MEMORIAL SCHOLARSHIP RECIPIENT

“Just like Dr. Stockhausen, I also traveled to Guatemala and spent time working in a clinic. I conducted research at an HIV Clinic and examined the barriers interfering with patients’ access to comprehensive care. I studied their adherence to their medical treatment and analyzed the life factors and circumstances that were significantly associated with lack of adherence. For me, this experience was beyond rewarding and reiterated my passion to help others, especially those most in need. Karl’s work and dedication, even when he was facing illness himself, is really inspirational. I am glad that he is being recognized and his story is being told. It is important and beautiful.”

Jacqueline Nicholas (Class of 2024)

DR. KARL STOCKHAUSEN

American University of the Caribbean School of Medicine (Class of 2008)

Dr. Karl Stockhausen was known for his adventurous spirit, his love of traveling across the U.S. by motorcycle, and his passion for humanitarian efforts, serving twice in Honduras as part of a surgical medical team and spending three months in Guatemala working at free health care clinics. He did his clinical rotation in infectious diseases in Mubai, India, and thrived on learning about international health systems.

Karl was 24 years old and in medical school when he was afflicted with a rare eye disease, and 26 when he was diagnosed with cancer. He finished medical school with honors while battling cancer and secured a prestigious emergency medicine residency in New York before his cancer worsened. Although, ultimately losing his life to cancer, Karl did not allow his illness to diminish his indomitable spirit or his will to be of service to others.

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