Local student attends medical conference
By shkl
Centreville resident Shravya Kovela, a student at Thomas Jefferson High School for Science and Technology, attended the 2008 Congressional Student Leadership Conference on Medicine & Healthcare, sponsored by LeadAmerica. The CSLC is a
college-accredited invitational leadership program for academically talented and promising young leaders from across the United States and internationally.
Shravya Kovela joined other exceptional high school students with records of academic achievement and extracurricular or community involvement who were invited to participate in the summer program.
The CSLC on Medicine & Healthcare is a 10-day leadership program in which students take on the roles of healthcare professionals and learn to manage a patient’s case, making healthcare
decisions based on new medical facts and circumstances presented each day. In a hands-on learning environment, Shravya Kovela and fellow students worked with cutting-edge robotic simulators that look and respond like real patients, or participated in a patient simulation where medical actors played the roles of patients with unidentified illnesses.
The CSLC on Medicine & Healthcare is designed in cooperation with Georgetown University School of Medicine, Mount Sinai School of Medicine and Chicago Medical School. These leading medical schools give CSLC students access to their facilities and laboratories and
insights into the challenges facing the medical profession.
“Leadership can make important differences in the lives of teenagers - in their academic and personal performance, in their acceptance to the college of their choice, and in their level of focus, passion and purpose,” says Chris M. Salamone, Esq., Founder and Executive Director of LeadAmerica. “It is the key to what they do with their lives and how well they do it. In today's world, it is imperative that we nurture leadership potential from a very young age.”
“Since 1989 I have had the privilege of seeing more than 60,000 exceptional students from over 51 countries learn first-hand about leadership and explore its role in a variety of educational
disciplines. It’s my sincere hope that LeadAmerica will give young leaders the skills to help them along the road toward a successful and rewarding life of leadership.”
LeadAmerica is the nation's premier youth leadership organization. With a commitment to providing quality leadership education, LeadAmerica empowers teenage leaders and instills in
them ethical and principled leadership values, attitudes and skills. Each of its high school conferences is college-accredited and its programs are approved activities of the National
Association of Secondary School Principals.
LeadAmerica sponsors the Congressional Student Leadership Conference for high school students, the National Junior Leaders Conference for middle and junior high school students, Ambassadors Abroad international study programs in China, Australia and Europe, and Washington Summer Scholars, a college-level academic program held in partnership with American University.
Further information on LeadAmerica and the CSLC can be found at www.lead-america.org or by calling 1.866.FYI.LEAD (394.5323).
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