Mikael Howard, MD

I knew very ear­ly on that I want­ed to be a doc­tor and believed I would become a sur­geon, fol­low­ing in the foot­steps of one of my inspi­ra­tions, Dr. Alexa Canady, the first African Amer­i­can Neu­ro­sur­geon in the US. How­ev­er, what ulti­mate­ly grabbed my heart was Pedi­atrics. While on my med­ical school rota­tions, I decid­ed that advo­cat­ing on behalf of one of our most vul­ner­a­ble and promis­ing pop­u­la­tions, our chil­dren, was where my pas­sion lied.