Amritha Gourisankar (0 Posts)Contributing Writer
Emory University School of Medicine
Amritha is a first year medical student at Emory University School of Medicine in Atlanta, Georgia class of 2024. In 2017, she graduated from Washington University in St. Louis with a Bachelor of Science in biomedical engineering, and in 2020 from Emory University with a Master of Public Health in global health. She enjoys running, hiking and dancing in her free time. After graduating medical school, Amritha would like to pursue a career in pediatrics.
As medical students at Emory, we spent our first six months building a firm conception of what it means to be healthy. It did not take long to appreciate how much of our patients’ health would be determined by their social context before they ever walk into our clinics and hospitals. The importance of adequate and healthy nutrition, safe housing and manageable stress is clearly linked to patient outcomes. We can see these issues on the ballot in every election. In this sense, voting is healthy.
Amritha Gourisankar (0 Posts)Contributing Writer
Emory University School of Medicine
Amritha is a first year medical student at Emory University School of Medicine in Atlanta, Georgia class of 2024. In 2017, she graduated from Washington University in St. Louis with a Bachelor of Science in biomedical engineering, and in 2020 from Emory University with a Master of Public Health in global health. She enjoys running, hiking and dancing in her free time. After graduating medical school, Amritha would like to pursue a career in pediatrics.
