S.O.S. COVID-19

These alumni are among the many who have answered the call...

MEDICAL

Jill Obremskey ’86—The doctor is the director of Community Health Services in Tennessee; her team is tasked with testing and contact tracing to limit the virus.

Brandin Yan ’18—Helped organize an effort to replenish personal protective equipment for local hospitals.

Vikram Devisetty ’02, M.D. ’07, M.B.A. ’07—Caring for positive COVID-19 patients.

Jacinta Ingram Curtis M.S.N. '17: A pediatric acute care nurse practitioner helping those affected in Durham.

Reza Zsilinskzka ’11, M.D. ’16 The emergency medicine resident talked to NBC News about the scene at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania.

FOOD

Catherine Fei ’17—Helped start the Denver chapter of Frontline Foods, to support local restaurants and local health-care professionals.

Julia Wyatt Love ’83—Started Feed the Fight Durham NC, which raises money to pay local restaurants to provide meals to local health-care professionals.

COMMUNITY

Emily Jorgens ’14—Helped create Helping Hands, a website to match people needing help with deliveries with volunteers to assist them.

Audrey Wang ’19, William Bernell ’19, Jennifer Hong ’19— Created the fundraiser Masks4NYC, to order and distribute FDA/CE-registered face masks to health-care workers; at press time, over 3,000 masks were already on the way.

Priya Achaibar B.S.E. ’15—Helped organize PeoplevsPandemics.com, a site that connects people who need help and people who want to offer some.

Angus Jackson LL.M. '18: Shifted a portion of the production for his biotech start-up Attwill Medical Solutions to make hand sanitizer for essential workers.

CHILDREN & EDUCATION

Emily Kragel '16 and Logan Beyer '17: Created ColoringforCovid.com, free downloads of coloring pages and books with information about the virus for kids 5-10.

David Shiffman ’07—The marine biologist has chatted with and answered nearly 2,000 students, and counting.

Alexandra Pancost Johnson '99: Helped her four children starts Facts 4 Food; children make videos of something they're curious about and post a video presenting their research. For every 25 facts, 25 cans of food are donated.