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

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.

  • Hometown: Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
  • Medical School: Taylor’s University School of Medicine
  • Career Goals: Academic Surgeon
  • Hobbies: Marathon running, Pottery, Sky diving, Competitive Sports
  • Research Interests: Global surgery, Outcome related research in endocrine and general surgery

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