Summer Spotlights

Welcome to Summer Spotlights! Here, HPA showcases some of the activities our pre-health students have engaged in during their recent summers.

Charlotte Cox '27: Boston Children's Hospital, Department of Otolaryngology and Communication Enhancement

Charlotte, an HPA Jock Doc, spent her junior summer working at Boston Children's Hospital in the Department of Otolaryngology and Communication Enhancement.

Stanley Stoutamire '27: EPIPHANY research study at UAB

Stanley spent his first-year summer, in Alabama, working with an American Heart Association funded research study called Equity in Prevention and Progression of Hypertension by Addressing barriers to Nutrition and Physical Activity.

Summer Spotlight: Blaise Stone '26, Research Intern at the Kennedy Institute of Rheumatology, University of Oxford
 Blaise Stone '26 spent this summer doing research research at Oxford through the Streicker Fellowship

Hi, my name is Blaise Stone and I am a pre-med molecular biology major in the class of 2026. I have always wanted to study abroad and have enjoyed my research experience so far at Princeton, and so I sought out a research internship abroad…

Mindy Sim '27: research internship in South Korea

Mindy spent her first-year summer completing a research internship in Seoul, South Korea which was supported by funding from the Streicker International Fellows Program.

Sukaina Shivji '26: Project Healthcare at Bellevue Hospital in NYC

Sukaina spent her sophomore summer working with the Project Healthcare cohort at Bellevue Hospital, a public safety net hospital and Level 1 trauma center.

Reema Choueiri '25: RISE Fellowship, through Pace

Reema spent her junior summer collaborating with the New Jersey Health Care Quality Institute for the Recognizing Inequities and Standing for Equality (RISE) Fellowship Program, through Pace.

William Suringa '26: the Cancer Institute of NJ at Rutgers

William spent his sophomore summer working working in Dr. Eileen White's lab at the Cancer Institute of New Jersey at Rutgers, where he explored the effects of cancer cachexia in a lung cancer mouse model.

Nick Oyer '26: Basu Lab at U Penn

Nick spent his sophomore summer working in the Basu Lab at the University of Pennsylvania, where he focused on studying HPV-driven head and neck cancer.

Amaya Dressler '25: research at a mental health clinic in RI

Amaya spent her junior summer conducting senior thesis research at a community mental health clinic in Rhode Island.

Hilal Akman '27: PACH internship in Ecuador

Hilal completed an 8-week internship with Partners for Andean Community Health (PACH) in Riobamba, Ecuador, her first-year summer.

Charlotte Kunesh '24: PACH Global Health Intern in Ecuador

In the summer after her first year, Charlotte was a Global Health Intern for Partners for Andean Community Health (PACH), which works with a clinic in Ecuador that serves rural, indigenous populations. Since the internship was virtual, she could simultaneously star in a musical, feeding her passion for theater while also learning more about healthcare.

Carson Clay '19: research internship in South Africa

Carson spent her sophomore summer in the prevention wing of the trauma department at Red Cross War Memorial Children’s Hospital on work that might prevent car accident-related deaths, funded through Princeton's Streicker Fellowship.

Nanako Shirai '21: two research internships in Japan

Nanako returned to the country of her birth and ambitiously took on two research internships in summer 2018.

Elizabeth Love ‘20: bilingual medical scribe

Elizabeth worked as a scribe at Casa De Salud, a non-profit community health clinic that provides clinical and mental healthcare services to uninsured immigrant populations throughout the St. Louis metropolitan region for her first-year summer.

Claire Nussbaum '19: Peace Corps in Washington, DC

Claire spent her junior summer gaining independence, new data analysis skills, and helpful perspectives from diverse colleagues through her GHP internship with the Peace Corps Office of Global Health and HIV in Washington, DC.

Tianyi Wang '19: Health Grand Challenge in Vietnam

Tianyi participated in data analysis and research at the Oxford University Clinical Research Unit in Vietnam through the GHP summer internship program, her junior summer.

Colin Yost '19: operating room tech

Colin spent his first-year summer an Operating Room Tech in the hospital in his home town.

Elisabeth Slighton '20: New York Presbyterian Hospital

Elisabeth gained an inspirational mentor by connecting with a physician speaker who came to campus. She shadowed the physician during the school year and joined her for a summer at New York Presbyterian Hospital.

Marina Latif '19: Global Seminar in Greece

Coming to Princeton with an interest in Classics, Marina participated in a Global Seminar in Greece where she gained awareness and appreciation of the juxtaposition of modern and ancient cultures.

Ruchita Balasubramanian '19: surgical dept at a hospital in Berlin

Ruchita spend the summer after her first year in Germany working in the surgical department of a teaching hospital through Princeton's German department Summer Work Program.

Andrew Hersh '18: EMT with Magen David Adom in Israel

Andrew spent his sophomore summer in Israel, where he received EMT certification and worked with the Magen David Adom ambulance team.

Vivian Yu '19: lab work in Geneva Switzerland

Vivian spent three months working in a lab that works on soft bioelectronic interfaces that can be used in humans for medical applications in beautiful Geneva, Switzerland.