Here is an update on Wushuang Yang, who we brought several years ago as an 11 year old critically burned girl from PEK to CVG Shriners. Wu is now 20 and a sophomore at Marian University in IND. She is still a Shriners patient, having undergone almost 30 surgeries so far. She is the most courageous young woman I have ever known and amazes all who know her as she continues her college education. Last year she was able to obtain a full scholarship to Marian, which is what enabled her to even attend college and she was a straight A student while she also held down two part time jobs. Donations from some of our caring AAI members helped to make this possible. This year she has a partial scholarship so donations will once again be a huge help to her. If you’d like to help this deserving young woman, the AAI Children’s Medical Escort Program can send checks directly to Marian University in her name again this year and it will be a tax deduction.Margaret Whitehead, Director, Children’s Medical Escort Program – You can Donate HERE – see below:
I am back in college now. Our school started on the 21st of August, but I had surgery the 22nd, so I was not back until later in the week. My current major is Biology Pre-med and Biomedical Engineering. I added a major last semester because I wanted to explore more options for myself rather than just medical school. It was definitely a crazy idea of doing this. I don’t regret it but I definitely don’t have enough time everyday anymore between classes, lab, homework and work. I barely get enough sleep this year during the week, which is so different compared to my first year. First year was so easy compared to now and future… So far I am enjoying my classes even though it is a lot of work. This semester I’m enrolled in 19 credit hours: internship( the internship I did in the summer could count for credits,) Cell Biology (with lab), Organic Chemistry (with lab), Calculus I (5 times/week), intro to Engineering profession, and a engineer class at IUPUI(we are learning about how to use a software to build models). I take classes at IUPUI because of the new major that I added last semester. It is a dual degree and is a program that Marian offers with IUPUI. 
I will get two degrees one from Marian (biology)and one from IUPUI (engineering) in five years. Currently I’m still exploring if I like engineering more or still the medical field. Depending on that, I might apply for medical school, or MD/PhD or just work as engineer. I’m not sure at this time because I don’t know enough about engineering to decide yet. I did work in the summer and was a summer intern, along with a couple surgeries. The intern was at Margaret Mary Health, I was able to help out at many different departments and learned a lot about how hospital as a whole works and what each department is like.
