California, 1992
• 1992 First Team Academic All-America®
Dr. Sigall Bell was inducted into the CoSIDA Academic All-America® Hall of Fame on June 9, 2014 in Orlando, Fla.
The first Golden Bear to be inducted into the Capital One Academic All-America
® Hall of Fame,
Dr. Sigall Bell helped lead California to its first berth in the NCAA gymnastics national championships during her senior season of 1992. A four-year letterwinner at Berkeley, she is the program’s only GTE Academic All-America
® honoree after posting a perfect 4.00 cumulative grade point average and earning a degree in molecular and cell biology.
Dr. Bell earned first team Pac-10 All-Academic honors as well during that memorable senior season of 1992, a year that also saw her win a Walter Byers Scholarship from the NCAA. A four-time National Association of Collegiate Gymnastics Coaches Scholastic All-America, Dr. Bell served as the Golden Bears’ captain and represented the United States at the World Maccabiah Games in Israel, where she won a silver medal on the beam and placed fourth on the bars.
Traveling from the shores of the Pacific Ocean to those of the Atlantic following graduation, Dr. Bell earned her M.D. in 1997 from the Harvard Medical School, where she serves as an assistant professor of medicine and focuses on understanding the HIV epidemic and patients’ experience of illness on a global scale. Sigall has contributed to public health and clinical efforts in Costa Rica, Ecuador, Honduras, Brazil, Israel and South Africa, and she was the recipient of the Arnold P. Gold Professorship, which recognizes leaders in compassionate care.
A renowned lecturer and speaker throughout the world, Dr. Bell has tirelessly given back to the Boston area community, serving as a volunteer for Bridge Over Troubled Waters while also organizing activities to benefit local charities at Brigham and Women’s Hospital.
