Seymour graduate elected to medical honor society

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Tribune Staff Reports

Braden Sciarra, a 2011 Seymour High School graduate, has been elected to Alpha Omega Alpha, an honor society in the field of medicine.

Sciarra graduated from Butler University in 2015 and will graduate from the Indiana University School of Medicine with a concentration in internal medicine and pediatrics in May.

The society elects less than 5,000 residents, fellows, faculty and alumni each year.

The criteria for Alpha Omega Alpha includes scholastic achievement, professionalism, leadership, adherence to ethical standards, fairness with colleagues, achievement in medicine and a record of service to school and community.

Sciarra will serve his residency beginning in July at Medical College of Wisconsin in Milwaukee.

He received the Lilly Endowment Scholarship through the Community Foundation of Jackson County and observed physicians at Schneck Medical Center in Seymour throughout college.

Sciarra volunteered at Martinsville’s MDA camp for children and has completed medical missions in Haiti, India and Kenya.

Notable members of the chapter include Dr. Jonas Salk, who developed the first successful polio vaccine, and U.S. Secretary of Housing and Urban Development Dr. Ben Carson, a former presidential candidate who performed the only successful separation of conjoined twins joined at the back of the head.

Sciarra is the son of Brett and Marla Sciarra of Seymour. His siblings are Madeline and Griffin.

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