PreSOMA CSUEB
PreSOMA CSUEB, Pre-Professional Health Academic Program
California State University East Bay
Michelle Yoakim
National Liaison
Undergrad: UC Riverside, Biology
Hobbies: Reading, spoken word, knitting and hiking
Quote: "The purpose of life is not to be happy. It is to be useful, to be honorable, to be compassionate, to have it make some difference that you have lived and lived well.” ― Ralph Waldo Emerson
Marty Pantana
Finance
Undergrad: UCLA, Biochemistry
Hobbies: Video games, hiking, swimming, computer programming, biking, shooting, archery
Quote: "Keep calm and carry on."
Nuur Shaikh
Secretary
Undergrad: CSUEB, Biology option Physiology
Hobbies: Swimming, Bike Riding, Going on road trips
Quote: It takes failure to achieve success. In order to succeed, we must first believe that we can.
Elena Rodriguez
President
Undergrad: UConn, Psychology
Hobbies: Traveling, eating, laughing, learning, sunshine
Quote: "The real source of happiness involves one’s state of mind, outlook, and motivation, & one’s level of warmheartedness towards others."
-The 14th Dalai Lama
Meet The Team
Cynthia Nguyen
National Liaison
Undergrad: UC Riverside, Neuroscience
Hobbies: Hiking, Running, Basketball,
Do It Yourself Projects, Photography
Quote: "Hakuna Matata"
Rishabh Ajmera
Historian
Undergrad: UC Riverside, Biology
Hobbies: Listening, learning and discovering new things everyday
Quote: "Don't ask for an easier life; ask to be a stronger person".
Denise Quezada
Project Planning
Undergrad: UT El Paso
Hobbies: Crossfit, Watching Movies
Quote: "The doctor of the future will give no medicine, but will interest his patients in the care of the human frame, in diet and in the cause and prevention of disease." -Thomas Edison-
Ted Chung
Vice President
Undergrad: UC Riverside, Biology
Hobbies: Anything that has to do with being active and spending time outside
Quote: "The only place success comes before work is in the dictionary".
Before us:
Past Officers
Winter & Spring 2014
Gurpreet Gill
Jessenia Villa
Francis Tongpalad
Sehoon Kang
Kyaw Pyai
Omar Farrukh
Fall 2013
Aemad Komarizideh (Chapter Founder)
Gurpreet Gill
Jessenia Villa
Francis Tongpalad
Sehoon Kang
Kyaw Pyai
Omar Farrukh
Michael Quintana
Outreach
Undergrad: UT El Paso, Biological Sciences
Hobbies: Powerlifting
Quote: "LIFE. it is the greatest journey you'll ever be on!"
