Medical College of Georgia - Augusta

Stephanie Cedeño was born and raised in South Florida. She stayed close to home for her undergraduate studies and attended Nova Southeastern University in Fort Lauderdale. There, she was a recipient of the Razor’s Edge Leadership Program and Scholarship, giving her a Leadership certificate alongside her bachelors in Biology. She also obtained a minor in writing, turning more of her passions into professions. 

Stephanie set off her gap year following graduation with a trip to rural Thailand; this medical immersion and global health venture came with a price tag of $4K, which she raised in a handful of months! The remainder of her gap year was filled with travelling as a certified scribe implementing her scribe program at different hospitals all throughout Florida. She ended the year with a medical Spanish immersion program in the tropical country of Panama. This enhanced her colloquial Spanish to include a heightened professionalism for her native tongue.

Stephanie attended the historic Medical College of Georgia where she dove head first into medicine serving as the head coordinator at Clinica Latina. She served patients 200% below the national poverty line, seeing both parents and children alike. This experience truly cemented her fervor for Med-Peds, as she quickly noticed the resemblance between patient families and that of her own. A very proud daughter of immigrants, refugee care has always been at the core of Stephanie’s passions. She joined the Medical Reserve Corps (MRC) of Georgia to train for several emergency situations for both national and international refugees alike. She has now returned to her hometown for her residency training as part of the Jackson family, and is continuously eager to improve healthcare in the very community that raised her!