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Alexander Tadros

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Medical Brigades President 2026-2027; Triage Co-Chair 2025-2026

Hi everyone! My name is Alex Tadros, and I’m a senior majoring in Biomedical Engineering and Biology with a minor in General Business. I am from Morgantown, WV

I initially found out about WVU’s Global Medical and Dental Brigades through a presentation given in one of my classes by a group of former officers. I decided to attend the formal information session and eventually applied to be a part of the brigade taking place in the spring of 2025. The decision to apply was driven by several factors. Initially, I was drawn in by the prospect of being able to learn about and facilitate medical care in a rural setting. Additionally, I have always been interested in learning about the socioeconomic factors affecting health care, which is knowledge I knew I would gain from being a member of GMDB. During my first brigade, we traveled to the Darién region of Panama. Not only was I able to learn about rural medicine and its sociological influences, but I was also able to learn about local cultures, systematic issues that many Central American countries face, and the similarities/differences to rural Appalachia. I applied to brigade again the following year, this time as a member of the leadership team, under the position of Triage Co-Chair. We traveled to the Chiriqui region of Panama, where we helped to facilitate medical/dental care and public health projects in communities that had never had a brigade in the past. This experience continued to build upon the foundation of rural medicine and social epidemiology that I began to develop during my first brigade. For this upcoming year, I will be serving on the leadership team in the position of Medical President. One of the main reasons I find it important to be a member of this organization is this: When preparing for any type of healthcare profession or professional school, it can be easy to find yourself wrapped up in the hard sciences, trying to memorize every reaction, equation, and mechanism. However, it’s important to remember that at the end of the day, you will be caring for humans, who are deeper and more complex than the summation of your scientific background. Being a part of GMDB taught me about medicine from a unique, sociological perspective that many of my other classes fail to consider. If you have any interest in being a member of the next brigade, I encourage you to attend the info sessions and reach out to me or any of the other officers with questions!