Jessica Hawkins, MSEd

Jess is a high-school-physics-teacher-turned-medical-student who completed her bachelor’s degree in biomechanical engineering from Stanford University, her master’s in education at the University of Pennsylvania and is now in her final year of medical school at Stanford Medical School.

She is driven by a desire to improve access to high quality health care and believes the greatest innovations happen when clinicians, researchers, and educators apply design thinking principles to achieve human-centered outcomes. Her academic interests include medical education, wilderness & rural medicine, and global health; specifically those initiatives which improve access to safe surgery, anesthesia, and emergency medical care internationally. She is applying to residency programs in anesthesiology this year. In her free time, she enjoys distance bicycling, data visualization, entomological photography, and bringing loved ones together over puzzles.