Jade Tso
Alma Mater: Duke University, B.S. in Biology with Minors in Global Health and Chemistry
Matriculation Year: 2021
About Jade: Jade Tso is medical student at the University of California, Davis School of Medicine, where she is a part of the Academic Research Careers for Medical Doctors (ARC-MD) Program and the UC Davis Center for Global Surgery. She is spending her research-intensive year as a Paul Farmer Research Collaborator at the Harvard Program in Global Surgery and Social Change. As an undergraduate at Duke University, she initiated a community-based nutrition project in Argentina. She spent 6 years organizing with the grassroots advocacy arm of Partners in Health and served on the National Steering Committee. After college, Jade began working at Advance Access & Delivery as the Zero Tuberculosis Initiative’s Data for Action Fellow before acting as Program Manager. While in medical school, Jade has served as the co-director at Paul Hom Asian Clinic, a student-run clinic for low-income and uninsured Asian immigrants in Sacramento. As a former American Medical Women’s Association Global Health Fellow (2021-2023) and Alpha Omega Alpha Student Research Fellow, Jade worked on a pilot project implementing a stomach cancer screening program and assessing barriers to care for endoscopy in Roatan, Honduras. In her research year, she is studying financial toxicity among cancer surgery patients in Northern Thailand. An aspiring “attorney for the poor” and global surgeon, Jade is passionate about framing healthcare as a human right and proving that high standards of care can be provided in low resource settings.
Research Advisor: Dr. Cameron Gaskill
Research Interests: Jade's research interests include financial toxicity among surgical patients, preventing catastrophic health expenditure, and building surgical systems in low resource settings.
Why ARC: I chose ARC-MD because I felt that the longitudinal learning community and program mentorship would give me the support I needed as I began my journey into academic medicine.
Publications: https://orcid.org/0009-0005-7495-5883