The Medical Student Association (MSA) serves as a student leadership and service organization with the primary focus of supporting the student body of the University of Washington School of Medicine and representing its interests. This is accomplished through facilitating communication between the medical student body and the administration, assisting on initiatives and projects driven by students, fostering collaboration and institutional memory across UWSOM’s 6 campuses, and promoting activities that benefit the social and service orientation of the students of UWSOM, including but not limited to organization of social events, community service activities, and advocacy efforts.

Chairs

The MSA chairs lead the MSA and oversee all executive functions of the organization as a whole. They serve as the primary liaison between the MSA and the School of Medicine administration, and provide vision and direction for the MSA board. Students should contact the chairs regarding programs, issues, initiatives, or questions that would affect all medical students regardless of campus and is not specific to a particular WWAMI site.

• Preclinical Chair: Parker Blekkenk (he/his), MS2, Montana, pblek@uw.edu
• Clinical Chair: Lily Jeong (she/her), MS4, Seattle, jeong9@uw.edu

Board

The MSA board develops initiatives and projects to address student needs and interests that affect all sites and/or cohorts. Students should contact the chairs regarding programs, issues, initiatives, or questions that are specific to their site and class.

MS1

• WA-Seattle: TBD
• WA-Spokane: TBD
• WY: Blake Hopkin, behopkin@uw.edu
• AK: Cory Johannsen, cjohann@uw.edu
• MT: TBD
• ID: Sophia DeKlotz, sophiaid@uw.edu

MS2

• WA-Seattle: Emily Cox (she/her), ercox@uw.edu
• WA-Spokane: Virkamal Dhaliwal, virkamal@uw.edu
• WY: Caleb Hardt (he/his), chardt1@uw.edu
• AK: Hope Spargo, hspargo@uw.edu
• MT: Parker Blekkenk (he/his), pblek@uw.edu
• ID: Devin Gaskins, gaskinsd@uw.edu

MS3

• WA-Seattle: Thamanna Nishath (she/her), tnishath@uw.edu
• WA-Spokane: Taylor Bozich (she/her), tbozich@uw.edu
• WY: Trey Thompson (he/his), treyt10@uw.edu
• AK: Bart Grabman, bgrabman@uw.edu
• MT: Quin Stevens (she/her), quins@uw.edu
• ID: Olivia Do (she/her), oliviado@uw.edu

MS4

• WA-Seattle: Lily Jeong (she/her), jeong9@uw.edu
• WA-Spokane: Gifti Abbo (she/her), giftia@uw.edu
• WY: Heidi Hanekamp, hanekh@uw.edu
• AK: Jill Carlile, jcarlile@uw.edu
• MT: Adam Whitley (he/his), aswhi@uw.edu
• ID: Taylor Wilkinson (she/her), wilk7144@uw.edu

Local MSA Representatives

Each WWAMI site elects additional local MSA representatives who generally serve only during the Foundations phase of the curriculum. They work with their respective president to lead programming and initiatives specific to their site and class.