June 26, 2014
St. Thomas Aquinas High School senior, Noah Saunders, will represent St. Thomas Aquinas High School and New Hampshire at Brandeis University at the Global Youth Summit on the Future of Medicine."The next generation of health care providers will practice in an environment hard to imagine just a few years ago. Leading-edge science is rapidly changing the daily practice of health care," said Steven Goldstein, MA, MD, PhD, FAAP, chairman of the Global Youth Summit; provost, Brandeis University; and former chair of pediatrics and physician-in-chief of the Corner Children's Hospital at the University of Chicago. "We are in the midst of the most significant and fundamental change in health care delivery in our lifetime and young people who start now will be the future leaders in the field of medicine."
Aligned with Brandeis' elite admissions standards, only students with exceptional academic records and test scores as well as documented interest in a medical or health career were invited to apply. Out of the hundreds of outstanding applicants, Saunders is one of only 240 delegates selected for the program. According to Andrew Flagel, senior vice president for students and enrollment at Brandeis, "The delegation comes from across the country. I am very proud to be welcoming this incredibly talented, diverse, and passionate group of young leaders to Brandeis."
Delegates to the Summit will gain unique, behind-the-scenes insight into the dynamic world of health care through experiential learning, guest lectures and networking opportunities with leaders and innovators in the global medical community in order to build upon their already significant abilities and chart their path to becoming leaders in medicine.
"Soon it will be routine to order the complete map of each patient's genome, and the staggering potential of truly personalized medical treatments for both chronic and acute illnesses will be in our hands, as will be the responsibility for handling this powerful information in an ethical manner," Goldstein explains. "Brandeis is at the forefront of exploring these issues, and part of our distinctive mission is to produce leaders to repair the world."
Contact:
Sarah Scheffer
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