About Lethu A. Ntshinga
Lethu is a recent college graduate coming from Cape Town, South Africa. Following high school she spent a semester at the University of Cape Town’s medical school before beginning college at Harvard University. Lethu primarily dedicated most of her undergraduate years to Harvard College’s student run EMS organization, mentoring freshman and to activism through theater. She graduated with a degree in Biomedical Engineering and African Studies and a minor in Global Health and Health Policy, primarily investigating novel HIV prevention interventions for Southern African women.
About Garrett Thompson
Garrett graduated from the University of New Hampshire (UNH) with a bachelors of science in biochemistry. While in college he worked as an advanced emergency medical technician (AEMT) delivering emergency care to those within his community. In addition to his role as an AEMT, Garrett became passionate about improving rates of out of hospital cardiac arrest survival. He was certified as a CPR instruct and was able to get his home town designated as a Heart Safe Community by the state of New Hampshire. After graduating from the UNH, Garrett pursued a masters of public health at the University of Sheffield in the United Kingdom as a Fulbright Scholar. While in England he studied the implementation of evidenced based guidelines in pre-hospital emergency medicine and was heavily involved in immigrant community health outreach. Garrett is thrilled to continue working to improve patient care in emergency medicine.
About Emma Hershey
Emma is a native Bostonian and a 2014 graduate of Tufts University, where she majored in Computer Science and Math with a minor in Music. She worked for four years as a software engineer at athenahealth building new functionality for athena’s EMR, and spent time outside of work performing with her band at the Cantab Lounge in Cambridge. After deciding to change careers, Emma attended Goucher College’s post-baccalaureate pre-medical program in Baltimore, MD. She is excited to be back in Boston working with the research team at Beth Israel.
Jeremy is a clinical research assistant at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center. He graduated from Tufts University in May 2021 with a BA in Community Health and a minor in Chinese. At Tufts, Jeremy taught English language and health education lessons to students of diverse ages in the Boston area and worked on Emergency Medicine and Orthopedic Surgery clinical research teams at NYU Langone Health. He is now a medical student at Albert Einstein College of Medicine in the Bronx, NY. Intrigued by the intersection of public health and clinical medicine, he hopes to become an empathetic and informed emergency medicine/critical care physician working alongside medically underserved communities.
