Emerging Leaders Program

Abstract

567FA MILY M EDICINE U PDAT E S affected youth. His project won the Lancet Outstanding Global Health Research Award in addition to several poster prizes. He also worked as a humanitarian health consultant for UNICEF and the Norwegian Refugee Council addressing issues of shelter, child protection, and population movement.His vision of his future career involves grappling with health policy issues and innovating community based care models that empower patients to be proactive and preventive in their health care.Mark Stoltenberg, a 2010 Pisacano Scholar, is a 4th-year medical student at Loyola University Chicago Stritch School of Medicine, where he also received a Dean's scholarship to complete his master's in bioethics and health policy. He graduated from Duke University with a Bachelor of Arts in Religion. From the age of 13 through college, he volunteered at a children's hospital. During his senior year, he participated in service trips to Salem, West Virginia, and Managua, Nicaragua, both poverty-stricken areas.During his fi rst 2 years of medical school, Mark created a family advocacy program that connects local underserved families with medical students through a new service-learning curriculum. Mark and a few of his classmates chose to move into the underserved community and develop a survey-based research study in conjunction with the department of preventive medicine to better assess the community of Maywood. With his research, Mark hopes to give the department a better understanding of the local community that will more accurately direct future projects and initiatives.As an Albert Schweitzer fellow, Mark recently began a self-designed, year-long fellowship. This fellowship will allow Mark to commit a year to act as the medical coordinator for a 13-village clinic system in rural Bolivia which was started by a Loyola attending physician and her husband 9 years ago. During his year there, Mark will be coordinating the public health projects conducted by the clinic, fostering communication between the clinic and the 13 villages it serves, and also assisting in patient care alongside visiting attending physicians. Once instituted, Mark plans to make his position a permanent Global Health Fellowship.Mark plans to remain in academic medicine and continue working with the various projects and communities he has connected with while in medical school.