Obituary of a Student Doctor
Alexandra Giselle (De la Rosa) Argento-Berrio, MS1-4 2014-2019 Giselle Argento-Berrio (née De la Rosa), was a bright, energetic young lady. On August 18th, 2014 she walked across Memorial Union and was ceremonially bestowed her white coat as part of the entering class of 2018 at the University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health. She was full of life and optimism, by the newly passed Affordable Care Act, she applied to medical school eager to care for immigrant communities as her own and become a leader at a time of systemic change. She entered medical school on a full-tuition merit scholarship, a testament to her extraordinary ‘pre-med’ trajectory. From her native Colombia where she left at the age of 7 to the US. She moved alone to rural China at 17, she lived in a favela outside Rio de Janeiro, huts across rural Ghana and protested at universities in South Africa all before the age of 21. As she embarked on the journey to apply to me...
