LECOM Bradenton Military Club Sponsors Formal Commissioning Ceremony

The Military Club for the Lake Erie College of Osteopathic Medicine (LECOM) Bradenton held its first Military Scholarship Day on Friday, August 12.  Eleven  second-year medical students were formally commissioned into three branches of the Armed Forces before an audience of 100 family, friends and officers of the Air Force, Army and Navy.

Special guests for the presentation and reception that followed were Joseph Giaimo, D.O., President of the Florida Osteopathic Medical Association and former Naval officer, and Captain Michael Murphy, D.O., Associate Dean for Post-Graduate Education and Professor of Family Medicine at Pikeville College School of Osteopathic Medicine.  Dr. Murphy is a retired captain in the Navy and  presided over the commissioning ceremony.

These LECOM Bradenton students were commissioned:

Air Force

Melissa Maust

Tyler Winkler

 Army

Gabe Johnson

Alfredo Quiralte

Navy

Paul Bures

Aidith Flores

Danny Heard

Prudence Knigge

Keith Knigge

Rachael Sanchez

Randy Scott