Hey listeners and readers! This is Nick Cevallos. Thanks for tuning into another episode of Pass the Mike where I will be sharing the story of medical trainees and professionals. My job is to build you a community of mentors from the folks that have come before you. I am ecstatic to bring another episode with Abu Taha. That's A-B-U space T-A-H-A. Abu graduated from CSU Frenso with a major in Biology minored in Philosophy. I am hyped to announce that Abu will be starting as a first-year medical student at UCSF and is also my current classmate!

Abu has a big heart for mentorship and it shows, he served as a tutor for students K-12 in his hometown, volunteer for the great fresno community through the Smittcamp Volunteer Service, a peer instructor at the Department of Biology assisting younger students with research projects and how to navigate the stem field. He also was a clinical volunteer for the Tzu-Chi Clinic, spearheaded a project on characterizing the motor dysfunctions caused by the accumulation of alpha-syuclein in fruit flies. If that wasn’t enough for you he was also the President of American Medical Student Association (AMSA)

You can find Abu if you want to say hello, ask a question or discuss Philosophy with him  T-K-H-5-2-5-AT-M-A-I-L-DOT-F-R-E-S-N-O-S-T-A-T-E-DOT-E-D-U

Very excited to have this conversation with you today Abu! How’s everything?