Speakers & Moderators

SPEAKERS & MODERATORS

Speakers

Abigail Davis
Abigail Davis, B.S. is a first year medical student at UT Health San Antonio, Long School of Medicine. She graduated in 2019 from the University of Alabama with a Bachelor of Science in Food and Nutrition. Her interests include preventative medicine in underserved populations and women’s health. She previously worked on a research project looking at the effects of alpha-tocotrienol on primary hippocampal neuron growth via upregulation of Bcl-xL.
Aden Tadese
Aden Tadese is a 2^nd year medical student at Long School of Medicine with a Bachelor of Science in Communication from the University of Houston. During her time in Houston, she volunteered at Hiwet Clinic, a primary care clinic that serves many uninsured and refugee patients. Her passion for primary care, serving the underserved, and global health drew her to be a Chronic Care Coordinator for the Diabetes and Hypertension Self-Management Program at the San Antonio Refugee Health Clinic.
Akihiro Seita, MD, MPH
Akihiro Seita, MD, MPH is the Director of the Health Department at UNRWA (United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine refugees in the Near East) and the World Health Organization (WHO) Special Representative at UNRWA since November 2010. As the director of health, Dr. Seita is the leader in health reform. He successfully converted UNRWA health services to implement best practices based on Universal Health Coverage (UHC) including the introduction of a person-centered family medicine approach, electronic medical records (e-health), and mental health care. Dr. Seita is currently the Chair of the UNRWA COVID-19 Coordination Body since February 2020. He takes the lead in developing a shared vision and strategy in UNRWA’s overall response to the COVID-19 pandemic, and effectively communicates and guides UNRWA directors from all five fields and from different departments to implement and monitor a high-quality response. Dr. Seita assumes a number of leadership roles in the senior management in UNRWA, including Chair of Advisory Committee on Human Resources (ACHR) to supervise senior staff recruitment process since December 2019, and Interim Delegate for Decision Review (or management review) since January 2020. This reflects Dr. Seita’s commitment to quality work and integrity. Dr. Seita is an innovator in health systems. He led the introduction of smartphone applications on maternal and child health and non-communicable diseases. He is a strong advocate for Palestine refugees. He works very closely with the Lancet (global scientific journal) and international partners to organize international events and writes peer-review journal articles.
Albert Duodu
Albert Duodu is a PhD candidate at Lund University School of Economics and Management. He holds BA. Economics from the University of Ghana, Legon and MSc. Economics from the Lund University, Sweden - where he currently teaches Econometrics, Trade Theory and International Economics at both intermediate and advanced level. Albert is generally interested in applied econometrics and data science. His academic research is at the intersection of Trade, Labour, and Environment. Specifically, his research focuses on three major themes.
Alfonso Mercado, PhD
Alfonso Mercado, PhD is an Associate Professor in the Department of Psychological Science and Department of Psychiatry in the School of Medicine at the University of Texas-Rio Grande Valley (UTRGV) and a Licensed Psychologist. His research focuses on Latino mental health, including immigration, personality, substance abuse, and multicultural interventions. He is President of the Texas Psychological Association and elected to the American Psychological Association Committee on Rural Health. In 2019, Dr. Mercado was named Psychologist of the Year for his research, clinical, and advocacy work with recently immigrated families along the U.S. Mexico border and in 2021 received the Faculty Excellence Award in Psychiatry at UTRGV’s School of Medicine and the American Psychological Association Early Career Psychologist Achievement Award. In addition, Dr. Mercado has shared his research and clinical experience with national and international media outlets, and in the middle of the pandemic, on July 31, 2020, Dr. Mercado spoke to the U.S. Congressional Hispanic Caucus on the mental health needs of Latino children and families,
Alyssa Gardner
Alyssa Gardner, MD, is a family medicine resident at UT Health San Antonio. She graduated from the University of Wisconsin with a Bachelor of Science in Biology in 2015. She attended medical school at the Medical College of Wisconsin and received her M.D. in 2020. Her interests include rural medicine, global health, and women's health.
Amena Qavi
Amena Qavi, B.S. is a 3rd-year Medical student at Long School of Medicine with a B.S. in Biology and a minor in Neuroscience from the University of Texas at Dallas. During her time in undergrad, she worked on genomics and bioinformatics research as part of the Konopka Lab at UTSW. As a medical student, her areas of interest now include the health of immigrant and refugee communities. She hopes to go into Internal Medicine and work on increasing access to health care for underserved communities.
