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Summer Health Professions Education Program 2019 Afaq Barakzai Aileen Mendoza Alexandra (Lexie) Carpenter COMP COMP COMP George Mason University Cal State San Bernardino UCLA Coming into SHPEP, I was unsure about SHPEP was a very enriching experience, SHPEP has given me friends from all my career aspirations. Thanks to the not only were the faculty incredibly over the country and the world. My curriculum, faculty, and my peers, I amazing people but my fellow scholars arm is permanently scarred from have narrowed down my interests. On were also all very welcoming people. volleyball and water polo, and I can top of this, I made many new lifelong I will always carry the memories I've never trust communal fridges again. friends and have explored the beautiful made with my friends here close to my But I miss y’all already. When’s the parts of California! heart. reunion tho? Alexis De Guzman Alexis Garofalo Alondra Gonzalez COMP COMP COMP Fullerton College Montclair State University University of Puerto Rico, Rio Piedras Campus Thank you to SHPEP for blessing me SHPEP has been an unforgettable with this incredible opportunity to experience. I have learned so much and SHPEP has given me enrichment work with remarkable individuals from met so many kind individuals from all opportunities. I am grateful for all the diverse backgrounds. Time flew by as over the U.S. I'm positive that our friends I have made here and am excited to see all of them become wonderful memories were created cohort will be successful in our future with what started as strangers and endeavors! health care providers. ended up as a family. Ambriana (Amber) Sykes Amethyst Hall Ana Mort Dental Dental COMP Lamar University Western Michigan University Bellarmine University SHPEP exceeded my expectations and I appreciate the opportunity to meet I loved being surrounded by so many has confirmed my desire to pursue other students interested in health care different languages and cultures. dentistry. I am thankful for the overall careers and have similar experiences Staying up late and going to LA with experience and exposure to people and backgrounds to mine. It has shown everyone was a lot of fun. (: from different backgrounds. me cities experience similar issues with their health care systems. Anjli Patel Anthony Chavarria-Garcia Anyéla Saa Optometry COMP COMP Nova Southeastern University UC Riverside Jackson State University I’m so thankful for this experience and Because of SHPEP, I was able to not SHPEP has made me confident in all the friends I have made. only make 79 friends but finally make deciding to pursue a career in connections into the medical field, find medicine. I really enjoyed being out about ways to be a competitive surrounded by other aspiring students applicant for medical school, and with an interest in different health realize that I can handle a rigorous professions. I am grateful for this once course load. in a lifetime learning experience! Athena Chen Atif Osmani Avery Pardue Optometry Dental COMP Carnegie Mellon University The University of Chicago North Carolina Agriculture & Technical State University I was able to meet like-minded people I came to this program looking for from around the country who are clarity about my future. I found out My SHPEP experience was very equally as passionate about healthcare that I do want to be in the healthcare informative and I enjoyed the as I am. I had hands on experience that sector, but I still haven't found the exposure, and it was amazing to meet I can’t experience elsewhere which perfect path for me. That's fine so many interesting people throughout allowed me to be confident in pursuing because I've learned that no one path is the program. optometry as a profession. the same. Axel Cervantes Benjamin Chung Brittney Obanor Physical Therapy Dental COMP University of Nebraska at Omaha The University of Texas at San Antonio University of Southern California It was a great opportunity that gave It's amazing how a group of random SHPEP has been one of the best me hands-on experience in the students from across the country experiences I have ever had. Not only healthcare career I want to pursue. became so close to each other in a have I learned so much about my Everyone in SHPEP started as short amount of time. future career and developed valuable strangers, but we became family after skills, but I have also forged lasting a day of meeting each other. friendships and memories with such great people. Cara Moussa Carlos Melchor Caroline Onwuzu COMP COMP Optometry UC Riverside California State University, Chico University of Texas at Austin SHPEP has been such an eye opening Thanks to SHPEP, I have had the best I’ve met so many people from different experience for me. Being exposed to so summer of