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Scholar spotlight
Scholar spotlight
Opportunity to work with MyCode a major draw for this Abigail Geisinger Scholar
Tyler Schubert had an ideal medical school application — a degree from Franklin and Marshall College, experience working in a hospital and exceptional research credentials from labs at Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia and Washington University in St. Louis. So, when he went looking for a medical school, he had options. He chose Geisinger Commonwealth for two reasons.
“The Abigail Geisinger Scholars Program was the number one thing that attracted me to Geisinger. I like that the health system is serious about solving the physician maldistribution problem. But MyCode was the second reason,” Tyler said, referring to the system’s precision medicine project and its biobank of more than 350,000 participants.
Accepted to both the Abigail Geisinger Scholars Program and Geisinger Commonwealth School of Medicine’s Medical Research Honors Program, Tyler is working on a National Institutes of Health-funded study on familial hypercholesterolemia, a genetic condition that affects one in 250 people and can cause early onset of coronary artery disease if not treated.
A co-principal investigator is happy to have Tyler working on the project, helping the implementation science team analyze qualitative data from clinician interviews and direct observations and synthesizing it. “From our talks, I know Tyler really wants to do internal and incorporate genomics into his practice. Geisinger is one of the best places to do this kind of work. And because he is an Abigail Geisinger Scholar, our study directly relates to the work he’ll do,” she said. “He’s making great connections here and learning how we use genomics right in the electronic health record. It all seems like a perfect fit.”
