Cynthia Tang is the President-Elect of the American Physician Scientists Association and an MD-PhD Candidate and NIH F30 Fellow at the University of North Carolina School of Medicine. She graduated from The College of Idaho and worked at Washington University in St. Louis as a research scholar and clinical research coordinator where she discovered her passion for patient care. Cynthia earned her PhD in Bioinformatics at the University of Missouri studying the emergence, spread, and clinical impacts of influenza and SARS-CoV-2 viruses.