Sarah Kyereme
Durham
Overview
4
4
years of professional experience
Work History
Medical Writer
Costello Medical
Boston, MA
07.2023 - 07.2024
- Worked for a healthcare consultancy on projects involving clinical trial and research data, contributing to the synthesis and creative presentation of this data in different formats, including peer-reviewed publications, abstracts, posters, scientific narratives, and internal dossiers.
- Collaborated with scientists and clinicians, including teams at Gilead and GSK, to translate complex scientific findings into tailored communications for varied audiences.
- Supported high-impact publication projects for domestic and international scientific congresses, providing on site support for presentations and poster sessions.
Patient Advocate
The Harriet Lane Clinic
Baltimore, MD
01.2021 - 05.2023
- Identified and addressed patients' essential SDoH needs through collaboration with clinic physicians and social workers, utilization of screening tools, and weekly follow-up calls with patients and their families.
- Connected patients to resources and acquired extensive knowledge of Baltimore and Maryland's resource landscape.
- Appointed as a program Employment Specialist with training in resume creation, employment resource connection, and assisting adolescent patients and adults with job searches and applications.
- Led a project on an emergency food program to facilitate clinical and resource engagement for food-insecure families and managed the clinics' HEDIS project for quality assurance and performance improvement.
- Presented findings as project lead at a research symposium.
Student Office Administrator
Johns Hopkins University
Baltimore, MD
02.2020 - 05.2023
- Worked as a campus worker for the Department of Leadership Engagement & Experiential Development, ensuring the success of student organization events and campus-wide affairs.
- Managed the front desk of student union spaces, assisted in campus-wide event setups, communicated with event coordinators and JHU professional staff, and performed basic office tasks.
National Future Leadership Project Fellow
SNMA
Washington, D.C.
06.2022 - 04.2023
- Selected as one of ten pre-medical fellows from a national pool of applicants for SNMA's programmatic initiative that recruits and mentors the next generation of SNMA leaders.
- Completed a metric analysis-based project involving survey analytics, while assisting the SNMA Convention Planning Committee with the Annual Medical Education Conference, the largest gathering of underrepresented minority medical and premedical students across the United States and the Caribbean.
- Participated in national/regional programming, leadership workshops, and monthly presentation of “think tank challenges” related to leadership development and success.
Editorial Intern
Parlia
London, UK
08.2020 - 12.2020
- Created multi-faceted and unbiased website pages to highlight and explain a variety of important issues ranging from public health to current events and researched controversial opinion topics.
- Edited and refined existing opinion maps on the editorial platform.
Education
Doctor of Medicine -
Duke University School of Medicine
Durham, NC05-2028
Bachelor of Arts - Public Health Studies, Minor in Psychology
Johns Hopkins University
Baltimore, MD05-2023
Honors & Awards
- Internal Medicine Clinical Reasoning Award — Duke University School of Medicine Awarded for achieving one of the two highest scores on the end-of-clerkship Clinical Reasoning Assessment.
- Obstetrics & Gynecology Clerkship “Above and Beyond” Award — Duke University School of Medicine Awarded in recognition of excellence in the application of medical knowledge in Obstetrics and Gynecology.
Scholarly Contributions
- Retrospective analysis of health and economic burden among commercially insured individuals diagnosed with invasive meningococcal disease in the United States. Human Vaccines & Immunotherapeutics. 2024. Acknowledged for medical writing and editorial assistance based on the authors’ input and direction.
- Meningococcal vaccination disparities in the United States (2010–2021): Findings from the National Immunization Survey-Teen and a commercial insurance database. Human Vaccines & Immunotherapeutics. 2025. Acknowledged for medical writing and editorial assistance based on the authors’ input and direction.
Leadership & Involvement
- Ophthalmology Interest Group, Duke University School of Medicine
- Journal Club Co-Chair, Executive Board 2025–2026
- Organize and lead case-based ophthalmology journal club sessions in collaboration with residents and faculty
- Duke VotER, Duke University School of Medicine
- President
- 2025–Present
- Lead initiatives to promote civic engagement and voter participation among medical students
- Student National Medical Association (SNMA), Duke Chapter
- Secretary
- Manage organizational communications and support member engagement
- Global Health Interest Group, Duke University School of Medicine
- Treasurer
- Oversee budgeting and funding allocation for student programming and events
Timeline
Medical Writer
Costello Medical
07.2023 - 07.2024
National Future Leadership Project Fellow
SNMA
06.2022 - 04.2023
Patient Advocate
The Harriet Lane Clinic
01.2021 - 05.2023
Editorial Intern
Parlia
08.2020 - 12.2020
Student Office Administrator
Johns Hopkins University
02.2020 - 05.2023
Bachelor of Arts - Public Health Studies, Minor in Psychology
Johns Hopkins University
Doctor of Medicine -
Duke University School of Medicine