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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

Sterling, VA—Deborah Vozzella Hall, fourth-year medical student at the University of Connecticut School of Medicine, will begin serving her term as National President of the AMSA(Â鶹ԭ´´) on May 1, 2015. Hall will work full-time at Â鶹ԭ´´â€™s national office in Sterling, Virginia, where she will chair the Board of Trustees, represent more than 40,000 physicians-in-training, maintain alliances with other organizations and visit AMSAchapters across the country. She previously held the Board of Trustees positions of President-Elect, Vice President for Internal Affairs and National Secretary.

At the recent AMSAAnnual Convention, Kelly Thibert, a third-year at Nova Southeastern University College of Osteopathic Medicine, was elected President-Elect. She will serve for one year before becoming National President in May 2016. Thibert is currently Â鶹ԭ´´â€™s Vice President for Internal Affairs and has previously served as National Secretary.The members of the 2015-2016 AMSABoard of Trustees, including those elected at Â鶹ԭ´´â€™s Annual Convention last month:

• President: Deborah Vozzella Hall, University of Connecticut School of Medicine
• President-Elect: Kelly Thibert, Nova Southeastern University College of Osteopathic Medicine
• Vice President for Internal Affairs: Joshua Weinstock, Cooper Medical School of Rowan University
• Vice President for Membership: Rinku Skaria, University of Arizona College of Medicine–Tucson
• Vice President of Program Development: Perry Tsai, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
• Vice President of Leadership Development: Rita Kuwahara, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill School of Medicine
• Secretary: Fludiona Naka, University of Connecticut School of Medicine
• Graduate Trustee: Aliye Runyan, M.D.
• International Trustee: Michael Sparks, Ross University School of Medicine
• Premedical Trustee: Stefanie Smith, University of Missouri
• Immediate Past President: Britani Kessler, D.O.
• The New Physician Student Editor: Joseph Johnson, Lincoln Memorial University DeBusk College of Osteopathic Medicine
• Ex-officio member: Joshua Caulfield, IOM, AMSAExecutive Director

For images of the newly elected members of the AMSABoard of Trustees at the AMSAAnnual Convention, contact Pete Thomson at pr@amsa.org.