Registered Student Organizations 2009 - 2010
- Student Government Association
- Allergy Interest Group
- American Medical Association
- American Medical Student Association (AMSA)
- American Medical Women's Association
- American Student Dental Association (ASDA)
- Anesthesiology Interest Group
- Baha'i Student Association
- Business of Medicine
- Chi Eta Phi Sorority, Inc.
- Clinical Nurse Leader Student Organization
- Community Education Outreach
- Dermatology Interest Group
- Emergency Medicine Interest Group
- Family Medicine Interest Group
- Give a Smile Foundation
- Graduate Student Organization (GSO)
- Internal Medicine Interest Group
- Junior Medical League
- MCG Asian Pacific American Medical Student Association (MCG-APAMSA)
- MCG Chorus
- MCG Dental Fellowship
- MCG Miracle Marathon
- MCG Student Ambassadors
- Medical Campus Outreach
- Medical Student Auxiliary
- Neurology Student Interest Group
- OB/GYN Interest Group
- Orthopedic Surgery Interest Group
- Pathology Interest Group
- Pediatric Interest Group
- Plastic Surgery Interest Group
- Project MCG H.O.S.P.I.T.A.L
- Psychiatry Student Interest Group
- Radiology Interest Group
- Reproductive Health Interest Group
- Serving All Healthcare Needs Of Hispanics (SAHNOH)
- Sight Savers / Opthamology Interest Group
- Student National Dental Association
- Student National Medical Association (SNMA)
- Student Occupational Therapy Association (SOTA)
- Students for Intercultural Medicine (SIM)
- Surgery Interest Group
- Wilderness Medical Society Student Interest Group
Student Government Association 
The SGA was formed in 1967 to unify and better serve the MCG student body. This governmental body has initial authority to administer student activity fees within the general guidelines for the use of state funds. The association consists of elected representatives from each of the schools and departments of the university. The SGA Constitution is printed in Appendix A of this handbook.
The SGA sponsors intramural athletic programs and funds, promotes social and entertainment events and provides feedback regarding student health, student housing, parking and other student services. Hence, the SGA is responsible for many of the benefits and privileges each MCG student enjoys.
Most importantly, the SGA serves as a primary link between students, administration and faculty. In fact, through the years much progress has been brought about through meaningful discussion with MCG faculty and administrators.
Meetings are held almost monthly during the regular academic year and are open to all students. Meeting times are posted around campus and may be obtained by calling the SGA Office at (706) 721-3357.
Contact: Dawnyetta Marable, M.D., President/ dmarablemd@students.mcg.edu
Advisor: Thomas Fitts – 1-3357 / email
Allergy Interest Group
The purpose of the Allergy Interest Group is to increase awareness of the various aspects in this field of practice, and to educate future physicians on the opportunities available in the practice of medicine.
Contact: Anjali Shroff / ashroff@students.mcg.edu
Advisor: Bill Dolen / bdolen@mcg.edu
American Medical Association
The AMA-MSS is dedicated to representing medical students, improving medical education, developing leadership, and promoting activism for the health of America.
Constitution
Contact: Paul Mayor / pmayor@students.mcg.edu
Advisor: Dr. Kathleen McKie / kmckie@mcg.edu
American Medical Student Association
The purpose of the American Medical Student Association (AMSA) is to provide an environment that supports the creative ideas of physicians-in-training, to serve as a forum for discussion of health issues, and to increase knowledge of health information among members and the general public.
Contact: Julia Samaddar / jsamaddar@students.mcg.edu
Advisor: Dr. Linda Boyd / lboyd@mail.mcg.edu
American Medical Women's Assocation
The purpose of the American Medical Women's Association is to bring together women medical students and physicians; to promote their education and training; to educate them and the public on health issues of women; to encourage women to study and practice medicine; to ensure them equal opportunity to do so; to cooperate with other organizations having comparable interests; and to support medical relief services.
Constitution
Contact: Jessica Lee / jeslee@students.mcg.edu
Advisor: Dr. Jill Miller / jmiller@mail.mcg.edu
American Student Dental Association (ASDA)
The purpose of the American Student Dental Association is to represent Georgia dental students at the state and national level.
Constitution
Contact: Chris Deleon / chdeleon@students.mcg.edu
Advisor: Dr. Carole Hanes / chanes@mcg.edu
Anesthesiology Interest Group
The purpose of the Anesthesiology Interest Group is to enhance medical students' understanding of anesthesiology and its subspecialties by providing information regarding residency, research opportunities and the role of the physician in this field.
