VALDOSTA — Valdosta State University precocious honored Dr. Elizabeth Flail with the 2022 College of Science and Mathematics Distinguished Alumna Award.
“This grant has inspired maine to bespeak backmost connected my clip astatine VSU and acceptable caller goals for my future,” she said.
After earning a bachelor of subject successful biology successful 2007, with summa cum laude honors, Flail went connected to postgraduate astatine the apical of her people successful aesculapian schoolhouse and implicit a residency successful exigency medicine astatine the University of Florida, assemblage officials said successful a statement.
She joined South Georgia Medical Center’s exigency medicine squad 8 years agone and serves arsenic co-director of SGMC’s Emergency Department and Urgent Care.
“As a frontline wellness attraction idiosyncratic during the planetary wellness situation known arsenic COVID-19, Flail worked tirelessly to attraction for the sick and was instrumental successful redeeming the lives of galore country citizens,” assemblage officials said. “When she saw that her colleagues and different wellness attraction workers were dealing with burnout from the pandemic, she stepped up to connection reassurance and support, and she worked with SGMC to found a well-being committee dedicated to improving the prime of beingness of wellness attraction providers.”
Flail, her husband, and her 3 children unrecorded successful Valdosta, wherever she said they bask being progressive and serving others.
“We are a sports family,” she said. “My kids are engaged with baseball, dance, soccer, tumbling and volleyball. We bask our downtime astatine Twin Lakes with our dog, Laney. I bask running, Heart Rize fittingness and tennis.”
Flail and her household big an yearly Coins4Cure fundraiser each September, Childhood Cancer Awareness Month. Her lad is simply a crab survivor, and the household has raised much than $20,000 for CURE, an Atlanta-based nonprofit dedicated to conquering puerility crab done probe portion besides supporting patients and their families, assemblage officials said.
Q: What are immoderate highlights from your Valdosta State experience?
Flail: “My fondest memories astatine VSU are from Greek life. Phi Mu gave maine a consciousness of household and a assets for assemblage involvement. My top accomplishment was receiving the pupil enactment grant and highest world accomplishment award.”
Q: What proposal bash you person for existent Valdosta State students? What bash you privation idiosyncratic had told you erstwhile you were successful college?
Flail: “My proposal for students would beryllium to acceptable goals aboriginal and marque a vocation plan. When you commencement assemblage effort and ideate wherever you privation to beryllium 5 to 10 years from now. Use these 4 years to acceptable a instauration for your future.
“I privation idiosyncratic had told maine it’s a marathon not a race. I went consecutive from assemblage to aesculapian schoolhouse past residency. No breaks. Youth and clip walk quickly, truthful marque definite you instrumentality clip for idiosyncratic maturation and experiences.”
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