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ADORS stay involved Event Sponsors This year, the COM will be planning events in suburban Chicago to bring together alumni, community partners and donors to discuss opportunities to advance the mission of the college, UIC and UI Health. Event sponsors play an important role in making sure that we can host events in convenient locations and are sustainably funded. Interview Volunteers The Office of Admissions is seeking volunteers to help interview medical school applicants and would like your support. Volunteers will help faculty and staff to interview prospective candidates for the 2018- 2019 academic year. Interviews take place on the Chicago campus but include prospective students for all of our campuses. For more information, contact the Office of Admissions at (312) 996-5635 or medadmit@uic.edu. For more information about any of these programs, or to share an idea of how you would like to be involved with the COM, please contact the Office of Medical Advancement at (312) 996- 4470 or medcomm@uic.edu. I L L I N O I S M E D I C I N E | 33 O HOSTING AN ALUMNI- STUDENT CONNECTION Edward Chien '84, MD '88, MBA RIGINALLY INSPIRED TO PURSUE MEDICINE by his mother, a public health nurse, Edward Chien '84, MD '88, MBA, has been living and working in Cleveland for more than five years as the division director of maternal fetal medicine, fellowship director, professor of obstetrics/gynecology and study center director of the Eunice Kennedy Shriver, NICHD Maternal Fetal Medicine Unit Network at MetroHealth Medical Center, Case Western Reserve University. Two years ago, Chien became an active volunteer for the College of Medicine's HOST Program (Help Our Students Travel). Designed to connect current medical students who are pursuing residency interviews across the country with COM alumni who live near students' potential destinations, the HOST Program is celebrating another successful year of pairing students with alumni hosts who provided accommodations to visiting students, or insight into the programs with which they may be interviewing. Chien was moved to give back to the College of Medicine, and the HOST Program offered a unique way to stay connected and meet current medical students. He notes that although he interacts with medical students in his current position, the HOST Program "gave some insight and allowed me to see various perspectives of medical students I would not otherwise be able to get in my current job." His wife, Kathleen Chien, BSN '86, helps with the hosting duties when students visit them in Cleveland. Having hosted three students in the past two years, they first connected with then-student Vanessa Nienhouse to talk about Cleveland-area programs and met for dinner when she visited for her residency interview. This past year, the couple hosted two students , Rachel Payne and Ashley Patel, which eased the burden of their costly interview processes. The Chiens try to offer a homestay that fits the needs of the student guests, and they offer the flexibility and insight needed during the busy interview season. "My wife usually greets them, and they often head out to the pre-interview dinner, meet and greet," Chien notes. "We get to speak with them when they get back and make sure that we have what they need for the next day. This year our student and another interviewee from another program went to dinner with us. We had a great conversation!" Looking forward, Chien plans to continue to participate as an alumni host. He says, "It keeps me grounded and it's an important way to give back to the institution." Edward and Kathleen Chien