Contact: Mitchell Donner/ mdonner@students.mcg.edu
Advisor: Dr. Alvin Head / ahead@mcg.edu
Baha'i Student Association
The purpose of the Baha'i Student Association is to invite those interested to investigate the Baha'i faith for themselves; to promote unity of mankind; and to foster love and understanding through discussions, informal gatherings and prayers.
Contact: Philip Neiheisel / pneiheisel@students.mcg.edu
Advisor: Dr. William Pihllips / wphillip@mcg.edu
The Business of Medicine
The purpose of The Business of Medicine is to educate future and current healthcare professionals about pertinent business practices and procedures as related to healthcare.
Contact: Lee Sharpe / msharpe@students.mcg.edu
Advisor: Richard Pawl, MD, JD / rpawl1@mcg.edu
Chi Eta Phi Sorority, Inc.
Phi Chi Beta Chapter
The purpose of the Chi Eta Phi Sorority, Inc. is to provide service for humanity, elevate the plane of nursing, and to increase interest in the nursing profession.
Contact: Ellainna Roberson / eroberson@students.mcg.edu
Advisor: Lovoria Williams /lwilliams@students.mcg.edu
Clinical Nurse Leader Student Organization
The purpose of the Clinical Nurse Leader Student Organization is to work for the betterment of the MCG SON and SSG by representing the Clinical Nurse Leader Program.
Contact: Sarah Gleason / sagleason@students.mcg.edu
Advisor: Margaret Tuck / mtuck@mcg.edu
Community Education Outreach
The purpose of Community Education Outreach is to promote, organize and recognize service efforts by students, faculty, and staff of MCG through the act of tutoring students K-12 around the Augusta area.
Contact: Sara Dyer / sdyer@students.mcg.edu
Advisor: Dr. Kevin Frazier / kfrazier@mcg.edu
Dermatology Interest Group
The purpose of the Dermatology Interest Group is to enhance medical students understanding of dermatology and its subspecialities, providing information regarding residency, diseases and research in the field.
Contact: George Issa and Chukwuemeka Ezeoke/ gissa@students.mcg.edu and chezeoke@students.mcg.edu
Advisor: Dr. Daniel Sheehan / dsheehan@mcg.edu
Emergency Medicine Interest Group
The purpose of the Emergency Medicine Interest Group is to provide information and support to students with an interest in the specialty of emergency medicine.
Contact: Frank Tift / ftift@students.mcg.edu
Advisor: Dr. Hartmut Gross / hgross@mcg.edu
Family Medicine Interest Group
The purpose of the Family Medicine Interest Group is to promote and foster interest in family medicine.
Contact: Michael Vaughan / mvaughan@students.mcg.edu
Advisor: Dr. George A. Nixon / gnixon@mail.mcg.edu
Give a Smile
Give a Smile provides funds to dental school patients who have demonstrated a need for funding of dental treatment.
Contact: Leigh Ann Trotter / ltrotter@students.mcg.edu
Advisor: Carole Hanes/ chanes@mcg.edu
Graduate Student Organization (GSO)
The purpose of the Graduate Student Organization is to support academic and non-academic affairs of the graduate students at MCG. Promote an atmosphere of fellowship and social support among its members while interacting with other institutions, organizations and the community.
Contact: Moataz Elkasrawy / melkasrawy@students.mcg.edu
Advisor: Dr. Gretchen Caughman / ccaughman@mcg.edu
Internal Medicine Interest Group
The purpose of the Internal Medicine Interest Group is to promote student interest in internal medicine by providing informative, interesting, and entertaining meetings and activities.
Contact: Farah Mahbub / fmahbub@students.mcg.edu
Advisor: Dr. Pamela Fall / pfall@mcg.edu and Dr. Matthew Diamond / mdiamond@mcg.edu
Junior Medical League
The purpose of the Junior Medical League is to expose students of all backgrounds to all kinds of careers in the medical/health field. The organization is open to all MCG students who will be responsible for mentoring students, conducting module lessons in order to educate and inform middle and high school students on different scientific topics.
Contact: Lee Sharpe / msharpe@students.mcg.edu
Advisor: Wilma Sykes-Brown / wsykes@mcg.edu
MCG Asian Pacific American Medical Student Association (MCG-APAMSA)
The purpose of the MCG-APAMSA is:
-to promote the dissemination of information relative to Asian Pacific American issues in the field of medical education;
-to explore and possibly resolve the unique challenges, obstacles, and resonsibilities specific to Asian Pacific American medical students and physicians;
-to provide opportunities for Asian Pacific American medical students to give back to their community(ies) through service
-to represent Asian Pacific Americans as a group within the healthcare community at MCG
-to be a resource for information on matters related to Asian Pacific Americans
-to provide a forum for discussion of issues concerning Asian Pacific Americans in health care
-to provide a link between students and faculty of Asian Pacific American background.
