Tracy is a 4th year MD student at Harvard Medical School. She has applied to Internal Medicine, and her interests include Medical Education, Global Health, and Gastroenterology. Her current research involves understanding the barriers to cervical cancer screening among women in South Africa and evaluating lactulose breast tests for diagnosis of Small Intestinal Bacterial Overgrowth among patients with a history of gastric bypass. After finishing residency, Tracy hopes to pursue a career in Gastroenterology with a focus on Hepatology and Global Health and Delivery. In her spare time, she enjoys reading books, cycling, hiking, dance, yoga, and generally being active.

 

Alyssa is a 4th-year student at Harvard Medical School and is currently conducting translational Hepatology research full-time at Massachusetts General Hospital. She plans to apply for Internal Medicine residency this coming cycle, with the ultimate goal of pursuing Gastroenterology. Alyssa is passionate about medical education and has spent more than 400 hours tutoring students in medical and pre-medical subjects over the past eight years. She is the founder of USMLE Pro Tutors, which offers personalized 1-on-1 online tutoring for the USMLE Step 1, Step 2 CK, shelf exams, and medical school coursework. She developed a unified test-prep teaching method that all tutors at USMLE Pro utilize, which incorporates evidence-based principles of adult learning in order to help students study more efficiently, perform better on standardized exams, and overcome test-taking anxiety. She strongly believes that personalized education and test-taking support services should be available for all medical students, and created a program through which USMLE Pro Tutors offers subsidized tutoring to need-based financial aid recipients. When she is isn't working in the lab, tutoring, or spending time with friends and family, she enjoys practicing vinyasa yoga and learning improv and sketch comedy. 

Nayan is currently in her third year at Harvard Medical School. She grew up in Fairfax, Virginia and attended Columbia University for her undergraduate degree, majoring in Neuroscience and Behavior. During her time at Columbia, she worked in a memory and neurosurgery lab, and also spent a year volunteering at a specialty clinic for children with rare neurodevelopmental diseases. These experiences furthered her interest in the human brain, and she decided to pursue a career in medicine and research. During her time at Harvard, she has become primarily interested in brain tumors and has been conducting research on meningiomas, as well as on the various treatment options for brain metastases.  She is hoping to pursue a career in Radiation Oncology and will be applying to residency in September of this year. 

Liane Dallalzadeh was born and raised in Los Angeles, California. She attended UCLA as an undergraduate where she majored in neuroscience, minored in public health, and graduated summa cum laude with college honors and highest departmental honors. She received her MD from Harvard Medical School in 2018. Liane is currently a PGY 2 Ophthalmology resident at the UCSD Shiley Eye Institute. Her academic and research interests have previously included hippocampal synaptic plasticity and cerebrovascular disease. Currently, she is interested in retinal disease, telemedicine, and medical education regarding surgery, visual diagnosis, and decision support technologies. 

Michael is a third-year medical student at Harvard Medical School.  Originally from Pittsburgh, PA, he completed his undergraduate studies at Princeton.  He is passionate about medical education and will pursue a Master’s degree at the Harvard Graduate School of Education this fall.  He plans develop those interests during a residency in general surgery and is committed to promoting humanistic and patient-centered care throughout his career.

Bliss is a fourth year student at Harvard Medical School (HMS).

Jonathan E. Fried is an internal medicine resident in the Brigham & Women's Hospital Program in Primary Care and Population Medicine. A graduate of Harvard Medical School and the Harvard Kennedy School of Government, Jonathan is passionate about health policy and health systems improvement. He has researched the financial implications of primary care-based buprenorphine prescribing, assisted a major national health insurer create new specialty payment models, and developed a quality measurement strategy for a rural hospital global budget model in Pennsylvania. Before medical school, Jonathan worked at the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services, where he supported the Comprehensive Primary Care Initiative, a national effort to transform primary care.

Originally from Long Island, NY, Norah attended Harvard University, where she majored in chemistry and was awarded the Thomas Temple Hoopes Prize for her undergraduate thesis on cancer chemotherapeutics. As an undergraduate, Norah worked as an organic chemistry teaching fellow, and was awarded the Derek C. Bok Certificate of Distinction in Teaching. She is currently a fourth-year medical student at UCSF, and will be applying into general surgery. She also has extensive experience tutoring standardized exams for high school students in the Bay Area. She has excelled on all of her third year rotations and shelf exams, and scored above the 95th percentile on USMLE Step 1. In her free time, she enjoys running, baking, and playing classical music.

Originally from Massachusetts, Elisa graduated with honors from the California Institute of Technology with a Bachelor of Science in Biology and a minor in English in 2012. Subsequently, she obtained her M.D. in 2017 from Harvard Medical School, graduating from the Harvard-MIT Health Sciences & Technology (HST) program. She is currently a preliminary intern in Internal Medicine at the Brigham and Women's Hospital, and will continue onto her advanced residency in Anesthesiology at the Massachusetts General Hospital in 2018. Elisa is passionate about education, and has extensive experience teaching in the classroom as a teaching assistant and tutor for topics such as clinical pharmacology, introductory biology, writing, and the history & physical exam. She also served as an author for First Aid for Organ Systems, third edition, and is a current co-editor for Concepts in Medical Physiology, second edition, a physiology textbook designed for first-year medical students. In her free time, Elisa enjoys running along the Charles River, hiking, cooking, baking, reading, and the occasional photography stint.

4th year MD student at Tulane.

Primary Care physician Internal Medicine Clerkship Co-Director for 3rd year medical students.

4th year MD candidate at HMS

4th year med student at HMS.

