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AOA Class of 2019 Co-Presidents

Alessandra Chen

Name: Alessandra Chen
Hometown: Folsom, CA
Undergrad: Haverford College
Major: Biology
Specialty Pursuing: Dermatology
Favorite Quote: "Though we travel the world over to find the beautiful, we must carry it with us or we find it not" - Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Name: Farnoosh Nik-Ahd
Hometown: San Ramon, CA
Undergrad: UCLA
Major: Neuroscience and Women’s Studies
Specialty Pursuing:  Urology 
Favorite Quote: “Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a great battle.” - Plato 

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Name: Chelsea Roberts
Hometown: Alamo, CA
Undergrad: Washington University in St. Louis
Major: Systems Science and Mathematics, Psychology
Specialty Pursuing: Family Medicine
Favorite Quote: The best way to find yourself is to lose yourself in the service of others.  

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Name: Naomi So
Hometown: Saratoga, CA
Undergrad: UCLA
Major: Physiological Science
Specialty Pursuing: Dermatology
Favorite Quote: "For whatever we lose (like a you or a me) it's always ourselves we find in the sea." - E.E. Cummings 

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Name: Rosa Valtanen
Hometown: Vantaa, Finland
Undergrad: University of California, Irvine
Major: Human Biology
Specialty Pursuing: Orthopaedic Surgery
Favorite Quote: "Courage does not always roar. Sometimes courage is the quiet voice at the end of the day saying, 'I will try again tomorrow.'" - Mary Anne Radmacher

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Name: Natalia Vecerek
Hometown: Palos Verdes Estates, CA
Undergrad: Dartmouth College
Major: Neuroscience with a Minor in Geography
Specialty Pursuing: Dermatology
Favorite Quote: “When I do good, I feel good. When I do bad, I feel bad. That’s my religion” - Abraham Lincoln

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Name: Alexander Yuen
Hometown: Elk Grove, CA
Undergrad: University of Southern California
Major: Biological Sciences
Specialty Pursuing: Internal Medicine
Favorite Quote: "Imagining the future is a kind of nostalgia." - John Green


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Name: Jason Chen
Hometown: Gainesville, FL
Undergrad: Duke University
Major: Biomedical Engineering and Chemistry
Specialty Pursuing: Neurosurgery
Favorite Quote: "In the depths of winter, I finally learned that within me there lay an invincible summer." - Albert Camus, Retour à Tipasa

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Name: John Christensen
Hometown: Durango, CO
Undergrad: 
Carleton College
Major: 
Biology with a Minor in Cognitive Science
Specialty Pursuing:  
Internal Medicine
Favorite Quote: 
"Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try again. Fail again. Fail better." - Samuel Beckett

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Name: Tim Ellis-Caleo
Hometown: Oakland, CA
Undergrad: Washington University in St. Louis
Major: Physics
Specialty Pursuing:  Internal Medicine 
Favorite Quote: "There is no try, only do." - Master Yoda

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Name: Emily Miller
Hometown: Portland, OR
Undergrad: Willamette University
Major: Chemistry
Specialty Pursuing: Pediatrics
Favorite Quote: "Words are, in my not-so-humble opinion, our most inexhaustible source of magic. Capable of both influencing injury, and remedying it." - Albus Dumbledore

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Name: Christopher Gonzales-Alabastro
Hometown: Cypress, CA
Undergrad: University of California, Berkeley
Major:Bioengineering
Specialty Pursuing: Urology
Favorite Quote: "And at last you'll know with surpassing certainty that only one thing is more frightening than speaking your truth. And that is not speaking.” - Audre Lorde

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Name:Abbie Hageman
Hometown: Santa Rosa, CA
Undergrad: UCLA
Major: Ecology and Evolutionary Biology with a Minor in Africa Studies
Specialty Pursuing: Obstetrics and Gynecology
Favorite Quote: "Unexpected kindness is the most powerful, least costly, and most underrated agent of human change" - Bob Kerrey

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Name: Garrett Harada
Hometown: Elk Grove, CA
Undergrad: University of California, Berkeley
Major: Molecular and Cell Biology
Specialty Pursuing: Orthopaedic Surgery
Favorite Quote: "Teamwork makes the dream work, but defense wins superbowls."

