Dr. Joanne Kaiser-Smith named President of the American College of Osteopathic Internists - Rowan Today

Dr. Joanne Kaiser-Smith, the Associate Dean for Graduate Medical Education astatine Rowan-Virtua School of Osteopathic Medicine, has been named the President of the American College of Osteopathic Internists (ACOI) for 2022-2023. The ACOI is simply a nationalist nonrecreational enactment representing osteopathic interior medicine physicians and subspecialists. She has been an ACOI subordinate for implicit 35 years and earned the favoritism of Fellow (FACOI) successful 1994.

Board certified successful Internal Medicine by the American Osteopathic Board of Internal Medicine (AOBIM), Dr. Kaiser-Smith is besides certified successful Geriatric Medicine by the AOBIM. Dr. Kaiser-Smith is simply a School of Osteopathic Medicine postgraduate and has trained astir 500 residents during her career. She has received galore honors for her enactment successful the field, astir precocious being voted Mentor of the Year by the American Osteopathic Association successful 2021.​

Commenting connected the upcoming year, she said, “Mentorship is truthful important to me, truthful I americium excited that our absorption for 2023 astatine the ACOI is connected recruiting caller pupil and nonmigratory members. We person already laid the groundwork for large pupil engagement with the launching of a caller nationalist Student Osteopathic Internal Medicine Association (SOIMA) and the students are already truthful enthusiastic astir being involved. As the sixth pistillate president starring the ACOI, I person had large relation models who came earlier maine – those who mentored me! All done my vocation I person taken it upon myself to assistance women emergence with maine successful this assemblage and assistance young radical go palmy physicians. I americium looking guardant to starring the ACOI arsenic different accidental to bash that.”

About ACOI

Since 1941, the American College of Osteopathic Internists (ACOI) has represented existent and aspiring osteopathic interior medicine physicians and subspecialists. The ACOI provides leadership, networking, and acquisition to assistance members beryllium palmy and enactment existent to wherefore they pursued medicine.