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Grit, grace and glory.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

That\u2019s how Linda Huynh sums up her attitude toward life.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Huynh, a California native, is a first-generation college student. And this month, she received her PhD, the first of the two terminal degrees she is working toward, at commencement before returning to medical school to complete her MD. To relieve stress, she powerlifts \u2013 finishing second in her weight class at the 2021 USA Powerlifting Nebraska State Championships.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The motto, she said, applies to both academics and sports.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cGrit for the persistence, grace for the times that the grit doesn\u2019t quite cut it, and then glory after all the hard work,\u201d Huynh said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Huynh is no stranger to grit. Her parents, who were Vietnam War refugees, had been talking about her going to college since she was young. Huynh\u2019s interest in science and medicine also was heightened by the challenges facing her sister, who has congenital heart disease.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cBoth of my parents, probably ever since I was young, had always dreamt this for me, that I would go off to college,\u201d said Huynh, who earned her undergraduate degree at the University of California-Irvine. She worked to help pay for her tuition and finished in three years.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

One of those jobs was working in the ER.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThat gave me exposure to everything that happened in both the community and the Vietnamese- American community, because it was a local hospital,\u201d she said. And although Huynh had developed a love of research science as well \u2013 she was working as a clinical trials manager before she was admitted to UNMC \u2013 \u201cthe rest is history.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Her sister had her third open-heart surgery in Huynh\u2019s second year of college, further cementing her determination.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cI couldn\u2019t bear seeing other families go through what my parents went through, in terms of having to navigate medicine in a foreign place, not really knowing the language and not having any physicians or nurses that look like them.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

During her job as a clinical trials manager, Huynh had earned a master\u2019s in biomedical translational science, so she knew she wanted an MD-PhD program. She has found UNMC to be the perfect place to pursue her dream.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cI love the community,\u201d she said. \u201cI always tell incoming students, there\u2019s never been anywhere else that I could cold email a faculty member and get a response guaranteed within 24 or 48 hours.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

With her PhD in hand, Huynh is looking forward to returning to her medical studies. And, in company with her husband, Olympic weightlighter Hans Leong, she continues to powerlift, as well.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cI just hit 350 (pounds) on a deadlift yesterday,\u201d she said. \u201cI\u2019m very proud of that.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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