Category Archives: Medical School Alumni

Walter Reed National Military Medical Center Director Addresses DAR Chapter

At a recent meeting of the Temperance Smith Alston Chapter, Daughters of the American Revolution, at Pinehurst Country Club, Brig. Gen. Jeffrey B. Clark, director of Walter Reed National Military Medical Center in Bethesda, Md., gave an overview of the medical care at the facility for wounded warriors and patriots.

He was joined in the program by his daughter, Anna Clark, alumni manager of Wounded Warriors. Following a presentation of the colors ceremony by the Pinecrest High School ROTC, Clark gave a history of Veterans Day.

An online service is needed to view this article in its entirety. You need an online service to view this article in its entirety.

Or, use your facebook account:

Thank you for visiting ThePilot.com. Your Pilot subscription entitles you to unlimited digital access. Simply log in.From the home page, click on Subscription Services. Then click on "Pilot All Access Print Subscribers." It should show your phone number and last name. If so, click "Sign Up." After a few seconds, it will take you back to the home page. Log out, then log back in. You're set! For any problems, call our customer service number at 910-693-2487 or 693-2488.

Need an account? Create one now.

Or, use your facebook account:

kAmx? 96C AC6D6?E2E:@?[ p??2 r=2C< E@=5 E96 8C@FA 23@FE 96C ;@3 EC2G6=:?8[ EC2:?:?8[ 2?5 5@:?8 H92E ?665D E@ 36 5@?6 7@C p>6C:42D H@F?565] $96 DE2CE65 @FE 2E E96 (2=E6C #665 r6?E6C 2?5 H@C<65 H:E9 AC@E@4@=] %96? D96 EC2?D76CC65 E@ E96 (@F?565 (2CC:@C !C@;64E[ :? (2D9:?8E@?[ sr] pE E96 (@F?565 (2CC:@C !C@;64E[ H9:49 H2D DE2CE65 :? #@2?@<6[ '2][ r=2C< A=2?D 6G6?ED 7@C 4=:6?ED 2?5 86ED E96> :?E@ 24E:G:E:6D] $96 92D c[d__ 4=:6?ED 😕 96C 2C62[ H9:49 4@G6CD sr[ }@CE96C? ':C8:?:2[ |2CJ=2?5 2?5 s6=2H2C6] w6C ;@3 😀 @FEC6249[ 4@??64E:?8 G6E6C2?D H:E9 36?67:ED]k^Am

kAm%96 36DE E9:?8 H6 42? 5@[ D96 E@=5 E96 8C@FA[ 😀 E@ 9:C6 G6E6C2?D]k^Am

kAmu:6=5:?8 2 ?F>36C @7 BF6DE:@?D 7C@> E96 2F5:6?46[ v6?] r=2C< 6IA=2:?65 E92E (2=E6C #665 }2E:@?2= |:=:E2CJ |65:42= r6?E6C 92D 366? 42==65 E96 !C6D:56?ED w@DA:E2=[ 2D :E 2=D@ D6CG6D E96 6I64FE:G6 3C2?49[ >6>36CD @7 r@?8C6DD[ 2?5 $FAC6>6 r@FCE ;FDE:46D] xE 92D 2 E@E2= DEC6?8E9 @7 f[`a_[ H9:49 :?4=F56D `[hd_ A9JD:4:2?D[ 56?E:DED[ C68:DE6C65 ?FCD6D[ E96C2A:DED[ #65 rC@DD G@=F?E66CD 2?5 @E96CD] z?@H? 2D E96 A=246 H96C6 @FC ?2E:@? 962=D :ED 96C@6D[ (2=E6C #665 92D 2 42?46C 46?E6C 2?5 @E96C DFAA@CE:?8 724:=:E:6D]k^Am

Read more from the original source:
Walter Reed National Military Medical Center Director Addresses DAR Chapter

‘Morristown’s Got Talent!’ finalists chosen

MORRISTOWN The Morris Educational Foundation on Monday night announced the winners of the Morristowns Got Talent! auditions held Saturday at Morristown High School.

The winners will go on to compete on Wednesday Feb. 25, 2015 at the annual Morristowns Got Talent! show at the Mayo Performing Arts Center on South Street.

The contestants will be:

Amy Albin, a student at Morristown High School, singing A Moment Like This.

