Title: Dr. Joel Oppenheim MD/PhD Talk
Description: Dr. Joel Oppenheim, Senior Associate Dean for Biomedical Science and Professor of Microbiology at New York University School of Medicine is visiting Hunter College to talk to students pursuing pre-med, pre-MD/PhD, or PhDs in the medical fields. He has served on NYU's M.D. and M.D./Ph.D. Admissions Committees, and he chairs the Ph.D. Admissions Committee. He is the founder and organizer of the "What Can You Be With a Ph.D.?" Symposium, and one of the founding program directors of The Leadership Alliance (1992), a consortium of collaborating minority-serving colleges and major research universities committed to increasing graduate-level underrepresented minorities in all disciplines. He will be discussing the Medical/Graduate School application processes, and the jobs available in those chosen fields.