Featured Student: Pano Mavridis
Major: Medical Sciences | Minor in Integrative Health & Wellness (CoM)
Post-Graduation Plan: I will be applying to medical school this cycle, with the goal of attending in the fall of 2027. During this growth year, I will work on the Harvey G. and Janet D. Cohen Leadership in Clinical Medicine Program in addition to clinical volunteering with TriHealth and potentially clinical research at UC Health.
Advice to Current UHP Students: “Change only happens when you a) care enough to start and b) stop scaring yourself out of that start.”
Graduation Year: 2026
Experiences:
- Summer Undergraduate Research Fellowship (SURF)
- Bennis Leadership Accelerator honors seminar
- Warren Bennis Leadership Institute Ambassador program
- Harvey G. and Janet D. Cohen Leadership in Clinical Medicine Program
I wish I could show myself what that dream would become when I was hopeless and desperate.
Pano Mavridis UHP Graduate, 2026
Pano's UHP Journey
Pano Mavridis was well into his path as a Medical Sciences major when, in March 2025, he got firsthand experience navigating the healthcare system during a difficult recovery after tearing his ACL. This challenging period inspired Mavridis to help create opportunities for skill development in “future healthcare leaders.”
Through a partnership with the Harvey G. and Janet D. Cohen Foundation, Mavridis grew an initial idea—help future healthcare professionals develop as leaders and care providers alike—into a three-component program: a new Honors Seminar, “Leadership in Clinical Medicine”; an undergraduate scholarship fund; and a series of guest lectures. “The mentoring and care of our internal team truly helped me blossom,” Mavridis reflects. “I have emerged as a confident and disciplined scholar from this experience. I know now that I am not too young or inexperienced to make a change.”
His first Honors Experience, by contrast, was a stint in 2023 with the Summer Undergraduate Research Fellowship (SURF), assisting in the Experimental Hematology division of a Cincinnati Children’s lab. Mavridis’s interests in traditional research and the often-overlooked need for leadership training in clinical professions both speak to what he calls the defining features of his approach to life in the UHP: “initiative, impatience, and passion for change.” As he looks back on the whole arc of his experience since that pivotal ACL tear, Mavridis reflects: “I have built myself back stronger than before.”