Meet the author:
Lindsey McAlarnen
Med Student
Lindsey McAlarnen is a third year medical student at the Florida State University College of Medicine. Born and raised in a small town in Florida, Lindsey grew up in a service-oriented family. She attended the University of Notre Dame majoring in Science PreProfessional Studies and Sociology. Lindsey earned her Master’s of Science in Global Health from Notre Dame, studying global infectious disease surveillance and reporting policy. Experiences as a student athletic trainer, research assistant in an aquatic ecology lab, and volunteer at St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital, along with travel to Kkindu, Uganda, and Port-au-Prince, Haiti, have profoundly impacted Lindsey’s motivation to pursue a vocation in medicine. Lindsey is interested in primary care, sports medicine, medical education, and organized medicine, and hopes to pay forward the mentoring she received during her education to future students pursuing careers in medicine.