ABC’s Good Morning America Spotlights Burnett School of Medicine at TCU Student’s Research Project
Sam Sayed, MS-4 at Anne Burnett Marion School of Medicine at Texas Christian University, is studying whether underserved children's mental health can be improved with mentors and a new pair of shoes.
FORT WORTH – A Good Morning America camera crew witnessed first hand how new shoes brought joy to several Dallas-Fort Worth children in December.
The GMA segment titled “Full of Sole” aired on December 20 and featured Sam Sayed, a fourth-year medical student at the Anne Burnett Marion School of Medicine at Texas Christian University,
Sayed’s work on his non-profit organization that aims to combat education inequalities through the gift of shoes for children has also become his 4-year Scholarly Pursuit & Thesis (SPT) research project at the Burnett School of Medicine at TCU. He plans to answer the research question: Can a new pair of sneakers lead to improved mental health for kids in impoverished neighborhoods, while also instilling cultural competency in future doctors?
GMA came to one of several shoe distributions Sayed’s charity Dayna’s Footprints conducts throughout the year. View the story here.