February 07, 2017 at 5:00 am |

(Courtesy photo) Madeline Suppiger of Sandpoint has been accepted into the medical school at the University of Washington in Seattle, Wash

Madeline Suppiger of Sandpoint has been accepted into the medical school at the University of Washington in Seattle, Wash. Suppiger will graduate from Washington University in St. Louis in May 2017 with a bachelors degree in world health and biology.

She attended Washington University, one of the most selective and rigorous universities in the country, on a full academic scholarship.

While at Washington University, Suppiger studied overseas in South Africa and Madagascar. She participated in medical research projects at Washington University Medical School and spent a summer semester studying organic chemistry at Harvard in Boston, Mass.

Suppiger is a lifelong resident of Bonner County and attended Lake Pend Oreille School District schools from kindergarten through twelfth grade.

A 2013 graduate of Sandpoint High School, she was valedictorian of her high school class. While in high school, Suppiger participated in Health Occupations, academic competition teams, and athletics.

She has earned numerous academic awards throughout high school and college including the deans list at Washington University, NASA Aerospace Scholar, and was picked by Gov. Butch Otter as one of two delegates from Idaho to the National Youth Science Camp in 2013. As a high school athlete, she made eight trips to state competition in track, volleyball, and soccer. Her SHS teams in soccer won a state championship in 2009 and finished as runner-up twice.

She is the daughter of Sally and Gary Suppiger of Cocolalla.

Notified of her acceptance promptly after her medical school interview in January 2017, she will represent Idaho in the WWAMI program at University of Washington School of Medicine.

The University of Washington School of Medicine is one of Americas top-ranked medical schools. Currently it is the only medical school serving the states of Washington, Idaho, Montana, Alaska and Wyoming. Suppiger is one of 230 students to be admitted from the five state region for the class of 2021. She will start medical school in August 2017.

After four years of medical school and additional years of residency training, Suppiger said she hopes to return to Idaho and practice clinical medicine in North Idaho.

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