Lauren Middleton spent 2.5 years after college in South America as a Peace Corps volunteer, and then went on to study Epidemiology. During her graduate studies, she spent two summers in Nicaragua studying chronic kidney disease in sugarcane farmers, and one summer at a migrant farmworker health center in rural Georgia. She is passionate about improving healthcare access for the LGBTQ+ population, and she created her medical school’s first ever LGBTQ+ module aimed at preparing future physicians for LGBTQ+ patients.