Amara
Amara is currently in her final year of the MD/PhD program at The Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai and will be starting her residency in Neurology next year. She holds an undergraduate degree from Princeton.
Annie S.
Annie holds a degree in Biology from Cornell and an MD from Harvard Medical School. After completing her residency in Pediatrics at the Icahn School of Medicine, she began her work as a primary care pediatrician.
Hailey Y.
Hailey attended Yale, where she majored in Neuroscience. She's currently an MD Candidate at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai.
Jack Ru.
Jack completed his BA at Wake Forest University and his MD at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai. He is now a surgery resident at Georgetown Hospital.
Stephanie D.
Steph graduated summa cum laude with a BS in Biochemistry and Biophysics from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. There, she worked in a molecular biology lab studying kinesin proteins. She's now an MD Candidate at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai.
Vivian U.
Vivian is a first year medical student at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai. Previously, she earned her BS in Computational Biology with a Computer Information Science minor from Cornell University.
Erika N.
Erika earned a BS in Biology, specializing in Quantitative Biology and Bioinformatics, at Stony Brook University; she graduated summa cum laude with Phi Beta Kappa She is currently pursuing an MD/PhD in Cancer Immunology through the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai.
Drew R.
Drew is currently a second-year medical student at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai. Previously, he majored in Molecular Biology at Duke and graduated magna cum laude. Drew is passionate about cancer research and plans to become a surgical oncologist.
Kevin S.
Kevin graduated from Washington University in St. Louis, double majoring in Biomedical Engineering and Biochemistry and triple minoring in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, and Bioinformatics. He is now pursuing a combined MD/PhD from the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai.
Aum P.
Aum majored in Microbiology and minored in Anthropology and Health Disparities in Society at the University of Florida. Aum believes in the importance of research to drive medicine forward and improve health outcomes. As such, he is pursuing an MD/PhD at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai.
Helena
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