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Anisah Alladeen’s path to joining Weill Cornell Medical College’s Class of 2028 was almost 10 years in the making.
Growing up in a Guyanese household in Queens, Alladeen witnessed firsthand the challenges immigrant communities face navigating the health care system. She often found herself encouraging her family and community members to seek timely medical treatment, helping to manage doctor’s appointments and ensure their access to quality care. Then in 2017, when Alladeen was in high school, her grandfather was diagnosed with end-stage renal disease and received a kidney transplant at NewYork-Presbyterian/Weill Cornell Medical Center. She often visited him at the hospital after school and, seeing how he was treated by the doctors and staff, something clicked.