Amy Hagopian, PhD
Amy Hagopian, PhD is a Professor of Global Health at the University of Washington. She conducts academic work on how the maldistribution of power and wealth undermines health. She works to put war on the public health agenda, and is a founding member of the Global Alliance on War, Conflict, and Health. She led a team to estimate mortality associated with the 2003 invasion of Iraq, and teaches a popular University of Washington class on war and health. Her research includes projects on homelessness and the migration of health workers from poor countries to rich ones. She is active in the American Public Health Association, and serves on the editorial board of the American Journal of Public Health. She received the APHA’s Sidel-Levy award for Peace in 2018.
Ana Vračar
Ana Vračar is a cultural anthropologist and public health student at the University of Zagreb, Croatia. She has been working as a program coordinator at the Organization for Workers' Initiative and Democratization (OWID) in the field of social rights since 2015, developing networks between health workers' trade unions and right to health groups. Her interests include issues related to the health workforce, including migrant health workers. She is a regular contributor for the People's Health Dispatch and the coordinator of PHM Europe.
Andrea Francis
Andrea Francis, BS, is a third-year medical student passionate about social and public health in dermatology. She received her biology bachelor's degree with a concentration in chemistry and medical humanities at the University of Texas Rio Grande Valley and is currently attending The University of Texas Medical Branch School of Medicine in Galveston. Her academic interests include social determinants of health, homeless health, and primary intervention.
Anne Jachmann
Anne Jachmann, MD, MPH is a physician and public health specialist from Switzerland. Her work experience expands to different countries (Germany, Greece, Switzerland, Spain, Peru), settings and sectors: private & public, rural & urban, primary & hospital care, long term & emergency care, somatic & mental health. Her research focus lies on refugee and migrant health, including health profiles, barriers in access to healthcare and the impact of living conditions and of COVID-19 on their physical and mental health. Within her current position at the Emergency Department of the University Hospital in Bern (Switzerland) she also actively promotes the medical education of health professionals regarding the provision of healthcare to patients with migration background.
Anne S. Chao
Anne S. Chao is a modern Chinese historian and a community volunteer. She graduated from Wellesley College and obtained her PhD in modern Chinese history at Rice University. Her current titles are Adjunct Lecturer in the Humanities and Manager of the Houston Asian American Archive (HAAA), at Rice. She founded HAAA eleven years ago, and is currently researching for her book on the founder of the Chinese Communist Party, Chen Duxiu. Anne sits on the board of the Museum of Fine Arts Houston, the Houston Ballet, Wellesley College, the Smithsonian Asian Pacific Center and the National Archives Foundation, among others.
Armando J. Flores
Armando J. Flores is a PGY-1 Family & Community medicine resident at the UT Health Science Center in San Antonio, who grew up and went to medical school in the Rio Grande Valley, a medically underserved region in South Texas. For this reason, he has been eager to work with underserved populations, which he has continued to do so as a resident and looks forward to continuing after residency.
Aya Mohamed
As a student in the Bachelor of Health Sciences Program in McMaster University, Aya Mohamed is particularly interested in human health and related topics. Additionally, she is passionate about the wellbeing of immigrants and refugees in Canada or all over the world. She hopes to contribute to the improvement of equitable services, healthcare, and governmental measures for immigrants. As a step to achieve her aspirations, she is now part of CAN HEAL as a co-lead in the Science Visualization and Design Committee. She hopes that the eager efforts of CAN HEAL would help in improving the lives of immigrants and marginalized groups in Canada.
Ayman Youssef
Ayman Youssef is a 4th-year medical student at UTMB with a Bachelor of Science in Biology and a Minor in Leadership Studies from the University of Houston. He is deeply passionate about improving the health and lives of the disenfranchised, refugees, and the houseless. He will begin his residency training in Internal Medicine and hopes to obtain a fellowship in hematology-Oncology, with an emphasis in Global Oncology. During his 1^st year of medical school, he was able to travel to Amman to work at UNRWA headquarters. There he learned more about the lives of Palestinian refugees and conducted research to assess the attitudes held by UNRWA staff regarding services provided to Palestinian refugees who fled from Syria. Currently, he spends his time conducting research and working in the community to feed and support the houseless. He plans to obtain a Master of Public Health with the hope of continuing his work with disenfranchised populations in the future and how US policy impacts health in the US and in the Global South.
