DaShawn Hickman, MD, PhD

DaShawn Hickman is from Columbia, South Carolina and earned a Bachelor of Science in Biomedical Engineering from Yale University. He graduated from the Medical Scientist Training Program (MD/PhD), at Case Western Reserve University. He is a Resident Physician in Emergency Medicine at Highland Hospital in Oakland, CA. He also works at Care Access as Patient Access Diversity Program Lead working to increase diversity in clinical trials. DaShawn served on the SNMA (Student National Medical Association) Board of Directors, including as Chair of the Board of Directors. His long-term goal is to use his training as an emergency medicine physician-scientist and social activist to lead a health care system aimed at eliminating health disparities.