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Brian Anderson, M.D., Arlington, MA Harvard University (MD) Harvard College (BA) Social Anthropology After one year of pediatrics at Mass General, Brian decided that he wanted more in his career. He is Native American, and has worked to improve the health services on the Navajo Reservation. He is passionate about mentoring at-risk youth, and his future goals include living and working in an urban underserved community. Brian loves to go running, backpacking, fly fishing, play softball, basically anything active and outdoors.

Anne Dwyer Wilmer, M.D., Hartford, CT Drexel University (MD) Williams College (BA) Biology Anne aspires to be a physician who cares for those with barriers to care. She intends to achieve this through speaking her patient’s native language, working on public health projects, as well as working with change makers on access to care policy. Her clinical experiences working with urban Latino immigrant communities in New Jersey and Pennsylvania affirm that commitment. Anne has volunteered to provide education and care to an underserved population at a heath fair, as well as offer vaccinations and referrals at needle exchange points in Philadelphia. Anne is conversational in Spanish, having studied in Puerto Rico and Mexico. She enjoys bicycling, hiking, yoga and is the member of a choir as well as a community garden.

Andrea Mendelsohn, M.D., MPH Fort Bragg, CA Tufts University (MD) Tufts University (MPH) Brandeis University (BA) Art History A National Health Service Corps scholar, Andrea has spent time learning about healthcare disparities in Ethiopia, South Africa, and India. Andrea’s international experiences include; Volunteering for a year in a community health center in Ethiopia, developing curriculum that included HIV/AIDS education sessions for youth in Cape Town, and living for a year in India conducting an NIH sponsored rotavirus cost of illness study. Domestically, Andrea has worked as the case management coordinator for a year at Sharewood, a student run free clinic. She serves on several student committees at her medical school. Andrea speaks basic Spanish and Amharic. She enjoys listening to NPR, running, traveling, folk art and exploring second hand bookstores.

Danielle Kauk, M.D., MPH Redwood City, CA Tufts University (MD) Tufts University (MPH) University of California - San Diego (BS) Biology Danielle has traveled to Bangladesh to work with ICDDR. While there she created a distance learning CD for training physicians and public health officials on managing cholera and shigellosis outbreaks in emergency settings. She also volunteered as a school health mentor in a school for slum children. Was the project coordinator of a pilot program to treat severely malnourished children in rural Bangladesh. Danielle has written a policy brief on the status of smoking in the Latin American populations in the Boston area, which was used for funding and project designations for LHI. She has also volunteered on the Family Van, a free mobile health clinic serving underserved, primarily Hispanic communities in Boston. Danielle is fluent in French, has a high comprehension of Spanish, and speaks basic conversational Bengali. She enjoys running, backpacking, rock climbing, and traveling.

Daniel Koo, M.D., MPH Seoul, South Korea Tufts University (MD) Tufts University (MPH) Wheaton College (BA) Sociology Daniel aspires to bridge the gap between the worlds of medicine and urban world poverty. A supporter of grassroots medicine, as well as community medicine. As the founder and executive director of a nonprofit agency which serves high-risk urban Vietnamese youth in Dorchester, Daniel knows firsthand how one idea can change lives. For this agency he fundraised over $600,000 including state appropriations and federal funding. Daniel has also worked as an outreach coordinator with Tufts student run free clinic and community health centers, and spent two years working on the board of a multiethnic (pan-Asian) church to address issues of justice, poverty and racism. Daniel speaks Korean. He enjoys sports, dancing, theology and community organizing

Amy Maddalena, M.D., Poughkeepsie, NY SUNY – Stony Brook (MD) SUNY – Stony Brook (MAT) Biology Brown University (BA) Psychology Amy worked as a health aide in a community health center in an underserved with Americorps. During this time she organized and ran weekly health discussions for teen girls in a domestic violence shelter, helped patients obtain free medications from drug companies, and conducted home visits. Amy has also worked as an office assistant in a planned parenthood branch. Amy took a break during medical school to pursue a master’s degree and gain experience as a secondary school biology teacher. She sees this experience as integral to her role is public health, as a medical educator, and as a physician educating her patients about health. Amy is proficient in Spanish, and knows basic German. She enjoys hiking, fishing, writing poetry, and spending time with her family and friends.

Catherine Romanos, M.D., Torrington, CT University of Connecticut (MD) New York University (BA) Spanish Literature Catherine is the co-director of the South Park Inn Homeless Shelter Clinic, after having herself founded and directed the clinic’s women’s health service clinic there for the last two years. She has been a student volunteer at a variety of free clinics including; homeless shelters, a mobile clinic for migrant farm workers, a YMCA girl’s shelter clinic, and a Salvation Army clinic. She spent a month in Puerto Rico at a community hospital. She found that this experience enabled her to achieve richer relationships with her Puerto Rican patients at the clinic. She spent her junior year in Spain, and volunteered at a hospital in Madrid. Catherine speaks Spanish and knows some Italian. She enjoys singing, playing the piano, yoga, and running.

Mia Sorcinelli, M.D., Chicago, IL University of Massachusetts (MD) Bowdoin College (BA) Biochemistry During Mia’s trip to the Dominican Republic to help with a community construction project, she realized the immediate and profound impact a family physician would have on the underserved community. Mia’s dedication is underscored by her four years commitment with the UMass Pathway for Serving Underserved and Multicultural Populations program. Mia has worked at a free clinic in Worcester for two years. Mia has participated in an Adoption and Foster Care elective to develop clinic skills to enable her to work with children in adoptive and foster care situations. Mia has worked as a tutor with a Liberian Refugee Tutoring program, teaching reading and basic math. Mia enjoys knitting, reading and running.

Dorothy DeGuzman, M.D., MPH Austell, GA Emory University (MD) Emory University (MPH) Emory University (BS) Biology Dorothy’s goal as a family physician is to facilitate change in poor and underserved communities both domestic and abroad. Dorothy’s experiences include; volunteering for two years at a student run clinic, volunteering in a hospice for a year, and worked as an AmeriCorps VISTA in a nonprofit organization in Chicago. She has also volunteered for Habitat for Humanity for three years. During this time she organized and participated in a Habitat for Humanity project in Seoul, Korea. Dorothy has also volunteered at a clinic serving a rural village in Malawi. Dorothy is currently conducting a research project on mental health issues in HIV positive women in Nigeria. She enjoys running, hiking with her fiancé and dogs, playing tennis and reading.

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