Category: Internship

Vanderbilt Business Minor

HOOGLAND UNDERGRADUATE BUSINESS PROGRAM

Business Minor

The Hoogland Undergraduate Business Program is an opportunity for students to pursue a program that is “Uniquely Vanderbilt.” This trans-institutional program, with elective course options from each of the four undergraduate schools and fundamentals courses taught by the Owen Graduate School of Management, is designed to complement the solid liberal arts education.

My ultimate goal is to become a physician or dentist who can provide excellent care to my patients and contribute to the innovation and advancement of the medical field.

I plan to focus initially on marketing and finance to get a foundation for managing a dental/medical office. There is still a side in me that wants to go into research, and I will also add statistics.



Dental Surgery

SOUTHERN ORAL AND FACIAL SURGERY, FRANKLIN, TN (MAY 2023)

Job Shadowing

Dental Assistant

I participated in wisdom teeth removal surgery at Southern Oral and Facial Surgery. The experience motivated me to become a Certified Dental Assistant. I will continue to job shadow later in Summer 2023. My goal is to work part time while studying. Also, I am thinking about applying for Dental School later. Thank you to Southern Oral and Facial Surgery for supporting me.

Alzheimer Research

VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER, NASHVILLE, TN, JUNE-AUGUST 2022 (FULLTIME)

Research Intern

Division of Diabetes, Endocrinology, and Metabolism

I supported Fiona Harrison, PhD. during the summer before Senior High School year. Dr. Harrison’s research interests focus on using mouse models to understand how specific nutritional factors can impact the development of Alzheimer’s disease. I have independently worked on two main projects. The first project concentrated on how higher or lower manganese diets can worsen motor functions, which is a key signal for brain damage and a sign of Alzheimer’s. I observed Alzheimer’s and wild-type mice with high and low Mn diets suspended by their tails and gave them a score from 0 to 3 based on their movements. I then wrote an abstract, which consisted of a small explanation about my process and how I scored them, and I will be included as a contributor in the final publication “Motor function deficits in the 12-month-old female 5xFAD mouse model of Alzheimer’s disease”. The second project focused on the same mice, but this time I studied the Mn concentration in different parts of the brain and the liver post-mortem by completing protein analysis. The lab will use these findings to analyze the exact concentration of Mn to see if it has a significant impact on brain function.