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.
