{"id":4839,"date":"2025-06-10T11:34:39","date_gmt":"2025-06-10T15:34:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/med.virginia.edu\/bims\/?p=4839"},"modified":"2025-06-10T11:34:39","modified_gmt":"2025-06-10T15:34:39","slug":"bims-student-former-athlete-isaiah-swann-paves-way-for-student-athletes-to-enter-health-fields","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/med.virginia.edu\/bims\/bims-student-former-athlete-isaiah-swann-paves-way-for-student-athletes-to-enter-health-fields\/","title":{"rendered":"BIMS Student &amp; Former Athlete, Isaiah Swann, Paves Way for Student-Athletes To Enter Health Fields"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/news.virginia.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/Header-SF-Swann-MR.jpg\" alt=\"Isaiah Swann with bat\" \/><\/p>\n<h6 style=\"text-align: center\"><strong>Former baseball student-athlete Isaiah Swann, pursuing a doctorate in cell biology, is a researcher in the lab of cell biologist Bettina Winckler. (Photo by Matt Riley, University Communications)<\/strong><\/h6>\n<div>\n<div class=\"entity-container\">\n<div class=\"entity entity-paragraphs-item paragraphs-item-intro-text paragraphs-item-body-text intro-text clearfix\">\n<div class=\"content\">\n<p class=\"processed\"><span class=\"dropcap\">A<\/span>s an undergraduate student-athlete at the University of Texas at Dallas,\u00a0Isaiah Swann developed an interest in research. With his family members gravitating less to science and medicine jobs and more to business and other fields, he learned the value of networking early, but he didn\u2019t have an insider track to navigate the medical field.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt feels almost like a different world, in a way,\u201d he said. \u201cOne of the things you realize when you get to medical school is that a lot of people were born into this world, so they just know how to navigate it.\u201d<\/p>\n<article class=\"align-right\">\n<div class=\"media media-element-container media-default\">\n<div class=\"file file-image file-image-jpeg\">\n<div class=\"content file-default\"><span class=\"caption none media-element file-default\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/news.virginia.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/Inline-01-Right-Swann-Contrib.jpg\" alt=\"Isaiah Swann on baseball base\" width=\"1000\" height=\"667\" data-once=\"imagecaptions\" \/><\/span><\/p>\n<h6 style=\"text-align: center\"><strong>Swann plays baseball at the University of Texas at Dallas before coming to UVA for medical school. (Contributed photo)<\/strong><\/h6>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n<p>While applying to medical school, he said he was fortunate to connect with older students who helped him through the process.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAthletes are often encouraged to pursue academic routes with greater schedule flexibility to accommodate training, which can steer folks away from lab research and pre-medicine tracks,\u201d said Swann, who played baseball in college.<\/p>\n<p>He said he talked to a lot of student-athletes who ended up choosing to drop either their science and medicine studies or their sport due to the tension of balancing both. \u201cIt\u2019s sad to see, especially because we have a shortage of health care workers,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>So when he arrived at the University of Virginia for medical school, he connected with Heidi VandeHoef-Gunn, UVA Athletics\u2019 director of career development, seeking to create pre-professional resources for student-athletes who aspired to certain graduate fields, like medicine, law or nursing.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cStudent-athletes who are pursuing a career in medicine face barriers in securing research opportunities or shadowing hours that work with their limited availability,\u201d VandeHoef-Gunn said. \u201cIn addition to a full academic courseload, most of our student-athletes have several hours a day blocked out for training and team commitments.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Through VandeHoef-Gunn, Swann met Jayden Isaiah Nixon, then an undergraduate playing basketball at UVA. Other medical students were connected with student-athlete mentees, and the group formally became Athletes in Medicine the following year.<\/p>\n<article class=\"align-left\">\n<div class=\"media media-element-container media-default\">\n<div class=\"file file-image file-image-jpeg\">\n<div class=\"content file-default\"><span class=\"caption none media-element file-default\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/news.virginia.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/Inline-02-Left-Swann-Contrib_0.jpg\" alt=\"Portrait of Isaiah Swann (left) and Jayden Nixon (center) attend an Athletes in Medicine event at John Paul Jones Academic Center\" width=\"1000\" height=\"1000\" data-once=\"imagecaptions\" \/><\/span><\/p>\n<h6 style=\"text-align: center\"><strong>Isaiah Swann (left) and Jayden Nixon (center) attend an Athletes in Medicine event at John Paul Jones Academic Center. (Contributed Photo)<\/strong><\/h6>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n<p>With co-founders Tommy McNeal, UVA Class of 2025 and former lacrosse player, and undergraduate wrestler Kyle Montaperto, Class of 2026, Swann had conversations with organizations for student-athletes interested in medicine at different universities, including Stanford University and the University of Texas, to see what they could offer outside of mentorship.<\/p>\n<p>Later that year, Athletes in Medicine began offering anatomy lab activities for current student-athletes with Dr. David Moyer.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe hosted a hands-on orthopedic session in which student-athletes learned about knee pathologies and practiced arthroscopies with an orthopedic surgeon and residents,\u201d Swann said. \u201cWe\u2019ve also done cardiology sessions, neurology sessions and hosted a suturing workshop with the Association for Women Surgeons.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The group has also successfully mentored its first mentee through the process of getting into medical school. Nixon begins his first year at UVA\u2019s School of Medicine in the fall and, given that Swann has paused his medical school journey for a few years to complete his doctoral research, the two will end up going to school together.<\/p>\n<p>Swann is completing a doctorate in cell biology and working in the lab of Bettina Winckler, a professor of cell biology, studying proteins that are important for ALS.<\/p>\n<p>Nixon was born in Charlottesville at Martha Jefferson Hospital. His parents graduated from UVA in 1996 together and stayed in town, having him in 1999 and his sister in 2001.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<div>\n<div class=\"entity entity-paragraphs-item paragraphs-item-intro-text paragraphs-item-body-text intro-text clearfix\">\n<div class=\"content\">\n<p>He followed in his parents&#8217; footsteps, graduating from UVA in 2022 with a biology degree on the pre-med track. After graduating, he earned a master&#8217;s in health care management from Johns Hopkins University and worked for a health tech startup for the past two years.<\/p>\n<p>When Nixon was a fourth-year student, Swann was already at UVA, and the two stayed connected.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI was really excited when Jayden texted me last winter that he had received his acceptance from UVA because we had talked throughout the process about navigating applications, the MCAT and the interviews,\u201d Swann said.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s a huge feat, VandeHoef-Gunn stressed, that Athletes in Medicine is bridging a gap for pre-health student-athletes \u2013 providing opportunities for shadowing, anatomy labs and for guest speakers in different areas of specialization.<\/p>\n<p>She said it seems student-athletes who engage with Athletes in Medicine sessions also have more clarity on the application process and deciding whether to take gap years.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey don\u2019t have to choose between being a student-athlete or pursuing a medical degree after they graduate from UVA. Student-athletes at UVA can successfully achieve both,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>Originally posted in UVAToday on June 3rd, 2025, by <a href=\"https:\/\/news.virginia.edu\/content\/zeina-mohammed\">Zeina Mohammed,<\/a>\u00a0<a class=\"author-email\" href=\"mailto:spr2jm@virginia.edu\">spr2jm@virginia.edu<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former baseball student-athlete Isaiah Swann, pursuing a doctorate in cell biology, is a researcher in the lab of cell biologist Bettina Winckler. (Photo by Matt Riley, University Communications) As an undergraduate student-athlete at the University of Texas at Dallas,\u00a0Isaiah Swann developed an interest in research. 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