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First Name

Lisa

Last Name

Norkus

School

Harvard University

Biography

My name is Lisa Norkus. I am 29 years old. I was born in Newport News, VA because my parents were in the Air Force. After having me my mother opted to go into inactive duty as was the option back then for pregnant or new mothers. After 8 months my parents divorced and my mother moved us up to Massachusetts, where I was raised and still live.

I took a non-traditional route for college. I got my associates degree in Engineering from Quinsigamond Community College in Worcester, MA. I got my bachelors degree from Worcester Polytechnic Institute (One of the leading Engineering schools in the country along with MIT (our rivals) and CalTech) in Chemical Engineering.

I went from there to Harvard Medical School (can you imagine the ammount of student loans I have accumulated). I chose to travel elsewhere to do my internships (the end years of medical school) and landed in Atlanta, GA for two years. I am currently an r3 (3rd year resident) in Trauma Surgery at Mass General Hospital in Boston, MA. I decided this year to pursue a sencond degree starting in the fall of 2007 in public health. It will be crazy but yet amazing finishing my last year of residency and being back in the classroom.

I want to eventually take the two specialties to places in the World that have epidemics of diseases like TB, AIDS, and others. I also want to lend my surgical skills to aid in the local village "hospitals" or clinics. I was inspired to do this by a Doctor named Paul Farmer. To get a good glimpse of DR Farmer see this site:
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=1472188

Other than school and work I love being outdoors, the fine arts and historical sight seeing. I also LOVE country music, asparagus and my beat up old VW Jetta.

There's a glimpse of me.

Favorite music

Anything COUNTRY! : )

Favorite books

Mountains Beyond Mountains, AIDS and Accusation: Haiti and the Geography of Blame, Women; Poverty and AIDS (2nd Edition): Sex, Drugs and Structural Violence, Infections and Inequalities: The Modern Plagues, Pathologies of Power: Health; Human Rights, and the New War on the Poor, Candy: A Novel of Love and Addiction, More, Now, Again: A Memoir of Addiction, Prozac Nation, Girl, Interupted

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