UF medical student serving as regional delegate for national organization

A University of Florida College of Medicine third-year student has been elected to represent medical students across the Southeast as a regional delegate for the American Medical Association – Medical Student Section.

Joy Kunishige will serve one year as a delegate of the association’s Region IV, which comprises Alabama, Georgia, South Carolina, North Carolina, Tennessee, Florida and Puerto Rico. Elected by her peers at the AMA’s recent interim meeting in San Francisco, she is one of three delegates for the region and the only one from Florida.

Her primary role is to serve as a liaison between students and physicians, and report physician opinion to medical students. She also will cast votes on various issues with physician delegates at the AMA’s annual meeting in Chicago this June and the interim meeting in New Orleans this December.

Her goals include accurately and persuasively presenting a broad scope of medical student opinion to other student and physician delegates, and helping students become better educated and motivated about current AMA issues. She also looks forward to becoming more familiar with the issues facing medicine.