Ally Are, who works at Mini of Morristown, will perform an original poetry reading.

Art of Play, a band of Morristown High School students, will perform a funk medley.

Battlefest Nation, who work as Emergency Medical Technicians in Morristown, will perform a mixed dance.

Evan Boncelet, a student at Sussex Avenue School , will sing When I Was Your Man.

The Bottle Openers Band, who live in Morristown, will perform Wagon Wheel.

Amy and Julia Bozza. Amy, who works in the Morris School District, and Julia, a student at Frelinghuysen Middle School in Morris Township, will sing a duet, Try.

See the article here:
'Morristown's Got Talent!' finalists chosen

MSM Collaborates with AAMC to Improve Health Care For Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, Gender Nonconforming and …

Atlanta, GA (PRWEB) December 16, 2014

Morehouse School of Medicine (MSM) joined with the Association of American Medical Colleges (AAMC) in creating an important new set of resources aimed at reducing health disparities experienced by people who are lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender (LGBT), gender nonconforming or born with differences of sex development (DSD). The resources include the first-ever guidelines for training physicians to care for these populations, a report on how to apply these guidelines in the medical school curriculum, and a professional development video series. The guidelines and report were released in November and the video series will be released in January 2015.

People who are LGBT, gender nonconforming or born with DSD often experience challenges when seeking care in doctors offices, community clinics, hospitals and emergency rooms. These experiences, which can range from being made to feel unwelcome to outright discrimination and mistreatment, lead to poorer physical and emotional health.

Addressing health disparities in LGBT populations fits well with Morehouse School of Medicines tradition of serving the underserved, said Carey Roth Bayer, Ed.D., R.N., C.S.E., Associate Professor of Community Health and Preventive Medicine/Medical Education at Morehouse and Associate Director of Educational Leadership for the Satcher Health Leadership Institute.

The AAMC resource guide identifies 30 competencies that physicians must master. These competencies fall under eight domains of care critical to training physicians. This competency-based framework will allow medical educators to integrate the new guidelines into existing curricula more easily and encourage faculty and health care professionals to move away from thinking of patients in these groups as separate from the general patient population.

Dr. Bayer served on the AAMC Advisory Committee on Sexual Orientation, Gender Identity, and Sex Development and wrote and edited several sections of the report. In addition to Dr. Bayers involvement, current Morehouse School of Medicine medical student Jennifer (Jae) Goines and lore dickey, Ph.D., Health Policy Leadership Fellow from 2011 to 2012, will appear in the professional development videos.

David Satcher, M.D., Ph.D., Director of the Morehouse School of Medicine Satcher Health Leadership Institute and former U.S. Surgeon General has championed Morehouses leadership role in this project.

When it comes to neglected areas such as LGBT, gender nonconforming, and DSD patient health, leadership development in addressing health disparities is critical, he said.

The new AAMC competencies, resource guide, and video series on LGBT, gender nonconforming, and DSD patient health are important for training future physicians to care for all patients in a culturally competent manner, said Valerie Montgomery Rice, M.D., MSMs President and Dean. I am proud of the leadership of Morehouse School of Medicine faculty, students, and alumni in the development of these groundbreaking resources.

As a historically black medical school based in the South, Morehouse School of Medicine plays an important role among academic medical centers leading the way in this area. Morehouse has already taken significant steps to create an inclusive climate for LGBT students, staff and faculty; to teach medical students about sexual health and sexuality; and to address the needs of LGBT patients. For example, all medical students receive training in LGBT and DSD health issues as curricular components in the schools Fundamentals of Medicine courses. Students can also choose fourth year electives on human sexuality, sexually transmitted diseases, and adolescent medicine. In addition, the Pediatric Residency Program ensures that all pediatric residents receive content specific to LGBT and DSD health.

The rest is here:
MSM Collaborates with AAMC to Improve Health Care For Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, Gender Nonconforming and ...

PSU alumni trustees fail to draw quorum for meeting on NCAA suit

UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. It was a move Penn States nine alumni-elected trustees saw as a final effort for the university to become plaintiffs in the joint lawsuit by state Sen. Jake Corman and state Treasurer Rob McCord against the NCAA.

With the NCAA headed to trial in January over whether the governing body overstepped its bounds and acted in good faith by handing Penn State unprecedented sanctions in 2012, Mondays special meeting called by the alumni-elected trustees was a final opportunity for the board to take a stand.

