FACOG; Jane A. Colmer-Hamood, Ph.D.; James Hutston, Ph.D.; and Robert Kirk Baston, M.D.
  • Outstanding faculty School of Nursing: LaMicha Hogan, R.N., MSN; Linda Brice, R.N., Ph.D.; Lori Johnson, MSN, R.N.; Laura Gorby, MSN, R.N.; and Azucena Ortega-Mandani, R.N. MPH
  • Outstanding faculty School of Pharmacy: Nikita Mirajkar, Ph.D., and Craig Cox, Pharm.D., BCPS
  • The Texas Medical Association Lubbock Chapter was also recognized as the section chapter of the year.

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