Welcome to the Pforzheimer premed page. The premed team at Pforzheimer House exists to aid and mentor Pforzheimer students and alumni who are thinking about medical school and careers in medicine, and especially those who are currently applying to medical school. Feel free to contact the resident tutors in medicine, whose bios can be found below, for more information.
In years past Pfoho has assembled its own packet of information, tips, guidance, and recommendation regarding the medical school application process. This information has been assembled into a great resource available at the OCS Premed webpage. We encourage all of you to look through this valuable information.
We are lucky to have over 40 non-resident premedical tutors who are committed to helping you navigate your way through the process of preparing for and applying to medical school. Advisor assignments will be made twice during the year - once in mid-fall, and once in mid-spring. Please fill out an electronic copy of the Advisor Request Form, save it as your lastname.doc (e.g. Jones.doc), and email it to jennifer.post@childrens.harvard.edu.
Friday, May 15th - Letters of Recommendation due at the House Office. Please see the Letters of Recommendation policies found here. You will need to include a waiver form, as discussed on this website.
Monday, June 1st
Wednesday, July 1st - Summer Update Form (link coming soon) due (MCAT scores, final list of schools), hard copy of AMCAS application to be sent to House Office.
Important Note regarding committee letters
The Pfoho Premed Application is due on June 1st, 2009 by 3pm. Please send a copy by attachment to both PfohoPremedApplication@gmail.com and Jason Peoples (pforz@fas.harvard.edu) by the deadline
This form will be used to place you with one of Pfoho's non-resident pre-medical advisors. Please fill out an electronic copy, save it as your lastname.doc (e.g. Jones.doc), and email it to jennifer.post@childrens.harvard.edu.
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Elizabeth Cote
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Elizabeth, a pre-med advisor who lives in Wolbach 401, will help you discern (not interpret) your dreams and will fiercely champion your unique path through life (especially if you don't yet know what that is). She's a pediatric intern at Massachusett's General Hospital who would like everyone to ask themselves "Why don't I become a doctor?", because it's a profession so fun she can't keep it to herself!
Elizabeth graduated magna cum laude from Wellesley College in 1999. She attended Harvard Medical School, where she was a Gerald Foster Scholarship recipient and the Harvard Kennedy School of Government, where she earned a Masters of Public Administration as a Zuckerman Fellow. Her graduate study was punctuated by periods of domestic and international health policy work, leading projects for the Harvard School of Public Health, the U.S. Department of Defense in Baghdad, Iraq, the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development in Paris, France and NGOs in Tamil Nadu, India.
She's currently working on her ability to diagnose and treat pediatric diseases and her crow and headstand yoga positions. By the time that she starts an Anesthesia residency at Brigham and Women's Hospital next July she hopes to be pretty slick at placing IVs (any volunteers?) and to have added another country to the list of places where she's surfed (Australia, California, the DR, Guatemala and Israel). Elizabeth plans to return to her home state of Maine as a Pediatric Anesthesiologist and health care advocate once she has completed her medical training and can afford a hi-tech heated wetsuit. |
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Sara Mixter
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Hi Pfoho! I'm excited to be returning for my fourth year as a resident tutor. After graduating from the house in 2004 and being a non-res tutor in public interest for two years, I returned to the house as a pre-med tutor in 2006. I am currently in my fifth and final year of my MD/MPH at HMS and HSPH. This year I will be applying to combined residency programs in Internal Medicine and Pediatrics. Before starting at HMS, I spent a year working at Boston Medical Center, where I did legal advocacy for pediatric patient families. With that background, it's probably not surprising that my academic interests include primary care and social justice work at the intersection of medicine and advocacy. My other interests include baking, country and bluegrass music, Tivo, spinning, and kittens. I also love to knit and coordinate the Pfoho Crafting Circle, so I encourage you to come spend a Sunday crafternoon with us! |
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David Rosenthal
Emily Rosenthal
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[David]: Emily, David, and Caleb Rosenthal are thrilled to be joining Pforzheimer House this year. Caleb is especially excited, as this is his first home! David and Emily met in Kirkland House as undergraduates, where David ('01) concentrated in VES and Emily ('03) focused her studies in Psychology. After graduating, the pair have travelled the country, living in Los Angeles, Chicago, and San Francisco before settling back into New England. Emily has her Masters Degrees in Public Health and Social Work, and held various roles in government and non-profit sectors working on a variety of issues: women's health, homelessness, workplace smoking bans, and most recently domestic violence prevention. She remains committed to social causes and looks forward to talking with students interested in careers in the nonprofit sector. After working on documentary films and teaching elementary school science classes, David finished medical school in Chicago, helped start a Health Informatics Company in San Francisco, and is now working as a Internal Medicine Resident at Brigham & Women's Hospital and Clinical Fellow of the Harvard Medical School. As a non-traditional medical applicant, he is thrilled to advise students who are considering a different track towards and within medicine or filmmaking. Caleb, born in July, is thrilled to be living in the Quad and can't wait to advise students in his areas of expertise, most notably sleeping and eating. The whole family is very excited to join the Pfabulous Pfoho crew and we look forward to getting to know you!
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