Chloe Kwok
“Touro Shows How They Serve the Underserved”
Chloe Kwok is one of the few TouroCOM students who enters the school with a bachelor’s degree in mechanical engineering. “I always liked building things,” said Kwok. “I did robotics in high school and one of our robots placed second in a national competition.” Midway through her undergraduate studies in Stony Brook University, Kwok began a second major in biochemistry. To her both fields complement each other. “Medicine and engineering approach problems in very different ways but they can work together,” said Kwok. “You get stumped a lot more in engineering since biology is more dependent on memorization.”
She is naturally interested in the nexus of biology and engineering. Kwok spent a gap year after college shadowing anesthesiologists and is considering that specialty. “I learned a lot from them about how to improve patient care and how specific you need to be with the drugs,” she said. “I like the precision and the fact that you need all this knowledge of how medications react with one another.” She chose Touro for its commitment to serving the underserved. “A lot of other schools talk about serving the underserved, but Touro actually shows how they serve.” Aside from English, Kwok is fluent in three other languages: Mandarin, Cantonese, and Fujianese.
