2018 Inductees

Name: Sara Arastoo
Hometown: Irvine, CA
Undergrad: UC Irvine
Major: Biological Sciences
Future Plans: Anesthesiology
What makes a good day in medicine great? Having a good laugh with a patient.

Name: Yosselin Arroyo-Galvan
Hometown: Bellflower, CA and Mexico City, Mexico
Undergrad: Azusa Pacific University
Major: Biology
Graduate Institution & Degree:
Keck School of Medicine at USC - MS in Global Medicine
Future Plans: Family Medicine, Following residency I will be serving the Navy as an active duty physician.
What makes a good day in medicine great? Bridging understanding of medicine to the patient and family and creating an environment of collaboration.Moments of camaraderie with colleagues in medicine, and sharing a good meal.

Name: Yvorn "Doc" Aswad
Hometown: Los Angeles, CA
Undergrad: Stanford University
Major: Human Biology Major, African and African-American Studies Minor
Future Plans: Triple Board (Pediatrics/Psychiatry/Child and Adolescent Psychiatry)
What makes a good day in medicine great? High fives from five-year-olds, nerdy jokes with teenagers, and smiles from patients with no teeth of any age. And music. Lots of it.

Name: Saul Barajas Nuno
Hometown: Guadalajara, Jalisco and Indio, California
Major: Biology
Undergrad: University of California Riverside
Future Plans: Internal Medicine. Practice in medically underserved communities
What makes a good day in medicine great? Being able to positively impact people's lives on an everyday basis.

Name: Anthony Bui
Hometown: Orange, CA
Undergrad: UC Berkeley
Major: Economics and Public Health
Graduate Institution & Degree: University of Washington - MPH in Global Health Metrics and Evaluation
Future Plans: Pediatrics with Community Advocacy, Health Services Research, and Public Health
What makes a good day in medicine great? Doing right by your patient, so that you may have contributed not only to improving their health, but also to promoting equity and combating injustices.

Name: Alessandra Chen
Hometown: Folsom, CA
Undergrad: Haverford College
Major: Biology
Future Plans: Dermatology
What makes a good day in medicine great? A good day in medicine is great when you walk into a hospitalized patient’s room and the curtains are open, natural sunlight floods the room, and the patient is showered, dressed in their own clothes, and smiling - ready to go home.

Name: Jennifer Cohenmehr
Hometown: Los Angeles, CA
Undergrad: UC Santa Barbara
Major: Biology Major and Music Minor
Graduate Institution & Degree: David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA - MPH
Future Plans: Psychiatry and Public Health
What makes a good day in medicine great? My most gratifying experiences in medicine occur outside the traditional contexts of medical care—sitting streetside with a patient experiencing homelessness and building trust with someone who previously had negative experiences with healthcare.

Name: Marquell Craddock
Hometown: Chicago, IL
Undergrad: UC Berkeley
Major: Public Health
Graduate Institution & Degree: Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health - MPH
Future Plans: Psychiatry residency, research seeking to alleviate mood disorders at the community level to enhance medical compliance of underlying chronic diseases such as hypertension, diabetes and heart disease
What makes a good day in medicine great? Bringing someone, whether it is a patient, healthcare staff, or family member, to a smile amidst all odds.

Name: Kara Faktor
Hometown: Golden, CO
Undergrad: Brandeis University
Major: Neuroscience, Hispanic Studies, Biology
Future Plans: General Surgery, Global Health
What makes a good day in medicine great? Connecting with patients and their families in a meaningful way and helping them to navigate the healthcare system to access the care they need.

Name: Jeremy Flores
Hometown: Fontana, CA
Undergrad: UCLA
Major: Molecular, Cell, and Developmental Biology
Future Plans: Psychiatry, I want to work towards a fellowship in Public Psychiatry. Eventually I would love to work in the county system and be involved with mental healthcare policy
What makes a good day in medicine great? When I sit down with my patients for 10 min and just talk to them about something other than what brought them to the hospital. It really puts things in perspective to make a connection on a human to human level.

Name: Alexandra (AJ) Greene
Hometown: Santa Monica, CA
Undergrad: Duke University
Major: Biology and History Majors
Graduate Institution & Degree: Loyola Marymount University - MA in Urban Education: Administration & Policy
Future Plans: General Surgery Residency: Provide access to quality surgical care for underserved patients, become a medical educator, and affect change at the policy level as a Trauma Surgeon.
What makes a good day in medicine great? Building trust, dispelling patients’ fears of surgery, and solving an acute problem in the OR. Celebrating operative triumphs; seeing a patient smile knowing they are healthy and value your efforts.t

Name: Cynthia He
Hometown: Davis, CA
Undergrad: Stanford University
Major: Biological Sciences
Graduate Institution & Degree: UC Los Angeles - Ph.D. in Neuroscience
Future Plans: Child & Adolescent Psychiatry with research and teaching
What makes a good day in medicine great? Building a meaningful connection with and learning from a patient, and helping her/him/them feel heard and empowered in their healthcare.

