Meredith Gavin wins 2019 TTUHSC Clinical Research Institute for Outstanding Scholarship

Meredith Gavin, fourth-year medical student, couldn’t believe she’d won the 2019 Clinical Research Institute Medical Student Award for Outstanding Scholarship — she is the first recipient as the award was established in 2019. “My immediate response was, ‘Are you sure?’ There were so many students deserving of this award,” she said.
 
Gavin won the award for her research work in ulcerative colitis. She is currently completing her general surgery rotation at TTUHSC after completing two dermatology rotations at the University of Texas Medical Branch Health Hospital and the University of Tennessee College of Medicine respectively.
 
“I want to specialize in dermatology, because it’s so interestingly complex — it’s much more than acne.”