Yina Li

UConn School of Dental Medicine, Class of 2015

Background: I was born and raised in Beijing, China. After undergraduate, I came to the US and obtained a Ph.D degree in Cell and Developmental Biology at Vanderbilt University.

Related Experience: I have previously volunteered in Beacon Hospice. My patients are mainly at nursing homes located in underserved urban areas. The most important thing that I have learned was to pay great attention to the patients’ needs by staying flexible and open-minded.

I believe we need to provide cares to people who need them most, and everyone’s effort counts however trivial it may be. In addition, we are treating patients as an integral individual; so we need to be aware of other types of illness besides the discipline that we are good at. I am really looking forward to my great UST experience, to learn the skills from all other disciplines and provide better health care to the underserved.