{"id":155890,"date":"2021-01-25T11:27:27","date_gmt":"2021-01-25T16:27:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/webarchive.umw.edu\/eagleeye\/?p=155890"},"modified":"2021-01-25T11:27:27","modified_gmt":"2021-01-25T16:27:27","slug":"blood-relatives-injury-spurred-red-cross-club-president-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/webarchive.umw.edu\/eagleeye\/2021\/01\/25\/blood-relatives-injury-spurred-red-cross-club-president-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Blood Relative\u2019s Injury Spurred Red Cross Club President"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_155891\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-155891\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-155891\" src=\"https:\/\/webarchive.umw.edu\/eagleeye\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/01\/3D43A999-B34D-4F83-906F-81C0ABBB7843-300x225.jpeg\" alt=\"Senior Cindy Ramirez plans to pursue a career in internal medicine, but the Mary Washington biology major is already putting her studies to work as an EMT and president of UMW\u2019s Red Cross club.\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/webarchive.umw.edu\/eagleeye\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/01\/3D43A999-B34D-4F83-906F-81C0ABBB7843-300x225.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/webarchive.umw.edu\/eagleeye\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/01\/3D43A999-B34D-4F83-906F-81C0ABBB7843-1024x768.jpeg 1024w, https:\/\/webarchive.umw.edu\/eagleeye\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/01\/3D43A999-B34D-4F83-906F-81C0ABBB7843-768x576.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/webarchive.umw.edu\/eagleeye\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/01\/3D43A999-B34D-4F83-906F-81C0ABBB7843.jpeg 1280w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-155891\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Senior Cindy Ramirez plans to pursue a career in internal medicine, but the Mary Washington biology major is already putting her studies to work as an EMT and president of UMW\u2019s Red Cross club.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Cindy Ramirez was 8 years old when her sister was injured in a sledding accident that broke her sacrum, a pelvic bone that supports the weight of the upper body.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_91225\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-91225\"><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-91225\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>\u201cI was really nervous, but all I could think about in that moment was how I could help her,\u201d said Ramirez, now a senior at the University of Mary Washington. \u201cThat was when I realized I wanted to pursue a career in medicine.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>This future physician is on her way to earning her white coat and stethoscope. An honors student majoring in biology, Ramirez has spent countless days and pulled all-nighters in the Jepson Science Center, memorizing organs, muscles and bones \u2013 like the one her sister broke \u2013 which will be essential when she attends medical school.<\/p>\n<p>But Ramirez is already applying this critical knowledge. Her four-month training as an EMT wraps up in January, which happens to be National Blood Donor Month. Between rides with the Fredericksburg Rescue Squad, she heads UMW\u2019s Red Cross club, an organization she\u2019s been involved with since her early days at Mary Washington. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.umw.edu\/news\/2021\/01\/21\/blood-relatives-injury-spurred-red-cross-club-president\/\">Read more.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cindy Ramirez was 8 years old when her sister was injured in a sledding accident that broke her sacrum, a pelvic bone that supports the weight of the upper body. \u201cI was really nervous, but all I could think about in that moment was how I could help her,\u201d said Ramirez, now a senior at [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":28590,"featured_media":155891,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[116],"tags":[267,9053,25256],"class_list":{"0":"post-155890","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-whats-new-umw","8":"tag-coar","9":"tag-department-of-biology","10":"tag-umw-blood-drive","11":"entry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/webarchive.umw.edu\/eagleeye\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/155890","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/webarchive.umw.edu\/eagleeye\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/webarchive.umw.edu\/eagleeye\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webarchive.umw.edu\/eagleeye\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/28590"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webarchive.umw.edu\/eagleeye\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=155890"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/webarchive.umw.edu\/eagleeye\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/155890\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webarchive.umw.edu\/eagleeye\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/155891"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/webarchive.umw.edu\/eagleeye\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=155890"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webarchive.umw.edu\/eagleeye\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=155890"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webarchive.umw.edu\/eagleeye\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=155890"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}