How a Mission to Haiti Helped Me to Grow as a Future MD. by Jean Singh (Class of 2018) As a clinical student at Kingsbrook Jewish Medical Center in Brooklyn, NY for the majority of my rotations I have gained invaluable, hands-on experience with patients. This much I expected. What I didn’t anticipate was that I would have the opportunity to go on a perspective-altering journey that would forever shape...Read More
AUA students have started a GoFundMe campaign and a donation page on Betterplace.org to raise money for the Antigua and Barbuda Sickle Cell Association. “We are really appealing to the public to make donations,” says Dr. Edda Hadeed, President of the Association. “No donation is too small.” Sickle Cell Anemia, an inherited condition in which there is not enough healthy red blood cells to carry oxygen throughout the body, affects...Read More
AUA students have started a GoFundMe campaign and a donation page on Betterplace.org to raise money for the Antigua and Barbuda Sickle Cell Association. “We are really appealing to the public to make donations,” says Dr. Edda Hadeed, President of the Association. “No donation is too small.” Sickle Cell Anemia, an inherited condition in which there is not enough healthy red blood cells to carry oxygen throughout the body, affects...Read More
AUA alumna Brenda Mai was recently featured in The Californian for becoming a doctor by the age of 24. Brenda, a self-described “nerdy student,” graduated high school in Salinas, California by the age of 16. Her next step was the University of California Davis, where she was able to accumulate enough credits to graduate in 3 years. Originally interested in winemaking, Brenda’s career path took a different direction after she...Read More
AUA alumna Brenda Mai was recently featured in The Californian for becoming a doctor by the age of 24. Brenda, a self-described “nerdy student,” graduated high school in Salinas, California by the age of 16. Her next step was the University of California Davis, where she was able to accumulate enough credits to graduate in 3 years. Originally interested in winemaking, Brenda’s career path took a different direction after she...Read More
