Pre-Med Advising

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Committee

Wally Bethune

• Field: Medicine
• Charges: Chair of Premed Committee
• Phone: 3-6671
• Room: E-311
• Address: 593 Cabot Mail Center
• Email: wally.bethune@gmail.com

Hey there. I'm thrilled to be back for my 6th year as a resident premed tutor at Cabot House. I love this job! Back in the day, when I was a Cabot undergrad, premed tutors reached out to me and really helped me alot. So I'm very excited to have the opportunity to give back and hopefully help many of you along on the road to becoming a physician. Wherever you are on that very long road - from deciding whether or not to be "premed" in the first place to figuring out which orgo class to take and when to take it to preparing for the MCAT or for med school interviews - I am here to help you strategize about how to move forward. I especially enjoy strategizing over a chickwich.

In my other job, I'm currently in my 3rd year of post-medical school training, completing my residency in the Department of Anesthesia and Critical Care at Massachusetts General Hospital. Anesthesia is, in my opinion, the coolest thing since sliced bread; a true everyday miracle. Learning how to practice this amazing craft is an honor and a privilege ...not to mention its so much fun, sometimes I can hardly believe its legal! Livin' the dream y'all.

So, when I'm not practicing anesthesia, studying anesthesia or hanging out in the dining hall telling stories about crazy anesthesia misadventures, I also enjoy working out (biking, running, weights, hoops), visiting Montreal (an amazing city with amazingly cool people and an awesome jazz festival every summer), and discussing the latest news about my hometown Knicks and Yankees. Lastly, I'm a recovering fast-motorcycle addict; I sold my Yamaha R1 a couple years back and its a daily struggle not to relapse and get another sportbike. I've currently got my eye on the '08 Yamaha R6S... Meanwhile, I hope to see you around the house and I'm looking forward to getting to know many of you during the year!

Aaron Berkowitz

• Field: Music
• Charges: Pre-med, Orchestra Conductor for Cabot Musical
• Phone: 3-7854
• Room: L-11
• Address: 595 Cabot Mail Center
• Email: berkowit@fas.harvard.edu

I am a fifth year graduate student in music, studying ethnomusicology, composition, piano, and music cognition. I will be helping to organize House concerts and other musical events, so please find me or email me if you have ideas or playing/performing interests. Over the past 10 years or so, I did my undergraduate degrees at George Washington University (BA in music, BS in biology), worked in neuroscience research at the NIH, taught English as a foreign language in Paris while studying music there, traveled through Europe and India, and then completed 3 and a half years of an MD at Johns Hopkins before going on leave of absence to do a PhD in music here at Harvard. So this marks my 8th year of post college education! My current projects include concerts on fortepiano (the predecessor of the piano), a brain imaging study of musical improvisation, several compositions, and a dissertation comparing music and language learning. As a member of the pre-med committee, I want to help you figure out if medicine is the right choice for you, and if so, make sure that you are aware of the various options, including less-than-traditional routes, to and through medical education (e.g., time off, deferral, combined degrees, etc.). Feel free to come talk to me about any aspect of medical school, medicine, music, study abroad.... I also run a weekly French Table (time/date TBA) at which students at all levels are welcome. I look forward to meeting everyone!

Surbhi Grover

• Field: Medicine
• Charges: Premed Committee
• Phone: 3-5748
• Room: N-41
• Address:
• Email: surbhi_grover@hms.harvard.edu

Hey all! This is my third year in Cabot as a Pre-med tutor, and I really pshyed to be back! I am currently a sfourth year medical student, and after moving from New York to Longwood at the start of medical school, I am really thrilled to be Cambridge. I grew up in India and moved to New York during high school; I went to Columbia for undergraduate and studied Economics and Religion. During my junior year, I spent a semester in Denmark doing a medical practice policy program, which was amazing experience and exposed me to different dimensions of medicine as a career. My passion for globe trodding fits well with my interest in public health intiatives and global health policy. Please feel to stop by if you want to chat about studying abroad with pre-med requirements, exploring Boston/Cambridge (since it is my first year here, I am really looking forward to exploring exciting bike paths and pretty running routes...any suggestions would be appreciated!) or just anything. I am looking forward to meeting to all and getting to know you over the course of this year!

Andrew Levin

• Field: MD / PhD
• Charges: Premed Committee
• Phone: 3-5833
• Room: C-45
• Address: 573 Cabot Mail Center
• Email: adlevin@gmail.com

Hey everybody! Fourth time's the charm. It's good to be back for another year of action packed Cabot-mania. Originally from Evanston, Illinois, my undergrad years were all about central New Jersey and Princeton, studying mechanical engineering. Believe it or not, I've actually graduated so it's doctor/doctor now. This year I'm working at Genzyme in Cambridge in the cardiovascular group. It's pretty frickin' sweet. During the educational years I was fortunate enough to convince fellowships to give me money to travel to exotic locations like Peru and Paris (in the picture I'm at Omaha beach contemplating the magnitude of the D-Day invasion) so if you're into that sort of thing, I can give you some secret grant writing tips. When I'm not doing the day job, you might find me floating on a surf board wishing the East coast had better waves. If you want to chat current events my primary periodicals are US Weekly and The Economist, go figure.

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