Meet the author:
Christina Hughey
Med Student
Christina Hughey is a third year medical student at the University of Kansas School of Medicine. She is a Kansas native and earned her bachelor’s degree in nursing with a minor in applied behavior science in 2010 from the University of Kansas. She continues to work as a Registered Nurse in Inpatient Dialysis, where her patient care experiences inform her everyday practice of medicine. In her spare time, she serves as the Chair of the Student Government Association where she guides the university in policy decisions from a student perspective. She has gone on multiple international medical missions to Kenya, Belize, and Panama and volunteers at local underserved free health clinics for high risk youth and immigrant populations. She hopes to incorporate academic research into everyday practice as she was the recipient of an NIH T32 grant, which gave her the funding to complete an internship in the Alzheimer’s lab of Dr. Russell Swerdlow, MD. She ultimately aspires to serve Kansans as a critical care/pulmonary physician after completing an internal medicine residency and critical care/pulmonary fellowship.