Yaowaree (Noona) is currently a third year student at the Florida State University College of Medicine. She graduated from Emory University in 2009 as a J. Pollard Turman Scholar with a double major in Comparative Literature and Psychology, at which point she deferred medical school for two years to join the Teach for America Newark Corps. Her past leadership roles include Student Case Coordinator of the Atlanta Asylum Network, which is a non-profit branch of Physicians for Human Rights which processes political asylum cases and provides seekers with pro-bono medical and psychological affidavits. She speaks conversational Spanish and has volunteered as a medical translator at a free clinic in Atlanta.

While Noona’s interest in AMWA began when she heard about the organization in a medical school interview, her awareness of the differing and often inequitable treatment of women and other marginalized gender groups goes much further back. She believes AMWA gives voice to the concerns of female physicians in the local and national arena through the power of amplification, that powerful shift from “I believe, I desire” to “We believe, We desire”. Furthermore, AMWA provides a desperately needed mentor resource for helping female physicians network and navigate the medical professional world. Noona has been involved on the local level as chapter Vice President, during which time her chapter has hosted and variety of meetings and numerous service projects including a new undergraduate AMWA mentor program. As she extends her involvement to the national level, it is her goal to facilitate further growth of the organization to better connect the wide net of AMWA members across the geographical divides between them. She is excited to remain involved with AMWA as it moves in new directions throughout her continuing education and career.

 

 

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