Ben G. Raimer, MD, MA, FAAP
Ben G. Raimer, MD, MA, FAAP. Over the past three decades, Dr. Ben Raimer has held numerous academic and administrative positions at the University of Texas Medical Branch in Galveston, Texas. Most recently, he was appointed as the president ad interim in September 2019 and officially named president in October 2021. A tenured professor in the departments of Pediatrics, Family Medicine, and Preventive Medicine and Community Health, Dr. Raimer was previously named senior vice president for the Office of Health Policy and Legislative Affairs in 2008. In 2016, he also assumed the role as executive director of the UTMB Community and Global Health Collaborating Center. Prior to 2008, he served as vice president for the UTMB Office of Community Outreach, as chief physician executive and CEO of UTMB Correctional Managed Care, as medical director of the UTMB Primary Care Outpatient Clinics, as CEO for Community Health Services, and as chief physician executive for UT-MED (The Group Practice of Medicine at UTMB). Dr. Raimer is a Diplomate of the American Board of Pediatrics and a Fellow of the American Academy of Pediatrics. He holds an undergraduate degree in biology from East Texas Baptist University, a master’s degree in human genetics from the UTMB Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences, and a doctorate from the UTMB School of Medicine. Since completing an internship and residency in pediatrics at UTMB in 1977, he has provided community-based medical care to scores of young patients living in Galveston and neighboring counties. He is certified by the American Board of Pediatrics and is a Fellow of the American Academy of Pediatrics. Much of his practice has been devoted to the evaluation and treatment of children and adolescents with behavioral disorders and learning disabilities. Dr. Raimer is a nationally recognized expert and author on prevention and treatment of child abuse and neglect, and he has been honored by several state and national children’s advocacy organizations for his contributions. He also has extensive experience in health care practice management, correctional health care and telemedicine and has published numerous articles on these topics also. Dr. Raimer is a member of the Texas Pediatric Society Executive Board and President Elect of TPS. He serves as chair of the Texas Health Institute Board of Directors, and the East Texas Baptist University Board of Trustees. He is a member of the Executive Committee of the Baptist General Convention of Texas and serves as a commissioner on the BGCT Christian Life Commission. He also serves as the chair for the Galveston County Health District United Board of Health and formerly served as chair of the Texas Statewide Health Coordinating Council for 13 years and the Health Disparities Task Force of the Texas Health and Human Services Commission. He was the inaugural chair of the Texas Institute of Health Care Quality and Efficiency Board of Directors. Dr. Raimer also served as chair of the Health and Human Services Commission Council for a term appointed by Governor Rick Perry. The council helps develop policies and rules for the Texas Health and Human Services Commission and makes recommendations regarding the management and operation of the commission. With the restructuring of the HHSC enterprise, Dr. Raimer continues to serve as a member of the HHSC Advisory Council. He also holds positions on the Texas Medical Center’s Health Policy Institute Board of Directors and on the Houston Health Connect Board of Directors.
BethAnne Moskov
BethAnne Moskov is a retired USAID Senior Foreign Service Officer with nearly 30 years’ experience working in international development, public health, humanitarian assistance and emergency response as well as strategic leadership, health systems strengthening and team building. She is currently a Doctoral Candidate at the University of Texas School of Public Health specializing in health economics/ health service research with a minor in epidemiology and health Management. Ms. Moskov started her career as a Peace Corps Volunteer in Mali. Subsequently, she worked in Rwanda and Zaire during and after the genocide helping the countries to rebuild their health systems and working with the significant refugee population to provide essential services as well as repatriation, integration and reunifying unaccompanied children with family members. Following a short stint at the World Bank designing a WASH program for Ghana, Ms. Moskov joined the Foreign Service as a Health Officer for USAID. She served tours in India, Russia, Ghana, Mali, Washington, and Ethiopia. In country she was responsible for managing and implementing large scale health and development projects, strategic negotiations with host country government leadership, cross-sectoral program integration and helping each country improve population level health indicators. While in Washington, she oversaw the Global Health Bureau’s Ebola response and recovery in Africa. Ms. Moskov is an outstanding and inspiring leader, strategic visionary, top manager of both human and financial resources as well as a creative negotiator, strategic planner, and team builder. She holds an MPH in International community health development from the University of Hawaii, as well as graduate certificates in agriculture and water resource management, and infectious disease epidemiology/infectious disease pandemic management. Ms. Moskov is a fluent French speaker, with basic language skills in Arabic, German, Russian and Bambara. She has 2 children, is an artist and a classically training concert violinist.
