Name: Nora Badiner
Hometown: San Francisco, CA
Undergrad: UCLA
Major: Human Biology & Society, B.S.
Future Plans: Obstetrics & Gynecology at NY Presbyterian Weill Cornell Medical Center
Favorite Quote: “And though she be but little, she is fierce” - Shakespeare
Name: Allison Coleman
Hometown: Palo Alto, CA
Undergrad: Swarthmore
Major: Psychology
Future Plans: Pediatrics, medical education
Favorite Quote: Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts. (Winston Churchill)
Name: Tiana Kazemi
Hometown: Mountain View, CA
Undergrad: University of California, Berkeley
Major: Integrative Biology
Future Plans: Dermatology at University of Minnesota
Favorite Quote: It always seems impossible until it's done - Nelson Mandela
Name: Kelly Roelf
Hometown: Iowa City, IA
Undergrad: Humboldt State University
Major: Cellular and Molecular Biology
Future Plans: Pediatrics at Boston Children’s Hospital
Favorite Quote: "To laugh often and much; to win the respect of intelligent people and the affection of children, to leave the world a better place, to know even one life has breathed easier because you have lived, this is to have succeeded." - Ralph Waldo Emerson
Name: Rebecca Thompson
Hometown: Mill Valley, CA
Undergrad: University of California, Berkeley
Major: Molecular and Cell Biology, Infectious Diseases
Future Plans: Obstetrics & Gynecology at Oregon Health and Science University
Favorite Quote: “Once she knows how to read there's only one thing you can teach her to believe in and that is herself.” - Virginia Woolf
Name: Ashten Waks
Hometown: Long Beach, CA
Undergrad: Cornell University
Major: Human Development
Future Plans: Obstetrics & Gynecology at UC San Diego
Favorite Quote: "Anyone who doesn't believe in miracles is not a realist."- David Ben-Gurion
Name: Amy Alayari
Hometown: Dallas, TX --> San Diego, CA
Undergrad: UCLA
Major: Neuroscience
Future Plans: Pediatrics at Stanford University
Favorite Quote: "No man is an island entire of itself; every man is a piece of the continent, a part of the main." - John Donne
Name: Lao-Tzu Allan-Blitz
Hometown: Santa Barbara
Undergrad: New York University
Major: Happiness
Future Plans: Internal Medicine/Pediatrics at Brigham & Women’s Hospital
Favorite Quote: "One day, in retrospect, the years of struggle will strike you as the most beautiful." - Freud.
Name: Kian Asanad
Hometown: Woodland Hills, CA
Undergrad: UCLA
Major: Biology
Future Plans: Urology at University of Southern California
Favorite Quote: "Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement. Nothing can be done without hope and confidence." - Hellen Keller
Name: John (Jonji) Barber
Hometown: Santa Cruz, CA
Undergrad: UC Davis
Major: Exercise Biology
Future Plans: Pediatrics at Stanford University
Favorite Quote: "Let us step into the night and pursue that flighty temptress, adventure." –Albus Percival Wulfric Brian Dumbledore
Name: Jenna Borok
Hometown: San Diego
Undergrad: UCLA
Major:Anthropology
Future Plans: Dermatology at Montefiore Medical Center
Favorite Quote: “Be true to yourself. Make each day a masterpiece. Help others. Drink deeply from good books. Make friendship a fine art. Build a shelter against a rainy day.” – John Wooden
Name: Alice Brown
Hometown: Stockport, England & Temecula, CA
Undergrad: UC Riverside
Major: Global Studies
Future Plans: Obstetrics & Gynecology at UC Irvine
Favorite Quote: "We are only as strong as we are united, as weak as we are divided" -Albus Dumbledore
Name: Andrew Campion
Hometown: Danville, CA
Undergrad: UC Davis
Major: Neurobiology, Physiology, and Behavior
Future Plans: Interventional Radiology at Stanford University
Favorite Quote: Good judgment comes from experience, and a lot of that comes from bad judgment.
