Who Is Jared Boyce?

I’m Jared Boyce and I’m an M2 in the Medical Scientist Training Program (MSTP) at the University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health (UWSMPH).

I was born to Trinidadian immigrants and spent part of my early childhood in Brooklyn, NY before moving to Long Island, NY where I graduated from high school. I grew up playing soccer and rowing in high school, playing the violin, and loved visiting the endless Long Island waterfronts with my family. One of the most inspiring waterfronts has been the water where Cold Spring Harbor Laboratories is located. In middle and high school, I use to dream of running a research lab there!

After graduating from Dartmouth I worked in several research labs at Weill Cornell, Mount Sinai, and Columbia’s Zuckerman Institute. Working with Peter Rudebeck, Mark Baxter, Paula Croxson, and Ishmail Abdus-Saboor allowed me to grow as a scientist and a person. Simultaneously, I served as Co-Chair of Children of Bellevue’s Associate Board of Directors for several years.

I pursued my ScM in Medical Sciences from the Alpert Medical School at Brown University before matriculating into the MSTP at the UWSMPH where I am today! A feat that could not have been accomplished without the love and support of my family and mentors. The application process is arduous and requires a lot of resilience. I recount some of this in the article I wrote for Black In Neuro titled, “Bridging Synapses: The Path Toward Becoming a Black Physician Scientist”. Furthermore, as an MSTP student, I am always pursuing ways to integrate advocacy and clinical work with patients from diverse, historically marginalized, and medically underserved urban populations.

Outside of classes and the clinic, I enjoy rock climbing, reading, exploring museums, rummaging through second-hand bookstores to collect old science, medicine, and psychology books, and watching anime.