Freddy Nguyen MD PhD, Advisor | MedSchoolCoach

Freddy Nguyen MD PhDAdvisor

Dr. Nguyen has served on the admissions committee at the University of Illinois Medical Scholars Program. For over 15 years, he has mentored students from Rice University on physician-scientist careers and medical school applications.

Freddy Nguyen MD PhD, MedSchoolCoach

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Bio

Dr. Nguyen is a physician-scientist-innovator who has been developing and translating biomedical optical technologies and nanotechnologies from the bench to the bedside. He is passionate about moving new technologies from ideation to impact and training future generations of physician-scientists, physicians, scientists, engineers, and entrepreneurs. Dr. Nguyen also enjoys building communities and collaborations in healthcare innovation, research, and medicine. He is the co-founder of the American Physician Scientists Association, Rice Alumni in Medicine, MIT COVID-19 Challenge, and MIT Hacking Racism Challenge, and he was the former co-director for MIT Hacking Medicine.

Dr. Nguyen earned a bachelor’s degree in both chemistry and mathematics from Rice University and earned his MD/PhD in physical chemistry from UIUC. He also completed a research postdoc at MIT, an in vivo microscopy fellowship at Massachusetts General Hospital, his clinical pathology residency at Mount Sinai Hospital, and his transfusion medicine fellowship at Dartmouth.

EDUCATION

Undergraduate: BS, BA, Rice University
Medical School: MD, PhD, University of Illinois Medical School
Residency: Mount Sinai Hospital
Fellowship:Dartmouth Hitchcock Medical Center

SPECIALTY

Pathology, Transfusion Medicine

FUN FACT

Dr. Nguyen was born in Paris, France, and started college at age 16. He likes to travel, learning about new cultures and facilitating sharing, learning, and collaboration at the intersection of his personal worlds, geographical worlds, and fields of expertise.

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