Nadia is a general surgery resident at Inova Fairfax Hospital in the Washington, DC area, where she was born and raised. She studied Biomedical Engineering at Vanderbilt and earned an MPH in Global Health Program Monitoring, Design, and Evaluation from George Washington University. She completed her MD at the University of Queensland in Brisbane and New Orleans. Her interests include pediatric and acute care surgery and improving surgical access for underserved populations.

Elisabeth Hansen, MD, MSc grew up in Ashland, Oregon, and is an Otolaryngology–Head and Neck Surgery resident at Mass Eye and Ear in Boston on the T32 Research Track. She earned her BA in Chemistry and French from Pomona College and a Master’s in Microbiology from Pierre and Marie Curie University. She received her MD from Harvard Medical School, where she spent a year with the Center for Surgery and Public Health studying access to care for head and neck patients.

Nardeen Dawood MD MSL is a global surgery research fellow at the Program in Global Surgery and Social Change and a general surgery resident at NYU Langone Hospital. Her interests lie in global surgical policy, advocacy, and health systems strengthening. At the PGSSC, her work has focused on multilateral collaboration, national surgical planning, global health reform, and clinical decision support.

Reem Dawoud is a first-generation Palestinian-American currently completing her neurosurgery residency at Emory University, where she earned her M.D. and M.P.H.. Her clinical interests include cerebrovascular neurosurgery. Her research interests include implementation sciences and surgical care delivery in conflict settings.

Carolyn Reuland is a first-year PGSSC fellow and general surgery resident at MGH. Originally from Baltimore, she studied Biology and Hispanic Literature at UNC Chapel Hill before attending Johns Hopkins School of Medicine. As a Fogarty Fellow, she conducted research in Peru on household air pollution and child development and in the Philippines on clinical deterioration. At PGSSC, she focuses on RESPOND-Guatemala, which aims to improve pre-hospital trauma care in Guatemala City.

Emily is from Lancaster, Pennsylvania and is currently a general surgery resident at Walter Reed National Military Medical Center in Bethesda, Maryland and is in the United States Army. She received her B.A. in Biochemistry at Franklin & Marshall College. She received her MD from Geisinger Commonwealth School of Medicine. Her interests include health systems improvement, health equity and surgical education.