Instead, the divisions between Penn States trustees continued as board chairman Keith Masser, Penn State president Eric Barron and the majority of other trustees chose not to attend. Without enough members present for a quorum, several alumni-elected trustees spoke to nearly 45 audience members about the ongoing issues the board faces and questioned the fiduciary responsibilities of many of their colleagues.

Individuals in the groups are loyal to themselves first, the group second and maybe Penn State third, alumni-elected trustee Al Lord said to the group at the Penn Stater Conference Center. This board must change. This great university, in spite of this board. It would be better served without any board right now. This board began digging the sewer that were in in 2011 and were still digging.

We cant fix this board from inside, Mr. Lord said. This board is failing badly right now. If I could suggest one thing, I would say start over.

Among the attendees was Sue Paterno, wife of the late Penn State football coach Joe Paterno. Stemming from the fallout from the Jerry Sandusky child sexual abuse scandal, in July 2012 Penn State signed the NCAAs consent decree, thus accepting unprecedented sanctions that included a four-year bowl ban, scholarship reductions, a $60 million fine and 112 vacated wins.

The board needed 16 members present Monday in order to take action on a motion called for by trustee Anthony Lubrano regarding the lawsuit. Nine trustees were accounted for.

This is one of the saddest days of my career, alumni-elected trustee Robert Jubelirer said.

Those who chose not to be here by judgment have ignored their fiduciary responsibility. You call that leadership? I call that irresponsibility and I call that absolute arrogance.

Responding to criticism that the alumni-elected trustees are solely interested in overturning the sanctions and rehashing the past rather than moving toward the future did not sit well with the group gathered at the front of the room. Trustee Alice Pope, who was elected by the alumni, said by accepting the sanctions Penn State then agrees that the university has a culture problem.

Original post:
PSU alumni trustees fail to draw quorum for meeting on NCAA suit

Cooper Joins Morehouse School of Medicine as General Counsel

Atlanta, GA (PRWEB) December 15, 2014

Almeta E. Cooper, J.D., joins Morehouse School of Medicine (MSM) as senior vice president, general counsel and corporate secretary, bringing a wealth of health care law and operations experience. Serving as the head of the legal team, she will provide counsel to and direct the legal affairs of the institution, including serving as the secretary to the MSM Board of Trustees.

"It is my pleasure to welcome Almeta E. Cooper to our team," said President and Dean Valerie Montgomery Rice, M.D. "Her extensive health care experience is exactly what we need to advance our mission and remain competitive in this dynamic health care environment."

Cooper comes to MSM from The Ohio State Universitys Wexner Medical Center, where she served as associate vice president for health sciences and executive director for Health and Human Services (HHS) advocacy, regulatory and quality improvement programs. She has used her expertise to resolve problems in a range of complex settings such as associations, integrated health care delivery systems and academic medical centers. Cooper served as the general counsel at Ohio State Medical Association immediately prior to her tenure at OSU Wexner Medical Center.

In addition to her extensive experience as a health care lawyer, Cooper speaks and presents nationally about health care issues.

A past president of the American Health Lawyers Association (AHLA), Cooper was awarded the AHLA David J. Greenburg Service Award in 2012 and is an AHLA Fellow. She is also a fellow of the American Bar Association, a member of the advisory board of the Women Business Leaders of the U.S. Healthcare Industry Foundation, the Governing Board of the Health Care Cost Institute and Northwestern University Council of 100 Women. In 2013, Cooper was included in The History Makers video oral history collection as a Law Maker for significant contributions to the legal field. She was awarded in 2011 an inaugural Top Corporate Counsel Award by Columbus Business First and has been recognized for community service as a Central Ohio YWCA 2009 Woman of Achievement.

Cooper earned a Bachelor of Arts degree in German from Wells College in Aurora, New York, and a Doctor of Jurisprudence degree from Northwestern University School of Law in Chicago.

About Morehouse School of Medicine Founded in 1975, Morehouse School of Medicine (MSM) is among the nation's leading educators of primary care physicians and was recognized by Annals of Internal Medicine in 2011 as the top institution in the first study of U.S. medical schools for our social mission based on our production of primary care physicians, training of underrepresented minority doctors and placement of doctors practicing in underserved communities. MSM faculty and alumni are noted for excellence in teaching, research and public policy, as well as exceptional patient care.

