My name is Bradley Butsch and I am originally from the village of Mechanicsburg, OH, a small community about 35 miles west of Columbus, OH. I am a first-year student studying Neuroscience as a Pre-Med student at the Ohio State University. At Ohio State, I am involved in the Environment & Natural Resources Scholars Program, the Doctors Without Borders chapter on campus, Phi Delta Epsilon, and I am a general member of Alpha Epsilon Delta, a national pre-professional honorary society dedicated to preparing students for careers in healthcare. My passion is in leveling out health disparities across the world; from developing nations abroad to rural communities in America. I am interested in exploring environmental implications to healthcare that put 
pressure on these developing societies. Some of the issues that I am interested in tackling are access to clean water, access to nutritious food, poor soil pollution, socioeconomic disparities in health, poor air pollution, and ensuring safe places to live. I believe that all these items are inseparable from a successful healthcare system because generally, the healthiest and longest-living societies are succeeding in these dimensions. I believe that healthcare can be a driving force that our society uses in the future to ensure equality of opportunity for everybody. I am open to learning about all medical specialties and I could see myself practicing in any specialty at the moment. However, orthopedics, family medicine, and general surgery are some that stick out to me now. I am drawn in by the technicality of surgery, but I also like how well a specialty like family medicine could fit into my goals.
