Muhammet Ozdemir is a first-year medical student at the University of Massachusetts Medical School. He is from Ludlow, Massachusetts but was born in Turkey and immigrated to the United States in 2012 when he was a sophomore in high school. He attended the University of Massachusetts - Amherst for his undergraduate studies where he majored in Psychology and Neuroscience. He took a year off before medical school and worked as an emergency medical scribe at Cooley Dickinson Hospital.