Dr. Tiffany Hamilton

Hometown: Andover, MN
Area of Study: Biology/Pre-Health

Why UND?

(My dad and I) were in Moorhead and I told my dad, “UND is like an hour north; we should just stop by.” It happened to be Homecoming weekend. That was busy, but also a good time to and see everything. From there, I just fell in love with it. It was exactly what I wanted. I wanted to go to the kind of campus that you could walk everywhere.

I joined the Air Force because …

We have strong military roots in my family. My grandfather always encouraged me that the military needed doctors and for the longest time, I told him, “That’s not what I want to do in the military.” But when it came down to it, medical school costs a lot.

Before becoming a Pediatric Cardiologist at Oklahoma Children’s Hospital …

In residency, I volunteered in Mongolia. We went around the countryside and for four days we screened children’s hearts. The second week, we were in the city, where they would do some surgeries and other procedures.

After I graduated residency, I was stationed in Misawa, in Northern Japan where a lot of families were stationed. The closest hospital was 45 minutes away and the next military hospital was at least Hawaii, so we just did our best to start a new standard of care there to avoid shipping families off site.