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April Banayan has been to more than 100 coffee shops throughout Los Angeles during the course of her studies to earn a bachelor\u2019s degree in Health Promotion and Disease Prevention Studies<\/a> and a master\u2019s degree in Global Medicine<\/a>.
\nAll that time studying has paid off: April will be one of the\u00a0Keck School\u2019s undergraduate commencement speakers.
\nAs a progressive degree student, Banayan found time outside of the classroom to do far more study teaching health education with USC\u2019s Peer Health Exchange and spearheading legislation in student government. She also performed diabetes research in the laboratory of Scott Kanoski, PhD, assistant professor in the Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences, where she learned firsthand about the need for multidisciplinary approaches to health challenges.
\n\u201cThe people at the University of Southern California have taught me to believe in my abilities and have\u00a0pushed me to strive for more and think bigger,” Banayan said. “The courses I have taken in policy, business and abroad are the ones that have served to alter my perspective.\u201d
\nThis fall, Banayan will pursue her medical degree at the Keck School of Medicine of USC<\/a>.\u00a0She is eager and ready to become a triple Trojan and plans to find new coffee shops to help her along the way.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<\/div>\n <\/div>\n\n\n <\/div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":168,"featured_media":1774,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"advgb_blocks_editor_width":"","advgb_blocks_columns_visual_guide":"","footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[114,81,61],"class_list":["post-1772","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-press-release","tag-commencement","tag-department-of-population-and-public-health-sciences","tag-education"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\nCommencement 2017: April Banayan, BS in Health Promotion and Disease Prevention Studies and MS 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