University of Utah
Taryn is a second-year medical student at the Spencer Fox Eccles School of Medicine at the University of Utah. She grew up in Anchorage, Alaska, then moved to New Hampshire to complete her undergraduate education at Dartmouth College where she studied Earth Sciences and Global Health. Taryn is passionate about underserved care and global health and is a member of the University of Utah's Tribal, Rural, Underserved Medicine and Global Health Program and directs one of the local student-run free clinics. She is also passionate about sustainability in medicine and co-authored the Planetary Health Report Card last year, a metric-based tool used by health professional schools across the world to improve the integration of climate change into core curriculum. Through her research in Emergency Medicine/Critical Care, she studies hemorrhagic shock and cardiac arrest. As a co-leader of the Emergency Medicine (EM) Interest Group, she has been working with her fellow EM Interest Group Leaders, EM Residency Program Leadership, and EM Fellowship Directors to establish a certificate program to prepare medical students for EM residency and beyond.