There's no Quit in Cassie Mitchell

Phil Santangelo, professor in the Wallace H. Coulter Department of Biomedical Engineering at Georgia Tech and Emory University

A former track star with dreams of becoming an orthopedic surgeon, Cassie Mitchell is now an assistant professor in the Wallace H. Coulter Department of Biomedical Engineering at Georgia Tech and Emory University. She’s also a Paralympic medalist.

This is not the path she would have chosen, but Mitchell is proud of her accomplishments as a researcher and an athlete, and she’s nowhere near finished.

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