Abena Appah-Sampong, MD

Abena Appah-Sampong, MD Research Fellow Mentor: Mohamad Hussain, MD; Behbood Bikdeli, MD, MS Abena Appah-Sampong, MD is a general surgery resident at Brigham and Women’s Hospital. She completed a bachelor’s degree at the University of Chicago in public policy and biology prior to attending the University of Chicago Pritzker School of Medicine for her medical training. […]

Isaac Alty, MD

Isaac Alty, MD Research Fellow Mentor: Nakul Raykar, MD, MPH Isaac is currently a general surgery resident at Brigham and Women’s Hospital. Born and raised in Lynchburg, Virginia, he received his B.S. in Chemistry at the College of William & Mary with a double major in Ancient Greek. He received his MD from Harvard Medical […]

Terhas Weldeslase, MD

Terhas Weldeslase, MD Research Fellow Mentor: Kristin Sonderman, MD, MPH; Gezzer Ortega, MD, MPH Terhas Asfiha Weldeslase, MD is a general surgery resident at Howard University Hospital and is a Master of Science in Clinical and Translational Research student at Georgetown University. She completed her Doctor of Medicine from Addis Ababa University, School of Medicine […]

Ali Dzhemiliev, MD

Ali Dzhemiliev, MD Research Fellow Mentor: Nelya Melnitchouk, MD, MSc Ali Dzhemiliev, MD, grew up in Crimea, Ukraine. In 2013, he entered the Crimean State Medical School. However, due to the Russian occupation of Crimea in 2014, he moved to Kyiv, Ukraine, where he graduated from Bogomolets National Medical University in 2019. Following his graduation, […]

Annabelle Jones, MD

Annabelle Jones, MD Affiliate Research Fellow Mentor: Robert Riviello, MD, MPH Annabelle Jones, MD is a General Surgery resident at Brigham and Women’s Hospital. She was born and raised in Homer, New York, on a working horse and cattle farm. She attended Middlebury College, where she completed a Bachelor of Arts in Molecular Biology and […]

Saba Ilkhani, MD, MPH

Saba Ilkhani, MD, MPH Research Fellow Mentors: Geoffrey Anderson, MD, MPH Saba Ilkhani, MD, MPH, graduated in 2021 from Iran’s Shahid Beheshti University of Medical Sciences. Her main research interests are surgical outcomes, with a specific focus on the long-term outcomes of trauma patients. She is a fellow in the FORTE (functional outcomes and recovery after trauma […]

James Fitzgibbon, MD

James Fitzgibbon, MD Research Fellow Mentor: Mohammad Hussain, MD, PhD James Fitzgibbon, MD, grew up in Erie, Pennsylvania before attending the University of Pittsburgh for his undergraduate degree in Biological Sciences. He subsequently completed his medical education at Temple University School of Medicine in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania and is currently a general surgery resident at Brigham […]

Hiba Dhanani, MD, ScM

Hiba Dhanani, MD, ScM Research Fellow Mentors: Zara Cooper, MD, MSc Hiba Dhanani, MD, ScM, is a General Surgery resident at Baystate Medical Center in Springfield, MA. She grew up nearby in Lexington, MA. She completed her Bachelor of Arts in Cultural Anthropology with a minor in Middle Eastern and Islamic Studies at Haverford College. […]

Jake Awtry, MD, MA

Jake Awtry MD, MA Research Fellow Mentors: Tsuyoshi Kaneko, MD Jake Awtry, MD, MA is a General Surgery resident at Brigham & Women’s Hospital currently completing two years of dedicated research. He was raised outside of Boston in Hingham, MA. He completed a bachelor’s degree in Biochemistry and Molecular Biology as well as a master’s […]

Alexis Antunez, MD, MS

Alexis Antunez, MD, MS Research Fellow Mentor: Gerard Doherty, MD Alexis Antunez, MD, MS is a general surgery resident at Brigham and Women’s hospital. Lexi is working with Dr. Gerard Doherty during her academic development time to design and implement a novel intervention to increase guideline concordance in the care of small, low risk papillary […]