Published in the Summer 2023 ALUMNI JOURNAL
Twin sisters KAREN BATHAN ’23 and LAUREN BATHAN ’23 grew up in Loma Linda. Dr. Karen Bathan, older by one minute, says she and her sister only applied to LLU School of Medicine. “We wanted to be here,” Dr. Karen Bathan said. “The culture of compassion and practice of whole person care was the perfect foundation for how we want to practice medicine.”
Both sisters have a passion for mission service and are excited to continue to help the medically underserved locally and abroad.
The Sunday Conferring of Degrees Ceremony marked the second time the Bathan twins graduated from LLU with identical degrees. They completed their undergraduate program in clinical laboratory science at LLU School of Allied Health Professions.
Dr. Lauren Bathan is pursuing an internal-medicine pediatrics (Med-Peds) specialty and has been matched to a residency program at University of Illinois College of Medicine Peoria. At the same time, Dr. Karen Bathan will complete an internal medicine residency at Kaiser Santa Clara in Northern California. *
*Reprinted with permission from the School of Medicine Report.