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FLORIDA SENTINEL
FRIDAY, DECEMBER 28, 2018
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Tampa Alphas Hosting Medical Education Program For Youth During MLK Day Of Service
Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity – Tampa Alumni Chapter and the GZL Educational Founda- tion, Inc., will be hosting the program, “Empowering Our Communities Through Better Health – An Educational Sympo- sium on Career Opportu- nities in Medicine.” This event will be held on Sunday, January 27, 2019 from 3 p. m. to 6 p. m. at Hillsborough Community College – Ybor Campus, Palm Avenue @ Re- publica De Cuba (14th St.) in the Ybor Room.
The goal of the symposium is to expose underrepresented male and female, middle, high school, and college-aged youth to medical professionals and careers in medicine.
Students will interact with physicians, dentists, and phar- macists that look like they do, and will find out what they need to do to prepare for ca- reers in these fields during high school and college. Tampa Bay area medical pro- fessionals, including members of the Tampa Bay Meharry Alumni Association, have vol- unteered to participate in the program and to speak to par-
From left to right are: Geoffrey Jones, MD –Practice Area: Interventional Pain Management/Phys- ical Medicine and Rehabilitation at Advanced Pain Care (Program Organizer); Erika King, DDS - Practice Area: General Dentistry with Community Health Centers of Pinellas County; Jeralyn Allen, MD – Prac- tice Area: “Hospitalist” General-Internal Medicine at Tampa General Hospital; Seth J. Crapp, MD – Practice Area: Pediatric Radiologist and Assistant Professor, USF Morsani College of Medicine, Tampa General Hospital; Radiology Associates of Florida, P.A., (Program Organizer).
to practice in underserved communities.”
“We brothers of Alpha Phi Alpha and Meharry Medical College as an institution recog- nize the critical need to in- crease the number of minority health professionals and edu- cate the youth about the wide range of options and opportu- nities before them in the health sciences and associated careers,” said Dr. Seth Crapp, President of the Tampa Bay Meharry Alumni, and one of the program organ- izers.
This event is open to indi- vidual students and youth groups ages 12 through 21. The event is free, but online registration at https://tam- paalphas.com/events/health- symposium is required. Refreshments will be served.
Tampa Bay area colleges and universities, hospitals, medical organizations, and health insurance companies are invited to participate in the Educational Symposium as well. Additional sponsorship opportunities are also still available. For more informa- tion, please go to https://tam- paalphas.com/contact.
ticipating students. Students currently in medical school will participate as well as col- lege students looking to go to medical school.
The MLK Day of Service focus area for this project is Education. The goal is to in- crease the numbers of minor- ity students, especially Black males pursuing careers in health care professions. The program is funded through an
MLK Day of Service Grant from Hillsborough Commu- nity College.
Meharry Medical College is also a partner in this event. Meharry, which is a Histori- cally Black College and Uni- versity (HBCU), recently launched its national “Black Male Initiative” to increase the numbers of Black male doc- tors. The ultimate future out- comes are to increase the
numbers of Black health care professionals and to corre- spondingly improve the health of Black and minority commu- nities.
According to NBC News, “Black patients are more likely to feel comfortable with Black doctors and more likely to ad- here to certain preventive measures delivered by Black doctors, research shows. And Black doctors are more likely
Winners Chosen For Final Shuffleboard Tournament Of Year
BY IRIS B. HOLTON Sentinel City Editor
Last Friday, residents par- ticipating in the local Shuffle- board Club held their monthly competition. This was the final competition for this year.
The event was held the Shuffleboard Tournament at Ragan Park Community Cen- ter, the Jazzy Seniors played among themselves because of the Christmas Holidays the other seniors from the other Centers were not able to at- tend. The Jazzy Seniors really enjoyed playing Shuffleboard this year.
The first place winner prizes went to Ms. Connie Bowen and Ms. Linda Cot- ney. Ms. Quency Jefferson and Ms. Katherine Palmer captured the second place win- ner prizes.
The sponsors for this month’s event were Dr. Von- dalyn Crawford, of Health Matters Pharmacy, and Micah Miller, of Integrity Insurance.
Steve Scott is the Direc- tor and Trainer of the Shuffle- board Team.
Among those on hand for the competition were: Steve
Among those on hand for the tournament were seated from left to right: Sponsor Micah Miller, of In- tegrity Insurance; working with Sponsor Dr. Vondalyn Crawford, of Health Matter Pharmacy; Katherine Palmer, second place winner; Quency Jefferson, second place winner; Connie Bowen, first place winner; Linda Cotney, first place winner; and Steve Scott, Director and Trainer. Shown standing from left to right: Nedra Thompkins, Carolyn Russ, Ruby Cutler, Sandra Flowers, Paulette Andrews, Carolyn Brooks, Car- rie Rhanes, Carolyn Williams, and Verdell Vickers.
thank the sponsors for sup- porting our program all year.” The Shuffleboard Team, which consists of senior citi- zens from throughout Hills- borough County, participated in a championship tourna- ment each month this year. The most recent teams to par- ticipate in the event are the Ladies of Ella and the V.I.P.
Ladies.
Anyone interested in learn-
ing to play shuffleboard can visit Ragan Park Community Center, 1200 E. Lake Avenue. Scott teaches Shuffleboard on Mondays and Fridays from 11 a.m. until 1 p.m. He also teaches the game at Cyrus Greene Community Center on Thursday, from 1 p.m. until 2:30 p.m.
Scott said he uses portable shuffleboards to train seniors at Williams Park and Fair Oaks Community Centers.
Anyone wishing to learn more about shuffleboard matches or other senior activ- ities at Ragan Park can call (813) 242-5316.
If there is anyone who would like to help finance a permanent shuffleboard court can contact Scott by email as sbs.scott@aol.com.
Scott, Ms. Katherine Palmer, Dr. Vondalyn Crawford, Micah Miller, Ms. Quency Jefferson, Ms. Connie Bowen, Ms. Linda
Cotney, Ms. Nedra Thompkins, Ms. Carolyn Russ, Ms. Ruby Cutler, Ms. Sandra Flowers, Ms. Paulette Andrews, Ms.
Carolyn Brooks, Ms. Car- rie Rhanes, Ms. Carolyn Williams, and Ms. Verdell Vickers.
Scott said, “I would like to