Fourth-year medical student published in literary arts magazine
Fourth-year medical student Omar Hameed was published in the Spring issue of Lagniappe Art and Literature Magazine.
Lagniappe is a magazine for creative expression, managed by Tulane University School of Medicine students. Hameed’s poem, “Amyloid Plaques” was inspired by his time as a fellow at the Long Island Alzheimer’s and Dementia Center.
“As I learned from my Alzheimer’s patients during clinicals,” Hameed reflects, “I wanted to speak from their perspective as a way to humanize & honor their experiences.”
A steadfast advocate for the arts and humanities in medical education and former president of NEOMED’s Creatives in Medicine student interest group, the soon-to-be Dr. Hameed will complete a neurology residency at Case Western / University Hospitals.
- submitted by Rachel Bracken, Ph.D.