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ISMMS Student’s Accomplishments Commended on Senate Floor

Senator Dick Durbin from Illinois touted the impressive accomplishments of incoming ISMMS student Denisse Rojas on the Senate floor.

  • Mount Sinai
  • (June 15, 2015)

Ms. Rojas, a graduate of UC Berkley with a double major in integrative biology and sociology, will be joining ISMMS this fall as a member of the Class of 2019 MD Program. During college Ms. Rojas was a member of RISE (Rising Immigrant Scholars Through Education), BSP (Biology Scholars Program), AKD (Alpha Kappa Delta) Sociology Honor Society, the Haas Scholars Program, and a co-founder of Pre Health Dreamers, national organization of undocumented students who wanted to become healthcare professionals. She also volunteered at San Francisco General Hospital and conducted research in a lab in the Department of Plant and Microbial Biology, leading to an author listing on a paper published in Science.  Because of her undocumented status, Ms. Rojas also worked 30 hours a week and drove an hour each way to school to be able to live in affordable housing.  After receiving Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) status, Ms. Rojas was accepted to ISMMS’s MD Program. She intends to use her medical degree to advance her work as a voice for immigrants. Watch the video.

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