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Elizabeth Winter

Biography

"Making my opportunities rather than waiting for them to come to me" - this is the motto by which Elizabeth Tuffiash lives. The trials in her life that she describes as "excruciating" have also motivated her as she has matured. Elizabeth sees herself today as a "happy, intelligent young woman with a future that I command rather than a future to which I am resigned." She intends to have a private medical practice, marriage, and a family.

Working at a local zoo, Elizabeth considered becoming a veterinarian. But driving home from a restaurant one night, her sister went into anaphylactic shock from eating almond cake. "Her throat at closed completely.administering mouth to mouth.I was credited with keeping her stable until the "EMTs could take over.I knew with a calm certainty that I wanted to spend the rest of my life helping people the way I helped my sister."

Elizabeth's involvement in Student Pugwash, a science and medical ethics discussion group, introduced her to issues such as human cloning and the use of animals in lab research that will influence "the choices I will be forced to make as a physician."

She intends through research to "find ways to restore as much function as possible to those areas of the brain damaged by stroke and other neurological pathologies." ".As a doctor, I will also be an educator.to help other students the way I have been helped and someday have the honor of becoming someone else's mentor."

Elizabeth has done clinical testing on neurologically impaired patients as a research assistant in the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine Department of Neurology; she has also conducted laboratory research in the Department of Cognitive Science. She is a published co-author and has peer-reviewed scientific articles, book chapters, and abstracts in her chosen field.

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