2008-09

Courtney Burks, UCLA School of Public Health
Courtney is planning to create a free, student-run clinic or screening service for the Latino community in East Los Angeles, involving medical, dental, nursing and public health students.

Joseph Chan and Henry Guan, UCLA School of Medicine
Joseph and Henry will target diabets and obesity in at-risk teens and pre-teens at the Boys and Girls club and YMCA to provide a safe place for adolescents to exercise and to provide them basic health knowledge about obesity and diabetes.

Stacy Chan and Ashley Quan, UCLA School of Medicine
Stacy and Ashley will provide healthcare professionals language tools to communicate health issues to non-English speaking Chinese patients to improve cultural awareness on patients'''' views of health as well as address hepatitis B, type II diabetes and osteoporosis.

Tyler Gonzalez, UCLA School of Medicine
Tyler is planning to work with a pediatric diabetic clinic to help educate patients about diet, exercise, and lifestyle change in underserved areas of Los Angeles.

Daniel Karlin and Mark Lin, UCLA School of Medicine
Daniel and Mark will establish micro-clinics where health professionals will provide clinic members with basic education about the disease, followed by hands-on workhops to acquaint patients with equipment and medications to allow individuals to ultimately collectively educate each other.

Reeo Kim, UCLA School of Medicine
Reeo plans to address barriers to prenatal care in the Mixtecs population in Oxnard, Calfiornia including economic, transportation, language, and cultural beliefs.

Victoria Lin, UCLA School of Medicine
Victoria will implement a program to teach Easter Medicine including acupressure and deep breathing exercises for stress reduction to the medically indigent, homeless population in West Los Angeles.

Sonya Soni, USC School of Public Health
Sonya will create a USC student run primary care health clinic adjacent to the USC Dental Health Clinic on Skid Row, to provide medical services, mental health counseling, prescriptions, and referral services to Los Angeles'''' uninsured and underserved population.

Tiffany Tatevossian, UCLA School of Public Health
Tiffany will develop a program working with the UCLA Stroke program to educate those at risk in underserved communities about stroke.

Hilda Wiryawan, UCLA School of Public Health
Hilda is planning to help uninsured populations in the community clinics in Los Angeles by connecting them with social workers to assist in Medi-Cal application in order to improve health care access.

Victoria Yung, UCLA School of Medicine
Victoria will be implementing a smoking cessation program at the Student Run Homeless Clinic in Santa Monica, to provide non-prescription and prescription aids to quit smoking as well as a support system.