Xanthe Gallate is an MS2 and aspiring pediatrician at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai. She studied Psychology as an undergraduate at UChicago and pivoted to medicine after learning about the psychosocial determinants of health and wellbeing. Too late to be a traditional pre-med, she completed a postbaccalaureate prehealth program at Columbia and can advise about any step of the medical school or postbac application process. ​