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Kelsey Greenwood

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Hobbies & Interests

  • Hiking And Backpacking
  • Crafting
  • Fishing
  • Global Health
  • Gardening
  • Health Sciences
  • Medicine
  • Pediatrics
  • Public Health
  • Photography and Photo Editing
  • Reading
  • Research
  • Running
  • Volunteering
  • Videography

Reading

  • Sociology
  • Academic
  • Book Club
  • Adult Fiction
  • Science‎
  • Thriller

I read books multiple times a month.

Bio

Kelsey Greenwood is a current third year medical student at the University of Louisville School of Medicine. She is an aspiring emergency medicine physician who frequently volunteers with the emergency department's event medicine team at local music festivals, football games, and road races if she is not running in the race herself. Outside of this, Kelsey leads multiple specialty interest groups at her institution where she helps her peers learn about the fields of emergency medicine, cardiology, and pediatrics, schedule shadowing opportunities, build professional connections, practice clinical skills, and learn from attendings, residents, patient parents, and more. She mentors both pre-medical students and medical students, guiding them along their medical journey and promoting professional connections, development opportunities, leadership opportunities, and general advice in application materials. You can often find Kelsey in the Have a Heart Cardiology Clinic, where she spends time giving healthcare to underserved populations in need. Coming from a rural and low socioeconomic status family herself, Kelsey understands the barriers to receive healthcare and often aims to give back to communities like her own. Kelsey a natural leader both in the classroom and on the healthcare team. She strives to continue her growth and knowledge by participating in research involving neuroimmunology, microbiology, and program specific logistical pragmatic reviews. In her free time, she will be running, behind a camera, crafting, or adding to her recipe book.

Education

University of Louisville

Doctoral degree program (PhD, MD, JD, etc.)

2024 – 2028

Majors:
  • Medicine

University of Iowa

Bachelor's degree program

2020 – 2024

Majors:
  • Microbiological Sciences and Immunology

Miscellaneous

Desired degree level:
Doctoral degree program (PhD, MD, JD, etc.)
Medical school interest:
Yes

Career

  • Babysitter

    Hospitality · Riverton First United Methodist Church

    Jan 2016 – Jan 2020

  • Umpire, Concessions

    Sports · Riverton Girls Softball League

    Jan 2016 – Jan 2020

  • Cashier

    Retail · Scheels

    Jan 2020 – Jan 2022

  • Resident Assistant

    Hospitality · University of Iowa

    Jan 2022 – Jan 2024

Miscellaneous

Dream career field:
Medicine
Dream career goals:
Physician
Work experience:
8 years
Has nursing license:
No

Future Interests

  • Advocacy
  • Volunteering
  • Philanthropy
Headbang For Science
One thing is hammered into your head in the field of medicine: stay with your patient. It was the one thing I could not do in this moment. I was initially scorned for bumping into people left-and-right trying to make my way to the front of the crowd until bystanders realized I was not an unruly fan, but part of the medical team in an emergency. Parting the crowd one person at a time was not fast enough. I watched helplessly as my patient was lifted over the crowd and surfed to the front. I looked behind me to find another way out of the crowd but realized I would have to keep pushing forward. Turning back was not an option; my unconscious patient needed me. A man that towered over me saw everything. While I was saying “medical, excuse me,” his voice boomed, “heads up!” I too was lifted, and by the hands of strangers put seconds behind my patient. A wheelchair was waiting for him at the front and when I passed over the barricade, he was strapped in ready for me to run. Behind the set to a medical tent was our destination. I was amazed at how fast we got there, not by my running speed, but from the grace of others transporting us. Although the circumstances were not expected, for many reasons this is my favorite metal concert experience. It was my first time crowd surfing, my first time truly needing help beyond my scope in a crowded area and watching humanity come together for a greater good, and my first music festival. I am grateful to not only be able to be apart of the medical team at Louder than Life, the largest rock and metal festival in North America, but also attend it in my time off. Louisville is the biggest city I have ever lived in and I am grateful it has come with the opportunity to pursue not only my professional dreams of becoming a physician, but also my therapeutic outlet of metal music. I come a low socioeconomic status family in the small rural countryside of Illinois. My parents worked multiple jobs to try and keep us afloat and my dad’s medical bills paid before he ultimately passed from lung cancer. Many fun things of childhood were out of the question for me by default of financial concern. This is why I take pride in being where I am today: a medical student despite all odds. Because really, financial concern has not gone away. I am taking out loans as I go through school, happy to get to and through school at all as a first-generation student in my family and the first to go into the medical field as anything other than a patient. Metal has gotten me through a lot of highs and lows: from finishing my first marathon running to rhythms of Slayer and Avenge Sevenfold to quite literally screaming and dancing some feelings out to Korn. I have now had the privilege of seeing all three of these bands in person either while working or right after a shift, giving a whole new meaning to how I experience their songs. That favorite concert experience of crowd surfing to catch up with my patient? That was in the middle of Slayer’s set. How incredibly memorable that was to reminisce my marathon race day while working to save a life. In the future, you can certainly find me at Louder than Life again working with your EMTs, techs, and physicians or post shift enjoying the festival myself. I have a few more years of medical school and I am working towards becoming an emergency medicine physician so I can continue to help pick up patients when their body fails them in situations like this. Maybe one day I will be able to be the doctor on site of the festival, still helping people at their lowest get back to what they enjoy the most.
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