November 13, 2005
Well done, Megi
Megi Morishita poses with two sisters at a nutrition center in Ghana.
Our former housemate, Megi Morishita, graduated from the Johns Hopkins School of Public Health in Baltimore in 2001, after staying with us during the 2000-01 academic year. She was a lot of fun, passionately interested in kayaking and travel, a great conversationalist as we both cooked in the kitchen, and helpful to me as I developed concepts for my forthcoming book, Romance on the Road.
After graduation, Megi became a resident at the University of Arizona in Tucson, and now is a doctor in an obstetrics/gynecology, in Eugene, Ore.
She was profiled Sept, 26, 2005, in the Racine (Wisc.) Journal, for a visit she took to Ghana to correct fistulas (a connection between two organs) in local women.
Well done, Megi! We are very proud of you. It's inspiring to know someone making a difference in the world and embodying what public health is all about.
We've had an illustrious list of housemates, including Laura, now a professor at American University; Jim, an analyst at the Rand Corp. in Los Angeles; Rose, a nurse in Seattle; Katie, a nurse in Columbia, Md.; Barbara, formerly with Doctors without Borders, who handled the outbreak of Ebola virus in Kitwit, Zaire, as well as maternal health improvements in Rwanda; Justin, a doctor at the estememed Royal Marsden Hospital in London; Mark, a dermatology researcher at Stanford University; Scott, an environmental biologist in Oregon; Joe, who is some kind of math genius and works for a banking firm; Steve, who analyzes X-rays; Muriel, who became qualified in nuclear medicine; and Michelle, a nurse at Johns Hopkins.
Phew! That is quite a pedigreed group!
Read or download this article about Megi, Changing lives a world away.
- posted by jbelliveau at 7:01 PM in The Neighborhood
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