2018 FIRST-YEAR RESIDENTS Jara Crear, MD BS – Engineering and Economics Program in Liberal Medical Education Brown University MD – Alpert Medical School, Brown University
Emily Eton, MD BS – Integrative Physiology University of Iowa MD – Harvard Medical School
Olivia Killeen, MD BS – International Relations Carleton College
Michigan Alumnus Honored for Humanitarian Efforts in Africa Michigan Medicine faculty and alumni continue to make a difference in how ophthalmology is practiced in every corner
MD – University of Michigan Medical School
Sana Qureshi, MD BS – Political Science New York University MD – Albert Einstein College of Medicine
of the world. One inspiring example is the tireless work of John Cropsey (MD 2005), treating patients and training providers in some of the most remote areas on the African continent.
Dr. Cropsey's work was recognized in October when
he became the fifth recipient of the University of Michigan Medical School Alumni Association’s Michigan Medicine Alumni Society Distinguished Humanitarian Award.
Carin Rojas, MD BS – English, United States Naval Academy MD – Feinberg School of Medicine Northwestern University
Dr. Cropsey earned both his undergraduate and medical
degrees at the U-M and completed his residency at the Wills Eye Hospital in Philadelphia. In 2009, after networking a multi-specialty team to practice in Africa.
Emily Schehlein, MD BS – Chemistry/Biology, Loyola University Maryland
MD – University of Maryland School of Medicine
with others interested in working in Africa, he gathered His team’s passion for educating African healthcare
professionals has grown into a partnership with Hope Africa University in Bujumbura, Burundi, to develop that medical school’s teaching hospital, Kibuye Hope Hospital. Dr. Cropsey and his wife, Jessica, now lead a team of 50 expatriates at Kibuye.
For the 2017-18 academic year, Dr. Cropsey returned
to Kellogg for a sabbatical year, providing comprehensive and cataract surgical services to patients and inspiration to students and colleagues.
Annie Wu, MD BS – Biology Brown University MD – Alpert Medical School Brown University
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