Our fifth annual MD/PhD Retreat was held on April 4-5, 2009 at Felicita Resort, Harrisburg, PA. Students planned the agenda and other activities, which made this retreat not only fun, but a learning experience. Our alumni speaker was Padmanee Sharma, MD, PhD, M.D. Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, TX.

Our 2010 MD/PhD Retreat will be held at the Penn Stater Conference Center on March 27 & 28, 2010.

Second Look Day was held April 23-25, 2009.  This gave our accepted applicants and their family a chance to return to Hershey for another look at our campus and community.  On Friday April 24 they met with potential faculty for a summer lab rotation and on Saturday, they  participated in the medical school's events for accepted medical students.

Congratulations to the following students who successfully matched the residency program of their choice and who will graduate on Sunday, May 17 2009:

• Damian Dyckman- Naval Medical Center, Portsmouth, VA (Otolaryngology) 
• Meredith Hannan - UCLA (Psychiatry)
• Aley Kalapila- University of Washington, Seattle (Internal Medicine)
• Christina Ryan - Stanford (Pediatrics)
• William Zinnanti - Brooklyn (Pediatrics; Stanford (Child Neurology)

• Zainul Hasanali/Boston College
• Francis LeBlanc/University of Western Ontario, Canada
• Jeffrey Nguyen/St. Louis University
• Steven Steinway/College of New Jersey
• Xiaowei (Bill) Su/Yale
• Lauren Weiler/Cornell