Welcome to Ellen Zhang’s homepage! Ellen is an internal medicine resident at Stanford. She is passionate about medicine, public service, teaching, writing, and photography.
Here you can learn more about Ellen and her writing, photography, research, service, and teaching.
Ellen graduated from Harvard Medical School and Harvard College with an A.B. in Integrative Biology and a secondary in Global Health & Health Policy. She was heavily involved with public service organizations including Crimson Care Collaborative, Phillips Brooks House Association, and National Alzheimer’s Buddies, among others.
She is passionate about teaching, having co-led Health Careers Collaborative in Boston working with underserved high schoolers and serving in many teaching roles for Harvard College courses.
Ellen has also conducted research at Boston Children’s Hospital, Harvard Stem Cell Institute, Massachusetts General Hospital, and even in rural Peru.
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Ellen’s passion for service and teaching has had impact around the world. In 2018, she work for a summer in rural Peru as both a Cordeiro Fellow and a Weissman Fellow, selected by Harvard. During her internship, she ran women’s health literacy workshops in the Shipibo-Conibo community and worked in non-profit management. In both 2018 and 2019, she taught high schoolers in Vietnam, introducing students to a liberal arts education by teaching topics including heart disease and journalism.
Her undergraduate training includes a secondary in Global Health and Public Policy, for which she conducted original research on the proliferation and effectiveness of women’s health literacy programs in Peru based on the findings of her field work as a Cordeiro Fellow.
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