33 inducted into Alpha Omega Alpha Honor Medical Society

AOA Honor Medical Society inductees

The Alpha Omega Alpha (AOA) Honor Medical Society recently announced its newest elected members for the Class of 2026 and 2027, including 33 representatives from the University of Missouri School of Medicine.

Mizzou’s AOA Gamma Chapter is counseled by Nathan Beucke, MD, associate dean for Student Affairs, and Shawn Owens, MPA, chapter administrator.

Election to AOA is an honor signifying a lasting commitment to professionalism, leadership, scholarship, research and community service. A lifelong honor, membership in the society confers recognition for a physician’s dedication to the profession and art of healing.

Congratulations to the following Mizzou medical students on their induction into the prestigious society:

Medical Students (Class of 2026)

  • Laith Almashharawi
  • Elizabeth Creemer
  • Alexis DeTienne
  • Timothy Dillinger
  • Ransome Drexler
  • Carson Gates
  • Molly Gunter
  • Travis Jackson
  • Taylor LaValle
  • Anne Marker
  • Katina Massad
  • Kate McGough
  • Nisha Naseer
  • Kaylie Nichols
  • Samuel Nofsinger
  • Bailey Patrick
  • Sean Pirrone
  • Benjamin Rael
  • Sabrina Ryan
  • Justin Shanklin
  • Connor Sierra
  • Anna Vaclavek
  • Kostandin Valle
  • Zach Williard
  • Kerem Yucebas

Medical Students (Class of 2027)

  • Madelyn Bogler
  • Daniel Cho
  • Yijin Huang
  • Sooah Ko
  • Rishi Kondapaneni
  • Sadie Spratt
  • Anna Sullentrup
  • Sami Liljedahl

The 2026 AOA scholarship recipients are Elizabeth Cremer and Carson Gates. Cremer will complete her residency at University of Michigan Health in the Department of Child Neurology. Gates will complete her residency at the Baylor College of Medicine in the Department of Otolaryngology – Head and Neck Surgery.

The Alpha Omega Alpha Honor Medical Society was founded in 1902 by medical student William Root and colleagues, at the Chicago College of Physician and Surgeons (later named the College of Medicine of the University of Illinois).

Today, AOA has 139 Chapters in medical schools across the country and more than 200,000 members, including 55 Nobel Prize winners in physiology, medicine and chemistry, and more than 75 percent of medical school deans. More than 4,000 students, residents/fellows, faculty and alumni are elected nationally each year.

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