Dana Shefet

Current M3 and Brody Scholar, (’25)
BS, Public Health and minors in mathematics, nutrition, natural sciences, ECU, (’21)

Dana Shefet is a 3rd year medical student at the Brody School of Medicine. She graduated from East Carolina University’s Honors College as a Brinkley-Lane Scholar, the most prestigious award program offered at East Carolina University. She graduated Summa Cum Laude with a B.S. in Public Health and minors in Nutrition, Mathematics, and Natural Sciences. In undergrad, Dana was a researcher in the Food-based Early Education (FEEd) Lab, a program that focuses on childhood overweight prevention in low-income communities and has multiple publications for her work. Dana received the Michael F. Bassman Honors College Research Award and the Robert H. Wright Leadership Award, the most distinguished award given to undergraduate seniors at ECU upon graduation.

In medical school, Dana is a Brody Scholar and stays involved serving the Eastern North Carolina community through her work in the Service Learning Distinction Track and as a coordinator in the Pitt County Care Clinic, a free clinic for the underinsured and uninsured people of Pitt County. She also spent 3 weeks of her M1 summer traveling to the Himalayas providing acute medical care to patients. She holds a national role through the American Academy of Family Physicians as a Well Being Champion, a role in which she advocates for students’ mental health. She has served as the President of both the Family Medicine Interest Group and Brody Ambassadors, an organization which connects medical students with undergraduates at ECU interested in pursuing a career in medicine.

She is excited to be applying for Family Medicine residencies in her M4 year and spends her free time reading, running, traveling, spending time with family, and chatting with anyone and everyone!