Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, NY Spending this summer as an intern at the Mount Sinai School of Medicine has been an incredible experience. I worked in the lab of Dr. Harm Van Bakel as part of the Pathogen Surveillance Project. The Pathogen Surveillance Project… Continue reading »
Project Healthcare at New York University Langone Hospital—Brooklyn, Brooklyn, NY Every day for my internship, I would board the NYU Langone ferry along with other “purple shirt” volunteers, cross the East River, and get off at NYU Brooklyn previously known as Lutheran. Project Healthcare has been an annual summer… Continue reading »
Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Center for Health Equity, Baltimore, MD The Center for Health Equity booth at a community health fair. This summer, I had the opportunity to intern at the Johns Hopkins Center for Health Equity. The Center is comprised of Johns Hopkins Medicine and… Continue reading »
Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ Writing code that looks at information of proteins based on documents stored on the Protein Data Bank website. I worked in the Khare lab at the Center for Integrative Proteomics Research at Rutgers University. The Khare lab has both “wet” and “dry” labs, meaning… Continue reading »
Nathan Kline Institute for Psychiatric Research, Orangeburg, NY When I accepted my internship position at the Nathan Kline Institute, I knew very little about clinical research. I pictured working with Excel spreadsheets all day. Since I had little practical experience with statistics or coding, I was concerned I wasn’t… Continue reading »
Sri Ramachandra Institute of Higher Education and Research, India Administering the Morisky Medical Adherence Scale-8 to a participant in the native language, Tamil. My experience at the Sri Ramachandra Institute of Higher Education and Research (SRIHER) was an attempt to familiarize myself with a side of medicine that I… Continue reading »
Aceso Global, Washington, DC Jake Foehl ’19, Ben Beiers ’20, and me at the Family Separation Protest in front of the White House. This summer I was graced with the opportunity to intern at Aceso Global, a small non-profit based in Washington, DC that provides advising on hospital-centered… Continue reading »
Cleveland Council on World Affairs, Cleveland, OH The CCWA interns after a day of hard work at the Diplomacy Begins Here Summit. This summer, I had the opportunity of interning with the Cleveland Council on World Affairs (CCWA). CCWA is a historic non-profit organization with a mission “to… Continue reading »
Women’s College Hospital, Canada Embracing the beauty of Canada, standing out in front of the Women’s College Research Institute. For some time, working in research has been an intimidating but intriguing possibility to me. I have been told that it is mundane by some, while others have said… Continue reading »
International Business Government Counsellors, Inc., Washington, DC I spent this summer working as an intern at International Business Government Counsellors, Inc. (IBC) in Washington, DC. IBC is a full-service government relations firm which provides clients with a range of services. I worked on the twelfth floor of an office building… Continue reading »