Student Spotlight: Conversation with Ian Lichtenstein, Class of 2025

Name (pronouns): Ian Lichtenstein (he/him)

Hometown: Portsmouth, NH

Year at Geisel: M4

Career interest: Emergency Medicine

The best thing about Geisel is: The Community

Favorite spot in the Upper Valley: The Norwich Inn’s Porch

Favorite activity in the Upper Valley: Skiing (uphill/downhill)

Favorite book/poem: To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee

Favorite song/piece of music: Thunder Road by Bruce Springsteen

Most treasured travel: Monhegan Island

Guilty pleasure: Scream singing just about anything in the car

 

Short Bio: Ian Lichtenstein is originally from Portsmouth, NH and completed his undergraduate degree at the University of New Hampshire majoring in Microbiology. While at UNH he worked as an EMT, developed a passion for global health completing research abroad in the Ashanti region of Ghana studying transfusion transmitted malaria, and was a leader in the New Hampshire Outing Club. Upon graduating from UNH, he moved to Boston to work in an infectious disease lab at Boston Children’s Hospital researching invasive Group A Streptococcal infections. He has now been at Geisel since 2021 and is a fourth-year medical student applying into an Emergency Medicine residency. Looking towards residency he hopes to continue pursuing his passions in Global Health and Infectious Diseases while also exploring new interests such as those in Pediatric Emergency Medicine.