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Year in school: Graduating August 2015, Biomedical Engineering Country/state of residence: Connecticut Schools to which you are applying: UConn, Rutgers, SUNY, BU, UMass, Penn State, Pitt, Temple, Yale, Harvard, UPenn, USC, UCLA, Columbia, Mount Sinai, Stanford, UCSD, UCSF, Tufts, Georgetown, NYU, Cornell Cumulative GPA: 3.786 Science GPA: 3.788 MCAT Scores: taking in July

Research: my research is biomedical/electrical engineering focused. * Increased maximum LED modulation capability in order to help in the realization of a more affordable noninvasive breast cancer imaging system. LEDs are composed of a pn junction which at high frequencies acts like a capacitor. Large parasitic impedances result in lower overall power output of the illuminating source thereby decreasing signal efficacy through the imaged tissue. This results in a obtaining a low quality, low resolution image. * Senior capstone project: construction the aforementioned lower cost breast cancer imager (using diffuse optical tomography technology, or DOT). Replaced photomultiplier tubes with photodetectors and laser diodes with LEDs. Accomplished a 17x price reduction and constructed a system consisting of a standard two stage amplifier and filter. The system was successfully able to differentiate absorbers (which simulate the behavior of tumors) and a clear, unimpeded signal.

Volunteering (clinical): 40 hours during a medical misions trip in Honduras. Provided basic aid under the supervision of various doctors.

Physician shadowing: 25 hours during a medical missions trip in Honduras. Worked with plastic/reconstructive surgeon, gastrointestinal and endoscopic surgeon, orthopaedic surgeon, and anesthesiologist. Non-clinical volunteering: * 2007-missions trip to Kensington, Philadelphia 1 week (reconstruction, community outreach, general community service) * 2008-missions trip to Kensington, Philadelphia 1 week. * 2009-missions trip to South Korea 2 weeks. * 2010-missions trip to West Virginia 1 week (community outreach and service). * 2011-missions trip in Honduras 2 weeks (different trip). * 2012-Hurricane Katrina relief alternative spring break 1 week. * 2013-Tampa alternative spring break 1 week (construction of women's safe house), missions trip in Honduras 1 week (same as above but multicomponent trip).

Extracurricular activities: * 11 years of professional piano training. Performed in 5 annual benefit concerts to raise funds for: genocide prevention in Darfur, malaria prevention in the Amazon, providing food for socioeconomically underprivileged grade school students in Bridgeport, CT. * Regular member of my local church for 7 years. Was youth group president and worship team leader for 2 years. * Member of Tau Beta Pi (TBP) Engineering Honors Society for 2 years. * Member of Alpha Eta Mu Beta (AEMB) Biomedical Engineering Honors Society for 2 years. * Founding member of Engineering in Medicine Biology Society (EMBS) and served as Event Coordinator and Vice-President until graduation * Also love me some volleyball. Played intramural for my whole college career. Employment history: * Worked at my university's quantitative tutoring center for 1 semester. * Provided private tutoring services for 1 year. * Teaching assistant for junior level biomedical engineering course.

Immediate family members in medicine? No Specialty of interest: surgical oncology, emergency surgery Graduate degrees: None Interest in rural health? No

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