IMS World AIDS Day Dinner

LECOM International Medical Society commemorated World AIDS Day with an International Dinner prepared by LECOM students, staff and faculty members.  During the evening, participants heard from a rural HIVAIDS activist and listened to reports on LECOM medical education and care trips to Haiti, Kenya and the Dominican Republic.

IMS officers also showed a video of U2 lead singer Bono’s American Heartland tour that carried a message about HIV/AIDS to cities in the Midwest.  Funds raised at the IMS dinner will support Bono’s ONE organization.

ONE is a new effort by Americans to rally Americans – ONE by ONE – to fight the emergency of global AIDS and extreme poverty. ONE aims to help Americans raise their voice as ONE against the emergency of AIDS and extreme poverty, so that decision makers will do more to save millions of lives in the poorest countries.

Carin Linhart, a Rural AIDS Advocate from Erie County, has traveled the country talking about her own experience as an HIV/AIDS patient. She explained the need to help children with AIDS.

Prior to the Linhart’s talk, guests sampled dozens of appetizers, entrées and desserts prepared from family recipes representing countries where LECOM students families originated.  Judges included LECOM faculty and staff members along with students and an instructor from the Mercyhurst College restaurant management program.

They awarded Chef prizes to: 

Richard Massaro – Appetizer – Baked Brie
Shital Rana – Entrée – Samosa
Chris Moore – Dessert –  Black Tie Mousse Cake

Guests choose their favorite dish – Milanese Lasagna – prepared by Drs. Michele Dalmasso & Andrea Orlandi, who are recent graduates the Instituto Superiore de Osteopathica in Milan, Italy and who spent two months in Erie training with and teaching LECOM medical students.

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