Morehouse School of Medicine is accredited by the Commission on Colleges of the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools to award doctoral and master's degrees. For more information, please visit http://www.msm.edu.

###

Read the original here:
Cooper Joins Morehouse School of Medicine as General Counsel

Awards, honors for Lehigh Valley Residents

William L. Miller, MD, MA, Leonard Parker Pool Chair of Lehigh Valley Health Network's department of family medicine, is a co-recipient of The Society of Teachers of Family Medicine's Curtis G. Hames Research Award. Benjamin Crabtree, PhD, Robert Wood Johnson Medical School, has been recognized along with Miller for their lifetime contributions to research and scholarly activity in family medicine. Miller and Crabtree began a research partnership at the University of Connecticut's department of family medicine 30 years ago. Their efforts centered on transforming primary care by understanding how health and illness are "whole person" events and how practices change and improve accordingly. Over the years, they've refined approaches to research with the goal of improving primary care clinical encounters and practice performance. Miller and Crabtree were leaders in the first wide-reaching national demonstration of the patient-centered medical home concept.

Dr. Kelley R. Kenney, Kutztown University professor of counseling and student affairs, has been honored as the recipient of the Pennsylvania College Personnel Association 2014 Ronald Lunardini Mentoring Award. She was nominated for this award for her mentoring of graduate students and new professionals in the field of student affairs. Nomination letters were submitted by program alumni and by current students.

Japna Kaur of Northampton who is studying marketing at LIM College, recently participated in the Amazon Fashion challenge of rising stars from New York City's top fashion and design colleges. Mentored by a group of top industry professionals, the student teams of five were challenged to conceptualize, style and shoot a captivating editorial campaign that speaks to the Amazon Fashion customer with the winning images to be featured as part of Amazon Fashion's Fall 2014 on-site editorial. The creative challenge required students to apply their skills in graphic design, styling, editing, fashion photography, and art direction, while working in their own dedicated photography bay. Students were given access to state-of-the-art photography equipment, models, wardrobe, hair and makeup services, and props. Japna was the graphic designer and production manager of the LIM College Womenswear Team.

Allentown Mayor Ed Pawlowski was recently recognized by The National League of Cities for recent completion of key health and wellness goals for Let's Move! Cities, Towns and Counties. LMCTC is a major component of first lady Michelle Obama's Let's Move! initiative, which is dedicated to solving the childhood obesity epidemic within a generation. LMCTC calls upon local elected officials to adopt sustainable and holistic policies that improve communities' access to healthy affordable food and opportunities for physical activity through five goal areas.

Principal, Sister Bernard Agnes, IHM of Marian Catholic High School recently announced that Matthew Karnish, Nesquehoning has been named a commended student in the 2014 National Merit Scholarship Program. A letter of commendation from the school and National Merit Scholarship Corporation, which conducts the program, was presented by the principal to Karnish.

JoCarol Zuber, CIC of Zuber Insurance, was recently honored for her ongoing pledge to education, commitment to excellence, and dedication to the insurance profession. The Society of Certified Insurance Counselors presented Zuber with a certificate for her continued participation in the CIC program. Earning her CIC designation and maintaining all update requirements for 20 years places Zuber in the top one percent of all insurance professionals in the country.

Tianna Dupont, a Williams Township resident and sustainable agriculture educator with Penn State Extension was recently named a sustainable agriculture research and education fellow. Four fellows are selected from around the country and travel to each of the four SARE regions, Northeast, Southeast, Northwest, and Southwest over the course of two years to participate in a series of national seminars that highlight how sustainable management principles are practiced in the field. Participants visit sustainable farming and ranching systems in each of the regions to learn sustainable agriculture strategies and how to implement them. Following the two-year program, they will share this knowledge to help build capacity among the farmers in their locality.

Hellertown resident Garrett Powell, a junior at Bucknell University studying mechanical engineering and Christian Muhrer, a junior at Drexel University also studying mechanical engineering, were recently awarded $9,000 and $8,400 respectively in scholarship money from the II-VI Foundation. The II-VI Foundation Scholarship Program was established to encourage and enable student scholars to pursue an engineering-, mathematics-, or science-related degree at a postsecondary educational institution while maintaining a standard of excellence in that pursuit. A scholarship award must be used for tuition, books, and fees required for the enrollment or attendance of the student at a qualifying institution. Recent high school graduates and current college students are eligible.

