The Alpha Omega Alpha (AOA) Honor Medical Society recently announced its newest elected members for the Class of 2025 and 2026, including 37 representatives from the University of Missouri School of Medicine. Mizzou’s AOA Gamma Chapter is counseled by Interim Associate Dean for Student Affairs Nathan Beucke, MD.
Election to AOA is an honor signifying a lasting commitment to professionalism, leadership, scholarship, research and community service. A lifelong honor, membership in the society confers recognition for a physician’s dedication to the profession and art of healing.
Congratulations to the following Mizzou medical students, residents and faculty on their induction into the prestigious society:
Medical Students (Class of 2025)
- Eboni Acoff
- Samantha Bale
- Anna Bauer
- Clayton Brinkley
- Balaji Cherupalla
- Roee Dar
- Emma Elbert
- Adam Fehr
- Lauren Gann
- Savannah Groves
- Allison Long
- Jennifer Marx
- Aaron Meers
- Lauren Nowakowski
- Evan Reeves
- Samuel Schaeffer
- Avery Schroeder
- Christine Sholy
- John Swift
- Joan Tao
- Jacob Thoenen
- Tiffany Trzupek
- Emily Winfrey
Medical Students (Class of 2026)
- Samuel Brown
- Elizabeth Cremer
- Carson Gates
- Travis Jackson
- Katina Massad
- Bailey Patrick
- Connor Sierra
- Kerem Yucebas
Residents
- Forrest Ericksen
- Olivia Moharer
- Abdoulie Njai
Faculty
The Alpha Omega Alpha Honor Medical Society was founded in 1902 by medical student William Root and colleagues, at the Chicago College of Physician and Surgeons (later named the College of Medicine of the University of Illinois). Today, AOA has 135 Chapters in medical schools across the country and more than 200,000 members, including 55 Nobel Prize winners in physiology, medicine and chemistry, and more than 75 percent of medical school deans. More than 4,000 students, residents/fellows, faculty and alumni are elected nationally each year.
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