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Wei Li

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Bio

Growing up in a rural town where language and financial barriers limited my family's access to healthcare, I recognize the uncertainty that many patients experience when facing an unfamiliar healthcare system. As a future physician, I want to ensure immigrant communities can live healthy lives and provide better access to care through a familiar language. I hope by understanding each patient’s unique background, I can begin to tackle preventable diseases in underserved communities whose trials have inspired me to pursue medicine.

Education

Cornell University

Doctoral degree program (PhD, MD, JD, etc.)
2024 - 2028
  • Majors:
    • Medical Clinical Sciences/Graduate Medical Studies

Yale University

Bachelor's degree program
2018 - 2022
  • Majors:
    • Biochemistry, Biophysics and Molecular Biology

Vancleave High School

High School
2014 - 2018
  • Planning to go to medical school

    • Career

    • Dream career field:

      Medicine

    • Dream career goals:

    • Premedical Fellow: Medical Assistant, Scribe, Phlebotomist

      Combined Dermatology and Clinical Research Fellowship
      2022 – 20242 years

    Research

    • Cell/Cellular Biology and Anatomical Sciences

      Weill Cornell Medicine — Research Assistant
      2024 – Present

    • Biochemistry, Biophysics and Molecular Biology

      Yale School of Medicine — Research Assistant
      2021 – 2022

    Public services

    • Volunteering

      Yale Hunger and Homelessness Action Project (YHHAP) — YHHAP Big Sibs Project Head
      2018 – 2022

    • Volunteering

      HAVEN Free Clinic — Medical Debt and Insurance Counseling Volunteer
      2019 – 2020

    • Advocacy

      Dwight Hall- Yale Center for Public Service & Social Justice — Student Executive Committee Public Relations Coordinator
      2019 – 2020

    • Volunteering

      Yale Undergraduates at Connecticut Hospice — Volunteer
      2019 – 2020

    • Volunteering

      Echo Hose Ambulance — Emergency Medical Technician
      2022 – 2022

    • Volunteering

      Boston Chinatown Neighborhood Center — Urban High School Initiative Mentor and Volunteer
      2022 – 2024
    Wei Li Student Profile | Bold.org