Cameron Borens
Cameron Borens, B.S. is a 1^st year medical student at Long School of Medicine with a Bachelor of Science in Biology from the University of Tulsa. Growing up in a small town and getting first-hand experience in interacting with an underserved population has shaped his desire to find innovative and personalized strategies to address the needs of people facing barriers to health. This has culminated in his passion to pursue primary care and consistently invest in patients and community outreach.
Carlos Van der Laat, MD
Carlos Van der Laat, MD is the migrants’ health assistance program coordinator, International Organization for Migration (IOM), Geneva, Switzerland. He has a medical and public health background as family and community physician and a master´s degree in Human Rights. His expertise includes community-based services with an intercultural approach, to provide access for vulnerable populations to health care. He has been consultant for PAHO/WHO and UNICEF and professor at the Public Health School - University of Costa Rica. He worked for 9 years as Regional Migration Health Specialist for the Americas at IOM’s Regional Office in Costa Rica. He has been part of IOM’s Global COVID19 response team, mainly as technical lead on Risk Communication and Community Engagement
Carolina Gutierrez
Carolina Gutierrez, MD, was born and raised in Mexicali, Mexico, where she also initiated medical school. Upon graduation, she worked with HIV/AIDS patients and volunteered as a community educator for the Alzheimer’s Association San Diego/Imperial chapter. She is currently a Family Medicine resident at UTHSCSA residency program.
Carolina Sanchez
Carolina Sanchez is a native of Laredo, TX. She attended Texas A&M International University for her undergraduate education and then graduated from UAG School of Medicine. She is currently a UTHSCSA second year family medicine resident. She plans to continue practicing in the South Texas region. Her biggest interests are public health, hospital and adolescent medicine.
Catherine Donery Cooksley, BS, MPH, DrPH, CPH
Catherine Donery Cooksley, BS, MPH, DrPH, CPH received her Bachelor of Science in Biology in 1979 from the University of Texas (UT) in San Antonio, TX, a Master and Doctorate both in Public Health Disease Control/Epidemiology in 1985 and 1997, from the UT Health Science Center School of Public Health in Houston, TX. Her career began in 1979 and has included public health departments and hospitals as a laboratory technician, registered sanitarian, epidemiologist, certified infection control practitioner, a research epidemiologist, biostatistician, and instructor. Most recently Dr. Cooksley worked with the University of Texas M. D. Anderson Cancer Center from 1991 – 2010 and here at UTMB with the Sealy Center on Aging and the Department of Preventive Medicine and Population Health (PMPH) until 2016, officially retiring in 2014. During the ongoing pandemic Dr. Cooksley served as a temporary Texas DSHS Epidemiologist at the Galveston County Health District. She is a member of the Texas Public Health Association (TPHA) and the American Public Health Association (APHA), serving in leadership roles in both. Currently she is an adjunct assistant professor (WOS) with the UTMB Department of PMPH, is the editor of the Texas Public Health Journal, teaches periodically for an online Master of Public Health Program at the University of Nevada, Reno, and volunteers with the Retired Senior Volunteer Program, Meals on Wheels, and with the Galveston County COVID-19 vaccination program.
Charles Mouton, MD, MS, MBA
Charles Mouton, MD, MS, MBA is the Executive Vice President, Provost and Dean of Medicine, and Professor in the Department of Family Medicine at the University of Texas Medical Branch. Previously, he was at Meharry Medical College in Nashville, as Senior Vice President for Health Affairs and Dean of the School of Medicine. He also was Adjunct Professor of Medical Education and Administration for Vanderbilt University’s School of Medicine. Dr. Mouton served as Professor and Chair of Community and Family Medicine at Howard University and lead Howard’s Master of Public Health program, where he received his undergraduate and doctoral degrees. He has a master’s in Clinical Epidemiology from the Harvard School of Public Health and an MBA from Tennessee Technological University. Dr. Mouton’s primary research interests are in women’s health, health disparities, late life domestic violence, and aging. He was part of the Women’s Health Initiative, the Howard-Hopkins Cancer partnership, and the Sealy Center on Aging. He was elected as fellow of The Gerontological Society of America, American Academy of Family Physicians, and of the American Geriatrics Society. He is a member of the National Institutes of Health Council of Councils and former member of the NIA advisory council and LCME.
