Medical Society Youth Leadership Forum
The Chattanooga and Hamilton County Medical Society and Medical Foundation of Chattanooga hosted the tenth annual Youth Leadership Forum on Medicine in June. The program encourages rising high school juniors and seniors to consider careers in medicine. During the course of the week, students enjoyed daily roundtable discussions with physicians and shadowed a different physician each day.
The program is designed to:
- Provide rising high school juniors and seniors the opportunity to learn more about life as a physician and inspire them to consider a career in medicine;
- Educate students about options available to assist with the cost of medical education;
Provide students and local physicians with a community-based mentoring/teaching experience;
- Assist with efforts to increase the pipeline of health care providers in Southeastern Tennessee.
Program participants included 26 students selected from more than 100 applications received by the Medical Society.
The participants represented 23 private and public high schools in the area.
“This program is a great way to educate students on the realities of the field of medicine,” said Mark Brzezienski, MD, past president of the Medical Society and founder of the program. “We aim to inspire these talented young people to pursue a career in the field.”
Sessions were held at area hospitals. 2015 Participants are:
Baylor School: Jazmin Simpkins
Bledsoe County High School: Abby Hannah
Boyd Buchanan School: Sarah Emrey
Bradley Central High School: Mercedes Forgey
Chattanooga Christian School: Anne Dassow, Jonathan Montgomery, Peyton Price
Chattanooga Central: Terry Blackburn, Jr.
Chattanooga High School Center for Creative Arts: Jasmine Pulliam, Jonathan Montgomery
Chattanooga School for the Arts & Sciences: Sneha Mahesh
Chattanooga State Collegiate High: Olivia Miller
East Hamilton High School: Mikayla Currey
Girls Preparatory School: Ayushi Sinha
Heritage High School: Ashley Dunn
McCallie School: Andrew Aultman, Faraaz Rizvi
Notre Dame High School: Ashley Thomas
Ooltewah High School: Kris Frazier
Red Bank High School: Daniel Cox
Signal Mountain High School: John Michael Cate
Silverdale Baptist Academy: Lauren Gray, Katie Paniucki
Soddy Daisy High School: Kaitlin Frazier
Tyner Academy: Breanna Berry