Burnett Brand Ambassadors Selected for 2024-25 Academic Year
Twenty-eight medical students will represent the the Anne Burnett Marion School of Medicine at Texas Christian University.
FORT WORTH – Twenty-eight medical students were selected for the 2024-25 Burnett Brand Ambassadors Program.
The Office of Communication and Strategy at the Anne Burnett Marion School of Medicine at Texas Christian University runs the award-winning program, which trains medical students to represent the medical school in media interviews as well as marketing and social media campaigns. The students also attend special events and give reports or speeches about the Burnett School of Medicine at TCU.
“The program showcases the medical school through the compelling stories of our medical students,” said Maricar Estrella, Director of Digital Development and Content Strategy at the Burnett School of Medicine at TCU, who spearheaded the program. “As a novel medical school, we had to find an equally innovative approach to communicate our school’s unique curriculum.”
The 2024-25 Burnett Brand Ambassadors are:
Class of 2025: Isabella Amado, Kevin Chao, Alejandra Gutierrez, Lauren Holladay, Sofia Olson, Ethan Vieira, Lindsay Zumwalt
Class of 2026: Angela Abarquez, Parminder Deo, Cort Ewing, Simar Goyal, Lauren Hui, Kailie McGee, Jonah Schmitz, Winston Scambler
Class of 2027: Paywand Baghal, Raika Bourmand, Marisa Fat, Ashley Kenney, Nico Martinez, Thien An Nguyen, Whitney Stanton, Jeanine Williams
Class of 2028: Emily Bogordos, Nicholas DeVito, Bijan Hosseini, Sylvia Inkindi, Zacharia Ismaio, Martha-Grace McLean, Jenny Pham, Stephen Pullman
A committee consisting of faculty and staff evaluates and selects students who apply to the program, which is voluntary.
The program has grown to include media training from local journalists such as NBC 5 Today Anchor Deborah Ferguson, who gave tips on communicating effectively during a broadcast interview, and social media influencers such as J Mack Slaughter, Jr., M.D., an emergency medicine physician.
In 2023, the Burnett Brand Ambassadors Program received a Circle of Excellence Award by the Council for Advancement and Support of Education (CASE). The program also received CASE Best of District IV honors.