Colton Blinka
Colton Blinka, B.S.A. is a first year medical student at Long School of Medicine at the University of Texas Health Science Center in San Antonio. In 2021, he graduated with a BSA in biology from the University of Texas at Austin, where he worked on research projects centered on traumatic brain injuries in children. His current interests include health policy, as he serves on behalf of the TMA as his school’s policy chair. He looks forward to continuing his medical education and, one day, becoming an oncologist here in Texas.
Cristina Cepeda
Cristina Cepeda, MD, is from Edinburg, TX and went to medical school at the University of Texas RGV School of Medicine. She completed her Bachelor of Science (Major in Biology, Minors in Chemistry and Medical Spanish) at the University of Texas Pan American. Her favorite part of UTHSCSA is how similar San Antonio is to the RGV and she enjoys the welcoming environment created by the faculty/residents! A fun fact/hobby about her is that she likes to read and exercise.
Daniel Orta
Daniel Orta, B.S., B.A. is a Project Specialist for the Seed of Texas research initiative in San Antonio, Texas. In this initiative, he analyzes historical medical humanities and public infrastructure data to create a holistic understanding of the health history of Bexar County to the rest of the state of Texas. During his free time, he volunteers with El Bari Community Health Center- Clinic, Community Education Team, and the Health Choices Team, in hopes of improving community healthcare and health literacy. He hopes to attend medical school in the future to pursue his passion and dream of serving others through patient care.
Dawn McCarty, PhD, LMSW
Dawn McCarty, PhD, LMSW is a Professor and the Director of the Bachelor of Social Work Program at the University of Houston-Downtown. Since 2006, Dawn McCarty has lived and conducted research on both sides of the US-Mexico border, studying the contributing factors and outcomes of unauthorized immigration to the United States. Currently, her work and research are focused on the conditions and experiences of migrant persons now living in Houston, and on the development of an innovative professional practice and teaching perspective focused on solidarity and modeling equality. In addition to her work as Professor and Director of the Bachelor of Social Work Program at the University of Houston-Downtown, Dawn lives part-time in community as a Catholic Worker at Casa Juan Diego where she works directly with Houston's refugee, asylum seeking, and new immigrant communities. Her book, Solidarity Social Work Practice: Serving New Immigrant Populations (2019) published by Kendall Hunt is based on ten years of direct social work practice, and four years of qualitative data collection to document the lives of migrant persons from around the world.
Dhillon Advano
Dhillon Advano, B.S. Biochemistry is a Project Manager at XenoSTART in San Antonio, Texas. In this role, he helps to coordinate and plan preclinical pharmaceutical oncology studies. In his free time, he volunteers with El Bari CET in the hopes of improving community health levels through education. He hopes to attend medical school in the future in order to pursue his strong passion for patient care and public health.
Edwin Teye Sosi
Edwin Teye Sosi is Research Associate and Consultant at Africa Review for Economics and Finance (AREF) Consult. Edwin is a Business Management expert, a Social Equity advocate, and a promoter of Education. He obtained a Master of Science degree in Management Economics from Xiamen University in China and a Bachelor’s degree in Economics and Geography from the University of Cape Coast in Ghana. He is an ardent promoter of data-driven strategic decision making and research-driven education policy. He is currently pursuing his passion for using experimental games and randomized control trials to investigate how economic agents respond to incentives.
Elizabeth 'Chiqui' Sanchez Kennedy, JD
Elizabeth 'Chiqui' Sanchez Kennedy, JD is the Executive Director of Galveston-Houston Immigrant Representation Project (GHIRP), founded in 2020. Chiqui has devoted her professional career to providing high quality legal services to immigrants at non-profit organizations. Prior to starting GHIRP, she was the Director of Immigration Legal Services at the YMCA International Services (2017-2020). Chiqui was the Assistant Director of the Cabrini Center (Catholic Charities) in Houston from 2016-2017. Before moving back to Texas, Chiqui was a Supervising Attorney at Catholic Charities Legal Services of Miami (CCLS) where she represented minors and adults before the Immigration Court, US Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS), and the Board of Immigration Appeals (BIA) (2011-2016). Previously, Chiqui was a staff attorney at South Texas Pro Bono Asylum Representation Project (ProBAR) in Harlingen, Texas (2008-2010) and a pro bono coordinator at Kids In Need of Defense (KIND) in New York City (2010-2011). Chiqui received her J.D. from South Texas College of Law in Houston, Texas (2008) and her B.A. from Davidson College in Davidson, North Carolina (2003).
