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Come join Gateways alumni and the incoming class of 2024 for our second annual reunion!

Register by Monday, July 17th.

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Come join Gateways alumni and incoming class of 2023 for our first annual reunion! Click the link in our bio to RSVP! See you soon, Gateways!🎊

Congrats to our Gateways class of 2022 as you enjoy commencement weekend!! We are so proud of you! 🐻 💉 🎓

GATEWAYS ALUMNI SPOTLIGHT: MEET MAXINE FAITH VERA CRUZ ScM ‘21!!!
Maxine was born in the Philippines and grew up in Los Angeles County. She is a double (whoa) UCLA grad, first earning her BS in 2017, majoring in Physiological Science. As an undergrad, Maxine studied Duchenne muscular dystrophy (DMD) in the UCLA Tidball Research Lab & worked as a barista on campus. Given her passion for science and teaching, Maxine pursued an MS in Physiological Science at UCLA, continuing to expand her research skills and studying a stem-cell mediated therapeutic strategy for DMD. Maxine also fine-tuned her teaching skills, acting as a TA for several anatomy & physiology courses. In 2019, she was notably awarded the UCLA Departmental Distinguished TA Award. Maxine fueled her longstanding interest in a career as a physician caring for vulnerable patient populations by volunteering at California Hospital Medical Center & a homeless shelter for veterans, where she led a team of volunteer cooks. Maxine graduated UCLA w/ her 2nd degree in 2020 & then joined Gateways (for her 2nd master’s degree!). During her gap year, Maxine has worked in clinical research through the Miriam Hospital’s Immunology & Infectious Diseases Department. She has also been integrally involved with our ‘22 class as an Adjunct Instructor for our biomedical science team-based learning sessions and helped establish our Big Sibling alumni mentorship program along with her fellow classmates. (Fun Fact: Maxine is an exceptional baker, putting Barefoot Contessa to shame & often provided sweets for our Gateways team this year - I mean those choc chip cookies though!). We will truly miss Maxine as she heads back to the West Coast to the University of Washington School of Medicine to pursue her MD (along with her fellow ‘21 alum who is an M1!). CONGRATS Maxine - we are so proud of you! 🐻 💉 🍪

Good luck to our ‘22 students on their final Gateways exam of the year today! You will conquer MicroID2!! We are all so proud of you! Good luck! 🐻

GATEWAYS STUDENT SPOTLIGHT: Congrats TAYLOR KEYS ScM ‘22! Taylor is originally from Atlanta, GA, but has been in Providence for almost 5 years now. She graduated from Brown University with an AB in Biology and Environmental Studies in 2021. As an undergraduate student here at Brown, Taylor played for our Brown Women’s Rugby team. She was also a Bonner Community Fellow through Brown’s Swearer Center through which she worked with a local non-profit, the Partnership for Providence Parks. Taylor was also Co-President of Brown’s Doctors Without Borders Student Chapter and a member of the Black Student Union and the Students of Caribbean Ancestry groups. As a Gateways student, Taylor continued her work volunteering with the Rhode Island Free Clinic. Taylor will be attending Northwestern University’s Feinberg School of Medicine this summer to pursue her MD! She and her dog Moose 🐶can’t wait to explore Chicago! 🐻 🐻 💉

GATEWAYS ALUMNI SPOTLIGHT: MEET GRIFFIN FEINBERG ScM ‘21!
Griffin is from Rumson, NJ & attended the University of Michigan Ann Arbor, studying in their School of Kinesiology as part of their honors program. He graduated in 2020 with a Bachelor of Science in Movement Science. During his time at U of M, Griffin spent 4 years as a research assistant at the University of Michigan Concussion Center’s Neurotrauma Laboratory where he completed his honors thesis on the long term effects of concussion on gait & balance. He also earned his certification as a peer counselor in Youth and Adolescent Mental Health First Aid & served as a peer counselor on campus. As the Vice President & President of his professional fraternity Phi Epsilon Kappa, he spearheaded the introduction of a Mental Health Chair for his fraternity & worked with the Associate Dean of Kinesiology to obtain an in-house psychologist for the School of Kinesiology. Griffin also volunteered for Jeremy’s Heroes, a non-profit organization honoring Jeremy Glick, one of the airline passengers who lost his life on 9/11, & as a facilitator for the Ann Arbor Special Olympics flag football team. (Fun Fact: Griffin is an avid CrossFit enthusiast & he completed 911 burpees in 1 day to raise over $2500 for Jeremy’s Heroes!). Griffin has helped mentor our Gateways ‘22 class this year as an alumni mentor. He also loves to travel & lived in Ecuador and Costa Rica for two months. Upon graduating from Gateways, Griffin began working as a medical scribe at Jersey Shore University Medical Center’s emergency department in Neptune, NJ. He will be returning to our Brown community this summer, attending the Warren Alpert Medical School as part of our MD’26 class! CONGRATS GRIFFIN and welcome back!! 🐻 💉

