Nicole Ross Eloff

Nicole Ross Eloff graduated from Ross School in 2001 and was one of the School’s original two students. Nicole attended Duke University before transferring to Columbia University, gaining a BA in Psychology in 2005. After beginning a Masters degree in Psychology at NYU, she became interested in international relief work when she accompanied Duke University's Neurosurgical and Orthopedic teams on a medical mission to Kampala, Uganda; she participated in numerous surgeries and apprenticed with doctors, nurses, and surgeons during her tenure with the team. This led her to volunteer in an Internally Displaced Peoples camp of 40,000 people in Port-au-Prince, Haiti after the earthquake of January 2010. She worked with medical professionals ranging from EMTs to MDs in a medical tent and around the greater areas of Port-au-Prince. After continuously returning to Haiti over five months, Nicole became Medical Operations Coordinator for an NGO called Global Disaster Immediate Response Team (headquartered in Port-au-Prince) and traveled to a refugee camp in the north of Sindh Province, Pakistan where she worked in the medical tent that was jointly run by International Medical Assistance Teams and Canadian Medical Assistance Teams. Members of Nicole's team also arranged for the import and assemblage of a high-volume water filtration system for the camp. Global D.I.R.T. teams were sent to Fukushima and Christchurch after the earthquakes in 2011. Mrs. Ross Eloff received her BS in nursing in 2014 from NYU and is currently pursuing a career in the field of medical surgical nursing. She plans on furthering her studies as a nurse practitioner and continuing her international relief work.