{"id":185853,"date":"2026-05-07T01:28:24","date_gmt":"2026-05-07T01:28:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/185853\/"},"modified":"2026-05-07T01:28:24","modified_gmt":"2026-05-07T01:28:24","slug":"university-health-professions-organization-and-medical-alumni-council-host-educational-event","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/185853\/","title":{"rendered":"University Health Professions Organization and\u00a0Medical Alumni\u00a0Council Host Educational Event"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The University of Scranton Health Professions Organization (HPO) and\u00a0Medical Alumni\u00a0Council (MAC) hosted a joint event on Monday, May 1 on campus. Alumni and students in attendance participated in panel discussions, dinner and networking.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The presenters included Bernard Costello III, MD, DMD &#8217;91, and Katie Zefran, DMD, MPH&#8217;16. Panelists included Thomas Churilla, MD &#8217;09, Scott Peslak, MD, Ph.D. &#8217;06, and Alexandra Shomali &#8217;25.<\/p>\n<p>HPO President William\u00a0Vinsko, III \u201826, and\u00a0Dan Marenda, Ph.D., associate dean of the College of Arts and Sciences, provided an introduction and conclusion, respectively.<\/p>\n<p>Learn more about the HPO from Vinsko, a\u00a0biology major from Wilkes-Barre, in <a href=\"https:\/\/news.scranton.edu\/articles\/2025\/09\/stu-club-spotlight-hpo.shtml\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">a recent Club Spotlight interview<\/a> with Royal News.\u00a0Connect with the organization\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/uofs_hpo\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">on Instagram @uofs_hpo.<\/a>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The MAC seeks to assist undergraduate pre-health professional students through education in health-related programs, networking assistance and guidance on admission to health professional schools, and access to role models in various medical careers. The MAC also keeps alumni health practitioners informed about campus developments, nominates students and alumni for scholarships and awards, conducts symposia for alumni in the health professions and encourages financial support for the University from these alumni.<\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/www.instagram.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The University of Scranton Health Professions Organization (HPO) and\u00a0Medical Alumni\u00a0Council (MAC) hosted a joint event on Monday, May&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":185854,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[627,178,180,179,274],"class_list":["post-185853","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-scranton","tag-alumni","tag-scranton","tag-scranton-headlines","tag-scranton-news","tag-the-university-of-scranton"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/185853","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=185853"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/185853\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/185854"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=185853"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=185853"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=185853"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}