GATEWAYS ALUMNI SPOTLIGHT: Congrats JARED BOYCE! Jared is from Long Island, NY & his parents are originally from Trinidad & Tobago 🇹🇹. He graduated from Dartmouth College in ‘16 earning a BA in Neuroscience. While at Dartmouth, Jared was an E.E. Just STEM Scholar, studied the neurobiology of depression at Karolinska Institutet in Sweden and the neural mechanisms of binge eating behavior (Green and Doucette Labs), and was an Undergraduate Advisor for first year students (Fun Fact: Jared embraced his love of music as a violinist & treasurer of Dartmouth Chamber Orchestra).

After graduating, Jared worked as an Associate Researcher at Mt. Sinai studying the neural correlates of learning & memory in non-human primates (Croxson, Rudebeck, and Baxter Labs). He also served as co-chair for Children of Bellevue’s Jr. Board, fundraising to support pediatric programs at Bellevue Hospital and advocating on behalf of hospitalized children. While at Gateways, as was a Grad Student Council representative, Jared helped organize a mental health wellness workshop for classmates & after graduating from Brown, he joined the Abdus-Saboor Lab at Columbia University’s Zuckerman Institute studying the role of Mrgprb4 in pleasurable touch. After considering numerous offers, Jared will be pursuing his MD-PhD at the University of Wisconsin’s MSTP this summer, where he will study the molecular mechanisms underlying early life adversity and comorbidities with psychiatric, neurodegenerative, and metabolic diseases in rodents and non-human primates 🧠👨🏾‍🔬👨🏾‍⚕️! We are so proud of you Jared & commend you for your contributions to medicine thus far. We can’t wait to see what you accomplish at U Wisconsin! CONGRATS!! 💉 🐻

GATEWAYS ALUMNI SPOTLIGHT: MEET PAUL (WALKER) MAEDER-YORK, ScM ‘20! A HUGE CONGRATS to Walker who’s committed to attend the University of Miami Miller School of Medicine this fall! We are so proud of Walker, who was admitted to Miller’s 3-year MD program w/direct acceptance into Miller’s Neurology Residency Program! A little bit about Walker … he is from Cambridge, MA & obtained his B.A in Neuroscience from Harvard University in ‘19, where he played for the Harvard Rugby Football Club, was a member of the Harvard Glee Club & conducted research in Harvard’s Corey Lab. (Fun fact: Walker speaks Arabic and Indonesian & taught English classes in Egypt while learning to play the oud! He also spent a few months working on an organic pig farm in Germany!). Walker joined our program after graduating from Harvard & during his time in Gateways he played the violin in Brown’s Medical Orchestra. After graduating from Brown, Walker worked as a clinical research coordinator in RIH’s Pediatric Intensive Care Unit while completing a Master of Public Health degree from Dartmouth College! After graduating from Dartmouth in ‘21, Walker worked full-time as a project manager for Algorex Health Technologies leading a team to provide actionable insights on SDOH for health plans. We are so excited for you to join the Miller School of Medicine for your MD & your neurology residency. CONGRATS WALKER! 🐻 💉 🌴☀️

GATEWAYS STUDENT SPOTLIGHT: MEET JESSICA OROFINO, ScM ‘22!!
Jessica is a local New Englander from Sudbury, MA! Upon graduating high school, Jessica earned her certification as an EMT, beginning her journey with medicine and hands-on patient care that she carried through her undergraduate studies at Muhlenberg College in PA. She served as First Lieutenant, President & Secretary of her campus EMS organization & continued to work as an EMT, even on school breaks. Jessica completed a pre-med observationship during junior year at St. Luke’s Hospital in Allentown, PA which served as a formative experience for her. Jessica received a Bachelor of Science in Neuroscience in 2021. She chose to concentrate in neuroscience based on her love for both biology & philosophy, applying these towards thinking about life abstractly. Through Muhlenberg’s chemistry and neuroscience departments, Jessica was able to conduct meaningful research; designing a research project on the synthesis of gold nanoparticles utilizing food waste, and assisting in a GABAa receptor laboratory looking into the interactions of passionflower extract and how this may be used to create safer pharmaceuticals. In 2020 (right before the pandemic), Jessica studied abroad in Florence, Italy at the University of the Arts learning about art and culture ingrained in the city (Fun Fact: Jessica grows spider plants from seedlings and is super creative, doing a lot of art and enjoys building things!). Additionally, as part of Muhlenberg’s RJ fellows Honors Program, Jessica was introduced to working with underserved communities, which motivated her to want to continue this work in medicine. While in Gateways, Jessica participated in our SexEd by Brown Med program, teaching w/ fellow AMS students at the Calcutt Middle School in Central Falls, RI. She will be staying in her home state of MA for medical school, attending the University of Massachusetts Chan Medical School this summer! CONGRATS Jessica! We are so proud of you!! 💉 🐻

