Dipthi Ranganathan

UConn School of Medicine

I was born in California and raised in Connecticut, where I completed my grade-school education in Stamford. After high school I moved to Newark, NJ, where I graduated from the New Jersey Institute of Technology in 2017 with a Bachelor of Arts in Biology and a minor in Chemistry. After graduating, I decided to pursue a Master’s Degree and am currently a Master of Biomedical Sciences candidate from Rutgers University for the year 2018.

While living in Newark, I joined a chapter of Habitat for Humanity with which I took part in various service-oriented activities, including collecting food donations during the holiday, distributing food to homeless persons around Newark Penn Station, and contributing to a build project. We also tutored children at a local elementary school, which experience became one of the primary causes of my interest in urban health care. The effects of our tutoring opened my eyes to the service I could provide in disadvantaged areas.

After gaining such respect for the hardships many people endure, I decided I wanted to practice medicine in underserved areas, to help those too often overlooked. As a future physician I want not only to provide medical treatment to my patients, but also to make them comfortable through an understanding of their social situation. By joining the Urban Service Track, I know I will develop skills in communication, social awareness and health policy, thereby gaining the expertise needed to work with underserved populations.