Her presentations are well structured and interesting, and it is clear that she always prepares thoroughly for them. In addition, she has exceptional presentation skills. She is highly motivated to make urogynecologycal surgery better and more effective by the results of her projects. Julia Hummel Jimenez was honored with the Excellent Student Award by the Centre for Translational Medicine.
Julia Hummel Jimenez is a resident doctor in gynecology and obstetrics at the Medical University of Vienna, Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, and a first-year MSc student at CTM. Before her medical studies, she learned mathematics at the University of Vienna, where she completed the first four semesters of the Bachelor’s Program. Her first year was spent through a special program that allowed high school students to start their higher education earlier. “I started with mathematics because I love numbers, but after three semesters, I realized that working with computers and paper did not satisfy me. I needed to do something that had a direct impact on people. That’s why I applied to medical school, where I was accepted,” she says.
After graduating from medical school and receiving her degree, Dr. Hummel Jimenez continued her studies and earned a degree from Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health. There, she specialized in health policy. “I loved learning directly from people who had made an impact. For example, Lori Lightfoot, former mayor of Chicago, or specialists who worked on the Affordable Care Act. I also worked as a policy intern at Planned Parenthood,” she notes. Currently, Dr. Hummel Jimenez is doing her residency in Vienna. As a member of the Urogynecology Working Group at the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, she is working on a project on pelvic floor disorders and incontinence. She joined the Centre for Translational Medicine’s MSc program this year as part of a cooperation between Vienna and Budapest.
“I chose this training because, firstly, it can be completed alongside my clinical work, which gives me a good balance, and secondly, because I am also interested in conducting research. I love doing academic work in urogynecology, because pelvic floor disorders and incontinence affect so many people who do not get heard elsewhere. I’d like to work against taboos and help ensuring that patients have the best possible quality of life. I also love the idea of preventive medicine – so I would also like to find ways to prevent pelvic organ prolapse and incontinence.”
(Szabó Emese)