SCIENCE & LEADERSHIP IN MEDICINE STUDENT DOCTOR SPEAKER SERIES: NICHOLAS BRUTUS

You will hear from the group's leaders on how you can join the initiative to support diversity in medicine. This initiative seeks to support and inspire all minorities pursuing a career in medicine, but its specific goal is to provide support and mentorship to Black and Latino students on their journey to a career in medicine.

Our inaugural speaker is Hunter College 2018 alumnus, Nicholas Brutus.

Nicholas Brutus is a proud son of Haitian and Jamaican immigrants born and raised in Long Island, New York. He completed his undergraduate degree at CUNY Hunter College where he excelled academically and athletically becoming an NCAA Scholar All-American wrestler.

During his gap-year before medical school, he worked in a medical device lab as a Quality Control Team Leader where he worked to improve infectious disease detection through in-vitro diagnostics. There, he oversaw the development and improvement of rapid detection test kits for pathogens including SARS-CoV-2, HIV1/HIV2, Syphilis, Zika, Ebola, and more.

Nicholas is now a first-year medical student at Albany Medical College and serves as Vice-President of Student Council, Chair on the Underrepresented Student Alliance, and as the National Coordinator of Building the Next Generation of Academic Physicians (BNGAP). He embodies the BNGAP mission of working to improve diversity in academic medicine as he hopes to serve as a clinician and an academician in the future. He is particularly interested in service and research to address healthcare disparities affecting minority populations and is interested in pursuing a surgical career.