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Lourdes Center for Public Health: Current Class

Jessica Kim

College: Haverford College
Expected Graduation Date: 2009
Major: Biology
Extracurricular Activities: Through Haverford, Jessica mentors and tutors middle school students from inner city public schools, works with an AIDS service group on campus and volunteers at a variety of different events. Outside of Haverford, she has worked abroad helping to set up clinics and provide medical care to families in impoverished areas throughout Belize.
Career Interests: To pursue a career in Pediatrics.
Why she chose Lourdes Center for Public Health:
"I chose to work at Lourdes because I admire its values and commitment to serving vulnerable communities. This past summer, I worked on a Community Health Needs Assessment Project for the hospital. Our focus was to determine the socioeconomic factors that may play a role in healthcare access in the river communities of Burlington County. This project has given me a deeper understanding of public health's importance in medicine. I am excited to integrate my experiences into future work within the public health field."

Adam Lick

College: Dickinson College
Expected Graduation Date: May 2009
Major: Biochemistry & Molecular Biology
Extracurricular Activities: Football, Pre-health society, Phi Delta Theta Philanthropy Chair, Alpha Lambda Delta, Omicron Delta Kappa, Gamma Sigma Epsilon Chemistry honor society.
Career Interests: Dentistry / Oral Surgery and Public Health
Why he chose Lourdes Center for Public Health:
"I wanted to gain experience in the medical field, but also wanted to see what a career in public health incorporated. It also offered me the chance to meet people within the field of public health and hear their input."

David Macknet

College:: University of Pennsylvania
Expected Graduation Date:: 2010
Major:: Biological Basis of Behavior, Pre-Med
Extracurricular Activities:: David is a member of Penn's football team, the National Society for Collegiate Scholars and Alpha Epsilon.
Career Interests: MD, MPH degree with a focus on Orthopedics/Sports Medicine.
Why he chose Lourdes Center for Public Health:
"Lourdes was offering Public Health research in an urban setting with a few projects to sink my teeth into. I also had connections to Dr. Miller through my bioethics professor, Dr. Devlin, who is on Lourdes bioethics counsel. I also liked Lourdes' efforts to help those who are underserved and under-insured."

Alyssa Nardi

College: Georgetown University
Expected Graduation Date: 2009
Major: Human Science
Extracurricular Activities: Alyssa recently completed a Translational Health Science Internship. This is a six-week internship program through Georgetown in conjunction with the INFANT Foundation in Buenos Aires, Argentina. She serves as a peer advisor for students in the School of Nursing and Health Studies at Georgetown and is also an NHS Admissions Ambassador and a member of the Ambassador for Georgetown Ambassadors Program.
Career Interests: Alyssa's interests include public health and health administration.
Why she chose Lourdes Center for Public Health:
"The Lourdes Public Health Center seemed like a perfect fit because I am interested in pursuing public health as a career and I would have a great hands on opportunity to get involved with public health work. Dr. Miller offered me a chance to get involved with several studies from Step 1 to be able to see how the process that the public health system must go through to see results and be able to implement changes. Working at Lourdes was great because the other interns and I had a lot of independence to really learn the process and develop the Community Health Needs Assessment and My Care Team Web-based Diabetes Control Study ourselves. By being able to do so much work and have a good deal of independence, we were able to dive right in and learn a lot. I really enjoyed my time spent at Lourdes and feel that the projects I worked on were very rewarding."

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