Neurologist
Washington, DC
I am finishing up my fourth year of Neurology residency at Georgetown Hospital, and I am heading to UCLA to do a fellowship in Stroke Neurology next year. I’m planning to focus my clinical research as an academic physician on stroke prevention. I also got my Masters of Public Health degree during medical school, for which I worked closely with Planned Parenthood– I volunteered in their clinic and did some research projects with them, and for my MPH thesis project I made a commercial for them about STDs (starring me and thirteen classmates!) that’s still airing on local stations in central Illinois. I really enjoyed all of my classes in Women’s Studies…. It’s funny because I ended up in medicine even though I focused on English and Women’s Studies during college — and I would want college students to know you can do that. I think that my background in the humanities (especially Womens Studies) actually makes me a better physician. My classes in Women’s Studies helped me develop my own way of thinking openly and critically, and encouraged me to challenge common-place conventions. Most of all, my classes were engaging and fun, while challenging. I feel very lucky to have had the opportunity to have the education I had at Williams, and especially blessed to have worked with the Women’s Studies department.