Carolyn Mae Peterseim, M.D. graduated in 2021 from the Medical University of South Carolina. She holds a B.A. from Duke University in cultural anthropology, where she focused on medical anthropology. Her current clinical interests include family medicine, preventive medicine, and sustainable public health programs. She wants to work with both children and adults in an outpatient setting to improve preventive health behaviors like vaccinations, smoking cessation, and metabolic syndrome control, especially in underserved populations. She served as the grant writer for her medical school’s student led and run outreach clinic: Community Aid, Relief, Education and Support (C.A.R.E.S). She wrote the original grant to start a program that provides all school-required vaccinations, vision screening, nutrition and exercise counseling, free books, and financial and social resources for Spanish speaking parents in Charleston, SC. As an undergraduate, she volunteered with Association des Compétences pour une Vie Meilleure (ASCOVIME) in Yaoundé, Cameroon in patient care outreach and comparative analysis of rural and urban accessibility to care. She has significantly contributed to research projects in health behavior, vision screening, sickle cell disease pain management, telehealth for stroke rehabilitation, acute liver failure management, endoscopic retrograde cholangio-pancreatography effectiveness, and opioid-receptor agonist treatment for glaucoma. She looks forward to serving the Lehigh Valley community as a family medicine physician.