Medical Student
Department of Obstetrics & Gynecology, Division of Maternal-Fetal Medicine, Baylor College of Medicine and Texas Children’s Hospital
Houston, Texas, United States
Maryshe Zietsman, BSA, Graduate Student Researcher, Baylor College of Medicine
Maryshe was born in Benoni, South Africa, though she spent most of her childhood in Texas. She attended the University of Texas at Austin where she studied Biology with a minor in Spanish. During her time at UT, Maryshe nurtured her passion for science and medicine, earning a Presidential Endowed Scholarship and a College of Natural Sciences Book Award. She graduated Summa Cum Laude a semester early and moved to Chicago to work in a paid research position in the School of Public Health at the University of Illinois at Chicago (UIC). After completing her research employment at UIC, she returned to Texas in 2018 to start her medical school education at Baylor College of Medicine. During her time at Baylor, Maryshe was accepted into the Medical Research Pathway, where she completed a year of research in the Obstetrics and Gynecology Department, under the mentorship of Drs. Kjersti Aagaard and Alireza Shamshirsaz. Her passion for research led Maryshe to apply to the MD PhD program at Baylor. She was accepted and is currently working on her PhD in the Development, Disease Models, and Therapeutics Program of Baylor's Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences.
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Friday, February 10, 2023
2:15 PM – 2:30 PM