HOSA-Future Health Professionals is proud to have had representation at the 2019 Association of American Medical Colleges (AAMC) Minority Student Medical Career Fair held in Phoenix, Arizona on November 9. Vivian Do, HOSA President, and Amanda Gao, Secondary Board Representative attended the event, where they presented a workshop and promoted HOSA during the career fair.
The HOSA Thanksgiving Ideas Meeting honored HOSA-100 National Advisory Council Members; HOSA Premier Sponsors; ILC Sponsors and Exibitors at a recent meeting held at The Occidental Restaurant in Washington, DC. Amanda Gao, 2019-2020 Executive Council Member, HOSA, Inc. Board -- Secondary Representative, served as the keynoter by sharing her HOSA journey!
HOSA is pleased to share the 2019 Fall eMagazine. We want to thank the states and chapters that contributed articles and photos for this edition.
We also want to encourage you to continue to submit articles and photos for future editions. If you have questions about submitting content please contact hosa@hosa.org.
HOSA-Future Health Professionals is proud to sponsor Health Professions Week (HPW). Health Professions Week is an exciting week-long event for high school and college students interested in learning more about careers in the health professions. HPW offers innovative ways for individuals to explore multiple health professions and interact directly with current practitioners and educators about admission requirements and career pathways. Students, teachers, and parents are invited to register for free.
HOSA-Future Health Professionals’ 13th Annual Washington Leadership Academy (WLA) is a capstone leadership experience for HOSA officers and members providing unique experiences through experiential learning, real world applicability and networking.
HOSA-Future Health Professionals was invited to send representatives to Ideagen’s Annual Global Goals 2030 Empowering Women & Girls Summit held at the United Nations, September 13, in New York City.
Those representing HOSA were:
- Janet Villarreal, 2019 Chair, HOSA, Inc. Board of Directors
- Kimberly Spivey, Senior Director of Advancement, HOSA-Future Health Professionals
- Sarah Fleischman, Former International HOSA President, 2017-2019 Executive Council Member, HOSA Alumni Member
Washington, D.C. (July 2019) This summer, HOSA members from across the nation took advantage of a unique opportunity to expand their health science career awareness and focus on college readiness by attending a Leadership Initiatives Youth Development Program, the Advanced Medical & Public Health Summit, offered July 21-27 and July 28-August 3.
The Goodheart-Willcox Outstanding Service Awards recognize three local HOSA chapter advisors, one from each HOSA region who have made exceptional contributions of local, regional, state and national significance to the promotion, development, and progress of HOSA-Future Health Professionals. The award sponsor, one of HOSA’s premier sponsors, Goodheart-Willcox Publisher strongly believes in the HOSA mission and is honored to partner with HOSA in educating and training today’s young people to be tomorrow’s health professionals.
HOSA-Future Health Professionals enjoyed our largest ever ILC with 11,520 members, advisors and guests attend the 42nd International Leadership Conference in Orlando, Florida, June 19-22, 2019. HOSA was represented by 54 chartered associations including Canada, American Samoa, Puerto Rico and 32 members from China!