Compassion: What I learned at CMC
Ravi Shankar Aysola ’96 is an assistant clinical professor in internal medicine at the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA. He is also director of the UCLA Pulmonary Sleep Medicine Program and director of the UCLA Santa Monica Pulmonary & Sleep Medicine Clinic.
Aysola majored in psychobiology and graduated summa cum laude from CMC in 1996. He attended the U.T. Southwestern Medical School at Dallas and completed his internship and residency in internal medicine at Parkland Hospital also in Dallas. He went on to pursue fellowships in pulmonary and critical care medicine and sleep medicine at Washington University in St. Louis.
Aysola will discuss his experiences at CMC as a survivor of a critical illness and a student with disabilities. Specifically he will address the long-term impact of those experiences and how they affected his personal perspectives and what they taught him about practicing compassion in his academic, professional, and personal life.