Savannah Aepli

Savannah graduated summa cum laude from Ohio University with degrees in Journalism and East Asian Studies. During her time at OU, she discovered her passion for education when she began studying linguistics. She volunteered as an English conversation partner to new international students, worked as an English pronunciation tutor, and earned a certificate in Teaching English as a Foreign Language.

After graduating, she spent two years in rural Yunnan, China teaching English and art to seventh grade students. She was drawn to study medicine after experiencing the stark health inequities her students and community faced. She returned to the United States to start the Postbaccalaureate Premedical Program at Bryn Mawr College, after which she enrolled in medical school at the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania.

During medical school, she became involved in research on post-intensive care syndrome in trauma patients and served as a clinic coordinator for the Asian Pacific American Medical Student Association at Penn. She has had numerous opportunities to teach as an upper-year medical student, including serving as a teaching assistant for gross anatomy and a preceptor for the first-year students’ Doctoring class. She is also completing a certificate in Medical Education.

She is currently finishing her fourth year of medical school and will be starting a preliminary medicine internship at Pennsylvania Hospital followed by anesthesiology residency at Johns Hopkins. She plans to remain involved in medical education and enjoys any chance she gets to teach. In her free time, she likes to run, bake, volunteer at the local animal shelter, and spend time with her friends and family.