2023 STUDENT KEYNOTE SPEAKER

Natalie Weston

Natalie Weston, elected by her peers as this year’s student keynote, is a student at The University of Texas at Austin pursuing her M.D. at Dell Medical School and master’s of biomedical engineering at the Cockrell School of Engineering. Weston earned her undergraduate degree in civil engineering from The University of Texas before working as a manager on the Innovation Team at Children’s Miracle Network Hospitals, a nonprofit organization dedicated to raising funds and awareness for children’s hospitals in North America. In June, Weston will continue her medical training as a first-year pediatrics resident at Dell Children’s Medical Center of Central Texas. Weston is interested in combining her passions for systems-based solutions and equitable health care delivery in her future endeavors as she pursues her goal of working in a pediatric subspecialty.

She is co-president of the Dell Medical School Student Senate, a volunteer at the student-run, free C.D. Doyle Clinic, and advocacy chair for the American Academy of Pediatrics District VII Section on Pediatric Trainees. She was a clinical innovation and design fellow for the Texas Center for Pediatric and Congenital Heart Disease, chief financial officer of the C.D. Doyle Clinic, a contact-tracing volunteer for the UT Health Austin COVID-19 Response Team, and a food organization and delivery volunteer with Good Apple, an Austin-based produce delivery service that partnered with local grocers to deliver food to the community free of charge.