Emily Liu
Emily Liu, B.A. is a second year MD/MPH student at the Long School of Medicine with a Bachelor of Arts from Washington University in St Louis. She is passionate about immigrant health and has served as a Wellness Night Coordinator for the San Antonio Refugee Health Clinic, coordinating psychiatric care for uninsured and underinsured refugees. She believes that community engagement and education are fundamental to providing care to underserved communities.
Emmanuel Quarshie
Emmanuel Quarshie is the Regional Data Analyst for the UN Migration Agency – the International Organization for Migration (IOM) in the Regional Office for Southern Africa. He has professional experience in project identification and formulation, focusing on migration data, research, and policy. He specialized in the conceptualization and operationalization of rigorous and robust research on migration, with a specific focus on labour migration, and migration data. He consulted for the UNU-WIDER, UN Migration Agency (IOM), and worked on several global projects as a data expert, researcher, project administrator, communications, and research uptake expert at the Centre for Migration Studies.
Etny Candelario
Etny Candelario, MD, is currently a second year Family Medicine Resident at UT Health San Antonio Family and Community Medicine Program. He received his bachelor's in Animal Science/Pre-Professional Studies at the University of Maryland College Park and a Master's in Biotechnology and Chemical Science at Roosevelt University. Dr. Candelario graduated as a medical doctor from Ross University. One of his passions includes providing care to medically underserved communities.
Eugenio Villar Montesinos, MD, MPH
Eugenio Villar Montesinos, MD, MPH is a medical doctor graduated from Universidad Peruana Cayetano Heredia (UPCH) (1981) and was resident in Pediatrics (1985), in Lima, Peru.He has a master's degree in Public Health from the School of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene of the University of London (1986) and graduated in International Health from PAHO / WHO at WDC. He pursued post-graduate MSc studies in Governance and Human Development at the Open University of Catalonia, Spain (2003). He began work in public health during his medical studies in urban-marginal areas of Independencia, and in peasants communities of Piura and Apurímac. In his civil service, he continued to work, in Primary Health Care (PHC), in Calca, Urubamba, and Paucartambo (Cusco). He has worked as a professor at the UPCH in PHC in SJ Lurigancho, Lima, before assuming as Director of International Cooperation at MINSA (1990-2). He served at the WHO for 26 years in WDC and in Geneva. In WHO he coordinated the team on Global Poverty and Financing of Health and on Social Determinants of Health (SDH)including the organization of the Global Commission on SDH and the publication and dissemination of its Report (2018). He led the team organizing the Rio SDH Global Conference (2011). He is currently a Professor of Public Health at UPCH in Lima, Perú. He has advised the ministers of Social Development and of Health of Peru as well as the Peruvian Medical Association. He collaborates with numerous global initiatives in his field.
Fareen Momin
Fareen Momin, BBA, is a second-year medical student at the University of Texas Medical Branch. She received her undergraduate degree from the University of Texas at Austin where she majored in Supply Chain Management. As a first-generation student, she is interested in helping underserved and overlooked patient populations. As a future physician, she hopes to combine her business and medical degrees in hopes to optimize patient encounters without compromising care.
Fatma Marouf, JD., MPH
Fatma Marouf, JD, MPH is a professor of law and the director of the Immigrant Rights Clinic at Texas A&M University. The Immigrant Rights Clinic engages law students in direct representation of immigrants before the Immigration Courts, Board of Immigration Appeals and U.S. Courts of Appeals. Representation focuses on deportation defense, particularly for individuals in immigration detention, as well as affirmative filings for survivors of crimes and abuse. Her research projects have examined the rights of mentally incompetent individuals in removal proceedings, the exclusion of DREAMers from the Affordable Care Act, and community-based alternatives to immigration detention. She also engages in empirical research to expand our understanding of judicial decision-making and implicit bias in immigration appeals.
