Alumni
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Faith Noah
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Faith Noah is a senior Neuroscience major pursuing a career as a physician. She hopes to apply a medical education to underserved populations, local and abroad. Faith first became invested in service work as a high schooler in Texas, working with immigrant populations in an academic setting. Throughout her time as an Ingram Scholar, Faith has continued similar types of outreach—volunteering as a tutor at St. Pius school, developing after-school high school readiness programs, and mentoring youth at the Cathedral of the Incarnation. Additionally, she has gotten involved in her Nashville community through organizations such as Dismas House, Room in the Inn, and Faith Family Medical Center.
Faith is particularly interested in service work that targets the issue of disability, which demonstrates the intersections between medicine and service. She has volunteered with Saddle Up! and Nashville Dolphins, which provide therapeutic horseback riding and swimming lessons, respectively, to children with physical and/or intellectual disabilities. She also volunteers at the VA Hospital’s physical therapy department, working with disabled or injured veterans. Faith’s research at Vanderbilt Medical Center focuses on Parkinson’s Disease and spasticity treatment; clinical experience with these patient populations has also advanced Faith’s understanding of the struggles of those with chronic illnesses and disabilities.
Faith aims to work in international healthcare, focusing specifically in Central American regions. She first grew to love international work in high school, during a service trip to Belize. At Vanderbilt, she has joined University Catholic’s delegation to Nicaragua every spring break, working on sustainable clean water and education projects with a model nonprofit organization, Amigos for Christ. Faith completed her Ingram Summer Project with Amigos in 2016, developing a mental health and workplace stress assessment and subsequent proposal.
Faith’s experiences with disabled populations have encouraged her to look past the physiological lens of a "diagnosis" and see the soul behind various conditions. Her work abroad has shown her the challenges of health care, education, infrastructure, and more affecting third world countries. And her service in Nashville has reminded her of the need to think critically about the issues affecting her local community.