Wendy Dingel, a third-year medical student at Southern Illinois University School of Medicine in Springfield, has been selected to participate in the third annual Paul Ambrose Health Promotion Student Leadership Symposium June 25 - 27 in Washington, D.C.

Dingel will join 35 medical and health professions students from across the United States. She was selected by the Association of Teachers of Preventive Medicine (ATPM) and the Office of Disease Prevention and Health Promotion at the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. The symposium will feature skills-based leadership training and education that incorporates public health and preventive medicine.

The symposium is named in honor of Dr. Paul Ambrose, a young family medicine physician and Luther Terry Fellow at the ATPM, who developed the idea of the symposium. He was committed to a lifetime of caring for the underserved and promoting public health, and pursued these goals with extraordinary talent, resourcefulness and energy. Ambrose was a passenger on American Flight #77 on the morning of September 11, 2001, when it crashed into the Pentagon.

Dingel is the daughter of Dr. Warren and Mrs. Aida Biel of Glendale, Wisc. She is a graduate of Greenfield High School (1994), the University of Wisconsin in Madison (1998) and Southern Illinois University in Carbondale (2001).

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