Sarae Sager and Katherine Cone selected for Daniel Hanley Center Internships

Sarae Sager (Applied Exercise Science ’16) and Katherine Cone (Medical Biology ’15) have been selected for summer internships with the Daniel Hanley Center’s Undergraduate Health Leadership Initiative (UHLI).

Cynthia Simon, director of the College of Arts and Sciences Internship Office and Whitney Duchaine, pre-health professions advisor, are two of the founding members of the Daniel Hanley Center’s UHLI committee, which was successfully piloted in 2013. UHLI is a new, state-wide initiative that seeks to bring Maine’s undergraduate students back to the state after completing their graduate degrees/programs to serve Maine’s medical needs.

This initiative allows UNE to further contribute to Maine’s healthcare workforce and strengthen its ties with the state’s medical industries, while providing undergraduate medically-inclined students unique insight, experience and mentoring.

The UHLI committee is represented by more than seven Maine colleges and universities, industry representatives, and staff and volunteers of the Daniel Hanley Center. The UHLI recruits, screens and matches Maine resident undergraduate students seeking medical careers with summer paid internships within the state’s health industries.

Selected students attend a pre-internship orientation that teaches them about Maine’s healthcare opportunities and provides extensive networking opportunities. Over the summer, students attend their full-time internships within Maine’s healthcare system. The experience culminates with each intern being paired with a professional mentor, many of whom are from the Hanley Center’s Health Leadership Development and Physician Executive Leadership Institute. The mentors assist the interns with navigating graduate school and medical careers.

UHLI selected Sager to be the Neuroscience Institute Intern with Maine Medical Center Neuroscience Institute. Cone was selected to be the Practice Management Assistant Intern with Houlton Regional Hospital.

About the University of New England

The University of New England is Maine’s largest independent university, with two beautiful coastal campuses in Maine, a one-of-a-kind study abroad campus in Tangier, Morocco, and an array of flexible, accredited online degrees. In an uncommonly welcoming and supportive community, we offer hands-on learning, empowering students to make a positive impact in a world full of challenges. The state’s top provider of health professionals, we are home to Maine’s only medical college, Maine’s only dental college, a variety of other interprofessionally aligned health care degree programs, as well as nationally recognized programs for marine science degrees, natural and social sciences degrees, arts and humanities degrees, and business degrees.