Meet the Team
Kathryn Rose
Kathryn in an undergraduate student at the University of South Florida studying Biomedical Sciences. Through her undergraduate experience as a premedical student, she recognized the unique mental health challenges facing premedical students as well as healthcare professionals in general. Kathryn is in her final semester of undergraduate education and plans on pursuing an MD/PhD with a research focus on stigma and mental illness in medical professionals. She hopes to one day help create and facilitate programs that focus on mental health and wellbeing in medical students.
Kathryn’s current project surrounds premedical student mental health. Her project focuses on elucidating the differences between the premedical and non-premedical student’s experience of depression, anxiety, academic stress, and stigma. Through this manuscript, she hopes to spread awareness on the stressors faced by premedical students. Her future research goals are centered on interventions for premedical and medical students that focus on suicide prevention and stigma reduction.