2024-2025 MSMP Executive Board.
Pictured left to right:
Back row (L-R): Jewel Ito (Co-Mentor/Mentee Relations), Lexie Matsunaga (Historian), Susan Hasegawa (Media Coordinator), Kylie Yamauchi (Newsletter), Lauryn Liao (Media Coordinator), Diana Holden (Treasurer), Albert Jiang (Co-Secretary), Shashi Sharma (Historian), Maya Nishida (O’ahu Community Outreach)
Front row (L-R): Kristal Xie (Co-Newsletter), Aia Alvarez-Nishio (Co-Newsletter), Charlie Tran (Co-Secretary), Jenny Nguyen (President), Erin Kim (Treasurer), Megan Kawamura (O’ahu Community Outreach)
Not pictured: Michaela Kop (Vice President), Nikki Ooka and Josh Ooka (Neighbor Island Community Outreach), Brandi Mikami, Ana Danko, & Brooke Yasuda (Mentor/Mentee Relations)
Founded in 2002, the Medical Student Mentorship Program (MSMP) is a student-run organization that pairs current medical students John A. Burns School of Medicine with undergraduate students interested in pursuing a career in medicine. Through these pairings, our goal is to help foster relationships between undergraduates and medical students and faculty. Over the years, we have paired more than 600 mentees with medical student mentors via an extensive matching process. Mentor-mentee pairs contact each other regularly and participate in a variety of activities throughout the year.
Organizational Goals
- To facilitate and guide students through the application process of medical school.
- To develop and maintain a formal medical student mentoring program at the John A. Burns School of Medicine (JABSOM).
- To foster mentoring relationships between undergraduates interested in pursuing a career in medicine and current JABSOM medical students.
Executive Board
| MS1 Members | Charlie Tran, Albert Jiang, Jewel Ito, Lauryn Liao, Diana Holden, Shashi Sharma, Kristal Xie, Aia Alvarez-Nishio, Maya Nishida, Brooke Yasuda, Josh Ooka |
| MS2 Members | Jenny Nguyen, Michaela Kop, Kylie Yamauchi, Susan Hasegawa, Lexie Matsunaga, Erin Kim, Megan Kawamura, Ana Danko, Nikki Ooka, Brandi Mikami |
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| MS4 Members | |
| Faculty Advisor | Dr. Ivy Nip Asano, Director of Admissions and Assistant Professor of Medicine |