Marya Ali

Hometown: Gainesville, FL

High School: Oak Hall High School

FSU Major: Clinical Professions

FSU Minor: Entrepreneurship

What do you like about HMSS?

On my first service trip with upper classmen before I started my freshman year, I realized how fortunate I was to become a part of the HMSS family. With the invaluable guidance of Dr. Foster and Dr. Campbell and friendly support of our fellow scholars, the HMSS is a community of likeminded and goal oriented people who strive to serve underprivileged populations in the medical field. In addition, the program offers an abundance of opportunities in volunteering, shadowing physicians, working on undergraduate research projects, or discussing the current topics in medicine that will help all of us grow personally and professionally on our journey of becoming a physician.

Why do you want to go into medicine?

Through my interactions with patients while volunteering at the local hospital and medical offices and through my service with the March of Dimes organization, I have discovered the joy and privilege of helping people in the most vulnerable moments of their lives and the transcending humanism of the medical profession. Personally, I find it humbling and exhilarating at the same time to have the intellectual challenge of problem solving while helping people who are sick, to be committed to the life-long learning and service of the health field, to becoming the kind of doctor who has long lasting relations with the patient, and to lead the community in the improvements of health care overall.