Welcome to Ellen Zhang’s homepage! Ellen is an physician at Stanford. She is passionate about medicine, public service, teaching, writing, and photography.
Here you can learn more about Ellen and her writing, photography, research, service, and teaching.
Ellen is a physician at Stanford Health Care. She graduated from Harvard Medical School and Harvard College with an A.B. in Integrative Biology and a secondary in Global Health & Health Policy.
She was heavily involved with community service with organizations including the Stanford Health Equity, Advocacy and Research pathway, Crimson Care Collaborative, Phillips Brooks House Association, and National Alzheimer’s Buddies, among others.
Ellen has also conducted research at Stanford Cancer Institute, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston Children’s Hospital, Harvard Stem Cell Institute, and even in rural Peru.
She is passionate about teaching, having co-led Health Careers Collaborative in Boston working with underserved high schoolers and serving in many teaching roles for Harvard College courses.
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Ellen’s passion for service and teaching has had impact around the world. In 2018, she work for a summer in rural Peru as both a Cordeiro Fellow and a Weissman Fellow, selected by Harvard. During her internship, she ran women’s health literacy workshops in the Shipibo-Conibo community and worked in non-profit management. In both 2018 and 2019, she taught high schoolers in Vietnam, introducing students to a liberal arts education by teaching topics including heart disease and journalism.
Her undergraduate training includes a secondary in Global Health and Public Policy, for which she conducted original research on the proliferation and effectiveness of women’s health literacy programs in Peru based on the findings of her field work as a Cordeiro Fellow.
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