SMDEP Alumni News
Congratulations to Our 2011 Ambassador Incentive Winners!
Each year SMDEP honors up to three Ambassadors who recruit the
most students that apply to SMDEP, and are accepted into the program.
Winners will be funded to attend a medical or dental related professional
conference. The conference must be approved by the SMDEP National
Program Office.
2011 Ambassador Incentive Winners
This year, we had a two-way tie, which resulted in four winners.
This year's winners are:
Doris Blondelle Takwe attended SMDEP at UT Houston in 2010.
She is a rising senior Honors student at the University of Maryland
Eastern Shore majoring in biology. She performs community service
work and shadows at the Peninsula Regional Medical Center in Salisbury,
Maryland.
Athena Zhang attended SMDEP at UT Houston in 2010. She
is a rising senior at the University of Houston majoring in biology
with a minor in chemistry. She plans to apply to medical school
in the summer of 2011.
Nelvin Acevedo Valle attended SMDEP at the Case Western
in 2010. He is a rising junior at the University of Puerto Rico,
Mayaguez Campus, majoring in chemistry. After graduation, he plans
to attend Medical School. Nelvin wants to become a successful Neuron-Pediatric
Surgeon where he can help people and also help young minority students
reach their goals in life.
Thomas Sumter attended SMDEP at the University of Virginia
in 2010. He is a rising junior at Voorhees College with a major
in Biology and minor in chemistry. Thomas wants to work in the Medical
Field, preferably as a family physician with a Neurology or Cardiology
specialty.
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Meet Wenting Guo!
Wenting attended SMDEP at the University of Texas, Houston
in 2008. After attending SMDEP, she transferred to the University
of California, Berkeley with interest in public health. During
her senior year, Wenting decided to pursue a career in dentistry.
After graduating from UC Berkeley with a degree in public
health and integrative biology, Wenting worked as a researcher
at Health
Research for Action at UC Berkeley. Her most memorable
experience working in public health was as an internal coordinator
for the Vietnam
Tooth Project, which is a student driven initiative to
improve the oral health of children in Vietnam. Health Research
for Action at UC Berkeley is one of the project's sponsors.
Today, Wenting is a first year dental student at the University
of Pennsylvania School of Dental Medicine. During her summer
break, Wenting will be educating and mentoring high school
students at the College of Physicians in Philadelphia, PA.
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