Official Site of the Panthers · Apr 30, 2020
Operating with Lessons Learned on the Football Field
Catching Up with Inaugural Team Members, 10 Years Later
Preparation, teamwork, communication and the ability to adjust quickly and overcome adversity; these are lessons that Kalan Jenkins learned playing football. And now he uses those skills ... in the operating room.
A starting defensive end on Georgia State's inaugural football team in 2010, Jenkins is now a first-year resident in anesthesiology at Baylor Scott and White Medical Center in Temple, Texas, about an hour outside of Austin.
"We are the only level-one trauma center between Austin and Dallas," said Jenkins, a native Texan from Midlothian who joined the GSU program after two seasons at Navarro College in Corsicana, Texas.