Fehima Dawy
Fehima Dawy, MD, is a current second year family medicine resident at UT Health San Antonio Family and Community Medicine program. She received a bachelor’s in anthropology, with a special interest in medical anthropology from Southwestern University in Georgetown, Texas. She then graduated from Louisiana State University Health Sciences Center for medical school. She is currently involved in the Diabetes and Hypertension Self-Management Program at the San Antonio Refugee Health Clinic.
Flavia Fernandes
Flavia Fernandes is a Medical Humanities student at UTSA and a Communications graduate from Brazil. She has a passion for health education and has been volunteering with the Healthy Choices Team since 2019. Flavia is excited to start medical school at UT Southwestern as a part of the class of 2026.
Fozia Ali
Fozia Akhtar Ali, MD, FAAFP, an Associate Professor/Clinical, joined the Department of Family and Community Medicine at University of Texas Health San Antonio in August 2011. To better assist her patients with weight management, she became a diplomate of American Board of Obesity Medicine in 2015. At the Texas Academy of Family Physicians, she serves as Chair of Council on the Health of Public. She has served as PI on research projects funded by AAFP Foundation, TAFP and IIMS Community Engagement Small Project Grants program. Dr. Ali’s areas of interest are obesity medicine and women's health.
Gordon Shen
Gordon Shen, PhD, SM is an Assistant Professor of Health Care Management at The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston (UTHealth) School of Public Health. He is a faculty member of its Management, Policy, and Community Health Department and an affiliate of the George McMillan Fleming Center of Healthcare Management. Prior to joining the UTHealth School of Public Health in 2019, Dr. Shen was on the faculty at the City University of New York (Brooklyn College, 2015-2016; Graduate School of Public Health and Health Policy, 2016-2018). Dr. Shen's research agenda is focused on managerial innovations. This entails a deep understanding of customization, culture, and context. He used mixed methods to examine Muslim health clinics, attacks on humanitarian organizations, deinstitutionalization of mental health care globally, hospital management in China, and kaizen adoption in Ethiopia. He developed organization theory from these empirical studies. Dr. Shen's scholarship has appeared in public health and management journals. Dr. Shen brings industry insights to my research, with experiences gained from previous work for the World Health Organization, World Bank, and the United States Agency for International Development. He holds a PhD in health services and policy analysis (2013, University of California, Berkeley); a SM in epidemiology (2007, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health); and a BS in psychobiology and public health (2005, University of California, Los Angeles). Dr/ Shen was a postdoctoral fellow at the Yale School of Public Health in 2014.
Haneen Alkhawaldeh
Haneen Alkhawaldeh is a third year Health Sciences student, with Technologies and Innovation in Healthcare option, at the University of Ottawa. She is passionate about researching and studying the different health disparities faced by disadvantaged and vulnerable people, as she aspires to provide solutions and advocate for better equitable services for marginalized populations, including immigrants, and make changes to help such communities. Her experiences include being a Recruitment, Interview, and Transcription Committee co-lead (RITC co-lead) and an executive team member for CAN HEAL research project, where she manages research interviews and supervises the interview transcription process.
Hani Serag, MD, MPH
Hani Serag, MD, MPH is an assistant professor at the Division of Endocrinology, adjunct assistant professor at the Department of Pediatrics, and associated member of the graduate program of the Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences at UTMB. Dr. Serag is a pediatrician and public health researcher. He practiced in poor urban settings in Cairo, Egypt. Beginning 1994, he served as a public health researcher for an Egyptian civil society organization, the Association for Health and Environmental Development, and as the director of health systems and policy program of the same organization. In mid-2006, he was elected as the global coordinator of the People’s Health Movement (PHM), a position he held until 2009 when he became the associate coordinator. For the last 20 years, Dr. Serag has helped design and set methodologies for several qualitative and qualitative research projects, including surveys at national levels and comparative studies across countries. Dr. Serag directed the planning, development, and teaching of more than 30 training courses focused on health system research and political economy of health at both national and global levels for public health practitioners, especially those from the non-profit sector. He also led fundraising and resource mobilization efforts for several organizations over the last 10 years. In 2016, he developed the UTMB global health site in Jordan, which provides unique learning opportunities through research internships with the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA) and clinical rotations with Jordan Hospital in Amman.
