Kyle Renard Burton was born in St. Louis, Missouri before moving to Illinois for high school attendance outside of Scott Air Force Base. In 2010, Kyle enrolled at Howard University (HU) in Washington, DC where, among other things, he conducted neurophysiology/biophysics research at HU College of Medicine (CoM), initiated/facilitated undergraduate student participation in the HU CoM Free Health Clinic, Co-Captained the HU Baseball Club, and served as the College of Arts & Sciences Senior Class President and Honors Association Council Representative. During a summer at UCLA-Geffen Med, Kyle conducted health disparity interventions for undocumented sweatshop laborers in the LA Fashion District. He also completed training in biotechnology and recombinant DNA methodology at the National Institutes of Health before presenting dementia-related neuron integrity findings through the Brigham and Woman’s Hospital Summer Training in Academic Research and Scholarship program and discoveries in health system innovation implementation while in the A.F. Poussaint Primary Care Scholars Program. During his ESUUS Luard-Morse fellowship year at the University of Oxford, Kyle led the Blues/Varsity Basketball Club to playoff contention and mentored Kenyan students, orphaned to HIV/AIDS, as International Observer/Coordinator for “Teach a Child – Africa.” Aside from participating in the Christian Medical Dental Association, the John Warren Surgical Society, and the Crimson Care Collaborative, he currently serves as Treasurer on the SNMA HMS Chapter Executive Board.