Contributing Writer
Herbert Wertheim College of Medicine, Florida International University
Mona is a medical student at the Herbert Wertheim College of Medicine, Florida International University in Miami, FL class of 2025. She graduated from University of California, San Diego with a Bachelor of Science in biochemistry and cell biology with summa cum laude latin honors in 2020 and a Master of Science in biology in 2021. She has been inducted into Phi Beta Kappa, the Gold Humanism Honor Society, and Sigma Xi, The Scientific Research Honor Society. She enjoys working out, cooking, and spending time with friends and family in her free time. After graduating medical school, Mona would like to pursue a career in diagnostic radiology.
During my family medicine clerkship in medical school, I worked with a free mobile primary care clinic dedicated to serving uninsured patients. Parked outside a church in a large city, the clinic was a large blue bus standing in stark contrast to the gray asphalt parking lot around it.
In 2012, Target’s marketing team was attacked: first by an enraged father, then by a storm of reporters and finally by social media. His daughter received a mail advertisement focused on baby-related products.
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Meharry Medical College
Jordan Baechle is a second-year medical student at Meharry Medical College in Nashville, Tennessee who is interested in surgical oncology. In 2013, Jordan graduated from the University of Tennessee with a Bachelor of Science in biochemistry. Jordan’s previous research experience spans the stages of drug development at the Oak Ridge National Laboratory and Vanderbilt University Medical Center where he is currently analyzing tumor resection clinical outcomes. His primary interests focus on product development, health disparities in oncology, and metabolic interactions in tumor micro-environments.
