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Atika Ricks, M.D.

Atika Ricks

Hometown: Niamey, Niger

Medical School: University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences

Flashback to when you were 10 years old. What do you want to be when you grow up? I always wanted to be a doctor since I was a kid

On Sunday mornings, you can usually find me…
Entertaining a toddler and nursing a newborn. Before kids? Brunch and board games with the husband.

If you weren’t a doctor, what would you be? I was a microbiologist before I applied to medical school so I probably would have tried to get a job with the CDC.

Favorite show to binge watch? Every iteration of Law and Order.

What is a fun fact about yourself that not a lot of people know? I won multiple regional taekwondo championships as a kid.

What is the next thing you want to check off on your bucket list? Visit South Korea

Do you have any skills or talents that most people don’t know about? I can speak four languages.

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