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The Next Step: Career and Grad School Advice from Our Alumni · Sep 30, 2025 · 31m

In the latest episode of The Next Step, Alejandro Vera '23M (MS) shares his journey from the Bay Area to Rochester, where he discovered his passion for health humanities and bioethics.We talk about why this field is so important for connecting science, medicine, and the human experience, and how the program shaped his graduate education path.Alejandro also shares how taking a year after graduation to pause and write his story gave him clarity heading into his PhD at The University of Texas Medical Branch, and why meeting people and building connections has been one of the most valuable…