Command Sgt. Maj. Daniel Daile, of Palmerton, has been selected to take over as the next sergeant major of the Army, which is the highest ranking enlisted soldier in the Army. The sergeant major of the Army recommends quality-of-life improvements and sits on councils that make decisions affecting enlisted soldiers and their families. The the person in that post also routinely testifies before Congress.

Nazareth Area High School students Mikaela Esposito, Gabby Tavianini, Emily Szuter, and Jack Doyle were recently accepted into the Pennsylvania Music Educators Association District 10 Chorus. Over 800 students auditioned and 200 were selected to create the District 10 Chorus. The students will be traveling to Muhlenberg High School to participate in the festival from January 22nd through the 24th. While there, they will work under the direction of Dr. Linda Telford of Messiah College to present two concerts to the public.

See the rest here:
Awards, honors for Lehigh Valley Residents

Lex native elected president of national non-profit

Lexington High School graduate Dr. Lynn Ringenberg has had an impressive career in the military, medical, and academic sectors.

Now, in semi-retirement, shes prepared for her next challenge: seving as president of Physicians for Social Responsibility, or PSR. PSR is a physician-led non-profit that works to protect human life from the gravest threats to human health and survival: nuclear weapons, climate change and toxic degradation of the environment, according to a statement from the organization.

Ringenberg moved to Lexington as a toddler and graduated from LHS in 1964. Her mother, Myra, still lives in the area and her father ran a sporting goods store in town for many years, she said.

After high school Ringenberg attended Kearney State and went to medical school at the University of Nebraska-Omaha. She did her residencies at the University of Florida and Bowman Gray in North Carolina.

After completing medical school and her residencies, Ringenberg joined the Army. She was stationed for a while at Fort Bragg in North Carolina. Between active duty and the reserves, she spent a total of 26 years in the armed forces. She retired having achieved the rank of Colonel. The military was a great experience. I would have kept going, but Ive had a couple of bouts with cancer and had to get out of the Army, she said.

Ringenberg had a private practice in Clearwater, Fla., and in 1990 she joined the staff of the University of South Florida in Tampa. She worked her way up to professor and retired after 20 years in 2010. She remains a professor emeritus of Pediatrics and is still involved with the university in a part-time capacity. Im setting up an alumni group, and there are other projects Im involved with as well, she explained.

Her retirement gave her more opportunity to get involved with non-profit work, she said. I co-founded a PSR chapter in Tampa in 2008, and in 2012 we expanded that statewide, Ringenberg said.

We focus on things we think are the gravest threats to human survival: climate change and nuclear weapons, she said. What makes PSR different, she said, is the emphasis on health.

We might be the only non-profit that talks specifically about health, she said. While there are no shortage of climate change-deniers in the United States, Ringenberg said the warming of the planet is already a detriment to human health worldwide.

We are seeing worsening allergies and asthma in children, and kids require more medication at a younger age to deal with it than we saw 20 years ago, she said. Severe droughts are affecting the food cycle, and worsening weather leads to more severe storms. These things have a direct impact on health.

Here is the original post:
Lex native elected president of national non-profit

UAB School of Nursing students asks for vote of no confidence against Watts

BIRMINGHAM, AL (WBRC) -

The UAB School of Nursing has written a letter to the university Faculty Senate asking for a vote of no confidence against UAB President Dr. Ray Watts.

While the students acknowledge that the decisions made as part of the strategic plan may be fiscally correct, they criticize Watts for the way in which he applied the plan.

They ask for better transparency in handling matters that affect the university as a whole as well as the city of Birmingham.

"The lack of vision, honesty, and communication resulted in a lack of respect and trust in our President. We need a leader that values the opinions of the students he leads. We want a leader who hears the voices of the students and community, and fights for us. We are afraid Dr. Watts failed us in that," students write.

As the university moves forward, the students said they want a leader who will consider all parts - from undergraduate programs to athletics to on-campus housing.

A nursing student we spoke with said she thinks the fact that the letter came from students in the nursing program might give the plea a leg to stand on.

"I believe that the school of nursing is very prestigious, people look up to nursing students. It's a competitive program so the fact that we see something we want to change speaks a lot to the university," Kyndal Cheng said.

