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
S. Faaz Ashraf, MBBS
Level of Training: PGY-4
Specialty: Cardiothoracic Surgery
Research Focus: Tissue-engineered cardiovascular devices, 3D bioprinting, computational fluid dynamics in congenital cardiac disease, machine learning approaches in computer vision
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
Joseph Kazan, MD
Level of Training: Postdoctoral Research Scholar
Specialty: Psychiatry
Research Focus: Late-life Anxiety and Depression, Neuroimaging, Functional and Structural Neuroanatomy
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