The Extra Mile Plenary Session
View the individual stories of the four physicians who delivered their own personal stories of going “The Extra Mile” to get to medical school.
Heval Mohamed Kelli, MD
Katz Foundation Preventive Cardiology Fellow
Emory University School of Medicine
Suzanne Watson, MDiv, MD
Resident in Family Medicine and Psychiatry
University of Cincinnati Medical Center
Claire Pomeroy, MD, MBA
President, Albert and Mary Lasker Foundation
Will Ross, MD, MPH
Associate Dean for Diversity
Professor, Nephrology
Washington University in St. Louis
Voices of Medicine and Society
Supported by the Robert G. Petersdorf Fund
Unhealthy Politics: The Battle over Evidence-Based Medicine
Eric Patashnik, PhD
Fighting for My Life: Orphan Diseases and the Quest for Cures
David Fajgenbaum, MD, MBA, MSc, FCPP
What Patients Say, What Doctors Hear
Danielle Ofri, MD, PhD, D.Litt (Hon), FACP
No Apparent Distress: A Doctor’s Coming of Age on the Front Lines of American Medicine
Rachel Pearson, MD, PhD
No One Cares about Crazy People: The Chaos and Heartbreak of Mental Health in America
Ron Powers
Rhythmic Healing: Music and Medicine
Nina Kraus, PhD, and Alexander Pantelyat, MD