Now in its seventh year, our Healthcare Leadership and Management (HLM) Scholars Program prepares medical students for future leadership roles in Emergency Medicine. The program offers medical students an opportunity to experience various aspects of healthcare management, including hospital administration and finance, clinical quality and patient safety, policy-making, and clinical operations management. Throughout their time in the program, the scholars will foster close relationships with senior management and gain valuable insight into the healthcare system as a whole.
Join us in welcoming the 2022 class of HLM Scholars!
Elizabeth Ayomide Fashakin
Elizabeth Ayomide Fashakin is a first-year year medical student at Weill Cornell Medical College. She completed her undergraduate degree at Vanderbilt University in Nashville, TN with a BS in Neuroscience with Honors in the College of Arts and Sciences. During this time, she presented research detailing the neuronal and nonneuronal cell densities of the cerebral cortex, cerebellum, and motor cortex of Old and New World Primates species. She then worked at Red Ventures marketing firm in Charlotte, NC as a Digital Marketing Analyst focusing on Customer Experience and Paid Search. In this period, she was also actively involved in the emerging COVID-19 vaccination clinics centered on improving vaccine access for vulnerable populations in Charlotte.
Ayo decided to pursue the Healthcare Leadership & Management Fellowship Program because of her interest in exposure to the intricacies of healthcare management. She would like to better understand the process of policymaking in hospitals, clinical operations management, and clinical quality optimization, particularly for at-risk populations.
In her spare time, Ayo enjoys exercising, traveling, and exploring NYC.
Taylor Lis
Brittney Chong
Brittney Chong is a first-year medical student at Weill Cornell Medical College. She graduated from Earlham College, majoring in neuroscience and minoring in chemistry and medical humanities in May of 2021. During her undergraduate career, she was a volunteer coordinator at a state-level mental health institution and worked as a community paramedic in Richmond, IN. Now that she is in medical school, she continues to serve the community in a different capacity by working in the diversity, equity, and inclusion sphere, mentoring students as part of the First Generation/Low Income club's Peer2Peer program and the Health Professions Recruitment/Exposure Program (HPREP).
Brittney joined the Healthcare Leadership & Management Scholars program because she is interested in how we can improve healthcare by more actively recruiting and supporting underrepresented students. As a student interested in primary care, she is also interested in ways in which we can prevent overutilization of the emergency department by disadvantaged patients.
In her free time, Brittney enjoys cooking and eating, traveling (when COVID permits), dancing, and playing lacrosse.
Divija Chopra
Divija Chopra is a first-year medical student at Weill Cornell Medical College. She graduated from New York University in 2019 with a BSc in Neural Science, and a minor in psychology. She completed her thesis in the NYU Neuroscience and Education Lab, where she used a cross-species approach to explore intervention points for health and education outcomes for children growing up under the income poverty line, with the goal that the findings could one day be used to inform public policy. Between her undergraduate and medical studies, she continued her research and served as a Chief Scribe in the NYP/Weill Cornell Medical Center and NYP/Lower Manhattan Hospital emergency departments.
Through these experiences, Divija became drawn to the glimpses she saw into the world of hospital administration and policy. She hopes to grow as a leader to influence institutional culture and the areas that she is interested in, such as patient safety and access to care, diversity and inclusion, and medical education.
When she is not in a medical center, Divija likes to go ice skating, take dance classes, frequent arcades, and try the wide variety of food NYC has to offer."
