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Read moreAfter graduating from the Human Biology Program in 2012, I entered medical school at Wright State University in Dayton, Ohio. I am now a rising fourth-year student, happily married, and excited to pursue a career in pediatrics. I continue to be pleased with my decision to pursue a career in Navy medicine through the military's Health Professions Scholarship Program (HPSP). I plan to serve my military time as a pediatrician for active-duty families, perhaps also serving as a doctor for a submarine unit or even a team of Navy SEALs! Although medical school has been far from an easy experience, already it has proven to be even more rewarding than I could have expected. My favorite part of medicine continues to be the connection with the human experience. To be able to sit down with complete strangers, learn their life stories, who they are as people, and how I may be able to help them is an incredible privilege.
My interest in the human condition is what initially attracted me to the HUBI Program. While I have always liked the sciences, it is history, culture, and the human story of life that has always fascinated me most. The HUBI Program allowed me to complete my premedical requirements and have early and ample experience with team-based learning and research projects, all while enriching my undergraduate studies with classes in history, philosophy, sociology, psychology, and business. As a physician, I will be treating more than a heart, a set of lungs, or a kidney. I will be treating fathers, daughters, grandmothers, and spouses. I want to be treating people, and I could not have found a better career for me to do that.
Having graduated with three degrees—a B.A. in English, a B.S. in neuroscience, and a B.S. in human biology—I knew that my interests were varied. Following graduation, I found myself hesitant to immediately jump toward medical school, feeling that there was a career path better suited for me. In the summer of 2013, I applied for the Midwestern Alliance for Healthcare Education (MAHE) program and was accepted as a research fellow. I spent the summer researching telemedicine (specifically, iPad usage in EMS as a way to conduct a stroke scale in an effort to reduce the time from the onset of stroke to IV-tPA administration) at Parkview Health in Fort Wayne, Indiana, a healthcare network comprised of eight hospitals that service northeast Indiana, northwest Ohio, and southeastern Michigan. Not only was my team selected to present our data at the MAHE banquet, but our abstract was also published in the February 2013 addition of Stroke, and I traveled to San Diego in February 2013 to present our work during the International Stroke Conference. At the end of the summer research program, I was approached by my P.I. and the service line leader of neurosciences at Parkview Health and was hired into the network as a program coordinator.
With an initial focus on fall prevention, I created the Center on Aging & Health, a department focused on geriatric preventative health. The Center’s Fall Prevention Clinic opened in April 2014 and uses a multidisciplinary approach in assessing patients and creates customized care plans for each individual. We communicate care plans to primary care physicians and track patients’ progress. Currently, I oversee all administrative and clinical responsibilities, also acting as a patient coordinator and the main point of contact for all of our patients. Due to the demand for fall prevention, loosely based on the over 13,000 cases of elderly falls reported to the Parkview EDs, I am looking to expand the Fall Prevention Clinic to one of our community hospitals (although I would like to be in two by end of 2015). Most recently I was approached by another neurologist and have signed on to help open and coordinate a deep brain stimulation/movement disorder clinic. Numerous times, I find myself in the middle of meetings, feeling like I’m once again in my HUBI group, working on a case. In the near future, I would like to pursue a master’s degree in public health and epidemiology. It is my goal to conduct my own research, using regional demographics, in order to create departments and clinics that focus on preventative health and integrate the use of up-and-coming medical interventions and technology.
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