Kari Hannibal
Professor Chad Wright was a beloved teacher of Medical Spanish to hundreds of students at Harvard Medical School from the 1970s through 2013. He taught an intensive Medical Spanish course over four weeks each summer to fourth year medical students. He had the amazing ability to teach both beginner and intermediate-level students in the same course. These students made amazing progress over the four weeks and were able to leave the course able to interview patients in Spanish and converse with Spanish-speaking clinicians. After the course, many of these students traveled to Latin America to take clinical rotations in hospitals in Bolivia, Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, Guatemala, Mexico, and Paraguay. All students took the course to improve their Spanish so they could better care for their future Spanish-speaking patients. Professor Wright was a talented, humble, accessible teacher who will be greatly missed.
From: Kari Hannibal, Program Manager, Harvard Medical School
