LIFELONG COUG OVERCOMES TREPIDATION TO BECOME A DOCTOR
Scott SwangerBy AnneMarie Hunter
Lars Neuenschwander has been a Coug from the day he took his first breath.
A current WSU Elson S. Floyd College of Medicine student, Lars was born on campus at Pullman Memorial Hospital in 1996. Eighteen years later, he returned to attend Washington State University. In 2019, he achieved a double degree in Spanish and Bioengineering and will graduate from the College of Medicine in 2024.
However, a future in the medical profession was not always part of Lars’s plans. In fact, he had to overcome a piercing fear to pursue medicine.
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