By Kaylee Pugliese and Hallie Leo
UMass Chan Medical School Communications
October 24, 2022
Megan Lo is simply a second-year pupil successful the T.H. Chan School of Medicine astatine UMass Chan Medical School with an appetite for adventure, whether she’s snowboarding successful Massachusetts oregon tracking patients successful Bolivia.
Lo grew up successful Arlington and majored successful biology astatine Claremont McKenna College successful Southern California. Lo’s parents, a veterinarian and a retired pediatric gastroenterologist, inspired her to prosecute medicine. Before aesculapian school, she volunteered for hospitals, clinics and assemblage centers successful Panama, Nicaragua and Ecuador. She joined the Global Health Pathway to proceed learning astir wellness and wellbeing from antithetic perspectives.
“Everyone comes from a antithetic inheritance and brings truthful overmuch to the array successful presumption of learning astir planetary wellness and antithetic settings, oregon adjacent successful the discourse of Worcester,” Lo said.
Through the Global Health Pathway, Lo connected with Richard Moser, MD, prof of neurological surgery. Dr. Moser is president of Solidarity Bridge‘s Neurosurgery & Neurology Institute, and arranged for Lo to walk the summertime with different spouse of the nonprofit, pediatric neurologist Victor Cuéllar, MD.
“For six weeks, I helped make a registry of patients astatine the Hospital de Niños successful Santa Cruz successful the neurology department,” Lo said. “They lone had insubstantial records, truthful I helped the doc commencement an physics database for incoming patients to way comorbidities and hazard factors that whitethorn interact with their epilepsy diagnoses.”
Lo, who started to larn Spanish successful mediate school, was thrilled to hone her connection skills overseas portion learning caller things successful the aesculapian field. When successful Worcester, she co-leads an optional enrichment elective called Wilderness Medicine, geared toward teaching first- and second-year aesculapian students to negociate injuries and illnesses successful wilderness and recreational environments. Lo hopes to enactment successful Nepal her 4th twelvemonth of aesculapian school.
Learn much astir Lo successful this Student Spotlight video.
The Student Spotlight bid features UMass Chan Medical School students successful the Morningside Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences, Tan Chingfen Graduate School of Nursing and T.H. Chan School of Medicine. For much accusation astir UMass Chan Medical School and however to apply, sojourn the Prospective Students page.
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