NEWS and UPDATES

LMSA Southeast Elections:  Congratulations to all newly elected officers!  We have 2 available positions on the Executive Board: VP of Fundraising and Regional Conference Co-Chair. Nominations will be accepted until March 15th, 2010. Please submit all nominations to ahernan1@health.usf.edu.  CLICK HERE for more detials.

LMSA Southeast Conference 2010 (Feb 5-6, 2010): Our regional conference was a great success!  We would like to send a special thank you to the LMSA-SE FSU chapter (Assoc. of Latino Medical Students), Florida State University School of Medicine, and all of the speakers and participants.  CLICK for more details.

A Unified Name – A New Era: On March 22, 2009, the executive board of NNLAMS approved the National Name Change Proposal with the goal to move the network to the next phase of unification. The proposal involved changing the NNLAMS national and regional names to LMSA. On March 27, 2009 the LMSA legislative body approved the national name change proposal thus releasing the LMSA name for the five regions and national core to use. Additionally, the new national logo will be LMSA’s present logo. On July 1, 2009, the national name change will go into effect in the following regions: West, Midwest, Southwest, Southeast. The Northeast region of the network, NBLHO, will have a House of Delegates meeting soon to vote on this issue formally as a reigon. For more details email: lmsa.southeast@gmail.com

Summer Research Training Opportunities: Numerous programs are available to medical and graduate students interested in research opportunities at NIH (NIDA, NCI, NIAMS, NICHD, NHGRI , NINDS). If interested in the opportunity to participate in an NIH intramural programs and receive a travel award of more than $8,000 CLICK HERE.