Alumni Spotlights & HPAO News

Wendy Loughlin, assistant dean and director of the Health Professions Advising Office at the University of Maryland, sat down with the Association of American Medical Colleges to answer questions collected from applicants at events throughout the year.

These high-achieving students will lead their classmates into the university's Commencement Ceremony.

Magsakay completed her first two years of prerequisites in College Park and two years of nursing school at the University of Maryland Shady Grove campus. 

The program aims to prepare physicians to care for real communities, particularly those that need it most.

Chloe grew up in South Florida and graduated from UMD in 2020 with a B.S. in nutrition and food science.

Tunkara (B.S. '15, kinesiology) graduated from Howard University’s Occupational Therapy (OT) school. She then went on to get her clinical doctorate in OT and has been working at an outpatient orthopedic clinic as a specialist in upper extremity rehab.

Rifai (B.S. ’23) received counsel from the Health Professions Advising Office and will pursue an M.D./Ph.D. at the University of Maryland School of Medicine this fall.

Counsel from the Reed-Yorke Health Professions Advising Office helped Obiorah (B.S. ’24) get into the M.D./Ph.D. program at Washington University in St. Louis.

Trotman (B.S., '21, Nutrition and Food Science and Biological Sciences), who just finished his third year in medical school at the F. Edward Hébert School of Medicine at Uniformed Services University.

Dr. Darah Wright (B.S., '08, Psychology) is a graduate of Howard University College of Medicine and practicing Internal Medicine physician.

Adelman graduated from UMD in 2018 with a B.S. in bioengineering.

Dr. Jessie Titherington (B.S. '18, Biological Sciences), a first-year surgery intern at the University of Maryland School of Medicine and a graduate of Drexel University College of Medicine.