SMYSP Launches Book: Healing Journeys: Teaching Medicine, Nurturing Hope
Former U.S. Surgeon General, Dr. David Satcher, writes the foreword.
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Judith Ned, Ed.D., M.Ed.
Executive Director
Stanford Medical Youth Science Program
Stanford Prevention Research Center
Stanford University School of Medicine
MSOB, 1265 Welch Road
Stanford, CA 94305-5411
phone (650) 498-4514
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Palo Alto, CA – The Stanford Medical Youth Science Program announces the publication of its first book, Healing Journeys, co-written by SMYSP founder Dr. Marilyn Winkleby, Stanford Associate Professor of Medicine and writer Julia Steele, with photos by Kathy Sloane.
This book chronicles the lives of 16 students who epitomize the spirit of SMYSP. Many of these low-income and under-represented youths endured poverty, war, violence and racial injustice in their lives, yet they overcame their hardships to complete high school and graduate from SMYSP, attend college and flourish.
“The Stanford Medical Youth Science Program (SMYSP) is working to make sure that the access that Dr. King championed is a reality,” Dr. David Satcher, former U.S. Surgeon General, writes in the book’s foreword. “By supporting young people in need, SMYSP helps students who often feel shut out of the nation’s educational system to aim higher and achieve success.”
Healing Journeys is filled with powerful photography of the students and provides program vignettes that give a personal view of how students spend their time during the Summer Program. It introduces us to resilient students like Irene Linetskaya, who survived the Chernobyl nuclear disaster, but lost most of her immediate family members. She is now studying at Harvard Medical School.
The book lets us get to know Masud and Sayed Basel, two brothers who grew up in the chaos of the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan. Masud is now a second year medical student at Touro University College of Osteopathic Medicine and Sayed is a first year medical student at St. George University.
Healing Journeys profiles Erik Cabral, who as a teenager was recruited to be part of an inner city gang, but chose instead to focus on academics. He is currently a medical student at Stanford University.
These remarkable stories highlighted in Healing Journeys demonstrate the resiliency and determination many low-income and under-represented minority students demonstrate when exposed to academic resources, individual counseling and support.
“These stories speak of hope and reaffirm the power of education,” Dr. Winkleby said.
Funding for the book was made possible through the Irvine Foundation, The California Wellness Foundation and the California Endowment.
Copies of Healing Journeys are available for sale through The Stanford Health Promotion Resource Center and Amazon.com.
SMYSP Co-Founder Dr. Marilyn Winkleby and Executive Director Judith Ned are available for press interviews.
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SMYSP Executive Director, Judith T. Ned, Ed.D., M.Ed.
phone (650) 498-4514