Justine Cormier MD’15
I had family members with neurologic disease—Alzheimer’s and a few other things—growing up. I was interested in the brain from the beginning without really realizing it. In college I took a neuroscience class and thought it was completely fascinating. I thought I was going to go to grad school for it and then I started working with patients in between graduating and med school and I thought: “I have to do that. I have to be a doctor.” And neurology seemed like a good fit. The brain is sort of the last frontier, the last organ that we don’t really understand.
I kept trying to like other things more than neuroscience, which my undergraduate degree was in. I really liked medicine, I almost went into OB, I really liked interventional radiology. But at the end of the day I got really excited by everyone who had a headache or like a brain tumor. I was like “Yay, a headache!”—which is weird, but it made me really think that this is what I should be doing.
