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Six NYITCOM Student Doctors Matched to Military Residencies

New York Institute of Technology College of Osteopathic Medicine at Arkansas State University in Wilson Hall in Jonesboro
Brandon Tabor
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KASU News

Six members of New York Institute of Technology College of Osteopathic Medicine-Arkansas’ inaugural class were matched to U.S. military residencies last week and will begin their Graduate Medical Education (GME) in conjunction with service to their country. 

NYITCOM-Arkansas students who participated in the Military Match include: Severiano “Brock” Acebo (Navy), Internal Medicine, Naval Medical Center, Portsmouth, Va.; Raegan Austin (Air Force) Pediatrics, Wright-Patterson Air Force Base Hospital, Dayton, Ohio; Corbett Hall (Navy), Family Medicine, Naval Hospital Camp LeJune, Jacksonville, N.C.; Joseph Lipat (Navy), Family Medicine, Navy Hospital, Jacksonville, Fla.; Andrea Lombardi (Army), General Surgery, Tripler Army Medical Center, Honolulu, Hi.; and Holly Sensabaugh (Air Force), Family Medicine, Nellis Air Force Base, Las Vegas, Nev.

Telling us more about this is Senior Career Advisor Holly Proffitt.  Click on the Listen button for the entire interview.  

Johnathan Reaves is the faculty advisor and editor-in-chief for Delta Digital News Service and the former News Director for KASU Public Radio. As part of an Air Force Family, he moved to Arkansas from Minot, North Dakota in 1986. He was first bitten by the radio bug after he graduated from Gosnell High School in 1992. While working on his undergraduate degree, he worked at KOSE, a small 1,000 watt AM commercial station in Osceola, Arkansas. Upon graduation from Arkansas State University in 1996 with a degree in Radio-Television Broadcast News, he decided that he wanted to stay in radio news. He moved to Stuttgart, Arkansas and worked for East Arkansas Broadcasters as news director and was there for 16 years.