Medical Student Council
Class Officers
Meet our student leaders.
Medical student leaders work together to advocate for the student body, improve medical-school life, and strengthen the overall experience at the David Geffen School of Medicine (DGSOM).
Student Leadership
- AAMC OSR Representatives: Joanne Newens (MS4), Melanie Ramirez (MS3), Alex Krawec (MS2)
- Charles R. Drew/UCLA Medical Education Program Representatives: TBD
- PRIME Representative: TBD
- MSTP MSC Representative: TBD
- MSTP MEC Representative: TBD
- President: Jade Cook
- Vice President: Santiago Gudino Rosales
- Medical Student Council Representatives: Clara Nguyen
- Treasurer: Bennett Shaw
- Secretary: Marilyn Bravo
- Graduate Student Association Representatives: Nicholas Hamilton and Harika Kottakota
- Medical Education Committee Representatives: Torey Averick, Joanne Newens, & Matthew Rios
- Alumni Affairs Representatives: Youssef Essanaa
- Equity and Diversity Inclusion (EDI) Representatives: Michael Freddy
- Professionalism Council Representatives: Corinne Allas and Nancy Quintanilla
- Well-Being Committee Representatives: Yifan Mao, Gianna Radeljic, & Shannon Richardson
- Social Activities Committee Representatives: Frank Zhou, Luigi Varilla, Boss Le, Jay Vankawala, Mia Williams, Raimel Brook
- President: Sarah Park
- Vice President: Thomas Issa
- Medical Student Council Representative: Abinaya Ramakrishnan
- Treasurer: Kate Kilroe
- Secretary: Kelsy Larios
- Graduate Student Association Representatives.: Stacy Piva and Manish Suryapalam
- Medical Education Committee Representatives: Amani Carson, Maryam Farooq, Abhinav Suri
- Alumni Affairs Representatives: Maxwell Weng, Matthew Yan
- Equity and Diversity Inclusion (EDI) Representatives: Reeta Asmai, Vanessa De Haro, and David Pinto
- Professionalism Council Representatives: Illich Rodriguez-Rivas, Angelina Wei
- Well-Being Committee Representatives: Raeven Grant, Leslie Nunez, Vidhi Singh, and Dona Syriani
- Social Activities Committee Representatives: Autreen Golzar, Luke Murphy
- President: Camille Motchoffo Simo
- Vice President: Cindy Curiel
- Medical Student Council Rep: Marlena Freeman
- Treasurer: Simon Liu
- Secretary:
- Graduate Student Association Reps: Nneoma Okoro, Sabrina Rainsbury
- Medical Education Committee Reps: Kruti Desai, Mario Eusebio
- Alumni Affairs Reps: Alexander Fish, Jose Segura-Bermudez
- Equity and Diversity Inclusion (EDI) Reps: Mariam Noorulhuda, Lavender Micalo, Laila Khorasani
- Professionalism Council Reps: Iman Kazah, Jared Wiegand
- Well-Being Committee Reps: Lorenzo Miller, Rony Moon, Hillary Nguyen, Yee Nip
- Social Activities Committee Reps:
President: Alexander Dymond
Vice President: Dariush Yalzadeh
Treasurer: Ezekiel Dingle
Secretary: Sarwat Siddiqui
Medical Student Council Representative: Jordan Wu
MEC Reps: Victoria Castillo, Michelle Nwufo
Graduate Student Association Reps: TBD
Alumni Affairs Rep: Timothy Lee, Haley Liu
EDI Reps: Ciddjyne (CeCe) Chery, Heidi Kim
Professionalism Council Reps: Brandon Cobb, Regina Tham
Well-Being Reps: Jacob Hansen, Kathryn Huang, Nichole Schindler, Nazow Tarakai
Social Activities Committee Reps: Isabella Gianatempo, Serhet Suzer
About the Medical Student Council
As members of the Medical Student Council, we will strive to positively influence student life through advocacy, policy, open communication, and leadership.
A DGSOM community with a unified education enterprise, transparent and effective communication between students and administration, and strong student leaders.
- Foster student and administration leadership that resonates through the years
- Ease transition for new members of the DGSOM community
- Encourage, facilitate and demonstrate mentorship
- Support and cultivate ideas and initiatives; encourage innovation
- Lead transparent and effective communication between the student body and administration
- Identify and address the needs and concerns of the DGSOM community.
