Second-year medical scholar helps epilepsy sufferers in Bolivia by way of the World Well being Pathway program

Megan Lo is a second-year scholar within the T.H. Chan College of Medication at UMass Chan Medical College with an urge for food for journey, whether or not she’s snowboarding in Massachusetts or monitoring sufferers in Bolivia.

Lo grew up in Arlington and majored in biology at Claremont McKenna Faculty in Southern California. Lo’s dad and mom, a veterinarian and a retired pediatric gastroenterologist, impressed her to pursue drugs. Earlier than medical college, she volunteered for hospitals, clinics and group facilities in Panama, Nicaragua and Ecuador. She joined the Global Health Pathway to proceed studying about well being and wellbeing from completely different views. 

“Everybody comes from a special background and brings a lot to the desk by way of studying about world well being and completely different settings, and even within the context of Worcester,” Lo mentioned.

Via the World Well being Pathway, Lo linked with Richard Moser, MD, professor of neurological surgical procedure. Dr. Moser is president of Solidarity Bridge‘s Neurosurgery & Neurology Institute, and organized for Lo to spend the summer time with one other associate of the nonprofit, pediatric neurologist Victor Cuéllar, MD.

“For six weeks, I helped create a registry of sufferers on the Hospital de Niños in Santa Cruz within the neurology division,” Lo mentioned. “They solely had paper information, so I helped the physician begin an digital database for incoming sufferers to trace comorbidities and danger components which will work together with their epilepsy diagnoses.”

Lo, who began to study Spanish in center college, was thrilled to hone her language abilities overseas whereas studying new issues within the medical area. When in Worcester, she co-leads an non-compulsory enrichment elective referred to as Wilderness Medication, geared towards educating first- and second-year medical college students to handle accidents and diseases in wilderness and leisure environments. Lo hopes to work in Nepal her fourth yr of medical college.

Be taught extra about Lo on this Scholar Highlight video.

The Scholar Highlight sequence options UMass Chan Medical College college students within the Morningside Graduate College of Biomedical Sciences, Tan Chingfen Graduate College of Nursing and T.H. Chan College of Medication. For extra details about UMass Chan Medical College and apply, go to the Prospective Students page.

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