Mohammed Faiz Khan

Because of my background in health and HealthCorps training, I assist in an after school program that helps obese students by giving nutrition and exercise advice, including one-on-one nutrition consultations. I show students how easy and fun it can be to make simple changes that can really benefit their health at the HealthCorps Club, which I run after school four days a week. We cook together. I give students healthy recipes that they take home to their families. We have fitness workouts, such as the three-week pedometer competition where I organized a virtual race that tracked our steps. During the remainder of the school year, we’ll visit Methodist and Texas Children’s Hospital to observe surgery. We’re going to another local hospital to observe doctors undergoing training for a future school blood drive that will target KIPP teachers. Through the University of Texas Medical School, we’ll have the opportunity to view cadaver and organs at their hospital. 

With a strong passion to become a doctor, before working for HealthCorps, I worked in New York City as a Research Assistant at Mount Sinai Medical Center and shadowed doctors there. Before graduating from New York University with a major in Biochemistry and Pre-med, I traveled to Chennai, India to work as a Medical Volunteer for Unite for Sight, which partnered with an eye clinic in India, and also volunteered at Bellevue Hospital’s Reach Out and Read Program for immigrant children who traveled to NYC for medical assistance.  Currently, in addition to my rewarding job with HealthCorps, I volunteer my services as an Emergency Center Volunteer in the Level 1 trauma center at Ben Taub General Hospital in Houston.