Nicole Dettman (’90, ’91, ’93) is the American Academy of PAs Physician Assistant of the Year! Nicole credits her interest in health to her summers spent in Costa Rica, Brazil, and Paraguay with AMIGOS. Through her experiences with AMIGOS, Nicole says she “began to understand why all people need access to quality, compassionate healthcare.” For … Read More
News Category: Alumni in the News
AMIGOS Alumna Wins Fulbright Scholarship
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AMIGOS Alumna Shannon Perrone will be heading to Brazil next year as a Fulbright Scholar. She volunteered with AMIGOS in Paraguay in 2015 and went on to translate Portuguese to English for Brazilian media outlets during an internship in 2018. Read the article about Shannon here.
AMIGOS Alumna Combats Coronavirus Misinformation
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Lindsey Leininger is a public health educator, researcher, and clinical professor at Dartmouth’s Tuck School of Business. Alongside several friends with expertise in public health, she created a Facebook page called Dear Pandemic in order to combat misinformation about the coronavirus. The page has nearly 7,000 followers. Lindsey said she explored her interest in public … Read More
AMIGOS Alumna Sara Cody and Bay Area COVID-19 Response
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Dr. Sara Cody and her team in Santa Clara County were the first in the U.S. to order a lockdown to stem the spread of COVID-19. Dr. Cody volunteered with AMIGOS in Mexico in 1981. She shared with us that the difficult decision to order a county-wide lockdown was an extremely collaborative process and she … Read More