Medical Museum – United to Serve

Danielle Meals – Medical Museum Co-Chair danielle [dot] meals [at] utsouthwestern [dot] edu

Danielle Meals is a native Texan who enjoys archery, trivia, and YouTube. She grew up less than an hour from Dallas, then briefly left the area to educate herself at St. Louis University. (Look up their mascot. It’s called a Billiken.) Longing for home and tired of digging through the snow to get to class, she returned to Dallas to attend UT Southwestern Medical School, fulfilling her lifetime dream of becoming a full time volunteer while earning her MD in her free time. Danielle loved coming up with new ideas for Medical Museum last year, and is excited to make it even better this year!

Sally Dierschke – Medical Museum Co-Chair sally [dot] dierschke [at] utsouthwestern [dot] edu

Sally and her ever growing pack of adopted dogs are rarely sighted on the UTSW campus. She grew up farming cotton on a wall with a flaming baton at 1.5x the speed of her friends. Around 18 years old, she found the only stop sign out of Wall and drove until she reached Texas Tech University. She spent 4 years there, studying food science and performing with the Texas Tech Twirling Line of the Goin’ Band from Raiderland. Upon graduation, she made the slightly intimidating transition to big city life in Dallas, TX to attend UT Southwestern medical school. Despite traffic, Sally enjoys living in Dallas, farming basil, playing violin, juggling fire, being Catholic, beating friends at Just Dance, and engaging in pro-lifery. Having no trouble reconnecting with her inner child, Sally is super excited for Medical Museum!

Jeremy Stubblefield – Medical Museum Co-Chair jeremy [dot] stubblefield [at] utsouthwestern [dot] edu

Hey, hey! My name is Jeremy and, though I grew up in the northwest Chicago suburbs (Go Cubs!!), frequent vacationing in South Dakota makes me feel like the Black Hills are my second home. I’m a 6th year graduate student in the department of Neuroscience. My field of study is circadian biology and I study the impact of our circadian system on rhythms in fat and glucose metabolism. I’m a total science fiction nerd and I’m constantly quoting movies. This is my second year helping out with United to Serve and this year you can find me coordinating both the Medical Museum (aka “Science Zone” for 2013) and the AVID mentorship program at TJ Rusk. I’m passionate about education and making science fun and accessible to people of all ages.