Catalina Soto, OMS II

(Athens, OH) – Catalina Soto, OMS II, won first place in the AOA’s Bureau on International Osteopathic Medical Education and Affairs (BIOMEA) 10th Annual International Seminar, “American Osteopathic Medicine: Establishing International Freedom.”

Funding from the CORE Research Office aided Soto, a second year student at the Ohio University College of Osteopathic Medicine.

Two other OU-COM students, Kimberly Jackson, OMS III, and Amy Zidron, Ph.D., OMS III, took second and third places respectively. Both Jackson and Zidron began their third year clinical rotations at CORE-affiliated O’Bleness Memorial Hospital in Athens this fall. All three students made 20-minute presentations to BIOMEA attendees at this year’s AOA Convention n Oct. 26 in Las Vegas.

Soto’s first-place project, “Prevalence of lead poisoning and lead-induced anemia among children from Soyapango, San Salvador,” developed out of her interest in international medicine. A native of Columbia, Soto said the project was a way to serve a Latino population. “I definitely have a deep connection to my roots and had always wanted to give back to my people,” she said. Read more...