For immediate release: March 27, 2008
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School of Medicine student selected for prestigious fellowship

Class of 2010 places a fellow on Washington, DC medical advocacy team

RENO, Nev.— A second-year medical student from the University of Nevada School of Medicine has been selected for a prestigious year-long experience beginning this summer.

          Patrick Woodard has been accepted to the American Medical Association’s Government Relations Advocacy Fellowship. One Fellow is selected each spring to work in Washington, D.C., as a full-time paid member of the AMA's federal advocacy team for one year. The Fellow is responsible for working with the AMA’s federal advocacy team to advance the Association's legislative agenda and policies on behalf of physicians, patients and medical students.

          Woodard, who hails from Reno, is the first School of Medicine student to be selected for this fellowship. He is also an accomplished violinist who performs with the Reno Philharmonic Orchestra, the Reno Chamber Orchestra and the Nevada Opera and is a member of the National Ski Patrol.

As the state’s only public medical school, the University of Nevada School of Medicine has been a leader in healthcare, medical education and research in Nevada since 1969. The School of Medicine includes 16 clinical departments including family medicine, pediatrics, obstetrics and gynecology, internal medicine, surgery, and psychiatry and behavioral sciences, and five nationally recognized departments in basic science including microbiology and biomedical engineering. The more than 185 doctors of University Health System, the school’s clinical practice, offer care in more than 40 medical specialties and subspecialties with eight physician offices in the Reno/Sparks area and seven in Las Vegas. The school is committed to a best practices approach to medicine and is dedicated to exceptional healthcare for Nevada now and in the future. For more information visit www.medicine.nevada.edu.