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
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
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
Midori White
Hometown: Tacoma, Washington
Medical School: David Geffen School of Medicine- University of California, Los Angeles
Surgical Interest: Transplant, Vascular
Researching: CRISPR-Cas9 to disrupt gene expression in cell lines
Ilias Doulamis
Hometown: Chalkida, Greece
Medical School: University of Athens
Surgical Interest: Cardiovascular surgery
Researching: Cardiac surgery, diabetes, myocardial protection, ex situ perfusion, transplantation, endovascular approaches
Samia Ellias
Hometown: Mumbai, India
Medical School: Topiwala National medical college
Surgical Interest: Transplant SX
Ashiya Hamirani
Hometown: Torrance, CA
Medical School: Penn State College of Medicine
Surgical Interest: Vascular Surgery
Researching: Endovascular and Neuroendovascular treatments for cancer
Bjorn Alexander Hedfjall
Hometown: Stockholm
Medical School: Karolinska Institute
Surgical Interest: Anesthesiology and critical care
Basil Karam
Hometown: Koura, Lebanon
Medical School: American University of Beirut
Surgical Interest: Trauma/ACS
Researching: Outcomes in trauma and acute care surgery, trauma triage, opioid use after trauma surgery
Tae Kyung (Tony) Kim
Hometown: Seoul, South Korea
Medical School: Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine
Surgical Interest: Interventional Radiology
Researching: Machine learning and artificial intelligence, Patient safety
Carolina Lugo-Fagundo
Hometown: Cabo Rojo, Puerto Rico
Medical School: Ponce Health Sciences University
Surgical Interest: Interventional Radiology
Researching: Detection of pancreatic cancer through deep learning
Julian McDonald
Hometown: Toronto, Canada
Medical School: University of Edinburgh
Surgical Interest: Diagnostic and Interventional Radiology
Baraah Mohamed
Hometown: Khartoum
Medical school: University of Debrecen Medical School
Surgical Interest: Colorectal, Breast and endocrine
Researching: Tumor markers and risk factors
Rebecca Sahyoun
Hometown: Byblos, Lebanon
Medical School: LAU Gilbert and Rose-Marie Chagoury School of Medicine
Surgical Interest: Undecided
Researching: Total mesorectal excision and rectal cancer, outcomes in rectal cancer
Stefano Tassinari
Hometown: Caracas, Venezuela
Medical School: Pontificia Universidad Javeriana, Bogotá, Colombia.
Surgical Interest: Transplant, Vascular, Breast, PRS.
Yuan-Haw (Andrew) Wu
Hometown: Pretoria, South Africa
Medical School: China Medical University, College of Medicine (Taiwan)
Surgical Interest: Hepato-Pancreato-Biliary Surgery
Bo Chang Wu
Hometown: Taipei, Taiwan
Medical School: Fu Jen Catholic University School of Medicine
Surgical Interest: Cardiothoracic Surgery
Researching: Esophageal cancer, silencing RNA