{"id":117255,"date":"2023-10-26T13:24:46","date_gmt":"2023-10-26T17:24:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/camed\/?p=117255"},"modified":"2023-10-26T13:24:46","modified_gmt":"2023-10-26T17:24:46","slug":"hes-a-star-runner-and-a-budding-doctor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/camed\/2023\/10\/26\/hes-a-star-runner-and-a-budding-doctor\/","title":{"rendered":"He\u2019s a Star Runner and a Budding Doctor"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Meet recent ENG alum and current Chobanian &amp; Avedisian medical student Aksel Laudon, who balances a star track and cross country career with an equally intense course schedule. \u201cGood is not in Aksel Laudon\u2019s vocabulary,\u201d one coach says. \u201cIt\u2019s about being great. It\u2019s about being elite, and that spans everything he does.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/articles\/2023\/cross-country-and-track-star-aksel-laudon\/?utm_campaign=bu_today&amp;utm_source=email_20231026&amp;utm_medium=intrograph&amp;utm_content=athletics\">Read<\/a> the BU Today story!<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_117268\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-117268\" style=\"width: 810px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/camed\/files\/2023\/10\/Aksel-Laudon-Battle-in-Beantown-e1698340783515.jpg\" alt=\"Man wearing red BU bib running in green path surrounded by spectators\" class=\"size-full wp-image-117268\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-117268\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Aksel Laudon (ENG\u201922, CAMED\u201926) flashes the arched \u201cBoston\u201d as he crosses the finish line first at the 2022 Battle in Beantown Open 5K, with a time of 15:32. Laudon, a second year medical student, is in his final season of competition with the BU cross country team. Photo by Matt Woolverton<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MD student Aksel Laudon is featured in a BU Today story highlighting his participation in BU cross country and track.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":903,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[91,156],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/camed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117255"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/camed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/camed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/camed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/903"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/camed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=117255"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/camed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117255\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":117270,"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/camed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117255\/revisions\/117270"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/camed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=117255"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/camed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=117255"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/camed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=117255"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}