PAUL FARMER GLOBAL SURGERY RESEARCH FELLOWSHIP
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RESEARCH FELLOWS
Avery is originally from Portland, Oregon and is currently a General Surgery resident at the Brigham and Women's Hospital in Boston, Massachusetts. She received her BS in Molecular, Cellular, and Development Biology from Yale College followed by an MPH in Chronic Disease Epidemiology and Global Health from the Yale School of Public Health. She received her MD from UCSF. Research interests include health disparities, surgical education, and trauma systems.
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.
Elizabeth is an orthopaedic surgery resident at Walter Reed National Military Medical Center. She received her Medical Degree from Uniformed Services University and her MPH from Columbia University. She has been working with the IMPACT team since medical school looking at the role of military and civilian integration in trauma systems. Her research interests include trauma systems and surgical education.
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.
Gabriella was born in South Africa where she grew up on a farm. She received her MBBCh, and is a PhD student in surgery and public health, at the University of the Witwatersrand Department of Surgery. She is an inaugural recipient of the South African Medical Research Council’s (SAMRC) Institutional Clinician Researcher Program scholarship. Gabriella is a fellow in the Wits SADC Regional Collaboration Centre for Surgical Healthcare (WitsSurg).
Lauren Kratky grew up in Connecticut and is currently a general surgery resident at Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center. She received her undergraduate degree from Wake Forest University where she graduated with honors in Health and Exercise Science with a studio art minor. Her MD was obtained from Wake Forest School of Medicine during which she was director of a student-run free clinic which provided free healthcare to underserved patients.
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.
Nardeen is a first-generation Egyptian-American who earned her B.A. in Biology from UC Berkeley, her M.S.L. from Northwestern University, and her M.D. from UC Los Angeles. She is currently completing her general surgery residency at NYU Langone Hospital. Her interests include global surgical policy and advocacy, implementation science, and surgical education.
Nardos is an Otorhinolaryngology, Head & Neck surgeon. She received her Medical Degree and Otolaryngology Specialty Certificate from Addis Ababa University and is an Assistant Professor there. Her clinical interests include Rhinology & Facial Plastic surgery, and her research interests include financing surgical health care and surgical education.
Orit was born and raised in Michigan. She is currently a general surgery resident at the Massachusetts General Hospital. She received her undergraduate degree in the History of Science, Medicine, and Public Health at Yale University and as well as her M.P.H in Chronic Disease Epidemiology with a Global Health Concentration at the Yale School of Public Health.
RESEARCH COLLABORATORS
Abbas Karim is a 4th-year MD student at UTMB in Galveston, TX, completing a Scholarly Concentration in Global Health. He earned his bachelor’s from the University of Houston and served in the Medical Reserve Corps during COVID-19. He sits on the Board of the Houston Global Health Collaborative and leads campus groups focused on surgery and global health. His research centers on surgical outcomes, trauma systems, and burn care in global surgery, with a focus on the Middle East and South Asia.
Dario was born in Matamoros, Mexico, and earned his medical degree from the University of Monterrey. He led primary care outreach across northern Mexico and discovered his passion for global health while volunteering at a shelter for displaced children with cancer in Colombia. He completed a postdoctoral research fellowship at MGH/Harvard, studying pancreatic cystic lesions. His interests include surgical equity at borders and access to care.
Dawn was born in Malaysia and grew up in Borneo. She holds an MBBS and a Masters of Research (Cancer) from Newcastle University, where she studied sarcopenia in gynecological malignancies. After medical school, she worked as a clinical doctor in Wales. Her research interests focus on addressing disparities in women's health, particularly in gynaecological cancer care. She is committed to strengthening health systems and improving outcomes for women and their families worldwide.
Riya Sawhney is a medical doctor from the United Kingdom, currently undertaking a PhD at McGill University, where she is a Jean-Martin Laberge Fellow in Global Paediatric Surgery. Riya has keen research interests in global health and global surgery, surgical education and innovation, diversity, and equity.
Samir is a fourth-year medical student at Tufts University School of Medicine. He grew up in San Francisco and earned a BS in Biology from Loyola Marymount and an MSc from Tufts. Before medical school, he worked in facial plastic surgery at UCSF, sparking his interest in reconstructive surgery and surgical access. He is Program Coordinator for the Global OHNS Initiative and conducts research at Dana-Farber and Boston Children’s. His interests include global surgery and patient-centered outcomes.