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School of Medicine Minority Student Directory
Below you will find information about a few of our minority students - both current enrollees and graduates of OHSU. Your questions are welcome!
Christina Azevedo  | | ETHNICITY: | Mexican & Portuguese | | | CONTACT INFO: | azevedoc@ohsu.edu | | | YEAR: | Graduated 2007 | | | HOMETOWN/STATE: | Klamath Falls, OR | | | CAREER/PROFESSIONAL GOALS: | Medicine | | | EXTRACURRICULAR INTERESTS: | Sports, Piano |
Letrice Blair  | | ETHNICITY: | African American/Korean | | | CONTACT INFO: | blairl@ohsu.edu | | | YEAR: | MD 2009 | | | HOMETOWN/STATE: | Houston, TX | | | CAREER/PROFESSIONAL GOALS: | Medicine | | | EXTRACURRICULAR INTERESTS: | Weightlifting, Running |
Brian A. Coakley  | | ETHNICITY: | African American | | | CONTACT INFO: | coakleyb@ohsu.edu | | | YEAR: | Graduated 2007 | | | HOMETOWN/STATE: | Portland, OR | | | CAREER/PROFESSIONAL GOALS: | Neurosurgery, Cardiothoracic Surgery | | | EXTRACURRICULAR INTERESTS: | Professional and College Sports, Working out, Music |
Michael A. Core  | | ETHNICITY: | Chicano | | | CONTACT INFO: | corem@ohsu.edu | | | YEAR: | MD 2008 | | | HOMETOWN/STATE: | East Los Angeles, CA | | | CAREER/PROFESSIONAL GOALS: | To use medicine as a tool for social justice | | | EXTRACURRICULAR INTERESTS: | Soccer, community outreach, diversifying the physician work force | | | WHY YOU CHOSE OHSU: | I liked Portland. I felt that my training at OHSU would be one of the best in the nation. |
Nicole Gordon  | | ETHNICITY: | Half African American and half Japanese | | | CONTACT INFO: | gordonni@ohsu.edu | | | YEAR: | MD 2008 | | | HOMETOWN/STATE: | Inglewood, CA | | | CAREER/PROFESSIONAL GOALS: | Become a good doctor, to help pave the way for those who follow as well as those who have gone before me. | | | EXTRACURRICULAR INTERESTS: | Traveling |
Elis Madrigal  | | ETHNICITY: | Latino | | | CONTACT INFO: | madrigal@ohsu.edu | | | YEAR: | MD 2009 | | | HOMETOWN/STATE: | Santa Barbara, CA | | | CAREER/PROFESSIONAL GOALS: | Pediatrics | | | WHY YOU CHOSE OHSU: | I love the city. The school provides great patient contact from the very beginning. | | | EXTRACURRICULAR INTERESTS: | Singing. Spending time with my family and friends. |
Eric C. Muñoz  | | ETHNICITY: | Chicano | | | CONTACT INFO: | munoze@ohsu.edu | | | YEAR: | MD 2009 | | | HOMETOWN/STATE: | South Pasadena, CA | | | CAREER/PROFESSIONAL GOALS: | Surgical Specialty, Pathology, Radiology, Radiation Oncology, or Family Medicine. | | | EXTRACURRICULAR INTERESTS: | Racquetball, running |
Marisol Toliver-Sokol  | | ETHNICITY: | Multi-Ethnic, Mexican and African American | | | CONTACT INFO: | tolivers@ohsu.edu | | | YEAR: | MD 2009 | | | HOMETOWN/STATE: | Oakland, CA | | | CAREER/PROFESSIONAL GOALS: | Psychiatry, OB/Gyn, Pediatrics, Neurology | | | EXTRACURRICULAR INTERESTS: | Running, Music, Hiking |
Jaime Wong-Dominguez  | | ETHNICITY: | Latino-Asian | | | CONTACT INFO: | wongdomi@ohsu.edu | | | YEAR: | Graduated 2007 | | | HOMETOWN/STATE: | San Franscisco Bay Area, CA | | | CAREER/PROFESSIONAL GOALS: | Surgery | | | EXTRACURRICULAR INTERESTS: | SNMA, Soccer |
Shannel Adams  | | ETHNICITY: | African-American | | | CONTACT INFO: | adamssha@ohsu.edu | | | YEAR: | MD 2010 | | | HOMETOWN/STATE: | Portland, OR | | | CAREER/PROFESSIONAL GOALS: | OB/GYN | | | WHY YOU CHOSE OHSU: | OHSU Integrated Curriculum | | | EXTRACURRICULAR INTERESTS: | SNMA/LMSA |
