Abu Taha - UCSF Medical Student First generation and immigrant experience while navigating the small towns of the California's Central Valley (#004)

Hey listeners and readers! This is Nick Cevallos. Thanks for
tuning into another episode of Pass the Mike where I will be
sharing the story of medical trainees and professionals. My job
is to build you a community of mentors from the folks that have
come before you. I am ecstatic to bring another episode with Abu
Taha. That's A-B-U space T-A-H-A. Abu graduated
from CSU Frenso with a major in Biology minored in Philosophy. I
am hyped to announce that Abu will be starting as a first-year
medical student at UCSF and is also my current classmate!


Abu has a big heart for mentorship and it shows, he served as a
tutor for students K-12 in his hometown, volunteer for the great
fresno community through the Smittcamp Volunteer Service, a peer
instructor at the Department of Biology assisting younger
students with research projects and how to navigate the stem
field. He also was a clinical volunteer for the Tzu-Chi Clinic,
spearheaded a project on characterizing the motor dysfunctions
caused by the accumulation of alpha-syuclein in fruit flies. If
that wasn’t enough for you he was also the President of American
Medical Student Association (AMSA)


You can find Abu if you want to say hello, ask a question or
discuss Philosophy with him
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Very excited to have this conversation with you today Abu! How’s
everything?