Aetna Foundation/National Medical Fellowships Healthcare Leadership Program

Carmen E. Cancino, a third-year medical student from the University of Illinois College of Medicine at Chicago, who was a recipient of a Albert Schweitzer Fellowship Award and who created a Young Doctors Club for middle school students in a predominantly African-American and low-income neighborhood.

Monique Chambers, a second-year medical student at the University of California, Davis who initiated the first elective course at UC Davis designed specifically on the social determinants of minority health outcomes. She is also co-director of the Imani Clinic, a student-run free clinic providing primary care to the uninsured in a historically African-American neighborhood.

Cassandra M. List, a second-year medical student from the University of Illinois College of Medicine at Chicago, who serves as co-president of the school’s chapter of the Latino Medical Student Association and as a Spanish interpreter in community health clinics.

Shamsideen O. Musa, a third-year medical student from the University of Chicago Pritzker School of Medicine, who developed a weekend science curriculum taught by Pritzker medical students to urban teenagers interested in science and medicine and who also founded a student program, Big Sibs-Little Sibs, in which medical students from minority backgrounds mentor minority undergraduates interested in medicine.

Veronica Ramirez, a second-year medical student at Keck School of Medicine, University of Southern California, who created the Latino Health Awareness Project, a Latino Medical Student Association initiative at Keck.

Jonathan Li Robles-Dunlap, a first-year medical student at Stanford School of Medicine, who served for three years as president and chief operating office for the student-created nonprofit Global Health Volunteers, Inc. and was a Fulbright Scholar in Ecuador.