Sanjana Balachandra, M.D.

  • Hometown: Brooklyn, NY
  • Undergraduate: University of Texas, Austin
  • Medical School: University of Texas Southwestern Medical School
  • Career Goals: Academic Endocrine Surgery, Medical Student Education/Advising
  • Hobbies: Cooking, exercising, reading, watching TV, listening to music, shopping
  • Research Interests: complex/reoperative parathyroidectomy, thyroid cancer, adrenal incidentalomas

Zhixing Song, M.D.

Song is from Shanghai, China, and enjoys cooking, traveling, and surfing in his free time. With a passion for clinical outcomes research and health informatics, he aspires to become an academic surgeon, blending cutting-edge research with patient care to improve surgical outcomes and advance the field.

Julia K., M.D.

  • Hometown: Brazil
  • Hobbies: Puzzles.
  • Research interests: Clinical outcomes and Education. 
  • Career goals: Be a great physician.

Azeem Izhar, M.B.B.S.

  • Hometown: Lahore, Pakistan
  • Career Goals: Academic Surgery, Global Surgery Research
  • Hobbies And Interests: Sports, Puzzles and Coffee

Niranjna Swaminathan, M.D.

Niranjna is a medical graduate from Malaysia with a passion spanning both the athletic and creative realms. She has had the honour of representing in track and field including marathons and handball where the discipline and resilience developed has carried over into other areas of her life. Beyond sports, she finds joy and creative expression in pottery. Her career vision is to become an academic surgeon with a profound focus on global surgery and inspire the next generation of surgeons to think beyond borders and embrace the global impact of healthcare.

Raj Roy, M.B.B.S.

Raj is a medical graduate from Calcutta, India who wishes to be an outstanding surgeon. With special interests in outcomes research and machine learning, Raj wants to practise evidence based surgery and also help bring the culture of physician scientists worldwide. When he’s not doing research you can find him practising intricate passages of Bach on his piano or lifting heavy weights at the gym. He is also an emerging physician influencer, with a growing community of over 100,000 followers on Instagram @doctorroyy where he mentors the next generation of medical students. 

Dr. Kerrick Akinola

  • Hobbies: reading, going to museums, trying new restaurants
  • Career Goals: recently completed General Surgery residency; planning on pursuing Endocrine Surgery fellowship
  • Research Projects/Interests: patient-related outcomes, geospatial analysis, health disparities

Isha Chaudhary