The five directors of the Fourth Annual Health Care Symposium are second year medical students at the UCLA School of Medicine.

Aalok Agarwala graduated with a BS in psychobiology from UCLA in 1998. His interests include health care for the underserved, and the increasing role of business in health care. He completed an internship in the Legislative Affairs Department of the American Medical Student Association (AMSA), and is currently president of the UCLA chapter of AMSA. He plans to pursue an MBA in addition to his MD through the joint MD/MBA program at UCLA.

 

Candace Howe graduated with a BS in biology from UC Irvine in 1998. She has demonstrated her commitment to health care policy reform and activism by attending a two-day AMSA conference in Washington, DC on health policy leadership, lobbying with California Medical Association in Sacramento, leadership in AMA, and helping to organize this year’s Health Care Symposium.

Adam Schlifke graduated with a BS in economics and biology from the University of Michigan in 1998. Adam has continued his interest in health care economics and policy through his leadership in AMA/CMA/LACMA and has completed the UCLA administrative fellowship in the summer of 1999 with Dr. Bruce Chernof at Health Net. He plans to pursue an MBA in addition to his MD through the joint MD/MBA program at UCLA.

Judi Turner graduated with a BA in french from the University of Redlands in 1987 and a PhD in economics from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in 1994. Her interests include health policy and assisting the homeless. She is President of ProPATH, a volunteer organization supporting People Assisting the Homeless, and is Class Coordinator of the UCLA Chapter of Medical Students for Choice.

Jason Yeh graduated with a BS in biology from UCLA in 1998. He has volunteered and served on the Executive Board at Harbor Free Clinic in San Pedro, California. Currently, he is the delegate to the AMA-MSS and CMA-MSS as well as a director for DOC, a student volunteer organization teaching young students. He is interested in increasing access to health care and creating solutions to problems of access.

   

Bobby Mathew

Stephanie Smooke

Andres Deluna

Gelareh Zargaraff

David Chan