Medicine

“At the time my education felt like it would be an obstacle,” alumna psychologist Dr. Helena Orellana (’11) admitted to a group of Thomas Aquinas College students at a career talk last week. “But the formation I received at TAC was exactly what I needed to pursue a doctorate in psychology. Not only that, it prepared me for work as a clinician and later as a professor.”

An MD-PhD candidate at Creighton University, Maggie McCann (’13) recently completed a prestigious two-year fellowship with the Paul Ramsey Institute, which trains young leaders from a wide range of disciplines in a morally grounded approach to bioethics.

One of the College’s newest alumni, Patrick Caughron (’21), is the subject of a new story in the National Catholic Register,