Med School Admissions Session w/Drs. Graef '60, and Nizet '84
Tuesday, March 20, 6—7:15 p.m. Medical School Admissions Info Session GCC-CD
Wednesday, March 21, 9 a.m.—12 p.m. & 2—5 p.m. Mock Interviews, Greywood
RSVP Required for Mock Interviews (read on)

On Wednesday, March 21, from 9:00 a.m. to mid-afternoon, Drs. Graef & Nizet will conduct mock interviews in Greywood. This interview not only gives you essential practice; Drs. Graef & Nizet will provide vital input on how to improve your chances of gaining acceptance to medical school. Interview slots are first come, first served. To get an interview with Drs. Graef & Nizet, you must complete two steps:

1. Stop by career services (in person) to sign up for a slot.
2. Download and complete this questionnaire and e-mail it to Brooke at career.services@reed.edu no later than noon on Tuesday, March 20, 2012.

The interviews take place in Greywood and last approximately 40 minutes.

Bios

  John Graef I served for 14 years on the Harvard Medical School Admissions Committee, where I discovered that Reed students were not as successful in gaining admission as I thought their college performances warranted. I knew the preparation and “trimmings” that many universities and colleges offered to premed students simply weren’t happening at Reed. After a conversation I had with President Colin Diver, Julie Kern Smith in Career Services contacted me and we discussed ways I might be helpful. Since then, I’ve been able to combine family visits and talking with Reed students about important elements in running the med school gauntlet. I don’t know how helpful it’s been for them, but it’s been an unadulterated pleasure for me. John serves as a career network volunteer and an admission volunteer.

   Victor Nizet is a professor of pediatrics and pharmacy at the University of California, San Diego, and Chief of the Division of Pediatric Pharmacology & Drug Discovery at the University of California San Diego (UCSD) School of Medicine and Skaggs School Pharmacy & Pharmaceutical Sciences. Dr. Nizet completed a biology thesis in the field of evolutionary ecology under the supervision of Professor Robert Kaplan. Dr. Nizet received his medical training at Stanford School of Medicine, completed a residency and chief residency in pediatrics at Harvard University's Children's Hospital in Boston, Massachusetts, and a fellowship in Pediatric Infectious Diseases at the University of Washington's Children's Hospital in Seattle. Dr. Nizet joined the UCSD faculty in 1997, and leads a large basic and translational research laboratory focused on discovering virulence factors of Gram-positive bacterial pathogens, elucidating mechanisms of host innate immunity, and novel approaches to infectious disease therapy. Major research themes have included streptococcal beta-hemolysins, bacterial blood-brain barrier penetration, staphylococcal pigment as a virulence factor and drug target, bacterial phagocyte resistance, innate antimicrobial peptides, neutrophil extracellular traps, bacterial carbohydrates and molecular mimicry, and the transcriptional regulation of macrophage activation. Dr. Nizet is also currently leading the initiative for a UCSD Health Sciences Center for Immunity, Infection & Inflammation which will debut in 2012. He has authored more than 200 peer-reviewed publications (> 100 since 2008), including several in the most prestigious general scientific journals. Eleven graduate students have successfully completed their PhD degree in Dr. Nizet's laboratory, and 10 former postdoctoral fellows have successfully transitioned to lead active independent laboratory programs at universities in he U.S. or abroad.