my life. Not only did this cultures around the world. I love my many different people who come from program provide me an intensive SHPEP fam. Every one of you volleyball such diverse backgrounds and learning experience but it also gave me playing, boba drinking, food stealing, experiences forced me to think about the opportunity to meet great people & water polo playing people will be the people outside my bubble. SHPEP make unforgettable memories In-N-Out missed! has been extremely worthwhile. of class. I love ya'll. Changho Kim Cheyenne Taylor Courtney Cummings Dental COMP Dental Union College Loyola Marymount University University of Hartford SHPEP is definitely a life changing What an eye-opening experience that The best thing I have experienced here experience. Not only did it further exceeded my expectations! I’m beyond is meeting so many amazing people at improve my knowledge of dentistry grateful to have been a part of this WesternU. I have made more but it also reaffirmed my decision of program and have met the wonderful, connections with SHPEP scholars, going to dental school. I have also met smart, and actually hilarious people faculty, and dental students than I can my future colleagues and lifelong that I hope to stay in touch with count. Thank you to everyone who friends in this program. Thank you. especially during application season made my experience so amazing! Dariana Flores Darius Graham Diego Mendez Dental COMP COMP Washington State University Haverford College University of Puerto Rico: Mayaguez Campus It was nice meeting people from SHPEP was one of the most interesting Thank you all for making the SHPEP different backgrounds and academic programs I have experienced in my life. experience an amazing one. From all the interests. I met some very extraordinary people “yokes” that were made to all the and experienced healthcare in a way I unforgettable nights, I will cherish every never have before. This was a great single memory and if anyone ever comes precursor to my medical career that I to PR you already know you’ll have a will never forget! personal tour guide. Dowha Karar Edward Hernandez Emily Mendoza COMP Dental COMP University of Richmond Washington State University Stanford University SHPEP has been an overall memorable SHPEP was a great learning experience I am incredibly thankful for the honest experience. I’m walking away with not and a good way to meet many others in and genuine conversations I had only great insight on what my future the same track. throughout the course of the program! holds academically, but also I feel like I learned something special meaningful friendships and bonds from everyone here, and I’m looking I will always be grateful and forward to seeing how we all thrive and appreciative for. grow in the future! Erica Chan Ezza Awais Feguy Mangnan COMP Optometry Physical Therapy University of California, San Diego Stony Brook University St. Francis College Everything was cool. We all walked into the room strangers- My experience at SHPEP was great. I had now look at us. When I look around I the opportunity to make many new see faces that I have grown close to friends. I love the way we stayed bonded and friends who have made this together and got to know each other. summer a memorable one. So thank We shared food and played games you to everyone who has made SHPEP together. After dinner we would go to an unforgettable experience, iykyk. play volleyball or soccer; even if nobody could stop me from scoring :) jokes lol. Gabriel Asmar Gabriela Lopez Gizman Baraso Dental COMP COMP Assumption College Arizona State University The University of Texas at Dallas I’m forever indebted to everyone that WesternU SHPEP has allowed me to helped make this experience possible. meet so many brilliant, talented, and Thank you for the memories that I will motivated individuals and learn so always cherish, and I wish you all the much about the medical field. I am so very best in your future endeavors. thankful for the friendships that I have built here with amazing people that I know will last a lifetime. Hodan Ibrahim Hussam Abdelgadir Immanuel (Manny) Abbo Dental Optometry Physical Therapy University of Washington Seattle The Ohio State University Whitworth University SHPEP was a great opportunity that SHPEP has connected me with an The people involved in this program reinforced my interest in becoming a amazing group of people in such a have been genuine, fun, passionate, dentist. The sim labs and shadowing short amount of time. I am thankful and of course intelligent. This opportunities made me more exited to that we got to learn together, grow combined with the many opportunities pursue this career. The teachers, staff, together, and enjoy our time here with to bond, learn, and explore the and new friends I met made this one another.