Dear Diana,
We wanted to share with you some exciting details about the clinical and research component planned for this year’s Summit participants. Each year, the Global Youth Summit capitalizes on the great medical resources of the city of Boston and, through the generosity of our partner institutions, provides our talented delegates with the unique opportunity to explore some of the top medical institutions that this country has to offer.
The range of activities featured in these visits is engaging and diverse, and varies from site to site. While traveling in small groups, you will learn about possible career paths and cutting-edge research from leading medical professionals. You will tour state-of-the-art facilities, visit simulation labs where medical students learn lifesaving procedures, watch streaming video of live surgeries, shadow medical professionals in their work, explore groundbreaking research and biotech labs that are pioneering new techniques in their fields, and investigate the many possible pathways that your own future career in medicine might take.
To complete your Summit application and join us as we explore the institutions detailed below, log into your account using the following temporary PIN: 754482027.
Ranked the #1 Children's Hospital by U.S. News and World Report, Boston Children's Hospital has done innovative work building its molecular medicine laboratory into Claritas Genomics, an independent, first-of-its-kind, pediatric clinical genomics diagnostics company. Home to the largest research facility at a pediatric hospital, Children's has also made great strides in the use of 3-D printed models in the preparation for complex surgical procedures, reducing surgical time and improving outcomes.
The Broad Institute is a state-of-the-art research institution, specializing in genomics and biomedical sciences. Home to one of the largest genome sequencing centers in the world, the Broad is actively engaged in a range of cutting-edge initiatives, which include an exploration of the genetic basis of schizophrenia, the development of a molecular bar-coding system to enhance the speed and scope of drug trials, and signal advances in the potential applications of CRISPR-Cas9 to genome editing.
A teaching affiliate of Harvard Medical School, the Cambridge Health Alliance encompasses a network of hospitals and services with a particular focus on primary care and its intersection with mental and behavioral health. Among their research programs are psychodynamic therapy, addiction, and family studies. As part of a recent pilot effort to reduce hospital readmissions, CHA's innovative Hospital-to-Home program was ranked third in the nation.
Dana-Farber Cancer Institute is a world-renowned leader in cancer treatment, with nearly 500 clinical trials to date; its areas of clinical research include DNA repair; immunological therapies, including tumor vaccines; and metabolic disease as it relates to cancer incidence. Its treatment programs for aplastic anemia and multiple myeloma are regarded as the best in the world.
Located in Cambridge and affiliated with Massachusetts Institute of Technology, The Koch Institute for Integrative Cancer Research employs a highly interdisciplinary approach to the treatment of cancer and has taken a lead role in educating the next generation of cancer researchers. Its current and former staff has included five Nobel laureates, nine winners of the National Medal of Science or Technology and Innovation, and ten Howard Hughes Medical Investigators.
A teaching hospital of Tufts Medical School, Lahey Hospital & Medical Center is a physician-led, nonprofit group practice. Lahey's Cerebrovascular Disease Center is among the most advanced in the region for the treatment of strokes and brain aneurysms and its liver transplantation team conducted the first living donor transplant in New England.
Newton-Wellesley Hospital is a top community hospital and teaching medical center, affiliated with both Tufts and Harvard Medical Schools and known for its excellence in orthopedics, urology, geriatrics and oncology. The hospital's Partners Reproductive Medicine Center has been recognized as a Nursing Center of Excellence by the American Society for Reproductive Medicine. Its reproductive medicine service is the first in Massachusetts to be so designated and one of only 14 centers in the U.S.
The Spaulding Rehabilitation Network is a leader in rehabilitative medicine with six inpatient and 23 outpatient centers that offer innovative treatments to a broad spectrum of patients with a host of significant disabling conditions, including spinal cord injury, traumatic brain injury, other traumatic injuries, stroke, and neuromuscular disorders like multiple sclerosis, cerebral palsy, and Parkinson’s disease.
In addition to its strength as a teaching hospital, Tufts Medical Center has made groundbreaking achievements in organ transplant—from the late 1950's when the Center first demonstrated the suppression of the body's immune system to avoid tissue rejection, to its first-in-the-nation transplant exchange program. A Level I trauma center, Tufts has completed more heart transplants over the past five years than any other hospital in New England.
Please note that the April 1st application deadline is fast approaching and we expect the delegation to fill quickly in the weeks following the deadline. Use your PIN (754482027) to log in now and complete your application.
If you have any questions, please review our FAQs, call us at 781-736-3500, or email us at youthsummit@brandeis.edu.
We hope you will join us to explore these incredible institutions this June!
Sincerely,
Brandeis University
Global Youth Summit on the Future of Medicine
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