BWF Scholars

Hussam Abou-Al-Shaar, MD
Level of Training: PGY-7
Specialty: Neurological Surgery
Research Focus: Predicting visual recovery after anterior skull base surgery utilizing high-definition fiber tractography (HDFT)

Kassandra Allbright, MD
Level of Training: PGY-6
Specialty: Pulmonary/Critical Care Medicine
Research Focus: Lung Epithelial Stem and Progenitor Cells in the context of COPD

Vincent Anto, MD
Level of Training: PGY-4
Specialty: Surgery
Research Focus: Colorectal Research

Bryant Fisher, MD
Level of Training: PGY-5
Specialty: Cardiothoracic Surgery
Research Focus: Thoracic aortic aneurysm, regenerative medicine, tissue engineering

Chris Flores, MD, MS
Level of Training: PGY-2
Specialty: Internal Medicine
Research Focus: Lung transplant rejection, pulmonary hypertension

Yannis Hadjiyannis, MD
Level of Training: PGY-3
Specialty: Pathology
Research Focus: Dendritic Cell Therapy

Sakibul Huq, MD
Level of Training: PGY-4
Specialty: Neurosurgery
Research Focus: Liquid biopsy, brain tumor, and skull base tumor genetics

Julia Leix, MD
Level of Training: PGY-5
Specialty: Pediatric Hematology Oncology
Research Focus: NCOR1 Amplification in Osteosarcoma; Epigenetic mechanisms of tumorigenesis

Katherine Lyman, MD
Level of Training: PGY-4
Specialty: Psychiatry
Research Focus: Circadian and seasonal changes in psychiatric disorders

Arka Mallela, MD, MS
Level of Training: PGY-5
Specialty: Neurosurgery
Research Focus: Expressive language production

Jetina (Tina) Okereke, MD
Level of Training: PGY-6
Specialty: Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine
Research Focus: T cell dysregulation in Sarcoidosis

Cristina Padilla MS, MD
Level of Training: Assistant Professor of Medicine
Specialty: Rheumatology
Research Focus: Scleroderma

Anna Ramos, MD
Level of Training: PGY-4
Specialty: General Surgery
Research Focus: Inflammatory Bowel Disease

Hannah Rinehardt, MD
Level of Training: PGY-4
Specialty: General Surgery
Research Focus: Pediatric Surgery

Ryan Zeh, MD
Level of Training: PGY-4
Specialty: General Surgery
Research Focus: Surgical artificial intelligence and machine learning, biomedical informatics