Margaret (Meg) Whalen is an MS4 from Columbia VP&S who grew up outside of Chicago in Oak Park, IL. She attended Fordham University and majored in Neuroscience. After graduating in 2021, she did community health and harm reduction work at a nonprofit in Syracuse. At VP&S, she has been involved in the Columbia Care Access Project, Brown Primary Care Scholars, and medical education research in the Department of Pediatrics, working on projects examining how interdisciplinary care can be utilized to address gaps in care and healthcare professional training.