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Bryan Maxwell

Biography

Bryan Maxwell's long-term goals are to complete an M.D. degree at Stanford, and possibly a Master's in Public Health, focusing on children. But first, he will remain at the University of Virginia for an additional year to be in the first class of the new five-year B.A./M.A. English program where he will explore the connection between poetry and medicine as related projects of healing.

Once he has completed his medical training, he plans to forge into academic medicine so that he can pursue research and teach younger medical students, while still practicing medicine and seeing patients. Bryan is also interested in completing a volume of his poetry for publication and eventually participating in Doctors Without Borders.

Bryan has always been interested in medicine, having a doctor for a father. When he was in high school he went to Quevedo, Ecuador to participate in a medical mission. He went with a surgical team that brought all their own supplies and performed procedures on patients in small, rural hospitals with no real access to medical for close to 10 years.

"It was an extremely shaping experience, as it opened my eyes to the most fundamental project of medicine-connecting with people and providing a service that offers them the hope and capability to carry on with their lives."

Bryan believes his most rewarding opportunity has been working with One in Four, an all-male sexual assault peer education group. Bryan is committed to ending men's violence towards women. One in Four presents a one-hour educational program to male students to teach them how to help survivors of sexual assault and rape. One in Four provides an open discussion for male students about violence, and studies have shown that it is 75 percent successful in getting men to stop participating in violence against women.

As many alumni of the One in Four chapter at UVA and elsewhere have done, Bryan hopes to take the program with him to Stanford and start a chapter there in order to continue to involve men in the fight against men's violence against women.

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