Profiles

Gail Lebovic, MD ’86, Turns Passion for Problem Solving into Creation of Medical Devices
The 45th Session of the Committee on World Food Security, hosted by the United Nations (UN) Food and Agriculture Organization in October 2018, convened global delegates, policy experts, and nutrition scientists to hold discussions on food security and nutrition in the context of the 2030 Agenda f
Many people who go into medicine have been dreaming about it since they were very young — one or both parents may have been physicians, for example. Some, however, realize their passion for medicine without having such early exposure. Rachel Zemel was one of the latter.
SMHS Alumnus “Memo” Sanchez Pairs Medicine with Creativity It’s a phrase that Guillermo “Memo” Sanchez, MSHS ’13, MPH ’13, PA-C, tosses out casually: “Creativity and the hard sciences don’t have to be mutually exclusive.
Mohammad Ali Aziz-Sultan, MD ’99, made the journey from his childhood home in Afghanistan during the Russian occupation to the heights of neurosurgery, trained in both cerebrovascular and endovascular surgery and gifted in the high-stakes game of aneurysm repair and stroke care.
As an EMT in college, Natalie Sullivan, MD, would rush her patients through the outer doors of the ambulance bay and into the bright lights of the emergency room, but from there she could go no further.
Assistant professor. Researcher. Author. These are just some of Robert Turner’s current roles. But that wasn’t always the case. He once viewed himself as only one thing: a professional football player.
Weight loss, as propagated on countless reality television shows, podcasts, and news articles, should be easy: Burn more calories than you ingest.
Samantha Brugmann, PhD ’05, had one simple Christmas wish when she was 11 years old: a microscope.
Addressing the health of the justice system’s at-risk population to improve the public’s health at large