American Academy of Neurology awards scholarship to LECOM Bradenton 1^st Year Student

Lakewood Ranch, Florida – Marina Novikova, 1^st year medical student at Lake Erie College of Osteopathic Medicine (LECOM) Bradenton, was chosen by the American Academy of Neurology (AAN) to receive the 2005 Medical Student Scholarship to the Annual Meeting.  Novikova is a graduate of the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee.

The $1,000 scholarship is given to fund medical students’ attendance at the AAN Annual Meeting that will be held April 9-16 in Miami Beach, Florida.  The AAN Annual Meeting provides medical students with an interest in neurology a forum to network with their peers and meet leaders in the field.

Novikova is one of 150 medical students in the inaugural class of the new branch campus of The Lake Erie College of Osteopathic Medicine located in Bradenton, Florida.  LECOM’s main campus is in Erie, Pennsylvania.

LECOM is one of 20 colleges of osteopathic medicine in the country.  Osteopathic medicine is a distinctive form of medical practice in the United States. Doctors of Osteopathic Medicine (D.O.) provide all of the benefits of modern medicine including prescription drugs, surgery, and the use of technology to diagnose disease and evaluate injury. Osteopathic physicians are fully licensed doctors practicing in all fields of medicine.  They also offer the added benefit of hands-on diagnosis and treatment through a system of therapy known as osteopathic manipulative medicine. Osteopathic medicine is based on whole-person health care.  The D.O. emphasizes helping each person achieve a high level of wellness by focusing on health education, injury prevention and disease prevention.