Ashley
Cantu,
BA
Medical Student
Case Western Reserve University
Ashley Cantu is a medical student at Case Western Reserve University. She serves as Co-Chair of the Quality Improvement and Research Committee for the school's Student-Run Health Clinic. She received her Bachelor of Arts in Religious Studies, Chemistry, and Neuroscience from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in 2019.
Presenting at the Nexus Summit:
Background: The Case Western Reserve University (CWRU) Student-Run Health Clinic (SRHC) is an interprofessional student organization, operating since 2011. This poster serves to describe how the SRHC was able to quickly adapt and continue its aim of interprofessional education and community health service for underserved populations during the COVID-19 pandemic.Methods: The SRHC partnered with a federally qualified health center (FQHC), Neighborhood Family Practice (NFP) to increase patient access to vaccinations. Graduate medicine, nursing, physician assistant (PA), and social work…