MIRIAM ENGLANDER , 26
BA ’04
Medical Student,
Stanford University School of Medicine

Miriam Englander always knew she wanted to practice medicine. The daughter of a pediatrician, Englander was born and raised in Israel and planned to go to college in Europe. But after visiting friends in New York, she fell in love with the city. She chose to attend Baruch because of its reputation, its location, the diversity of its student body, and the small class sizes.

“Baruch’s Department of Natural Sciences is quite small,” she says, “which meant a lot of personal attention—which meant a lot of research opportunities.”

Her choice paid off. Englander graduated last year with honors in organic chemistry and became the first Baruch student ever to win a Jonas E. Salk Scholarship to attend the Stanford University School of Medicine.

At Stanford, Englander is currently focusing her efforts on breast cancer research that will eventually help reduce the risk of secondary cancer occurring in women diagnosed with Hodgkin’s disease. But she continues to have a wide range of interests and is taking advantage of the diverse faculty at Stanford.

“Right now there are a lot of opportunities,” she says. “But I definitely see myself as being part of an academic center, part of a medical school, educating the next generation of doctors.”

—Pam Widener

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