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Jaylee Caruso - 2025 GME Resident Global Health Travel Scholarship
Jaylee Caruso is a third-year family medicine resident from Albuquerque, New Mexico. Her passions for languages and health led her to a career in medicine, and her experiences growing up and training in the borderlands in New Mexico and Arizona drew her to become involved with work centered on global and border health. Some of her global health experiences include training community health workers in Guatemala, partnering with medical students from Uganda to improve menstrual health equity, performing refugee intake evaluations in Arizona, and starting an asylum clinic at her medical school in New Mexico. Her global health electives during residency include rotations at Songambele Hospital in Tanzania from 11/18/24-12/13/24 and Riobamba, Ecuador from 2/10/25-3/7/25. After graduating from residency, she hopes to continue focusing her work on refugee and asylum medicine and to practice global health with an emphasis on sustainability, community partnership, and decolonization.
Hannah Emerson - 2025 GME Resident Global Health Travel Scholarship
Dr. Emerson is a third-year resident at the University of Arizona – Tucson Family and Community Medicine Program. She is passionate about working with medically under-resourced populations, and her sub-interests include obstetrics and maternal-child health. From 8/26/24-9/22/24 she worked in Nkololo, Tanzania on medicine, pediatric, and obstetrical wards where she was able to learn from local doctors and midwives. She is looking forward to completing an additional full-spectrum medicine elective in Juneau, AK (5/5/25-6/1/25). She is incredibly grateful for the Global Health Travel Scholarship for making these experiences possible.
Amanda Goodwin - 2025 GME Resident Global Health Travel Scholarship
Amanda is a third-year OBGYN resident who has gained valuable experience in a variety of obstetric cases during her residency, as well as through her previous global health work along the border and in the Dominican Republic. In Ghana, she will collaborate with local providers to enhance access to prenatal care and promote health education. She will join Dr. Lynn Coppola at Baptist Medical Center in Nalerigu, Ghana, from January 4 to January 25, 2025.
Outside of medicine, Amanda enjoys traveling, spending time with her family, and taking care of plants. She looks forward to building meaningful connections within the Ghanaian community and contributing to sustainable health improvements.
Jinx Lioi - 2025 GME Resident Global Health Travel Scholarship
Jinx Lioi (they/them) is a third year Family Medicine resident in the South Campus Track. Their desire to practice global health originally drew them to this program. They continue to seek out opportunities to grow as a provider from a high-income country and share this knowledge so that everyone will have better health tomorrow. They have lived in Indonesia for a year, participated in short term global health trips in Nepal, and taught ultrasound in Sierra Leone. They will be going to Krong, Kampot, Cambodia to be at the Sonja Kill Memorial Hospital in April, 2025.
Nicholas Lolli - 2025 GME Resident Global Health Travel Scholarship
Nick is a third-year OB/GYN resident at the University of Arizona. Originally from Maryland, he earned his bachelor's degree in biology from the University of Maryland. He then pursued medical school at the University of Virginia, where he spent a summer in South Africa conducting research on medication adherence among people living with HIV. During his residency, Nick has also delivered virtual lectures on obstetrics and gynecology to medical students in Myanmar. He plans to use this scholarship to support travel to Barahona, Dominican Republic, from March 22-29, 2025, where he will assist in performing major gynecologic surgeries for those without routine access to these services.
Laura Mroue - 2025 GME Resident Global Health Travel Scholarship
Laura Mroue, MD is a third year Maternal Fetal Medicine fellow in the Department of Obstetrics-Gynecology at Banner University Medical Center in Tucson, Arizona. She completed her medical education and Obstetrics-Gynecology residency at Wayne State University in Detroit, MI. She is married and has two young children, ages 3 years and 9 months, who will be traveling with her to Gaborone, Botswana from January to March 2025. While there, she will be developing and teaching a maternal fetal medicine curriculum to the local OBGYN faculty and residents. Additionally, she will be working as a provider on the labor and delivery unit there.