Marissa Michael, daughter of Francis and Teresa-Anne Michael, is moving onto the next stages of her career in medicine.
Marissa was the CSEC Island Scholar in 2014 when she graduated from St. Anthony’s Secondary School and was the top student in the 2009 Common Entrance exams when she graduated from St. Nicholas Primary School. Marissa earned her Bachelor of Science from Tufts University with a major in Biology and a minor in Dance.
She graduated summa cum laude with a cumulative GPA of 3.91 in 2018.
Marissa has since been working at Weill Cornell Medicine as a Clinical Research Coordinator in the Department of Neurological Surgery.
She managed the regulatory aspects of all clinical research in the department, totaling over fifty protocols during her tenure, aimed at treating a range of diseases from Parkinson’s and Alzheimer’s to Cushing’s. She coordinated recruitment, enrollment, and data collection and conducted study assessments for the prospective trials and was responsible for ensuring that all research protocols were adhered to.
Outside of her scope of work, Marissa got involved in several other research and volunteer efforts at Weill Cornell Medicine. She published a literature review for which she is first author on treatment for occult tethered cord syndrome (DOI: 10.1007/s00381-021-05287-5).
Based on her findings, she aided in the design of a randomized prospective clinical trial to assess surgical versus medical management for this condition.
She also assisted in research regarding venous sinus stenting, which resulted in two other publications (DOI:https://doi.org/10.1186/s42155-020-00158-7 and DOI: https://doi.org/10.1177/1591019920974185) and a poster presentation.
Lastly, Marissa aided in start-up, expansion, and management efforts of a mentorship program for underrepresented-in-medicine (URiM) premedical students. The program, PrIMES, aims to help narrow the diversity gap in the healthcare system in the US, an issue she is passionate about.
As a true representation that hard work pays off, Marissa has been accepted to start her Doctor of Medicine degree at Weill Cornell Medical College (WCMC) in August 2021. She hopes to pursue a surgical residency when she graduates in 2025. While at WCMC, she will explore the study of Global Health to one day be well positioned to give back to communities like her beloved home, Antigua.
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Very proud of you. Keep up the good work and all of your dreams will be realized.
Congratulations,young lady. Keep your feet on the ground and reach for the stars.
I DON’T KNOW WHAT RELATIONSHIP SHE MAY HAVE WITH ASSOT MICHAEL BUT I THINK THAT SHE SHOULD BE GIVEN THE CHANCE TO RUN AT THE NEXT GENERAL ELECTION AS ASSOT MICHAEL REPLACEMENT. SHE IS VERY YOUNG AND WELL EDUCATED.
I had to look up Weill University on the net. I should not have to do this. I don’t know why this item is here in Australia. I am not interested in this woman’s career. A brilliant student in Australia, maybe. There is almost no public healthcare in the USA. Medical advances are fine but blowing hundreds of thousands of Muslims to bits for oil instead of using clean energy seems a bizarre contradiction. A thousand Australians who have respiratory problems die from air pollution every year. Looking after the planet is more important.
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