Meet the Tutors

 

Serena Wang

Serena Wang is an MD/MBA student at Harvard Medical School and Harvard Business School. She received her Population Health Sciences MPhil from the University of Cambridge and her Public Health BA from Johns Hopkins University. In medical school, she has been a part of the clinical informatics team at the Cambridge Health Alliance working on implementing digital innovations and AI tools to improve patient care. 

 

Nanako Shirai

Nanako Shirai is a third year student at Harvard Medical School with over six years of experience tutoring students. She earned her undergraduate degree in Molecular Biology from Princeton University and completed a Master's in Narrative Medicine at Columbia University in her gap year. At Princeton, she worked as a writing center fellow, helping students refine their academic writing and application narratives. At HMS, she has served on the admissions committee, interviewing applicants and gaining valuable insight into the selection process. She is excited to share her knowledge and support students in achieving their academic goals.

 

Hannah Chiu

Hannah Chiu is a third year MD/MPH student at Tulane University. As a medical student, she is involved in student-led clinics, elementary school health education initiatives, and research in pediatrics, OBGYN, and infectious diseases. She graduated from Johns Hopkins University in Molecular and Cellular Biology and Psychology, and participated in extracurriculars like health advocacy volunteering and wet-lab research. In her gap year, she worked as a clinical research coordinator at Stanford University. She has experience in pre-med advising with personal statement and secondary application brainstorming and editing, and mock interviews. She works with her school's admissions committee to conduct medical school interviews.

 

Ivy Liu

Ivy is a third year at Harvard Medical School. She graduated Summa Cum Laude from the University of Pennsylvania in 2021 with a Bachelor of Arts in Neuroscience and minors in Creative Writing and Chemistry. Post-grad, she took a gap year to work as Marketing Lead for a surgical education start-up and spent most of the year living and studying in Seoul, South Korea. Ivy’s history of mentorship and writing includes college/medical school personal statement editing and coaching, prior experience on the editorial board of AAMC official Penn Medicine medical humanities initiative “Rx/Museum,” and her ongoing role as Editor-in-Chief of HMS’ medical humanities magazine, “In Vivo.”

 

Harry Shanmugam

Harry Shanmugam is a third-year student at Harvard Medical School. He studied Business and Biology at Boston College and is interested in health policy and medical education. Prior to medical school, he worked at the Boston Consulting Group in their healthcare and public sector practices.