Hi! I'm Clara, a final year medical student at Charité in Berlin.
Education
Medical Student at Charité Berlin (6th year),
Intern/rotation year through surgery (at Queen Elizabeth Central Hospital in Blantyre, Malawi, May-Sep 2023), internal medicine (Berlin and Davos, Sep-Dec 2023), and neurosurgery (Charité Berlin, Jan-Apr 2024)
previously Lübeck University (1st-5th year)
Medical doctorate candidate in Social Neuroscience Lab about Microstructural and functional connectome correlates of Autism Spectrum Disorder
Scholarship holder of German Academic Scholarship Foundation, Germany's largest and most prestigious scholarship program
Dual enrolment in Medical Informatics (Bachelor's) at Lübeck University for four semesters
Postgraduate research fellow at Yale University School of Medicine - full research stipend by German Academic Exchange Service. Investigation of neurodevelopmental changes and conditions using diffusion-weighted magnetic resonance imaging. Full-time Jan-Nov 2021, ongoing collaboration
Graduate Research Trainee at Montreal Neurological Institute, research stipend (Doctorate stipend for Medical informatics) by University Hospital Schleswig Holstein). Analysis of connectome contractions in autism spectrum disorder using structural and functional neuroimaging. Full-time Nov 21-Feb 2022, ongoing collaboration
Participation in program for best bavarian high school students at Ludwig-Maximilian-University in Munich - replaced 20% of high school with university courses
Abitur in Maths, Chemistry, German, English, History and Social Sciences at Gymnasium Puchheim in Bavaria, 1.0 / GPA 100%
Awards and Stipends
Travel Stipend by American Society for Functional Neuroradiology for first author presentation and travel to the Annual Conference in Maui, 2022
Young Investigator Award by Fetal, Infant and Toddler Neuroimaging Group for first author presentation, Paris, 2022
Travel Stipend by Rolf Guenther Foundation for Radiological Sciences for Travel to first author presentation at Radiological Society of North America Meeting in Chicago, 2021
Research Stipend by Biomedical Education Programm for nine-months research visit at the Yale School of Medicine
Medical Computer Science Doctorate Stipend by University Hospital Schleswig Holstein for work on my medical doctorate thesis
Scholarship by German Academic Scholarship Foundation
Prize for best chemistry exam of the year
Previous experience
Editor for Data and Statistics, Open Science Coordinator at Berlin Exchange Medicine Germany's first student journal for health and life sciences
Research and Teaching Assistant Jobs including in infectious disease and (neuro-) anatomy, Student Assistant in Luebeck's center for doctoral studies and student member of the commission on doctoral tehses
Jury Member for the German Youth Democracy Award
Volunteering
Charity Runner for Doctors without borders
Member and Local Coordinator of Universities Allied for Essential Medicines (UAEM)
Elected member of the student council
Member and Mentor for Rock Your Life! Luebeck
Homework assistance for disadvantaged children
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Interactive atlas of diffusion-weighted mri derived metrics. I developed this to make outcomes of a study at Yale School of Medicine publicly available - we aimed to provide a normative atlas for diffusivity metrics, which could ultimately lead to better diagnosis of unilateral ischemic hypoxic brain damage in neonates. Published in Human Brain Mapping
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Application to calculate implant volume based on CT-derived measurements - I developed this website for a team from reconstructive surgery at Yale during Breast Cancer Awareness Month to facilitate breast reconstruction
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Networking platform for MD candidates and research group leaders at my university
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Application to choose which cat to buy (next)