David Marcovitz is in the Class of 2012 at the Vanderbilt University School of Medicine, and he is honored to be serving as AMSA’s National Vice President for Membership. Prior to becoming Vice President for Membership, David served as the organization's 2010-2011 National Chair for Grassroots Organizing, and he was honored to introduce Harvard Professor and long-time organizer Marshall Ganz as one of the convention's keynote speakers. In 2009-2010, David was National Grassroots Coordinator for the Community and Environmental Health Committee, and also served concurrently as the Vanderbilt AMSA Chapter President. During his time as Chapter President, the chapter initiated the Give Tennessee Kids a Chance Campaign, which has now helped introduce bills related to childhood obesity in both the 2010 and 2011 TN State Legislatures.
David graduated in 2006 from Princeton University with a B.A. in Russian Literature and a certificate in Russian Studies. He wrote his thesis on Soviet physician-turned-writer Mikhail Bulgakov, in particular, on the censorship of his most famous novel, The Master and Margarita. In 2006-2007 he did preventative HIV/AIDS work in the Russian Federation on a Fulbright Community Service Grant, and worked the following year at Christ House Medical Recovery Shelter in Washington, D.C. as a Clinical Services Assistant.
His hobbies include reading, watching old episodes of ER (that are new to him), jogging, training in the Japanese martial art aikido, and driving his Subaru Outback around Nashville. At his girlfriend's persuasion, he has recently taken up indoor rock-climbing, but he has a long way to go in that pursuit.