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Levinson Scholars: Where are they now?

Below are brief overviews of Levinson Scholars, their accomplishments and current work, as of November, 2016.

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*If known and last known.

Award Year Scholar’s Name and Current Work* Highest Degree and Notable Achievements*
2007-08 Joan Bleecker
Chemistry Instructor, UW Tacoma
Ph.D. (UW, 2015)
Jeff Bowman
Assistant Professor, Scripps Institute of Oceanography at UC San Diego
Ph.D. (UW, 2014)
NSF IGERT Fellowship
Lauren Hanson
Family Doctor, Providence Medical Center
MPH (UW, 2013)
M.D. (UW, 2015)
Jonathan Keller
Faculty, UW Medical Center
M.D. (UW, 2012)
David Linders
Co-founder and CTO of Podimetrics
MBA and M.S. (MIT, 2013)
Christine Masuda
PGY3 Psychiatry Resident, UT Dell, Austin, Texas
M.D. (UT Southwestern School of Medicine, 2015)
Lauren Palmer
Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Vanderbilt University
Ph.D. (University of Georgia, 2014)
NSF Graduate Research Fellowship
Teresa Peterson
Patent Agent, Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati
Ph.D. (Harvard University, 2015)
2008-09 Kate Buckley
Resident Physician, UW Dermatology
M.D. (UW, 2014)
Lauren Hanson
Family Doctor, Providence Medical Center
MPH (UW, 2013)
M.D. (UW, 2015)
Rita Sodt
Reliability Engineer, Google
M.S. (UW, 2011)
Kathryn Winglee
Postdoc, Bioinformatics and Genomics, UNC Charlotte
Ph.D. (Johns Hopkins University, 2015)
2009-10 Daniel Kashima
M.D./Ph.D. Student, Vanderbilt Medical School
 NIH National Research Service Award
Sherry Lee
M.D./Ph.D Student, Northwestern University
NIH National Research Service Award
Goldwater Scholar
Catherine Louw
Resident, UNC School of Medicine
M.D. (UW, 2014)
Alyssa Sheih
Post-doc, Benaroya Research Institute
Ph.D. (UW, 2015)
NSF Graduate Research Fellowship
Mark Shi
Anesthesiology Resident, UW Medicine
M.D. (UW, 2015)
2010-11 Michael Choi
MSTP Student, University of Iowa
Deceased
Elliot Collins
Graduate Student, Carnegie Mellon
Rebecca Emery
Ph.D. Student, University of Pittsburgh
M.S. (University of Pittsburgh, 2015)
Mellon Predoctoral Fellowship
Adrian Laurenzi
Co-founder TOTAGO
 B.S. (UW, 2013)
Christopher Mount
MSTP Student, Stanford
2011-12 Jeffrey Benca
Ph.D. Student, UC Berkeley
NSF Graduate Research Fellowship
National Geographic Society Young Explorer Grant
Ben Dulken
MSTP Student, Stanford
Molly Gasperini
Ph.D. Student, UW
NSF Graduate Research Fellowship
Teague Henry
Ph.D. Student, UNC Chapel Hill
NSF Graduate Research Fellowship
Marvin Nayan
Ph.D. Student, MIT
MIT Lord Foundation Fellowship
Bennett Ng
Ph.D. Student, UC Berkeley and UC San Francisco
Eric Secrist
M.D. Candidate, Sidney Kimmel Medical College of Thomas Jefferson University
Alexandra Taipale
Software Engineer, Meraki
B.S. (UW, 2013)
Bonderman Travel Fellow
2012-13 Hunter Bennett
MSTP Student, UC San Diego
Eric Do
Ophthalmic Technician, Glaucoma Consultants Northwest,
The Polyclinic Broadway, Seattle
 B.S. (UW, 2013)
Nile Graddis
Researcher, Allen Institute for Brain Science
B.S. (UW, 2014)
2015 Washington Research Foundation Innovation Post-Baccalaureate Fellow
Danelle Hidano
M.D. Student, UW
Ben Horst
Ph.D. Student, UC Berkeley
Emily Hsieh
Ph.D. Student, Ichan School of Medicine, Mount Sinai
NSF Graduate Research Fellowship
Joanne Hsu
M.D./Ph.D. Student, Baylor College
Tinny Liang
M.D. Student, UW
M.S. (UW, 2014)
NSF Graduate Research Fellowship
Kien-Thiet Nguyen
Ph.D. Student, UC San Francisco
NSF Graduate Research Fellowship
Jacqueline Robinson-Hamm
Ph.D. Student, Duke University
NSF Graduate Research Fellowship
2013-14 Derek Britain
Ph.D. Student, UC San Francisco
Cara Comfort B.S. (UW, 2014)
Jennifer Gile
Medical School, University of Colorado
Nicolette McCary  B.S. (UW, 2014)
Trung Phan
M.D. Student, Loyola University Chicago Stritch School of Medicine
Margaux Pinney
Ph.D./M.S. Student, Stanford
NSF Graduate Research Fellowship
Denis Smirnov
MSTP Student, UC San Diego
2014-15 Krittika D’Silva
Ph.D. Student, Cambridge University
Gates Cambridge Scholar
Ryan Groussman
Ph.D. Student, UW
ARCS Foundation Fellowship
Gina Hansen
Engineer, WL Gore, Medical Products Division
B.S. (UW, 2016)
Goldwater Scholar
Jane Kwon
M.D. Student, University of Pittsburgh
Will Lykins
Ph.D. Student, UC Berkeley and UC San Francisco
NSF Graduate Research Fellowship
Karl Marrett
Software Engineer, ActX
 B.S. (UW, 2015)
Sean Murphy
Ph.D. Student, Stanford
Milan Vu
Public Health Associate; Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
B.S. (UW, 2015)
Cindy Wei
Ph.D. Student, UW
Wenbi Wu
Ph.D. Student, MIT
2015-16 Natacha Lou Comandante
Ph.D. Student, University of Michigan
Logan Condon
Research Science Assistant, UW
 B.S. (UW, 2016)
Ryan Groussman
Ph.D. Student
ARCS Foundation Fellowship
Emily Lo
Ph.D. Student, Johns Hopkins University
Darby Losey
Research Staff, Institute for Learning & Brain Sciences, UW
B.S. (UW, 2016)
Soley Olafsson
Research Scientist, Cardiology, UW
 B.S. (UW, 2016)
Jazmine Perez
Lab Manager, de la Iglesia Lab
 B.S. (UW, 2016)
Alexandra (Sasha) Portnova
Ph.D. Student, Northwestern University
Amanda Qu
Undergraduate, UW
B.S., expected 2017

 

Oliver Stanley
Undergraduate, UW
B.S., expected 2017
Christine Yoo
Ph.D. Student, UW

Molly Gasperini
Jeff Bowman
Marvin Nayan
Sasha Portnova