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October 5 2020 – Allan R Tunkel, Senior Associate Dean for Medical Education and Chief of Medical Education at the Brown University Alpert Medical School, will be presenting, “The Impact of COVID-19 on Medical Education” on Thursday, October 8, 6-7:30 p.m.nPresented by the Palm Beach County Medical Society (PBCMS) as part of the annual Future of Medicine Summit, the event is free to participants, who may register at: 
 
 
Started in 2007 by Jose Arrascue, MD, the Future of Medicine Initiative brings together community leaders to define issues, establish partnerships and implement strategies for change.  At the annual Summit, national and community health care leaders gather to explore the "hot topic" issues facing healthcare.  
 
Dean Tunkel oversees at Brown the offices of Medical Education; Student Affairs, Admissions; Financial Aid; Medical School Administration, and master’s degree programs such as Gateways to Medicine, Health Care and Research and the Medical Physics Graduate Program.
 
He received a Ph.D in experimental pathology before earning a medical degree at the College of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey in Newark.  He completed a Residency in internal medicine at the Hospital of the Medical College of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia and an Fellowship in infectious diseases from the University of Virginia Health Sciences Center in Charlottesville. He has been at Brown since 2013 and previously taught at the Drexel University College of Medicine for a decade.
 
 
 
 
 
 
Dr. Tunkel will be joined by FAU Resident Dr. Sharmin Akhter, who  studied psychology and public Health at Boston University. After working as a clinical assistant at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center for two years, she went on to attend St. George’s University. She currently serves as a PGY-3 Chief Resident in internal medicine at Florida Atlantic University (FAU). Sharmin intends to pursue a career as an academic general internist following graduation. 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Jacob Musinsky, a MS4 at FAU Schmidt College of Medicine, also will be part of the presentation. A native of Boca Raton, Florida, he earned his bachelor’s degree from Wesleyan University and worked in clinical research at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center. He is applying for an internal medicine residency this year. 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
For more information and the Future of Medicine, Contact Katherine Zuber at KatherineZ@pbcms.org or 561-433-3940.