Gateways class of 2022 Capstone Poster Presentation ✅

More amazing students and posters!!

Our first live event for our Gateways class of 2022! Highlighting our Capstone Projects in our beautiful AMS building. We are so proud of everyone! More photos to come from this exciting evening! 💉

GOOD LUCK to all our Gateways students taking the MCAT today and tomorrow. You’ve all worked so hard and you’re going to do great!!! ⌛️

Gateways students, YOU’RE ALMOST THERE!!! You’re going to kill it over the next few days taking the MCAT and can finally put your dozens of MCAT prep books, hundreds of post it notes and multiple white boards away! Hang in there! 💉 😂

HERE WE GO!!!! 🩺Starting April off with style….
GATEWAYS ALUMNI SPOTLIGHT: MEET SABRINA PESCATORE, ScM ‘21!
Sabrina was born in Austin, TX and grew up in a suburb north of the city called Georgetown. She attended Trinity University where she played soccer and ran track, graduating in 2020 with a B.S. in Neuroscience. Sabrina’s undergraduate research included studying oxytocin’s attenuating effects on contextual fear conditioning (hopefully submitting her manuscript for publication this year!). She was also highly involved in her SPURS sorority while in college, serving as Vice President junior/senior years. Sabrina is passionate about fighting against food insecurity & while at Trinity, she volunteered w/the San Antonio Food Bank & Wheels on Meals, which she also continued volunteering w/ in RI & back home in Austin. While in Gateways, Sabrina enjoyed exploring New England & her SoCal roomie even taught her to surf at our RI beaches (just a tad colder than TX/CA …) After graduating from Brown, Sabrina moved from the smallest state back to the biggest, and has been working in Austin as a medical assistant @ an ENT clinic. Sabrina feels so lucky to have gotten to know & help take care of the patient population in Austin, her home. Fun Fact: Sabrina loves traveling & learning about different cultures. She lived in Denmark for 3mos & the most unique place she’s ever been is the remote Faroe Islands. That being said, Sabrina is excited to be attending UTMB in Galveston this fall & returning to a place w/beach access where she can continue perfecting her surfing skills! CONGRATS Sabrina and good luck at UTMB! TX ➡️ RI ➡️ TX 🐻 💉 💪

EXCITING news to share coming your way! Over the next few weeks & months we will be posting where our Gateways grads have committed to attend medical school! We. Can’t. Wait. Stay tuned! 💉

Applications for our Class of 2023 close two months from today on 5/15! Get those apps in and DM us with any questions!

Application season is in full swing for our Gateways Class of 2023! Apply online by May 15 and message us with any questions!

We had a great time today celebrating the holidays in our Gateways suite with pizza, cookies, a surprise visit from Maxine ‘21 ❤️ and snowflake decorating (Here are Estelle, Danny & Meera showcasing some of their prized pieces)! We are gearing up for our final exam next week and looking forward to the holiday break!

Wishing all our Gateways ‘22 and M1 students the best of luck on exam 5 tomorrow! You got this!!!!! Happy Thanksgiving to all of you and enjoy the time off this week!

FAQ #5! We welcome you to us with any application questions!

A little pre-exam Halloween candy buffet for our Gateways students today! So. Much. Sugar. Congrats to for winning the Dum-Dum count contest and to and for being voted for with the most unique candy submission. Good luck to all of you on Exam 4 this Friday and Happy Halloween!! 🎃👻

FAQ #4! Our application for our ScM program is open!

FAQ #3! Message us with any specific questions about our ScM program!

Brown Class of 2023 ScM application FAQs #2: Test score requirements!

Considering applying to our ScM program? Now that our applications are open for our Class of 2023 we will occasionally be posting some FAQs! Have a question you want answered? Message us! 💉