Contact: Tiffany Chang / tichang@students.mcg.edu
Advisor: Dr. Mallinga Ganapathy / mganapat@mail.mcg.edu
MCG Chorus
The purpose of the MCG Chorus is to promote healing by providing patients with music, at the CMC, MCG, VA hospitals, reduce chorus member's own stress, provides a bonding opportunity among students, faculty, and staff at MCG, provides music to Augusta and MCG community.
Constitution and Bylaws
Contact: Sarah Ellen Stephens / sstephens@students.mcg.edu
Advisor: Dr. Kevin Frazier/ kfrazier@mcg.edu
MCG Dental Fellowship
The purpose of the MGC Dental Fellowship is to meet to encourage Christian students, staff and faculty in their faith walk, and be open to other persons interested in the Christian faith.
Constitution and Bylaws
Contact: Alaina Pancio/ apancio@students.mcg.edu
Advisor: Dr. Van B. Haywood / vhaywood@mail.mcg.edu
MCG Miracle Marathon
The purpose of the MGC Miracle Marathon is to raise money for the MCG Health's Children's Medical Center.
Constitution and Bylaws
Contact: Elise Emrath / eemrath@students.mcg.edu
Advisor: Connie Guinn/ cguinn@mcg.edu
MCG Student Ambassadors
The purpose of the MCG Student Ambassadors is to positively promote academics and student life at MCG to prospective students and their families.
MCG Student Ambassador Application 2009-2010
Constitution
Contact: Bethany Loushine/ bloushine@students.mcg.edu
Advisor: Shatareia Stokes / sstokes@mcg.edu
Medical Campus Outreach
Medical Campus Outreach is an interdenominational ministry on campus that helps students grow in their knowledge of God and develop character and leadership skills through campus meetings, retreats, Bible studies, conferences and international medical projects.
Contact: Barrett Jones / chrjones@students.mcg.edu
Advisor: Tim Varghese / tvarghese@mcg.edu
Medical Student Auxiliary
Medical Student Auxiliary is a service and support group for spouses of medical students.
Contact: Rob Egbert/ regbert@students.mcg.edu
Advisor: Dr. Geoffrey Young / geyoung@mcg.edu
Neurology Student Interest Group
The purpose of the Neurology Student Interest Group is to increase medical student awareness and interest in the fields of neuroscience and clinical neurology.
Contact: Lucian Marts / lmarts@students.mcg.edu
Advisor: Dr. J. Ned Pruitt / jpruitt@mcg.edu
OB/GYN Interest Group
The purpose of the OB/GYN Interest Group is to facilitate interdisciplinary interaction among students and faculty expressing interests in issues relating to women's health and OB/GYN.
Contact: Nerlyne Dhariwal / ndhariwal@students.mcg.edu
Advisor: Dr. Erin Holsten / eholsten@mail.mcg.edu
Orthopedic Surgery Interest Group
The purpose of the Orthopedic Surgery Interest Group is to creat environments facilitating the expansion of studnet knowledge and understanding of the field of orthopedics.
Contact: Justin Cowart / scowart@students.mcg.edu
Advisor: Dr. Monte Hunter / mohunter@mail.mcg.edu
Pathology Interest Group
The purpose of the Pathology Interest Group is to enhance the knowledge and interest of students in the field of pathology. To encourage students interest in the research and other academic endeavors in pathology.
Contact: Chukwuemeka Ezeoke / chezeoke@students.mcg.edu
Advisor: Paul Biddinger, M.D. / pbiddinger@mcg.edu
Pediatric Interest Group
The purpose of the Pediatric Interest Group is to aid medical students in their exploration inot the field of pediatrics by: introducing students to pediatrics as a specialty, recruiting physicians and specialists to share information about their careers and to provide advice to those students interrested in entering the field by hosting residency panel.
Constitution
Contact: Stacy Cohen/ stcohen@students.mcg.edu
Advisor: Susan Goldberg, M.D./ sgoldberg@mcg.edu
Plastic Surgery Interest Group
The purpose of the plastic surgery interest group is to expose medical students to the surgical subspeciality of plastic surgery (and reconstructive surgery) through direct contact with surgeons, residents, and 4th year medical students.
Constitution
Contact: Rachel Mathis / rmathis@students.mcg.edu
Advisor: Jack Yu, M.D. / jyu@mcg.edu
Project MCG H.O.S.P.I.T.A.L.
The purpose of Project MCG H.O.S.P.I.T.A.L. is to increase health literacy in Augusta with an emphasis on the underprivileged.