Dodie de la Cruz  | | ETHNICITY: | Filipino | | | CONTACT INFO: | delacrus@ohsu.edu | | | YEAR: | MD 2011 | | | HOMETOWN/STATE: | Portland, OR | | | CAREER/PROFESSIONAL GOALS: | Pediatric Surgery | | | WHY YOU CHOSE OHSU: | Supportive people and programs | | | EXTRACURRICULAR INTERESTS: | Riding the Tram |
Aaliyah Hodge  | | ETHNICITY: | African-American | | | CONTACT INFO: | hodgea@ohsu.edu | | | YEAR: | MD 2011 | | | HOMETOWN/STATE: | Oakland, CA | | | WHY YOU CHOSE OHSU: | because there is a great sense of community, awareness of health care issues and great staff members. | | | CAREER/PROFESSIONAL GOALS: | Working with underserved communities/Internal Medicine | | | EXTRACURRICULAR INTERESTS: | Enjoy ballet/jazz/salsa dance, tennis and volunteering for community health promotion events. |
Majed Khalifa  | | ETHNICITY: | multi-racial (African Caucasian) | | | CONTACT INFO: | khalifam@ohsu.edu | | | YEAR: | MD 2011 | | | HOMETOWN/STATE: | Portland, OR | | | WHY YOU CHOSE OHSU: | OHSU is in complete alignment with my goals, values, and beliefs | | | EXTRACURRICULAR INTERESTS: | community volunteer, computers/electronics, audio/video engineering |
Brant Kirk  | | ETHNICITY: | Native American | | | CONTACT INFO: | kirkb@ohsu.edu | | | YEAR: | MD 2011 | | | HOMETOWN/STATE: | Klamath Falls, OR | | | CAREER/PROFESSIONAL GOALS: | Emergency Medicine | | | WHY YOU CHOSE OHSU: | Early exposure to patients | | | EXTRACURRICULAR INTERESTS: | Running, Hiking |
Kate Luenprakansit  | | ETHNICITY: | Thai-Chinese | | | CONTACT INFO: | luenprak@ohsu.edu | | | YEAR: | MD 2011 | | | HOMETOWN/STATE: | Arleta, CA | | | WHY YOU CHOSE OHSU: | Student opportunities. It is a great place to study clinical skills, research, biomedical ethics, health policy, and community health. | | | CAREER/PROFESSIONAL GOALS: | Pediatrics, Internal Medicine, Health Policy and Ethics | | | EXTRACURRICULAR INTERESTS: | Tennis, Yoga, Music |
Manny Mendoza  | | ETHNICITY: | Mexican | | | CONTACT INFO: | mendozma@ohsu.edu | | | YEAR: | MD 2010 | | | HOMETOWN/STATE: | Yakima, WA | | | WHY YOU CHOSE OHSU: | Great School, Great city, and close to home | | | CAREER/PROFESSIONAL GOALS: | Plastic Surgery | | | EXTRACURRICULAR INTERESTS: | Traveling, Dancing, working to bring more minorities to OHSU |
Migdalia Ordonez  | | ETHNICITY: | Latina | | | CONTACT INFO: | ordonezm@ohsu.edu | | | YEAR: | MD 2011 | | | HOMETOWN/STATE: | Los Angeles/San Francisco | | | WHY YOU CHOSE OHSU: | Because of the great medical program with training in hospital, clinical, and rural areas. | | | CAREER/PROFESSIONAL GOALS: | Family Medicine | | | EXTRACURRICULAR INTERESTS: | Running, yoga, movies, music, books, etc. |
Dominic Siler  | | ETHNICITY: | Latino-Asian | | | CONTACT INFO: | silerd@ohsu.edu | | | YEAR: | MD/PhD started 2007 | | | HOMETOWN/STATE: | Portland, OR/ Long Beach, CA | | | WHY YOU CHOSE OHSU: | A rapidly growing school on a beautiful campus in a beautiful city. | | | CAREER/PROFESSIONAL GOALS: | MD/PhD - Academic Medicine | | | EXTRACURRICULAR INTERESTS: | Camping, Climbing, Ducatis |
Brenda Simpson  | | ETHNICITY: | Mexican-American | | | CONTACT INFO: | simpsonb@ohsu.edu | | | YEAR: | MD 2010 | | | HOMETOWN/STATE: | El Paso, Texas | | | CAREER/PROFESSIONAL GOALS: | Family Practice? Undecided | | | WHY YOU CHOSE OHSU: | I fell in love with Portland and the OHSU campus. | | | EXTRACURRICULAR INTERESTS: | Ballroom Dance |
Paul Willis  | | ETHNICITY: | Spanish | | | YEAR: | MD 2010 | | | HOMETOWN/STATE: | Gresham, OR | | | CAREER/PROFESSIONAL GOALS: | interested in otolaryngology and internal medicine | | | EXTRACURRICULAR INTERESTS: | music, working out, travel. | |
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