Class of 2025
Nakayama Scholar
Hometown: Hudson, Ohio
Major: Neuroscience
Minors: Chemistry and Global Health
Amy Fulton is a senior at Duke studying Neuroscience and Global Health. She is the Director of Duke University EMS as well as a Firefighter-EMT at Lebanon Fire Department. She teaches CPR, first aid, bleeding control, and other EMS topics to the community, including as a House Course instructor at Duke, a BLS instructor, and the Education Coordinator for Camp Empowerment, a summer camp introducing first aid to kids. She also does research on traumatic brain injury (TBI), both in the lab with Duke Neurology, and in the field with her Bass Connections team, which is working on improving the care transition for TBI patients in Uganda. Her other research involves new treatments for rare neurovascular diseases like moyamoya. After two months volunteering with a global health initiative in Ghana, and three bouts of malaria, she now works as a College Ambassador for the UN Foundation’s United to Beat Malaria campaign. She is also a Youth Advisor with the Department of State through IN Network. Amy is one of the Co-Founders of Duke Women’s Wellness Club and a Co-President of Duke Student Wellness Caucus. She’ll be at Duke for a fifth year through the accelerated Masters in Global Health program and is hoping to attend medical school after that. She plans to spend her career improving global health equity through clinical practice, research, education, and advocacy. Outside of work, she loves powerlifting, scuba diving, and cars.