A Fascination with Perspective

Katherine van Schaik has always been fascinated with perspective. As an undergraduate at Harvard College concentrating in the classics with a secondary field certificate in molecular biology, she wrote a thesis on religious art, exploring how diverse audiences perceive different messages in the iconography. This interest in interdisciplinary study did not disappear when Van Schaik entered GSAS, where she has pursued an MD at Harvard Medical School alongside a PhD in ancient history in the Department of the Classics.

“As I moved along in my medical education, this desire to understand the concept of perspective became a question of, ‘How do we define disease, and whose perspective is contributing to that definition?’” she says.

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