GPA 3.93 average in final four semesters

Deans List Awards, Honors

A major in clinical neuroscience has allowed me to gain a deeper understanding of how the body functions throughout life while exploring interests aside from the basic sciences, like philosophy, ethics, psychology, and morality.

GPA 4.20

Deans List, Honors

My time in High School was spent playing organized sports, experiencing online and in-person social networks, and finding where my passions lay.

I am the connecting point between physicians, pharmaceutical companies, patients, and other healthcare staff. Handling twelve concurrent clinical studies, I find patients eligible for a study, enroll them if possible, and guide them throughout the months of trial-related requirements.

Assisting in colonoscopies and endoscopies with various combinations of gastroenterologists and anesthesiologists, I have grown to understand how the operating room functions both socially and professionally. The short procedure times allow me to see double-digit numbers of patients, each different from the last.

As a medical assistant, I speak one-on-one with approximately thirty patients per shift. With many facing the inevitable by bringing themselves in to schedule a colonoscopy screening, I calm any nerves by maintaining lighthearted conversation until the doctor is available. For patients presenting with symptoms, I get to the point and acquire any pertinent information to make the doctor as well aware as possible.

Given the surge in demand for pre-operative biospecimen collection studies, my recent work has leaned towards pre-operative nursing. At the Loudoun Endoscopy Group, I prepare patients for colonoscopies and esophagogastroduodenoscopies by getting them physically and mentally prepared for what is to come.

Responsibilities involve preparing a sanitary area for patients, completing electronic medical record pre-operative requirements, starting an intravenous line, and following the operating physician's workflow.

One Sunday afternoon, a surgeon, on his rare day off, came running through our automatic double doors. His wife, skin pale as my white tee, laid limp in his arms. I sat across the hall, listening to the husband’s shrieks and pleads as his wife was quickly surrounded by emergency personnel, another physician-scribe combo not far behind. I watched as a provider tried his best to console the grief-stricken husband who could no longer bear the weight of the situation. I could not imagine what he was going through - years of marriage with a loving partner, all gone in a day - and at that moment I did not even have time to try as I was quickly shuffled off to see the next patient.

Beginning my pre-medical school journey, I had only ever been in a clinical setting as a patient. With this, I intentionally placed myself on the frontlines of care as an underclassman. I wanted an all-encompassing experience of healthcare before committing myself to this path, and working in the emergency department gave just that. Looking back, it was not the day-to-day activities of scribing that were the most meaningful. Instead, it was seeing my job as a piece to a much greater puzzle that was so memorable and what ultimately matured my intention of becoming a physician. Not only was it the clinical experience that led me to a more expansive view of medicine in the gastrointestinal clinic, but it was the motivating factor that showed me life and death in its many forms of beauty and horror. Knowing that I was just in a single rural emergency department put into perspective the volume of disease, sickness, and suffering all around us. Ultimately, my experience as a medical scribe humbled my youthful sense of immortality by seeing patients of all ages present with a multitude of life-threatening issues. While I loved helping the emergency medicine doctors in any way that I could, part of me always wanted to stick with the patients that were wheeled upstairs for admission.

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