Anina Terry, recipient of the Edith Pritchard Scholarship is pursuing her master’s in nursing at the John Hopkins University Primary Care Family Nurse Practitioner Program. She completed her undergraduate studies at New York University and worked in acute care at the University of California Medical Center in San Francisco, California, before returning to academia. She has worked as a volunteer nurse at Shepherd’s Clinic in Baltimore providing health care for those without insurance who do not qualify for government aid. As a future primary care provider, she wants to focus on the prevention and management of chronic diseases before they present as secondary complications in a hospital setting.
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