To the Faculty Senators and Alternate Senators for the UAB School of Nursing:

We are writing to you as a UAB Nursing students, Blazer fans, and advocates for the University.

See the article here:
UAB School of Nursing students asks for vote of no confidence against Watts

Study on Current Perceptions of Ebola Reveals Public Remains Scared and Skeptical

Released: 2-Dec-2014 12:00 PM EST Source Newsroom: MavenMagnet Contact Information

Available for logged-in reporters only

Newswise A high level of concern and an equally high level of ignorance about medical facts, real or perceived, continue to fuel conversations about Ebola in social media and the press, even as the disease drops out of the headlines.

In support of Strategies for Fighting Ebola: A Columbia University Summit to Help End the Epidemic, held this week at the Columbia Club in New York City, MavenMagnet, a multinational big data-based research company, conducted a study to understand the current U.S. public perceptions of Ebola.

The Summit is sponsored by: Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons, Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health, Columbia University School of Nursing, Columbia University School of International and Public Affairs, Columbia Business School Alumni Club of New York, The Columbia Alumni Association, and The Columbia University Club of New York.

The nationally balanced, projectable sample of 2,090, was drawn from an analysis of conversations about Ebola from a wide range of digital sources including Facebook, Twitter, blogs, forums, community chat rooms, press, and other platforms between October 20, 2014 and November 20, 2014.

With the vast majority of the conversations (41%) centered on discussions of the Medical Understanding behind the virus (i.e. the causes, prevention, effects, treatments, etc.), only 4% of the conversations were positive indicating a continuing high level of concern about the disease and a continuing lack of knowledge about medical facts, said MavenMagnet CEO Aditya Ghuwalewala.

The key words which had the greatest impact in the conversations were: scared, plot and airborne. The reference to Ebola being part of a plot was, of course, highly charged, as was the reference to airborne which remains both a very hot and misunderstood topic.

Skepticism and Fear were the second most discussed topics and the focus of 18% of the conversations with Controversy a close third at 14%. Disturbingly, Racial Stigma also was part of 11% of the conversations.

On the positive side, 14% of the conversations referenced the importance of Global Solidarity in fighting Ebola. Awareness of celebrity initiatives such as those by Bob Geldof and BandAid, drove the solidarity references, with mentions in 58% of the conversations on Global Solidarity. Clearly, celebrity events are noticed and have the potential to have an even greater positive effect.

Original post:
Study on Current Perceptions of Ebola Reveals Public Remains Scared and Skeptical

Healthy veins are doctors top priority

Dr. Michael Vasquez has no problem advising would-be Duke University students interested in subjects beyond science to get creative if theyre accepted into the top-notch school.

After all, thats what the Williamsville native did.

Vasquez graduated from Duke with a bachelors degree in religion along with all of the pre-med courses he needed to get into the University at Buffalo School of Medicine. Nearly three decades later, he serves as an alumni interviewer for Western New Yorkers who apply to his North Carolina alma mater.

I was interested in religion, I was interested in the humanities, said Vasquez, 50, who now lives in East Amherst. It gave me a whole skills set in terms of being able to read and write critically.

He also took public speaking and public policy classes, along with a leadership program that allowed him to meet then-Gov. John H. Sununu of New Hampshire, journalist Cokie Roberts, and members of the civil rights movements Freedom Riders.

He and other alums in the region get together annually with those accepted to the school. Its a group that includes fellow doctors, as well as lawyers, a CPA, a leading Moog engineer and UB basketball coach Bobby Hurley, who led Duke to two NCAA mens basketball championships as a point guard in the early 1990s.

Vasquez is a general surgeon who founded and operates the Venous Institute of Buffalo, which sits on the DeGraff Memorial Hospital campus in North Tonawanda. He also is a clinical assistant professor at UB Medical School.

He followed his father, now-retired Dr. Anibal Vasquez, into the medical field, and is in the midst of clinical trials that include a new procedure used to shut down varicose veins.

Did you know at Duke that you wanted to be a doctor?

I knew as a child. I went with my father to (St. Josephs) hospital when I was young and I remember watching him work in the emergency room sewing up a laceration. I was just awestruck. Summers, he helped me get positions to do local research and get into hospitals to get experience, and that experience made a big difference. I used to draw blood at Roswell and I did research there.

More:
Healthy veins are doctors top priority