About Me

Joe Ziegler is a third-year Eminence Fellow at the Ohio State University, majoring in Biology with a minor in Spanish.  Coming from the American School of Barcelona, a small international school in Barcelona, Spain,  he is excited to experience the vast resources that a large school such as Ohio State has to offer, and to experience life stateside once again.

After three years working as, leading, and training, medical translators for an annual mission to Peru, facilitating the treatment of almost 6,000 locals, he is pursuing medicine as a career, and is President of Vocalize Columbus, a nonprofit working to help work to bridge the gap between the rapidly changing demographics of the United States, with more and more native Spanish speakers every year, and a relatively stagnant medical workforce (from a linguistic standpoint), by providing interpretation services free of charge to free clinics in the Columbus area through key partnerships with the Charitable Healthcare Network and many of their member clinics.  Additionally, he words in the Kirschner Lab working on thyroid cancer, and how alteration of metabolic proteins can lead to changes in tumorigenesis.