Cynthia He

Name: Cynthia He
Hometown: Davis, CA
Undergrad: Stanford University
Major: Biological Sciences
Specialty Pursuing:  Psychiatry
Favorite Quote: "Traveler, there is no road; you make your own path as you walk." - Antonio Machado

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Name: Richard Hwang
Hometown: San Ramon, CA
Undergrad: University of California, Berkeley
Major: Bioengineering
Specialty Pursuing: Orthopaedic Surgery
Favorite Quote: “Perhaps wisdom is realizing how small I am, and unwise, and how far I have yet to go.” -Anthony Bourdain

Peter Konyn

Name: Peter Konyn
Hometown: Durham, CA
Undergrad: University of California, Davis
Major: Pharmaceutical Chemistry with a minor in Chicana/o Studies
Specialty Pursuing: Internal Medicine
Favorite Quote: "Thank u, next" - Ariana Grande

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Name: Emily Liang
Hometown: Sunnyvale, CA
Undergrad: Stanford University
Major: Human Biology
Specialty Pursuing: Internal Medicine
Favorite Quote: "Do or do not. There is not try" - Yoda

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Name: Benjamin Lin
Hometown: Madison, WI
Undergrad: University of Wisconsin, Madison
Major: Biology
Specialty Pursuing: Ophthalmology
Favorite Quote: "A ship in harbor is safe, but that is not what ships are built for." - John A. Shedd

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Name: Deborah Moon
Hometown: Los Angeles, CA
Undergrad: Duke University
Major: Medical Sociology
Specialty Pursuing: Dermatology
Favorite Quote: "Love your neighbor as yourself."

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Name: Laith Mukdad
Hometown:Anaheim, CA
Undergrad:UCLA
Major: Political Science
Specialty Pursuing:  Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery
Favorite Quote: "Success is peace of mind, which is a direct result of self-satisfaction in knowing you did your best to become the best you are capable of becoming." - John Wooden

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Name: Diana Partida
Hometown: Torrance, CA
Undergrad: Pomona College
Major: Molecular Biology
Specialty Pursuing: Internal Medicine
Favorite Quote: “We cannot seek achievement for ourselves and forget about progress and prosperity for our community…Our ambitions must be broad enough to include the aspirations and needs of others, for their sakes and for our own.” - Cesar Chavez

Lisa Quach

Name: Lisa Quach
Hometown: San Jose, CA
Undergrad: University of California, Davis
Major: Neurobiology, Physiology, and Behavior
Specialty Pursuing: Internal Medicine
Favorite Quote: "Just be happy and be good to others." - My parents, on career and life choices!

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Name: Benjamin Rostami
Hometown: Los Angeles, CA
Undergrad: University of Southern California
Major: Biological Sciences
Specialty Pursuing: Ophthalmology
Favorite Quote: "Live before you die" - W.T. Johnson

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Name: Manan Shah
Hometown: Diamond Bar, CA
Undergrad: University of Southern California
Major: Neuroscience
Specialty Pursuing: Internal Medicine
Favorite Quote: "Thousands of candles can be lighted from a single candle, and the life of the candle will not be shortened. Happiness never decreases by being shared." - Buddha

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Name: Alex Upfill-Brown
Hometown: Houston, TX
Undergrad: Stanford University
Major: Neurobiology
Specialty Pursuing: Orthopaedic Surgery
Favorite Quote: "It is not the beginning, but the continuing of the same unto the end, until it be thoroughly finished, which yieldeth the true glory” - Sir Francis Drake

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Name: Julie Van Hassel
Hometown: Zele, Belgium
Undergrad: University of St Andrews
Major: Biochemistry
Specialty Pursuing: General Surgery
Favorite Quote: "Ik wil, ik moet, en ik zal het kunnen."

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Name: Julius Weng
Hometown: West Hills, CA
Undergrad: UCLA
Major: Physiological Science
Specialty Pursuing: Radiation Oncology
Favorite Quote: "One day, in retrospect, the years of struggle will strike you as the most beautiful." - Freud

Alexis Woods

Name: Alexis Woods
Hometown: Jacksonville, FL
Undergrad: University of California, Berkeley
Major: Molecular and Cell Biology with an emphasis in Neurobiology
Specialty Pursuing: General Surgery
Favorite Quote: "Believe you can and you're halfway there." - Theodore Roosevelt

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