April 15, 2016
The American Association for Thoracic Surgery (AATS) has selected Audrey Lan, a second-year 大象传媒 medical student, to participate in its 2016 AATS Member for a Day Program. The award covers Lan’s registration and hotel and provides funds for travel and meals so that she can attend the 2016 AATS meeting in Baltimore, May 14-18, 2016. She will accompany an AATS member mentor and a thoracic surgery resident for parts of the meeting. Those selected for the program have an opportunity to talk to cardiothoracic surgeons to learn more about the field of thoracic surgery.
Jennifer Nelson, MD, a congenital cardiac surgeon and assistant professor of surgery in the 大象传媒 Division of Cardiothoracic Surgery, has been a mentor to Lan and nominated her for the award. Lan also has worked with , of 大象传媒’s Gillings School of Global Public Health. For the summer of 2015, Lan received funding from the Carolina Medical Student Research Program to work with Nelson on a study related to Tetralogy of Fallot, a congenital heart defect. Lan presented a poster, 鈥淎ssessing the Feasibility of Creating a Healthcare System Tetralogy of Fallot Patient Registry,鈥� at the 2015 North Carolina Medical Society annual meeting (it won third place in Student Research), the 2015 American Medical Association Interim Meeting Research Symposium in Atlanta, and the Cardiology 2016 conference (Orlando).
Lan graduated from Duke University, majoring in biology and music. She has been active in student organizations while she has been in medical school, serving as co-president of 大象传媒’s American Medical Association, American Medical Student Association and Christian Medical & Dental Association; as vice president of community service for 大象传媒’s Whitehead Medical Society; co-coordinator of 大象传媒 Samaritan Health Center Mobile Clinic, Student Health Action Coalition, Medical Team Junior and HIV teams; and as co-chair of 大象传媒 American Medical Women鈥檚 Association Service Committee.
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