Dr. Jonathan Lorgunpai ’11
A biochemistry and molecular biology major at Messiah, Dr. Jonathan Lorgunpai is completing his third and final year of internal medicine residency at Boston University Medical Center. After seven years of countless hours of studying and extra-long shifts, the first four of which took place at Yale Medical School, he says he definitely found his calling.
Messiah’s first student from Thailand, he graduated with a degree in biochemistry and molecular biology. He says one of his most memorable professional experiences came in his third year of med school, when he treated a patient who had just attempted suicide. After Lorgunpai offered compassion and quiet counsel, the patient thanked the young doctor for saving his life and his marriage.
“Getting to play a small part in helping someone reconcile with his spouse and with God and to find hope for the future again was very rewarding and humbling,” Lorgunpai said. “It definitely confirmed my calling in medicine.”In July, Lorgunpai begins a fellowship at the Harvard Medical School Multi-Campus Geriatrics Medicine Fellowship Program. Next summer, however, he plans to return to Grantham for Commencement to watch his younger brother Joseph ’19, an accounting major, receive a degree from Messiah.