Amanda Dukinfield, of Round Hill and a junior at Woodgrove High School, has been nominated to attend the Congress of Future Medical Leaders in Washington, DC, Feb. 14-16,.

The Congress is an honors-only program for high school students who want to become physicians or go into medical research fields. The purpose of this event is to honor, inspire, motivate and direct the top students in the country who aspire to be physicians or medical scientists, to stay true to their dream and, after the event, to provide a path, plan and resources to help them reach their goal.

Dr. Connie Mariano, the medical director of the National Academy of Future Physicians and Medical Scientists nominated Dukinfield to represent Woodgrove High School based on her academic achievement, leadership potential and determination to serve humanity in the field of medicine.

During the three-day Congress, Dukinfield will join students from across the country and hear Nobel Laureates and National Medal of Science Winners talk about leading medical research; be given advice from Ivy League and top medical school deans on what is to expect in medical school; witness stories told by patients who are living medical miracles; be inspired by fellow teen medical science prodigies; and learn about cutting-edge advances and the future in medicine and medical technology.

The Academy offers free services and programs to students who want to be physicians or go into medical science. Some of the services and programs the Academy plans to launch in 2013 and 2014 are online social networks through which future doctors and medical scientists can communicate; opportunities for students to be guided and mentored by physicians and medical students; and communications for parents and students on college acceptance and finances, skills acquisition, internships, and career guidance. Based in Washington, D.C., the Academy was chartered as a nonpartisan, taxpaying institution to help address this crisis by working to identify, encourage and mentor students who wish to devote their lives to the service of humanity as physicians, medical scientists, technologists, engineers and mathematicians.

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Woodgrove's Dukinfield Tapped For Congress of Future Medical Leaders