medi-gators peer mentorship program

Currently only available for University of Florida and Santa Fe College students.

Launched in the Spring of 2024 in collaboration with the UF Career Connections Center and UF Pre-Health Advising, the Medi-Gators Peer Mentorship Program is intended to provide pre-health students an approachable platform to seek guidance, support, and advice from peers who are further along in the pre-health journey. Our team of Peer Mentors have gone through pre-health advising training and leadership so as to cultivate an inclusive and informative experience for students.

For the 2024 Fall semester, Pre-Health Peer Mentorship drop-in office hours will take place on Tuesdays and Thursdays from 9-11am at the Reitz Unions UF Career Connection Center.

Students may visit our office hours to discuss topics related to:

  • Health career exploration
  • Clinical experiences
  • Leadership
  • Clinical and non-clinical volunteering
  • Exam preparation and strategies
  • Shadowing
  • Mentorship
  • Research
  • Growth years
  • Letters of recommendation
  • Application components and preparation
  • Campus resources
  • and more!
C3 peer mentorship

Contact our Peer Mentors

If you have any questions, comments, or concerns, feel free to reach out to our Peer Mentorship team at medigatorsPMP@health.ufl.edu.

Meet the peer mentors

peer mentorship lead

Gopika Pillai

4th Year Undergraduate, Pre-Med
Major: Behavioral and Cognitive Neuroscience
Minor: Spanish

Peer Mentorship Lead

Priya Shah

UF 2024 Alum, Pre-Med
Major: Behavioral and Cognitive Neuroscience

Elizabeth Eberley

4th Year Undergraduate, Pre-Med
Major: Health Science

Abigail Eckhardt

3rd Year Undergraduate, Pre-PT
Major: Applied Physiology and Kinesiology

Karlie LeFor

4th Year Undergraduate, Pre-Med
Major: Behavioral and Cognitive Neuroscience

Raymond Martucci

4th Year Undergraduate, Pre-Med
Majors: Behavioral and Cognitive Neuroscience and Microbiology/Cell Science
Minor: History

Alyson Moriarty

Gap Year/Master’s Student, Pre-Med
Major: Behavioral and Cognitive Neuroscience
Minor: Communication Sciences and Disorders

Shree Patel

4th Year Undergraduate, Pre-PA
Major: Health Science
Minor: Business Administration

Andrew Randolph

3rd Year Undergraduate, Pre-Nursing
Major: Nursing
Minor: Food Science

Anthony Scuderi

3rd Year Undergraduate, Pre-Med
Major: Biology
Minor: Spanish

Lauren Smith

3rd Year Undergraduate, Pre-Med
Major: Behavioral and Cognitive Neuroscience
Minor: Chemistry

Sionika Thayagabalu

UF 2024 Alum, Pre-Med
Majors: Biology & Women’s Studies

Alexandra Biela

2nd year Undergraduate, Pre-Med
Majors: Biomedical Engineer

Andrea Mottau

3rd year Undergraduate, Pre-Med
Majors: Microbiology/Cell Science and English

Anne-Charles Zimmer

Graduate Student, Pre-Med
Focus: Masters of Science Health Education

Eva Galvez Moreno

2nd year Undergraduate, Pre-Dental
Major: Business Administration

Gabriela Kirby

2nd year Undergraduate, Pre-Nursing
Major: Nutritional Science

Gabriela Montalvo

3rd year Undergraduate, Pre-Med
Major: Biology

Jae Sarner

3rd year Undergraduate, Pre-Dental
Major: Health Science

Jonah Schwartz

4th year Undergraduate, Pre-PA
Major: Nutritional Sciences

Julia Gifford

2nd year Undergraduate, Pre-Med
Major: Biotechnology

Kelsey Cook

3rd year Undergraduate, Pre-Med/PhD
Major: Anthropology

Lauren Mickelson

2nd year Undergraduate, Pre-PA
Major: Behavioral Cognitive Neuroscience
Minor: Chemistry

Leah Baker

3rd year Undergraduate, Pre-Med
Major: Applied Physiology and Kinesiology
Minor: Nutritional Sciences

Maria J. Gomez

UF 2023 Alum, Pre-Med
Major: Psychology

Marisa Gonzalez

3rd year Undergraduate, Pre-PA
Major: Nutritional Sciences

Mia Corgliano

2nd year Undergraduate, Pre-Med
Major: Applied Physiology and Kinesiology
Minor: Dance

Rafael Garcia

4th year Undergraduate, Pre-Med
Major: Microbiolgy/Cell Science
Minor: Chemistry and Meteorology

Remington Monnett

3rd year Undergraduate, Pre-Med
Major: Nutritional Sciences
Minor: Environmental Justice and Policy

Siri Yarrapatni

2nd year Undergraduate, Pre-Med
Major: Biomedical Engineering