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Iron Arrow Honor Society Tappees—Fall 2016


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    Honored Tappees – Fall 2016

    Monica Bustinza — President, Get Out the Vote; Founder, Meals From the Heart; Workshops Chair, Patricia A. Whitely Women’s Leadership Symposium; Transfer Senator, Student Government; Fellow, Campus Vote Project; Student Representative, White House Civic Workshop; Service Learning Volunteer, Institute for Civic Engagement and Democracy; Women in Public Service Scholarship, American Society for Public Administration; Newman Civic Fellow

    Natalie Diala — President, National Pan-Hellenic Council; President, A Week for Life; Historian, Community Service Chair, and Social Action Chair, Delta Sigma Theta Sorority Incorporated; Vice President, Public Relations Student Society of America; Counselor, Horizons; Planning Committee Designee, LeaderShape South Florida; Marketing Chair, Miss University of Miami; Ronald A. Hammond Scholar; Dean’s Student Circle, School of Communication

    Vicky Egusquiza — President, Parent Medical Association; President, Medical Alumni Association; Alpha Omega Alpha; Phi Beta Kappa; Voluntary Faculty, UM Pediatric Department; Voted America’s Top Pediatrician; Member, Miami Circle; Fellow, American Academy of Pediatrics; Bylaws and Credentialing Committees, Miami Children’s Hospital; News Bureau Consultant, Baptist and Palmetto General Hospitals

    Frank Eismont — Esteemed Member, UM Operating Room, Graduate Medical Education & Underwriting Committees; Chairman, UM/Jackson Orthopedic Residency Education Program; Cgaur, AIA Emerging Leaders Committee; Board of Directors, American Board of Orthopedic Surgery; 2005 Thomas Whitecloud Award; 2004 Russell Hibbs Award; 2003 ACGME Parker J. Palmer ‘Courage to Teach’ Award

    Lance Harke — President, Miami Shores Chamber of Commerce; President, Miami Shores Bar Association; President, Legal Services of Greater Miami; Peter T. Fay American Inn of Court / Barrister; Order of the Coif; Soia Mentschikoff Award for Excellence in Writing; Inductee, Legal Services of Greater Miami Hall of Fame; Miami Shores Citizen of the Year; Omicron Delta Kappa

    Osamudia James — UM Standing Committee on Diversity and Inclusion; UM Promotions & Tenure Committee; Tenured Liaison, School of Law Junior Faculty Development Steering Committee; AAUP Litigation Committee; UM SEEDS Grant Recipient; Miami Law BLSA & ACLS Celebrating Outstanding Faculty Member Award; Legacy Miami Magazine South Florida’s Top Black Educators; Lawyers of Color 50 Under 50 Honoree; Derrick A. Bell Award Recipient

    Noor Joudi — Student Trustee, UM Board of Trustees; Executive President, UMMSM Student Government; Class President, Class of 2018 Council; Chair, Admissions and Student Services Student Committee, ISA Steering Committee Member, LCME Re- accreditation Process; President, UM Muslim Association; Pre-Clinical Director, OB/ GYN Interest Group; 18th World Congress of Pediatric & Adolescent Gynecology Award

    Brad Kaaya — 3-year starting Quarterback, UM Football; Team Captain; 4th in Miami history for career passing yards; 23rd Annual Walter Kichefski Endowed Football Scholarship Award; Athlete Volunteer, F.S. Tucker and G.W. Carver Elementary schools; Three-year pen pal to elementary school children

    Nicole Katz — Cultural Chair and Secretary of La Federacion de Estudiantes Cubanos, Recruitment Chair of Chi Omega Fraternity, President of Rho Lambda Honor Society, Student Government’s Health and Wellness Liaison, U-Outreach Marketing Chair and Elections Commissions Officer, Mentor for CaneBuddy, TedX Miami Logistics committee, Camp Kesem Miami Counselor, Hecht College Council, President’s 100

    James “Jim” Joseph Larrañaga — Two NCAA Sweet 16 appearances, 2012-13 and 2015-16; National Coach of the Year by four separate awarding organizations, 2012- 13; Atlantic Coast Conference Coach of the Year, 2012-13 and 2015-16; Led UM to No. 2 National Ranking; ACC regular season and ACC Tournament titles; No. 2 seed in NCAA Tournament, 2012-13

