Andrew Travis

2024 Medical Student Scholars

Andrew Travis graduated summa cum laude, Phi Beta Kappa from the University of Chicago with a degree in Biological Sciences.  Andrew hopes to pursue a career combining clinical medicine, public health, and community-based research.  While an undergraduate in the College at the University of Chicago, Andrew led the creation of a community health resource project in the South Side neighborhood of Woodlawn in partnership with several local community-based organizations. This longitudinal project is still ongoing, now in its third generation of student and community leaders. Andrew also worked in HIV community-based research at the Chicago Center for HIV Elimination, served as a teaching assistant in five introductory biology classes in the College, worked with his local health department on lead safety, volunteered as an event supervisor for Science Olympiad, worked as an intern and tech in an oral surgery practice, and worked with a political advocacy group on environmental health. As a medical student, Andrew co-leads the school’s chapter of Chicago Street Medicine (providing healthcare to the unhoused), serves as a Student Representative on the Curriculum Review Committee, co-leads the Internal Medicine Interest Group, is continuing his HIV research, and is the site director for SHARE (a group providing sex-ed to a local high school).