Yong Suh is a 2001 graduate from the University of West Georgia Honors College and Advanced Academy of Georgia. He recently wrote an opinion piece in USA Today about IBM’s new Watson computer, and the potential impact it could have on the healthcare field.
Suh established the Yong D. Suh Scholarship Fund to recognize and assist outstanding Advanced Academy scholars who intend to complete their undergraduate education degrees at UWG’s Honors College.
He entered UWG at age 16, and graduated top of his class with a B.S. in chemistry. He was one of only four undergraduates in the nation selected to serve as a National Institutes of Health research fellow in the laboratory of Dr. Francis Collins, then director of the Human Genome Project.
Suh was a Marshall Scholar at Oxford University, and the only Marshall scholar in UWG’s history. The Marshall scholarship was created by the Parliament of the United Kingdom in recognition of the post-World War II European Recovery Plan, also known as the Marshall Pan. The scholarship is considered very prestigious, and is only awarded to 40 scholars in the U.S. every year.
While at Oxford he completed two master’s degrees in the amount of time it takes to earn one, graduating with a M.Sc. in research and pharmacology and a MBA at age 23. He went on to work on the Human Genome Project, on Wall Street, and is now working to earn his MD at Johns Hopkins.
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