Anna Vardapetyan is a current undergraduate pre-medical student at the University of California, Berkeley pursuing a degree in Molecular and Cellular Biology and minoring in Data Science. She served as the 2019-2020 National AMWA Premedical Co-Conference Chair planning the 105th Annual Conference in Indianapolis and serves as the Mental Health Committee Head. Apart from AMWA, Anna works as an administrative assistant at a local math enrichment program, conducts research at the Institute of Genomics Institute (IGI), serves as the Social Media Chair for the Armenian Students Association (ASA) and is part of their choir, and teaches elementary school students via BASIS. On the side, she’s worked at the UCSF Interventional Radiology Lab for the past 4 years, presenting her research at national conferences.
She loves AMWA’s mission and strong network of empowering physicians and hopes to use AMWA as the backbone for her future career as an academic physician. She has been moved by the extent and diversity of women in AMWA that are in medicine which serves as her inspiration as she continues to pursue her career as an academic physician.
Some advice she wishes to give to all the aspiring premedical students is to work your hardest, take advantage of the opportunities around you, and never give up. A quote she lives by is “Nothing’s impossible. The word itself says “I’m possible!” (Audrey Hepburn).
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