Graduate Adrianna Camacho: President’s Prize winner found passion in cardiac intensive care
Adrianna Camacho has always wanted to go into medicine.
Not until she was in high school, however, did she find her passion. When she was a sophomore in high school Camacho, a senior nursing student at NAU-Yuma, was diagnosed with Long QT Valve Syndrome 13, a life-threatening genetic heart condition for which there is no cure. It typically presents as sudden cardiac arrest. After a number of unexplained fainting spells when she was a young teenager, Camacho spent a year undergoing tests and hospitalizations before she was diagnosed…