Nick Popp became an advocate for himself before he understood the meaning of the word. Nearly a quarter century later, he’s advocating on behalf of others in the classroom and the lab. And soon, in the clinic.
The M.D.-Ph.D. student at the University of Washington was born and raised in Smithton, Ill., (population 4,006), a town with only one nurse practitioner and one physician assistant. The nearest hospital is 12 miles away. He also was born with hemophilia A, which occurs in about 1 of every 5,000 male births, according to the U.S Centers for Disease and Prevention.
