Noelle is a third-year medical student at the University of Toledo College of Medicine in Toledo, Ohio and is currently spending a one-year dedicated research period with the Section of Plastic Surgery at the University of Michigan. Noelle is deeply passionate about global health and health equity. Before medical school, she spent three years working in Washington, DC at the Obama Foundation (non-profit), Families USA (non-profit), and Booz Allen Hamilton (consulting firm). This enabled her to work across the public and private sector and gain exposure of the US health care system from diverse viewpoints to further advance metric development, dashboard development, payment and delivery reform, process improvement, and research quality. In the summer of 2022, Noelle spent 9 weeks working in Geneva, Switzerland as a Duke-Geneva fellow to co-lead a research project with team members in South Africa, Uganda, Geneva, and India that focused on how to increase diagnostic capacity in low- and middle-income countries. Noelle’s current research focus is on how to improve equitable access to hand surgery. Outside of school, she enjoys hikes, pilates, cycling, running, journaling, reading, and event planning! Noelle aspires to be a plastic and reconstructive surgeon who continues to strengthen local and global equity.