Name: Lawrance Chung
Hometown: Arcadia, CA
Undergrad: UCLA
Major: Biology
Future Plans: Neurosurgery at University of Southern California
Favorite Quote: "Be kind whenever possible. It is always possible." -Dalai Lama
Name: Jennifer Chyu
Hometown: Santa Monica, CA
Undergrad: UCLA
Major: Molecular, Cell, and Developmental Biology
Future Plans: Urology at University of Washington
Favorite Quote: “To infinity and beyond” - Buzz Lightyear
Name: Anthony Daggett
Hometown: Phoenix, AZ
Undergrad: UC San Diego
Major: Psychology & Neurobiochemistry
Future Plans: Psychiatry at UC San Francisco
Favorite Quote: Brevity is the soul of wit. Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind; and therefore is winged Cupid painted blind. Good night, good night! parting is such sweet sorrow, That I shall say good night till it be morrow. The fool doth think he is wise, but the wise man knows himself to be a fool.
Name: Sean Dreyer
Hometown: Laguna Niguel, CA
Undergrad: UC Berkeley
Major: Molecular and Cell Biology, Biochem track
Future Plans: Physical Medicine & Rehabilitation at Northwestern University
Favorite Quote: “I’m not great at the advice. Can I interest you in a sarcastic comment?” –Chandler Bing
Name: Nadia Faiq
Hometown: San Diego, CA
Undergrad: University of California, Berkeley
Major: Integrative Biology, Public Health
Future Plans: Emergency Medicine at Harbor UCLA
Favorite Quote: "Through love all that is bitter will be sweet, through love all that is copper will be gold, through love all dregs will become wine, through love all pain will turn to medicine." -Rumi
Name: Xavier Gaeta
Hometown: Sunnyvale, CA
Undergrad: Stanford University
Major: Biological Sciences
Future Plans: Pediatrics at UCLA Mattel Children’s Hospital
Favorite Quote: "The cure for boredom is curiosity. There is no cure for curiosity." - Ellen Parr
Name: Anju Goyal
Hometown: Rockford, IL
Undergrad: University of Chicago
Major: Biology
Future Plans: Med-Peds or Peds
Favorite Quote: Bloom where you are planted.
Name: Matthew Hung
Hometown: Smithtown, NY
Undergrad: Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Major: Biological Engineering
Future Plans: Interventional Radiology at Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania
Favorite Quote: "ANYTHING IS POSSIBLE!" - Kevin Garnett
Name: Corrine Jansen
Hometown: Livermore, CA/Kihei, HI
Undergrad: UC Berkeley
Major: Biochemistry
Future Plans: Obstetrics & Gynecology at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center
Favorite Quote: Ad astra per alia porci.
Name: Rebecca Linfield
Hometown: South Bend, IN
Undergrad: Yale University
Major: Mathematics and Philosophy
Future Plans: Infectious Disease
Favorite Quote: "A physician does not treat a disease but rather treats a sick human being." Maimonides (1138-1204) in On Asthma
Name: Megan McConnell
Hometown: Palatine, Illinois
Undergrad: University of California, Los Angeles
Major: Human Biology & Society, B.S.
Future Plans: Internal Medicine at UC Los Angeles Ronald Reagan
Favorite Quote: "You cannot live a perfect day without doing something for someone who will never be able to repay you." -John Wooden
Name: Son Nguyen
Hometown: Dixon, CA
Undergrad: UC Davis
Major: Neurobiology, Physiology, and Behavior
Future Plans: Urology at UC Davis
Favorite Quote: It's not how many times you get knocked down that count, it's how many times you get back up.
Name: Gwen Owens
Hometown: Stillwater, OK
Undergrad: Cornell University
Major: Biological and Environmental Engineering; Biology (Dual major)
Future Plans: Anesthesiology at Brigham & Women’s Hospital
Favorite Quote: "Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new." -Albert Einstein
Name: Amy Showen
Hometown: Burlingame, CA
Undergrad: Stanford University
Major: Human Biology
Future Plans: Pediatrics at UC San Francisco
Favorite Quote: "There's a full moon risin', let's go dancing in the light..." -Neil Young
Name: Alexander Sones
Hometown: Los Angeles, CA
Undergrad: Washington University in St. Louis
Major: Psychology
Future Plans: Psychiatry at UC Los Angeles Semel Institute for Neuroscience
Favorite Quote: “Be quick but don’t hurry” - John Wooden
Name: James Weinberger
Hometown: Los Angeles, CA
Undergrad: Duke University
Major: Psychology
Future Plans: Urology at UC Los Angeles Ronald Reagan
Favorite Quote: "Instead of ‘thus it was: thus I willed it"
Name: Rachel Zipursky
Hometown: Los Angeles, CA
Undergrad: Williams College
Major: Biology
Future Plans: Pediatrics at Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia
Favorite Quote: "You miss one hundred percent of the shots you never take" - Wayne Gretzky
