The Heartbeat of Success: A Med Student's Guide to Med School Admissions
Ms. Mieses is a young doctor in training at Mount Sinai, one of the nation’s top medical schools. She has held formal and informal positions as a mentor, tutor and professional development coach since 2006. She aspires to be a wonderful clinician with influence beyond the confines of an examination room. As the first in her family to pursue a career in medicine, mentors were highly influential to her success thus far. She is eager to pay it forward. Ms. Mieses is a native New Yorker. She graduated from the Bronx High School of Science, a specialized, competitive, science high school, before earning a B.S. in Biology from the City University of New York-City College (CUNY). She has won numerous awards including the Jeannette K. Watson Fellowship, a full-time research fellowship with the National Institutes of Health and the Jonas Salk Award, CUNY's highest scientific undergraduate honor.  She regularly writes for Medscape, and has published pieces for POZ Magazine, Gay Men’s Health Crisis, Dr. Jennifer Walden, MD, and was selected for a live reading with the Intima narrative medicine journal. The Heartbeat of Success: A Med Student’s Guide to Med School Admissions is her first book.