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2000 SUMR Scholars
Tamar L. Mirensky
University of Pennsylvania, Class of 2001
Major: Bioengineering |

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Tamar worked
with LDI Senior Fellow Katrina
Armstrong, M.D., MSCE, on a project that looked at ways to facilitate
understanding of barriers to breast cancer prevention among high risk,
low income women. While at Penn, she was president of the engineering
honor society, Tau Beta Pi, and received a Hugo Otto Wolf Memorial Prize.
Tamar graduated from Penn's School of Medicine in 2005, and is currently
a resident at Yale-New Haven Hospital.
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Melissa T. Pelaez
University of Pennsylvania, Class of 2001
Major: Psychology and Spanish |

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Melissa worked
with LDI Senior Fellow Judy
Shea, Ph.D., to develop and administer a patient satisfaction survey
aimed at the Spanish-speaking population at the Philadelphia VA Medical
Center She is currently a Graduate Research Assistant in the Consortium
for Longitudinal Studies of Child Abuse and Neglect (LONGSCAN) at the
Child & Adolescent Services Research Center (CASRC) in San Diego,
CA.
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Duare Valanzuela
University of Illinois, Class of 2001
Major: Biology |

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Duare worked with LDI Senior
Fellow Risa
Lavizzo-Mourey, M.D., M.B.A., former Director of the Institute
on Aging, on a study of the Acute Care of Elders (ACE) Unit at Presbyterian
Hospital. While at Penn, Duare was a Benjamin Franklin Scholar, and received
a Howard R. Swearer Student Humanitarian Award.
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