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Student Profiles



MBA/MPH
   

Ms. Hutchins is a dual-degree student with Columbia Business School and Mailman School of Public Health. MBA/MPH She is currently a first-year at CBS. Prior to coming to CBS, she worked for three years at Easton Associates, a boutique healthcare consulting firm in New York. She also spent a year both working as a research assistant for a child psychiatrist at Massachusetts General Hospital and helping to run the non-profit Harvard Eating Disorder Center. In addition, she was as a writer/interview for a publication of careers in healthcare leadership for students and young professionals. In 2002, Erica graduated from Harvard University with a B.A. in Sociology.





Erica Hutchins
   
MD/MBA
   

Mr. Mehra is a dual-degree student at Columbia Business School and the College of Physicians and Surgeons, graduating in May 2007 MD/MBA. While at Columbia, Saral has worked closely with Dr. Mehmet Oz in the development of the Health Corps, a child health promotion program currently in three States and growing. He was also President of the Columbia Medical Rugby Team and the Bard Hall Players. Prior to medical school, Saral conducted original research with Anaphylaxis Canada. Saral graduated from a specialized program in Life Sciences at Queen’s University (Canada) with distinction in 2002 where he held the Chancellor’s Scholarship. Saral plans to begin a surgical residency training program in July 2007, specializing in Otolaryngology/Head and Neck Surgery.



Saral Mehra
   
MD/MPH
   

Mr. Anthony is a dual-degree MD/MPH student at the Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons and the Mailman School of Public Health. He is currently in his final year of the program and will begin his residency in Emergency Medicine in the summer of 2007. Prior to moving to New York, Dave grew up in Canada and Saudi Arabia and received his B.Sc. in Neuroscience from Brown University. His academic interests include the development of emergency medicine and pre-hospital care systems in low- and middle-income countries, and he is currently a coordinator ofProject EMcounter, a multi-center epidemiological study of medical emergencies in India. His MPH coursework focused on primary health care systems in the developing world and public health intervention in humanitarian emergencies.



Dave Anthony