Benjamin Gallo Marin is a medical student at The Warren Alpert Medical School of Brown University from Nicaragua. He is pursuing a Scholarly Concentration in Caring for Underserved Communities and is also an Emerging Infectious Diseases Scholar and a Global Emergency Medicine Research Intern. He is interested in biomedical innovations in Latin America as well as quality improvement and control in the region as it pertains to emergency care and trauma surgery. He previously worked with Dr. Andrea Prado of INCAE Business School as a case writer before starting medical school. Benjamin holds an AB in Molecular Biology from Princeton University and completed his thesis work in developmental genetics in the laboratory of Dr. Elizabeth Gavis.