Contact: James Bota/ jbota@students.mcg.edu
Advisor: Andy Albritton / talbritt@mail.mcg.edu
Psychiatry Student Interest Group
The purpose of the MCG Psychiatry Student Interest Group is to increase students understanding and exposure to the field of psychiatry. At each meeting, a psychiatrist is invited to facilitate a discussion on a particular topic or speciality. The meetings are very interactive and are mostly Q&A sessions, not the typical lecture format. This group also encourages and allows interested students to shadow psychiatrists. It also promotes the discourse for psychiatric education in the medical school community and for advocacy and justice in mental health as an integral part of health overall. The meetings are open to all medical students.
Constitution
Contact: Kelly Eaton/ keeaton@students.mcg.edu
Advisor: Adriana Foster, MD / afoster@mail.mcg.edu
Radiology Interest Group
The purpose of the radiology interest group is to generate interest in and provide information about radiology to first-and-second year medical students.
Constitution
Contact: Robert Carter/ rocarter@students.mcg.edu
Advisor: James Corley / jcorley@mail.mcg.edu
Reproductive Health Interest Group
The purpose of the Reproductive Health Interest Group is to ensure that MCG-SOM students, as future physicians, are able to educate patients on the full range of reproductive health care (RHC) options by working to develop a comprehensive RHC curriculum through collaboration with faculty and administration as well as group-sponsored educational events. Our goal is that students be knowledgeable, sensitive, and accepting of their future patients' RHC needs and choices.
Constitution
Contact: Nikole Metcalf / nmetcalf@students.mcg.edu
Advisor: Jennifer Tucker/ jetucker@mail.mcg.edu
Serving All HealthCare Needs Of Hispania (SAHNOH)
The purpose of SAHNOH is to serve, unite, and educate the Hispanic community locally and internationally as it applies to healthcare, to learn Spanish and Hispanic culture as they apply to a clinical setting, to plan and execute a variety of social, cultural, and intellectual events for the personal growth and enjoyment of all.
Contact: Amy Myers / ammyers@students.mcg.edu
Advisor: Martha Brackett / mbrackett@mail.mcg.edu
Sight Savers / Opthamology Interest Group
The Sight Savers/Opthamology Interest Group shall support the interest in the opthalmology specialty of medicine and residency programs. Additionally it should serve the local community by performing free monthly glaucoma screenings.
Constitution
Contact: Albert d'Heurle/ adheurle@students.mcg.edu
Advisor: Dr. Pankaj Gupta/ pgupta@mcg.edu
Student National Dental Association
The purpose of the organization is to promote and encourage an increase in minority enrollment in all dental schools, to be committed to the improvement of delivery of dental health to all people with emphasis on minorities and/or those underserved, to contribute to the welfare of dental students.
Constitution
Contact: Shaunta Jones / shaujones@students.mcg.edu
Advisor: Dr. Carole Hanes / chanes@mcg.edu
Student National Medical Association (SNMA)
SNMA is the nations oldest and largest organization focused on the needs and concerns of medical students of minorities and underserved communities. Our mission is to increase minority representation in medicine and end health disparities.
Contact: Teresa Ingram/ tingram@students.mcg.edu
Advisor: Wilma Sykes-Brown / wsykes@mail.mcg.edu
Student Occupational Therapy Association (SOTA)
The purpose of SOTA is to promote interest in occupational therapy on the campus and in the community among members and non-members. To improve and advance education and qualifications in occupational therapy. To provide a forum of discussion between students and faculty.
Contact: Laura Lee / llee1@students.mcg.edu
Advisor: Sharon Swift / sswift @mcg.edu
Students for Intercultural Medicine (SIM)
The purpose of SIM is to educate medical students at MCG about issues in intercultural medicine, facilitating medical students' access to international porgrams, such as medical relief efforts, externships and sub-internships, and sponsors its own program abroad.
Contact: Lydia Luangruangrong / lluangruangrong@students.mcg.edu
Advisor: Carlos Isales / cisales@mcg.edu
Surgery Interest Group
The purpose of the Surgery Interest Group is to introduce first and second year medical students to the various surgical specialties.
Contact: Mark Snoddy / msnoddy@students.mcg.edu
Advisor: Edward Kruse / ekruse@mail.mcg.edu
Wilderness Medicine Student Interest Group
The Wilderness Medical Student Interest Group is an organization of medical student and other members of the campus community who share a common interest in wilderness medicine. Our mission is to encourage and support programs that improve the knowledge of our membership in matters related to human activities in wilderness environement, and to promote appreciation and stewardship in those areas.
Constitution
Contact: Tara Buehler / tbuehler@students.mcg.edu
Advisor: Dr. Michael Caudell/ mcaudell@mcg.edu
Student Organizations
MCG Student Center, DA-2006
1488 Laney-Walker Blvd
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706-721-3356 office
706-721-2134 fax
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