Ayala (he/him/his) is a rising M3 student at University of Illinois at Chicago. He is a founding member and President of Medical Students for Accessible Education (MSAE), which has advised the medical school on best practices for students with a disability and provided support to fellow medical students seeking accommodations.
At the city level, he helped to establish the Chicago chapter of the Association of Native American Medical Students (ANAMS). Nationally, he mentors a growing number of students on the path to becoming a physician, especially those who have recently been diagnosed with a disability and who identify as transgender/queer, black, indigenous, and/or people of color.
Jacob Radparvar is a fourth-year MD/MBA candidate at Tufts University School of Medicine/Heller School for Social Policy and Management. His clinical and research interests are in the field of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery. He is also passionate about health policy and the impact technology has on medicine.
Jacob will begin his residency in Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery at UC Irvine in the Summer of 2022.