Nadia Akhiyat (Class of 2019) was elected Region IV Director of the Student National Medical Association during an annual medical education conference in March. Akhiyat's position oversees Florida, Georgia, Alabama, North Carolina, South Carolina, the Caribbean and Puerto Rico.
SNMA supports underrepresented minority medical students to increase the number of clinically excellent, culturally competent and socially conscious physicians. The annual meeting is consistently the largest gathering of underrepresented minority medical students in the nation with more than 2,000 medical students, physicians, administrators, government officials and others in attendance this year.