- Serve as the unified voice of the student body from all DGSOM programs (Geffen, Drew, Prime, MSTP)
Class Officer Roles and Responsibilities
- Represents the class at meetings with the Dean, Faculty Executive Committee, and Medical Student Council (1-2 hours/month)
- Voting member on MSC (2 hours/month)
- Oversees class MSC
- Facilitates communication between class and administration
- Time Commitment: ~6-10 hours/week
- Biggest Responsibilities:
- Ceremony of Thanks
- Facilitate monthly MS1 MSC meetings
- Voting member on The MSC
- Voting member on The MSC Budget Committee
- Attends meetings/functions on behalf of the President when needed
- Facilitates monthly class MSC meetings
- Time Commitment: ~5-8 hours/week
- Biggest Responsibility: Talent Show
- Takes minutes at meetings
- Maintains all non-financial records
- MS1 Secretary is responsible for updating the student calendar in the main hallway
- Reserve and organize class MSC meetings
- Time Commitment: ~2-3 hours/week
- Biggest Responsibility: Operation Matriculation
- Represents class at all meetings for the GSA
- Time Commitment: ~1-2 hours/week (exception: large time commitment week of Grad Games (usually early block 4)
- Biggest Responsibilities:
- UCLA Grad Games Coordinators
- Class T-Shirt design and sale
- Attends monthly meetings of MEC and subcommittees
- Serves on the Human Biology and Disease Committee
- Provides feedback to faculty and administration
- Responds to students’ questions, suggestions, and complaints
- Run block feedback groups
- Time Commitment: ~3-5 hours/week
- Biggest Responsibilities:
- Attend MEC & HBD Meetings
- Lead Block Feedback groups
- Attends meetings of the MAA
- Assists with miscellaneous events sponsored by the MAA
- Publicizes events and services of MAA
- Time Commitment: ~1-3 hours/week
- Biggest Responsibility: MAA Career Conference
- The Professionalism Council acts as an advisory board to the Dean of Student Affairs and MSC Make recommendations regarding issues of professionalism and the Honor Code
- Time Commitment: ~1-4 hours/week
- Biggest Responsibilities:
- Attending monthly Professionalism Council meetings and MSC meeting
- Planning and hosting the Ethics symposium
- Responding to reports of unprofessionalism from the class
- Gauging the climate of DGSOM via town halls, surveys, etc
- Attend quarterly meetings
- Promote student well-being by advertising and utilizing on-campus resources.
- Develop specific well-being initiatives for nutrition, mental health and fitness.
- Help coordinate well-being activities for incoming class as part of the MS1 Base Camp Course.
- Promote community well-being with student participation in activities (i.e. beach clean-up, organized trip to a Farmer’s Market, 5K/10K benefit).
- Encourage responsible practices (reducing waste, recycling in lecture halls, etc.).
- Time Commitment: ~1-2 hours/week
- Biggest Responsibilities:
- All-School Well-Being Events
- Class Well-Being Events and Initiatives
Get Involved
- Orientation (August)
- Med Games (October)
- Ethics Symposium (November/April)
- All-School Formal (January)
- Talent Show (March)
- Revisit Weekend (April)
- Grad Games (May)
- Ceremony of Thanks (May)
- Commencement Ceremony (June)
- Recruitment activities – calling 1st years
- Student panels
- Class Socials
- Well-Being Events
Attendees: Meetings are open to all students
When: Meets monthly, second Tuesday of the month
Topics of Discussion:
- Committee reports
- Student initiatives
- Administrative issues
- Other time sensitive matters
Voting:
- MS1, MS2, MS3, MS4 President
- MS1, MS2, MS3, MS4 Vice President
- MS1, MS2, MS3, MS4 MSC Rep
Budget Committee: Manages a $25,000 budget for student initiatives. Meets monthly to review proposals.
When: Meets monthly to review proposals (first Tuesday of every month)
Voting:
- MS1, MS2, MS3, MS4 Vice President
- MS1, MS2, MS3, MS4 Treasurer
- Manages a $25,000 budget for student initiatives