- The Health Careers Peer Advisors are part of Brown's Health Careers Advising team particularly available to First-Year and Sophomore students. Consult a Brown undergraduate with experience as a health careers student The Peer Advisors also coordinate highly-informative and engaging events each semester.
Daniel Chan, Class of 2021
Hometown: San Francisco, CA
Concentration: Sc.B. Biochemistry and Molecular Biology; A.B. Public Health
Email: [email protected]
Activities:
- Connect for Health Patient Advocate- Hasbro Children's Hospital
- Brown Science Prep (BSP) Mentor
- Partnership in Adult Learning (PAL) Tutor
- Design+Health (collaboration between Brown, RISD, Alpert Medical School)
- ChinaCare Orphan Mentoring Program
- KDSAP @ Brown (Kidney Disease Screening and Awareness Program)
- Brown-RISD Vietnamese Students Association (VSA) Culture Committee Representative
Research:
- Phage Hunters @ Brown (2017- 2018)
- Kroetz Lab at UCSF (summer 2018)
- Laboratory for Voiding Dysfunction at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center (Summer 2019)
Fun Tidbit:
I love learning about different cultures through their food! You can always find me cooking up a storm in the kitchen to de-stress :D
A piece of advice for first-year health careers students:
Small mistakes and bumps along the road are in every single person's journey toward a career in medicine. So you should never feel excluded, discouraged, or inadequate for encountering these obstacles.
Allen Green, Class of 2021
Hometown: North Woodmere, NY
Concentration: Sc.B. Biochemistry and Molecular Biology
Email: [email protected]
Activities:
- Gift for Life Bone Marrow Registry- Brown Chapter
- Brown Research Club
- Meiklejohn Peer Advisor
- Rhode Island Free Clinic volunteer
- Brown University Men's Rugby
Research:
- Hurt Lab for Environmental and Health Neuroscience (summer 2018- present)
- Gerstner loan Kettering SURP (summer 2020)
- AMGEN Scholar at Duke University (summer 2019)
- Garcia Center for Polymers and Engineered Interface at Stony Brook University (summer 2017)
Fun Tidbit:
Russian was my first language
A piece of advice for first-year health careers students:
Spend your first year exploring your interests even if they don't relate to medicine or STEM.
Keerthi Sreenivasan, Class of 2021
Hometown: Rochester Hills, MI
Concentration: Sc.B. Biochemistry
Email: [email protected]
Activities:
- CHEM 0350/0360 Organic Chemistry TA
- Middle School Girls Lacrosse Coach at Moses Brown
- Civil Air Patrol Spaatz Cadet
- AMSA Co-President
- Organic Chemistry Tutor Leader
- Rhode Island Hospital Emergency Department Volunteer
Research:
- Maternal Fetal Medicine- Centers for Behavioral and Preventative Medicine
- Basu Lab (Glycochemistry)
- Wayne State University chronic pain management database research assistant.
Fun Tidbit: I've moved ten times in my life so far and I grew up both in the US (Michigan) and Canada (Windsor/Niagara Falls, Ontario).
A piece of advice for first-year health careers students:
Put yourself out there and push yourself to apply for opportunities you are interested in and don't feel down about any rejections you received- pick yourself up and learn from the experience for next time.
