Clark Williamson
The Foundation is pleased to announce that the inaugural recipient of the Brothers Remembered, Brothers Honored Award is Clark Williamson. Clark is entering his third year at the UNC School of Medicine and will likely take a year between his third and fourth years to either explore several research interests more intimately or complete his Masters in Public Health.
A native of Statesville, North Carolina, Clark graduated from UNC in 2018 with a Bachelor of Science in public health. As an undergraduate, Clark served as a clinic advisor for the Student Health Action Coalition, was a member of the men’s club tennis team and volunteered with various organizations, including No Kid Hungry NC and A Helping Hand. Upon graduating, he spent a year developing and implementing a nutrition program with Sacred Valley Health, combatting childhood malnutrition and anemia in the high-altitude Andean communities outside Cusco, Peru.
Clark’s commitment to healthcare access and community involvement has remained strong since his return to Chapel Hill for medical school. He serves as community service chair for the Latino Medical Student Association and helps run a free cardiology clinic for uninsured/underinsured patients. Under the mentorship of fellow Sigma Kurt Gilliland (Σ ’92), he is involved in medical-education research, analyzing bias in test making. Last summer, he worked with an organization to provide COVID testing to patients in rural North Carolina, and he now helps vaccinate people at mass clinics outside of his normal clinic schedule. Finally, he is the medical student liaison to Beyond Clinic Walls, which connects UNC medical, pharmacy, nursing, social-work, and public-health students to provide holistic care to patients with limited access to healthcare.