After dancing her way through school, former Miami Heat cheerleader Fabienne Achille has traded in her pom-poms for a stethoscope. Doctor Achille turned in her hot pants for scrubs and now delivers babies as a Florida obstetrician.
The pretty 28-year-old paid her way through pre-med school at University of Miami by cheering on the likes of Alonzo Mourning, then turned her attention to the grueling medical curriculum at University of South Florida. The ballgame glamor made her undergrad days memorable, but it wasn't exactly easy. Fabienne Achille, the daughter of Haitian immigrants, said, “It was a lot of hard work especially being pre-med. But it was definitely a very very enjoyable memorable time in my life.”
The obstetrician is now finishing her residency, delivering babies at Jackson Memorial Hospital in Miami -- the facility where she was born. Jackson Memorial is a hospital that deals with many minorities, including Haitians. Recently, Doctor Achille got to help one of Haiti's most deserving patients, in a well-publicized case that touched the hearts of millions. It was Achille who, with her mother and twin sister, helped arrange for Marlie Casseus, a 14-year-old girl suffering from a dangerous facial tumor, to come to Jackson from Port-Au-Prince for life-saving surgery.
Doctor Achille has one more year to do in her residency, then she hopes to perform a medical mission to Haiti, where she can reach out to the uninsured in her community. In the meantime, she is especially interested in helping patients without medical insurance.
Eventually, she plans to go into private practice. If time permits, she may also take in more Miami Heat basketball games -- but from the stands, not the floor.
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