Alexis G.

Alexis's professional and research background spans neuroscience, psychiatry, and clinical medicine. At Brown University, she spent a semester at the University of Barcelona through the school’s exchange program and earned the French Department's Greenberg Prize for her language studies. Her honors thesis on frontal dysfunction in obsessive-compulsive disorder was published and presented at the Society of Biological Psychiatry conference. As an undergraduate, Alexis served on the Counseling and Psychological Services Student Consultation Board, taught as a Spanish language program teaching assistant, tutored middle and high schoolers as a Brain Bee instructor, and mentored incoming first-years as a Meiklejohn Peer Advisor. She also led Brown's chapter of Students for Samaritans, recruiting over 65 student hotline volunteers and helping build training programs from the ground up.

After graduating, Alexis studied how the brain builds a sense of body ownership using virtual reality and robotics as a Fulbright Research Scholar at Campus Biotech in Geneva, Switzerland. She then spent a year as a research specialist at the University of California, San Francisco, where she analyzed fine motor function in patients with Parkinson's disease and assisted with deep brain stimulation surgeries. Her research has resulted in numerous peer-reviewed publications and conference presentations, and she has been recognized as a Sigma Xi Honor Society member and a Swiss Government Excellence Scholarship recipient. Alexis has been published in the International Journal of Stroke, Journal of Affective Disorders, Frontiers in Immunology, the Journal of Psychiatric Research, and other publications. 

Now at Harvard Medical School, Alexis serves as the Co-President of the HMS Lifestyle Medicine Interest Group and as an intern in Massachusetts General Hospital’s Laboratory for Neuropsychiatry and Neuromodulation. Alexis continued to support pre-med undergraduates through Brown's Women's Launchpad program after graduating college and now guides incoming clinical medical students as a Harvard peer-advising liaison.

As an MCAT tutor, Alexis's strength lies in her ability to diagnose the precise reason behind a student's score plateau and build a targeted, strategic study plan around it. Rather than defaulting to generic content review, she identifies each student's strengths and weaknesses and works with them on a plan that efficiently targets their specific pain points. Alexis is adaptable, letting students lead while offering her own recommendations, and she brings patience and warmth to what can be a stressful, long process.