Joe Tung is an MD/MBA candidate at Harvard Medical School and Harvard Business School with interests at the intersection of clinical medicine, healthcare management, and medical innovation. He attended Yale University and graduated with a Bachelor of Science in Molecular Biophysics & Biochemistry. At Harvard, Joe has been involved in the Crimson Care Collaborative student-faculty clinic and has served as Co-President of the Asian Pacific American Medical Students Association and the HMS Healthcare Management Interest Group. In his spare time, Joe enjoys hiking, cooking, attending hackathons, and learning about the latest innovations in technology and health care.

Dr. Joseph V. Sakran is currently an Assistant Professor of Surgery and Director of Global Health and Disaster Preparedness at the Medical University of South Carolina. As an Acute Care Surgeon, Joe spends most of his time caring for critically ill and injured patients. His research interests are in healthcare innovation, biomarkers for sepsis, trauma system development, public policy, and the advancement of surgery in poorly resourced environments. His interest in medicine stems partly from having nearly lost his life after a gunshot wound to the throat during his senior year of high school. Joe has dedicated his life to making social impact. While completing his undergraduate degree at George Mason University, Joe trained as a medic and firefighter where he spent a significant amount of time volunteering at the City of Fairfax Fire and Rescue Department. His interest in global health began when he decided to attend The Medical School for International Health, a unique collaboration between Ben-Gurion and Columbia University. Joe subsequently integrated his medical studies with public health when he attended the Johns Hopkins University, where he completed a Masters in Public Health in the global health track. After completing a diverse and comprehensive general surgery residency at Inova Fairfax Hospital, he joined the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania where he completed a fellowship in Traumatology, Surgical Critical Care, and Emergency General Surgery. During his residency, Dr. Sakran Co-founded a nonprofit organization called Surgeons for Global Health (SGH) that is tailored towards addressing the surgical burden of disease in low and middle-income countries (LMIC). The aim has been to provide long-term sustainable interventions in order to reduce the global burden of surgical disease. Joe has delivered care and sustainable solutions throughout numerous countries in India, the Middle East, and Africa. He has responded to a number of international disasters including the Asian Tsunami in 2004, and the Haitian Earthquake in 2010. As a Google Glass Explorer/Beta tester, Joe has been working on ways to enhance access to care in LMIC. The American College of Surgeons (ACS) recently recognized Dr. Sakran for his work in resource poor settings when he received the 2014 Surgical Volunteerism Award. He has been actively involved in the ACS, and is currently the Chair of the Resident and Associate Society (RAS). Dr. Sakran just finished spending the year pursing a Masters in Public Administration at the Harvard Kennedy School (HKS) of Government where he is developing a unique skill-set focused on economics, public policy, and leadership development in underserved and minority populations.

Smitha Ganeshan is an MD/MBA candidate at Harvard University with interests in healthcare management and healthcare delivery transformation. Her aim is to ultimately work toward building a health system that delivers high quality, affordable care. She currently helps lead a student-faculty collaborative clinic with seven different clinical sites that provides care for a wide range of patient populations. She also conducts research on healthcare costing and care delivery innovations. Smitha graduated from the University of Georgia with a B.S. in Biology in 2014. 

 

Sievert is a physician trained in Anesthesiology and Psychiatry and a Co-founder of the medical education platform AMBOSS.com 

AMBOSS is the number one study resource and knowledge platform for med students and physicians in Europe. Last year, their team of 60+ physicians created the dedicated version for the U.S., based on U.S. curriculums and NBME guidelines, and it is already used by over 40 percent of students from the top medical schools in the U.S. 

More than 95% of German medical students use AMBOSS as their primary exam resource, and tens of thousands more globally use AMBOSS as a clinical companion, exam preparation tool and comprehensive study guide. 

My experiences in training and clinical practice at the Texas/Mexico border, the Bronx, and in socialized New Zealand have all made me the physician that I am today: practicing and learning medicine in such disparate environments served to underscore the importance of seeking to empathically understand each patient’s narrative and their social context as equally as elucidating their underlying diagnosis. I currently focus my clinical effort in two areas:  as a palliative care physician at Parkland Hospital, a safety net health system in Dallas, and an academic hospitalist in both a quartenary university hospital system and Parkland Hospital. In my role as UT Southwestern Internal Medicine Clerkship Co-director and Colleges Mentor, I create a safe learning environment in which our learners continually strive to grow in the application of evidence-based medicine, aspire to view medicine from their patients’ perspectives with empathy and embed reflection into their daily practice. 

Arlene Sachs, Ph.D. is the Director of Student Academic Support Services and Clinical Assistant Professor in Psychiatry at UT Southwestern Medical Center.  Student Academic Support Services (SASS) is a resource for all UT Southwestern students and residents. She advises students on time management, learning strategies, test-taking strategies and National board support. Dr. Sachs has more than 35 years of experience, and is a published expert in cognitive learning strategies, reading, writing, and assessment. Sachs received a Ph.D. in learning disabilities, assessment and cognition from Vanderbilt University. In addition, she has a Masters in Reading and Masters in Early Childhood Education from the George Peabody College of Vanderbilt University. Upon completing the degrees, she joined the faculty at The University of Texas at Dallas. Sachs has published research focused on effective reading and writing strategies for students with learning disabilities and Step One preparation. Sachs also taught undergraduate and graduate courses in reading, learning disabilities, psycho-educational assessment and cognitive development.

Zeb is the lead of US content for the medical education platform AMBOSS.com 

AMBOSS is the number one study resource and knowledge platform for med students and physicians in Europe. Last year, their team of 60+ physicians created the dedicated version for the U.S., based on U.S. curriculums and NBME guidelines, and it is already used by over 40 percent of students from the top medical schools in the U.S. 

More than 95% of German medical students use AMBOSS as their primary exam resource, and tens of thousands more globally use AMBOSS as a clinical companion, exam preparation tool and comprehensive study guide.