{"id":51461,"date":"2015-01-09T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2015-01-09T06:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/newsroom\/2015\/01\/09\/student-spotlight-meet-deandre-bluitt\/"},"modified":"2015-01-09T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2015-01-09T06:00:00","slug":"student-spotlight-meet-deandre-bluitt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/newsroom\/2015\/01\/09\/student-spotlight-meet-deandre-bluitt\/","title":{"rendered":"Student spotlight: Meet DeAndre Bluitt"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"panel body-content\"><div class=\"panel__container\"><p><TABLE border=\"0\" width=\"250\" cellspacing=\"10\" align=\"right\"><br \/>\n<TR><br \/>\n<TD><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/newsroom\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/Deandre0109.jpg\" border=\"0\" align=\"right\" alt=\"picture disc.\"><br \/>\n<\/TD><br \/>\n<\/TR><br \/>\n<TR><br \/>\n<TD><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size:0.85em;line-height:150%\">DeAndre Bluitt<\/span><br \/>\n<\/TD><br \/>\n<\/TR><br \/>\n<\/TABLE>Education is one of the four pillars of UNMC&#8217;s mission, and our students are the lifeblood of that aspect of campus life. <\/p>\n<p>In UNMC Today&#8217;s Student Spotlight, we get to know some of these students, who will become tomorrow&#8217;s health care professionals.<br \/>\nToday we meet:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><b>Name:<\/b> DeAndre Bluitt\n<li><b>Hometown:<\/b> Paris, Texas\n<li><b>Program\/Year:<\/b> Fourth-year medical student<\/ul>\n<p><b>List three songs on your playlist.<\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li> &#8220;Turn Down for What,&#8221; Lil Jon\n<li>&#8220;Swap It Out,&#8221; Justin Bieber\n<li> &#8220;Ice Ice Baby,&#8221; Vanilla Ice (<i>also<\/i> from Paris, Texas)<\/ul>\n<p><b>How did you fall in love with medicine?<\/b><br \/>\nA football injury caused me to have multiple surgeries during my first year of college. The entire medical team, including nurses, physical therapist and physicians, were all awesome. It was the first time I was able to see medicine as a healing art. That is how I feel in love with this field, for the art and creativity to heal the entire patient.<\/p>\n<p><b>Your favorite study snack is:<\/b><br \/>\nPistachios <\/p>\n<p><b>Your favorite app is:<\/b><br \/>\nTetris Blitz<\/p>\n<p><b>Three things people may not know about you:<\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>My great uncle, Benjamin Bluitt (1864-1946), was the first African-American surgeon in the state of Texas. 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