Name: Cher Huang
Hometown: Rancho Palos Verdes, CA (but born in Canada!)
Undergrad: MIT
Major: Biology
Future Plans: Medicine-Pediatrics
What makes a good day in medicine great? Getting a hug from a patient :)

Name: Peter Konyn
Hometown: Durham, CA
Undergrad: UC Davis
Major: Pharmaceutical Chemistry Major, Chicana/o Studies Minor
Future Plans: Internal medicine. Interested in Transplant Hepatology.
What makes a good day in medicine great?A good day in medicine becomes great when everyone is feeling better than they were yesterday.

Name: Leonel Martinez
Hometown: North Hollywood, CA
Undergrad: UCLA
Major: PsychoBiology Major and Chicana/o Studies Minor
Future Plans: Family Medicine. I plan to return to my low socioeconomic community.
What makes a good day in medicine great? After almost dying in my teens, any day in medicine is a great day. More so with the privilege of helping others with their health.

Name: Subha Mohan
Hometown: San Jose, CA
Undergrad: UC Berkeley
Major: Molecular Environmental Biology
Future Plans: Pediatrics!
What makes a good day in medicine great? Connecting with kids and their families, getting to work with an awesome team, and knowing that there’s nowhere else in the world I’d rather be!

Name: Damond Ng
Hometown: San Francisco, CA
Undergrad: UCLA
Major: Biochemistry
Future Plans: Internal Medicine, MPH in Health Policy & Management, medical education. After residency, my goal is to practice in urban underserved communities and alleviate health disparities.
What makes a good day in medicine great? Having a meaningful moment—a laugh, smile, silence, or tears—with patients since a normal day for us is often the scariest for them.

Name: Collin Price
Hometown: Raleigh, NC
Undergrad: UNC-Chapel Hill
Major: Biology and Psychology
Future Plans: I will be applying into psychiatry and plan to pursue an academic career incorporating clinical work, teaching, and neuroscience research.
What makes a good day in medicine great? I've found that the days I leave the hospital feeling energized and content are often some of my busiest days, with lots of patient interactions. I love when I am able to spend a lot of time talking to patients or their families; I feel like I am providing them with an extra source of information and reassurance that they otherwise wouldn't get.

Name: Lisa Quach
Hometown: San Jose, CA
Undergrad: UC Davis
Major: Neurobiology, Physiology, and Behavior
Future Plans: Internal Medicine
What makes a good day in medicine great? Getting to know my patients and their goals, questions, and fears... and figuring out how I can help them and their family through it all!

Name: Jose Sanchez-Cruz
Hometown: San Diego, CA
Undergrad: UC San Diego
Major: Biology
Future Plans: Entering the field of psychiatry to explore the mind and soul
What makes a good day in medicine great? When you see your residency or attending effortlessly connecting with a patient and you think "that's the kind of physician I want to be"

Name: Marina "Molly" Sprague
Hometown: Santa Barbara, CA
Undergrad: Middlebury College
Major: Molecular Biology/Biochemistry and Spanish
Graduate Institution & Degree: George Washington University - MS in Crime Scene Investigation
Future Plans: Internal Medicine
What makes a good day in medicine great? Connecting. Whether it be through a clasp of hands, a bedside joke, or a tearstained hint of a smile. Coming together to acknowledge what really matters.

Name: Tajah Tubbs
Hometown: Moorpark. CA
Undergrad: Stanford University
Major: Human Biology
Graduate Institution & Degree: Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health - MPH
Future Plans: Emergency Medicine residency with some work in quality improvement and operations management
What makes a good day in medicine great? Every time a patient smiles

Name: Casey Weiser
Hometown: Morgan Hill, CA
Undergrad: California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo
Major: Psychology and Cognitive Science
Future Plans: Family Medicine - Rural Underserved
What makes a good day in medicine great? A spare moment at the bedside to connect with my patient or their family makes a good day great. Every patient has an important lesson to teach!

Name: Alexis Woods
Hometown: Jacksonville, FL
Undergrad: UC Berkeley
Major: Molecular and Cell Biology with an emphasis in Neurobiology
Future Plans: General Surgery, then vascular or surg onc fellowship
What makes a good day in medicine great? Any day in the OR! When the patient does well, with no complications. When a patient feels well taken care of and let’s you know.

Name: Marcela Zhou Huang
Hometown: Mexicali, BC, Mexico and Calexico, CA
Undergrad: UC San Diego
Major: Human Biology
Graduate Institution & Degree: Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health - MPH in Health Policy
Future Plans: Internal Medicine
What makes a good day in medicine great? Connecting with patients and their loved ones