Professor Michael Marra is determined to continue lecturing despite battling the last stage of cancer

Sometimes Michael Marra can barely lift open his eyelids.
They weigh down, leaving him with only a slit of vision, a slice of his surroundings.
It’s a casualty of the cancer that’s worn down his body for two and a half years over 11 cycles of chemotherapy.

UCLA’s International Medical Graduate Program trains recent medical graduates from Spanish-speaking countries to help underserved communities

Right out of medical school, Betzy Salcedo had a clinic and a single nurse to address the medical needs of 3,500 people. She faced her share of challenges as the only doctor in a rural town in Mexico with severely limited resources.