Medical student receives leadership award - The Daily Toreador

Second-year medical student Justin Berk received the American Medical Association Foundation’s National Leadership Award Monday at AMA’s 10th annual Excellence in Medicine Awards ceremony in Washington, D.C.

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Dr. Tedd Mitchell, president of Texas Tech Health Sciences Center, said the award looked at the best up-and-coming medical students in the country and is more holistic because it looks at the future of medicine.

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