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Medical student receives fellowship in tropical medicine

Kimberly Faldetta, a medical student at Penn State College of Medicine, has been named a 2014 Benjamin H. Kean Travel Fellow by the American Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene. This nationally competitive fellowship awards program provided Faldetta with funding for her project in the field of tropical medicine.Faldetta has been a part of the Global Health Scholars Program since she began medical school in 2010. She has a special interest in tropical medicine in Peru where she has been working to create a productive and sustainable field experience for other Global Health scholars. This fellowship will send her to Bangkok and rural Cambodia to investigate artemisinin resistant malaria as part of her doctoral studies. The unique fellowship is the only medical student award dedicated to nurturing a career path for physician-scientists in tropical medicine. Fellows receive airfare and up to $1,000 in living expenses for a clinical training or research project that takes place in an area where tropical diseases are endemic.The fellowship is named to honor the late Dr. Benjamin H. Kean, an internationally acclaimed tropical medicine expert and personal mentor to many of today’s world-renowned tropical medicine experts. Kean is also credited with discovering the causes of several diseases, including turista or travelers’ diarrhea.The complete list of the 2014 Benjamin H. Kean Travel Fellows in Tropical Medicine is available on the Ben Kean Travel Fellowship website.

Last Updated January 9, 2015

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