Three win prestigious Clinic internships

Danya MacDonald	Cara Pannell	Madeline Spicer

In an intensely competitive application process, the Cleveland Clinic's Office of Civic Education Initiatives has selected three NDCL students for the Clinic's prestigious and highly competitive summer internship program.

Sophomore Madeline Spicer, who won a creative learning internship, will work with healthcare, arts, and education professionals to design, develop, and execute strategies for sharing groundbreaking medical research and important health information with the community at large.

Junior Danya MacDonald will interact and work with pulmonologists, allergists, immunologists, critical care specialists, and researchers in various clinical settings. She will also observe therapists perform a variety of procedures, tests, treatments, and prevention services.

Senior Cara Pannell, a public health intern, will join multidisciplinary teams of healthcare professionals specializing in public health, community medicine, infectious disease and organ donation and transplantation. Her mentors will include nationally-renowned Cleveland Clinic physicians, public health professionals and researchers.

Eighteen NDCL students have been selected to participate in the Clinic's program over the last four years. The Clinic's intensive, paid internships provide top students throughout northeastern Ohio with the opportunity to work and learn alongside nationally renowned healthcare professionals in a variety of fields.