The Chattanooga and Hamilton County Medical Society and Medical Foundation of Chattanooga will host the sixth annual Youth Leadership Forum on Medicine, June 6-9.
The program encourages rising high school juniors and seniors to consider careers in medicine. During the course of the week, students will enjoy daily roundtable discussions with physicians and shadow 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 include 30 students selected from more than 100 applications received by the Medical Society. The participants represent 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 Collin Cherry, MD, president of the Medical Society. “We aim to inspire these talented young people to pursue a career in the field.”
Sessions will be held at area hospitals.
2011 Participants are:
Baylor: Chase Beard
Bledsoe County High School: Keshia Johnson
Boyd Buchanan School: Andrew Peace
Bradley Central High School: Brianna Bivens
Chattanooga Central High School: Tia Strickland
Chattanooga Christian School: Reid Northcutt
Chattanooga High School Center for Creative Arts: Erick Lorinc
Chattanooga School for the Arts & Sciences: Keni Gray-Timmons
Collegedale Academy: Kristen Buhl
East Hamilton High School: Viktoriya Malashiy
East Ridge High School: Lechere Neou
Girls Preparatory School: Corbin Collum
Gordon Lee High School: Brandon Brown and Rachel Darr
Heritage High School: Ryan Hacherl
Lookout Valley High School: Hayley Beene
McCallie School: Vann Lucas Turner
Notre Dame High School: Alex Snider
Ooltewah High School: Abby Daniels and Ajay Makwana
Red Bank High School: Sarah Brown and Hussnain Javid
Sequoyah High School: Kelsey Brown
Signal Mountain High School: Lila Fisher, Jessica Keane and Lizzie Kelley
Silverdale Baptist Academy: Sarah Pardue and Haley Shields
Soddy Daisy High School: Elizabeth Hendrix and Sierra Tosh
Tyner Academy: Requel Gilmore
The Chattanooga-Hamilton County Medical Society, established in 1883, is an advocate for physicians and for the continual improvement of community health. The society protects and promotes the patient-physician relationship, and seeks to increase access to quality medical care for all persons.
Believing integrity is essential to all relationships, the Medical Society promotes the highest standards of professionalism, ethics and patient care. The Medical Foundation is an affiliated nonprofit organization that provides access to health care for low-income uninsured residents and works to promote community health.