Postgraduate Year Three (PGY-3)
Mohammad Aref
Hometown: Indianapolis, IN
Medical School: Indiana University School of Medicine
Surgical Interest: Critical Care, Cardiothoracic
Researching: Effects of systemic disease on vascular reactivity

Sophia Diaz
Hometown: Miami, FL
Medical School: Johns Hopkins School of Medicine
Surgical Interest: Undecided
Researching: Biomedical engineering, innovation, and design

Mackenzie (Mickey) Anne Eagleson
Hometown: Fort Wayne, Indiana
Medical School: Indiana University School of Medicine
Surgical Interest: Transplant surgery
Researching: Machine learning, computer vision, organ allocation equity and policy

Natasha Houshmand
Hometown: Dallas, Texas
Medical School: The University of Texas Southwestern Medical School
Surgical Interest: Trauma, Surgical Critical Care
Researching: Quality Improvement and Patient Safety Initiatives, Trauma and Violence Prevention

Solomon Levin
Hometown: Lakewood, New Jersey
Medical School: Weill Cornell Medical College
Surgical Interest: Pediatric surgery, thoracic surgery
Researching: Pathogenesis of liver cancer

Dane C. Paneitz
Hometown: Sullivan, Missouri
Medical School: University of Missouri School of Medicine
Surgical Interest: Adult and congenital cardiac surgery
Researching: Cardiac surgery outcomes, nutrition in congenital heart disease, surgical bioethics

Bryan Szeglin
Hometown: Blue Point, NY
Medical School: Albert Einstein College of Medicine
Surgical interest: Surgical Oncology
Researching: rectal cancer chemoresistance mechanisms and ex vivo prognostication assays

Stefano Tassinari
Hometown: Caracas, Venezuela
Medical School: Pontificia Universidad Javeriana, Bogotá, Colombia.
Surgical Interest: Transplant, Vascular, Breast, PRS
