Alpha Epsilon Delta (AED) is a national honor society for students preparing
for careers in human medicine, dental medicine, osteopathic medicine, veterinary
medicine, and other allied health professions. It is the world's largest Honor
Society that exclusively serves premedical students, with more than 135,000
members in 177 chapters. It was organized at the University of Alabama on April
28, 1926.
In Texas the University of Texas was the first to organize with its Alpha
chapter being organized in 1928 (one of the first in the nation). There are now
chapters at the UT, Baylor, Texas Tech, UH, Houston Baptist, TCU, UTEP, UNT,
TAMU, SMU, UTSA, Trinity, and UTD.
The Iota Chapter of AED was organized at Texas A & M University on April
24, 1987. In early 2003, the Iota Chapter introduced as Co-advisors Mr. Filomeno
Maldonado and Ms. Wanda Watson from the Texas A&M College of Medicine.
Iota chapter has made significant contributions to the premedical life at
TAMU. In the spring of 1991 Texas Iota organized the first health career
symposium held on campus. Since the initial event, the Office of Professional
School Advising has assumed responsibility. The Chapter plays an active roll in
the symposium and other campus-wide pre-health activities through the Executive
Council of Health Organizations (ECHO) and its members volunteer in hosting
representatives from medical schools, preparing and disseminating information,
and ushering at the symposium.
Texas Iota has biweekly meetings, usually on Thursdays, with speakers
representing various facets of the medical community. Topics range from
bioethics to rural health working conditions.