Stephanie Amaya, MS2

Stephanie Amaya is a 2nd year medical student at The University of Arizona College of Medicine – Phoenix. She completed her undergraduate degree in physiology at The University of Arizona. She co-chairs the Latino Medical Student Association chapter on campus, which promotes diversity and culturally competent care.

Diversity/Inclusion Week, Op-Ed

I Won’t Be a Bystander. Will You?

By Stephanie Amaya, MS2

I like what is straightforward—who doesn’t? However, I also enjoy facing complex situations: what can compare to the satisfaction we feel when we are able to detangle convoluted clinical pictures? But what I love—and fear—is the inexplicable, the...