    Sandra Lemmon — Director, University of Miami Miller School of Medicine MD-PhD Program; 2015 UM Graduate School Best Graduate Program Director Award; 2010 Lawrence Gibert Distinguished Seminar Lecturer

    Ilana Mayer-Hirshfield — President, Regional Chief Information Officer; Latino Medical Student Association; CAC Assistant Director for On-Campus Enrollment; Translator Coordinator, DOCS; Events Coordinator, Fall Ball Chair, UMMSM Executive Student Government; MD/MPH Ambassador, Academic Societies; Vice-President, Jewish American Medical Student Association; Vice-President, Hispanic American Medical Student Association

    Kierin Mukerjee — Chair, Football Chair, and Basketball Chair, Category 5 Spirit Programming Board; Recruitment and Retention Chair, National Gandhi Day of Service; Public Relations Vice Chair, School of Business Administration Senator, Student Government Senate; Individual Development Chair, Canes Catalyst; Committee on Student Organizations; President’s 100; Student Ambassador, Student Alumni Association; Omicron Delta Kappa; Foote Fellow; Isaac Singer Scholar; Bermont Carlin Scholar; Honors Research Scholar

    Alexis Musick — President & Founder, Nourish International; Co-President, UM Alternative Breaks; Programming & Logistics Coordinator, Treasurer, Camp Kesem Miami; President & Project Coordinator, Art of Healing; Elections Commissioner, Campus Liaison Council, Freshman Leadership Council, Student Government; Newman Civic Fellow; Omicron Delta Kappa

    Nadee Nissanka — Parliamentarian, Secretary, Vice President, Biomedical Graduate Student Government; PIBS Student Mentor; BGSG Teaching and Learning Committee; Exhibit Leader, Brain Fair; 2016 NIH/NIDDK F31 Fellowship; Bursary Travel Award for Mitocholdrial Medicine: Developing New Treatments for Mitochondrial Disease Conference; 2016 GSA Academic Excellence, Leadership and Service Award

    Adrian Nuñez — Founder and Executive Director, TEDxUMiami; Program Coordinator, Orientation; Program Coordinator, Great Start; Freshman Leadership Council Project Coordinator, Student Government; Spirit Day Event Chair and King and Queen Chair, Homecoming Executive Committee; Committee Member, Miss University of Miami; Ambassador, Preisdent’s 100; Mentee, NASPA Undergraduate Fellow Program

    Ashley Pittaluga — Vice-President, Student Government; Freshman Leadership Council Project Coordinator; Chair, Vice-Chair, Treasurer, & Hurricane Howl Co-Chair, Homecoming Executive Committee; Board of Trustees Undergraduate Representative; UM Representative, NACA Leadership Institute; 2015 Iron Arrow Sophomore Leadership Award

    Daniel Salahuddin — Gold Humanism Honor Society; Miller School of Medicine Admissions Committee; DOCS – Stonybrook Community Assistant Project Manager; Certified Application Counselor; President, Family Medicine Interest Group First Year Representative; Vice President, Student National Medical Association; Assistant Trip Coordinator, Caneshare; Global Health Scholar Award Recipient.

    Allison Silverstein — Alpha Omega Alpha; Research Associate, Paul Farmer Global Surgery Fellowship; President, American Medical Women’s Association and Pediatrics Interest Group; Past National Board, Region 4 Director of the American Medial Women’s Association; Assistant Logistics Coordinator, & Project Manager, Department of Community Service, Trainer and Mentor, UMMSM Academic Societies

    Samantha Spring — 2nd Vice President & Recording Secretary, Zeta Tau Alpha; Florida Zeta Lady Award; Vice President of Recruitment, UM Panhellenic Association; Secretary, Rho Lambda Honor Society; Vice Chair, Rathskellar Advisory Board; Outstanding Panhellenic Sophomore and Junior awards; Foote Fellow

    Connor Verheyen — President, UConnect Undergraduate Research and Networking Organization; Chair, Engineering Student Ambassadors; Co-Founder, Co-President and National Liaison, Society for the Advancement of Chicanos/Hispanics and Native Americans in Science; Foote Fellow Mentor; Stamps & Singer Scholarship Interviewer; Amgen Scholar; Tau Beta Pi Engineering Honor Society

    Kevin Weaver — Program Leader, Department of Orientation; Marketing Intern, Athletics Department; Sigma Phi Epsilon; President’s 100; Executive Committee Homecoming; Clinton Global Initiative University Participant

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