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Class of 2011 |
 Anne
Berry, M.D.,
Charlottesville,
VAPennsylvania State University (MD) Stanford University (BA) Linguistics Anne envisions a career combining direct clinical primary care with research and advocacy for underserved communities. During her time in the research program at MCW Center for Advancement of Underserved Children, Anne designed and wrote an IRB proposal for a qualitative study of reasons for non-urgent pediatric ED use. Anne served as Secretary of her medical school’s Rural and Underserved Medicine interest group. Prior to medical school she worked for 2 years as a health educator in Nicaragua. Anne is fluent in Spanish, and knows some Japanese. She enjoys hiking, reading, and singing in choirs and acappella groups. |
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Kathryn is drawn to family medicine because of its ability to see and build on connections among individuals, families, communities and the culture that ties them all together. She has international experience conducting community health assessments & field research in India, Dominican Republic, Haiti, Costa Rica, and Honduras. Domestically, she has volunteered for two years at two free clinics. She has also volunteered with children living at a domestic violence shelter. Kathryn speaks fluent Spanish, and is proficient in French as well as American Sign Language. She enjoys hiking, ice hockey, soccer and cooking. |
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Teaching children living in the Guatemala City garbage dump, at-risk, pregnant and parenting teens in New York, and 3rd graders on the Navajo reservation as well as her own experiences growing up in a large, working-class family has helped Summer understand the needs of those coming from low-income backgrounds and how cultural insensitivity creates barriers to accessing health care and education. During medical school, she worked with a Maasai community in Kenya to found a community based organization focused on health and education. She also taught digital photography to women living in rural Honduras as a means of documenting their living conditions and conducted interviews and focus groups as part of a women's health needs assessment. Based on the needs assessment, she helped start a microfinance organization in this community. Summer speaks Spanish, enjoys running, biking, travel, photography, and spending time with her friends and family. |
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Landrey envisions a career in which she sculpts her practice around the community she lives in, while providing long term care to entire families. Landrey worked for two years as a community outreach volunteer at a health center in Washington D.C. During this time she also organized two community health fairs. She was a summer intern at the DOH with the Bureau of Health Risk Assessment. She has also spent time at a clinic serving a Hispanic community in Washington D.C., worked as a community CPR and First Aid teacher with the American Red Cross, and worked for two years as an EMT-D. Landrey speaks Spanish. She enjoys cello, running, and knitting. |
 Kelley Lawrence, M.D.,
Crossnore, NCUniversity of North Carolina (MD) University of North Carolina (BA) Linguistics Kelley has spent a summer working at a community health center which serves an underserved, migrant farm worker community. She has traveled to Mexico and Zambia as a medical volunteer, as well as volunteered at an orphanage in Uganda for a summer. She has also lived in a Mixtec village for four months, and created an orthography and picture dictionary for their unwritten native language, and ultimately presented it at the annual meeting for The Society for the Study of Indigenous Languages of the Americas. Kelley speaks Spanish, Mandarin Chinese, and Coatzospan Mixtec. She enjoys the outdoors, playing piano, and spending time with her husband and son. |
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Candice served for two years as the Humanistic Medicine Committee Chair with AMSA. Candice was an Albert Schweitzer Fellow, and co-created the Center for Health Kids in Worcester. Her other experiences include volunteering at a free clinic for two years, as well as volunteering for a year with a therapeutic riding center working with developmentally handicapped children and adults. Prior to medical school, she completed her master's degree in music with a focus on ethnomusicology and experimental music composition and then she taught elementary and middle school music in a charter school for one year followed by two years of teaching middle school music in an inner city middle school. Her newest hobby is caring for her son. |
 Yahaida Rimola-DeJesus, D.O.,
New York, NYUniversity of New England College of Osteopathic Medicine (DO) University of Massachusetts (BS) Exercise Physiology As a Puerto Rican physician, Yahaida seeks to work in a community where she can be a role model, while providing care to the underserved. Prior to attending medical school Yahaida observed a family medicine practice in Massachusetts for two years. She has volunteered at two American Red Cross blood drives. She served as the Chair of the Social Committee for SNMA. Yahaida speaks Spanish. She has created a successful internet business and a real estate investment company, and enjoys interior design and home remodeling. |
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Daniel’s goal is to become a physician who works with an underserved population and provide aid to recent immigrants from Latin America countries. Daniel is currently working as the assistant coordinator of the Chinatown Clinic in Philadelphia. He is also currently the assistant coordinator of a project which provides free mammogram screening to women from predominantly Hispanic areas of Philadelphia. In addition to completing residency, Daniel hopes to complete his MPH. Daniel speaks Spanish. He enjoys playing the guitar, live music, current events, and Russian and American literature. |
Kathryn Bonafede, M.D.
Summer Bartholomew, M.D.
Landrey Fagan, M.D.
Candice McElroy, M.D.,
Daniel Sanchez, M.D.