Imhotep Paul Alagidede
Imhotep Paul Alagidede is a Metaeconomist at the Nile Valley Multiversity, Ghana, Professor of Finance at the University of the Witwatersrand, South Africa, and the SDD-UBIDS, Ghana. He is a transdisciplinary scholar with an avid interest in the noumena behind phenomena. He is an entrepreneur and philanthropist, an accomplished academic, a seasoned consultant, and policymaker. His extensive academic and professional career has taken him to six continents, and his works on mainstream economics has appeared in top-tier international peer-reviewed journals.
Jabeen Fayyaz
Jabeen Fayyaz, MD, FCPSP, MCPS, DCH, MHPE, is currently the PhD candidate in simulation in HPE at MGH Harvard. Dr. Fayyaz was actively involved in the development of the Emergency Medicine program in Pakistan and Oman throughout her career. She developed a virtual blended learning course for the management of acute pediatric emergencies, the first of its kind in Southeast Asia in 2010 run across the Aga Khan development network. Her interests include resuscitation, Virtual simulation, acute event debriefing, and patient safety and quality improvement practices utilizing simulation.  She recently won the Teaching award for Subspeciality teaching from the University of Toronto and 2 education grants to incorporate cultural sensitivity and Virtual simulations. 
Jae Man Park
Jae Man Park is a PhD student at the University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston School of Public health. He received his Master of Policy Economics from the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. His research focuses on economic evaluation of healthcare, Health policy analysis, and Health disparity. He serves as a graduate research assistant of the project for “fear of recurrence among breast cancer survivors.”
Jamie Noelle Piel
Jamie Noelle Piel is a fourth-year MD candidate at UTMB embarking on a career in general surgery. She has co-led multiple community outreach initiatives including the creation of a mentorship partnership between UTMB and local high schools, co-creating a new Love at the Border program focusing on advocacy and donations for border crossing clinics in affiliation with the Gold Humanism Honor Society, and co-leading a COVID-19 needs assessment and assistance program through the Galveston County Health Department. Her career interests include global surgery focusing on surgical disparities and access to safe, timely surgical care, trauma surgery, and a Master’s of Public Health. She will begin her residency training this year in Cleveland, OH at Case Western Reserve University Hospitals.
Janice Wilson
Janice Wilson, MD, is a board-certified dermatologist (general and pediatric) and dermatopathologist. She received her medical degree from the McGovern Medical School at the University of Texas Health Science Center-Houston and subsequently completed a transitional year internship at Houston Methodist Hospital. She then completed residency in dermatology followed by fellowship in dermatopathology, both at the University of Texas Medical Branch-Galveston. She has academic and clinical interests in benign and malignant melanocytic tumors (melanocytic nevi (moles) and melanoma) and in dermoscopy.
Jasmine Chaij
Jasmine Chaij is a second-year medical student at UTMB School of Medicine. She graduated from the University of Texas at Austin with a Bachelor of Science in Neuroscience and a Bachelor of Arts in Middle Eastern Languages and Cultures with a minor in Arabic. She is the daughter of Syrian Immigrants and is very passionate about advocating for those that do not have a voice. While at the University of Texas at Austin, she founded an organization that would mentor and aid refugees in the greater Austin area. She brought this passion to UTMB by beginning an organization with her fellow classmates aimed to give medical aid to the migrant population in the Greater Houston Area entitled Migrant Health Initiative. Currently, she is working with the Physicians for Human Rights UTMB chapter to begin a program to help Asylum seekers.
Jeannine Casselman
Jeannine Casselman, Esq., is the Law and Policy Director MLPB, an organization that equips communities of care with legal education and problem-solving insight that fosters prevention, health equity, and human-centered system change. Jeannine’s core work includes care team consultation and telementoring, training, and technical assistance. She previously worked in the non-profit legal sector, serving as the Program Director for the Rhode Island Medical-Legal Partnership. Jeannine is a Roger Williams University School of Law alum, holds an MA from the University of Toronto in Russian and East European Studies, and a BA from the University of Rochester in cultural anthropology.
Jordan Mitchell
Jordan Mitchell, PhD, is an Associate Professor of Healthcare Administration at the University of Houston - Clear Lake. Dr. Mitchell received his Ph.D. in Health Services Policy and Management from the University of South Carolina. His research has been published in the Journal of Rural Health, the International Journal of Health Information Systems and Informatics, and other peer-reviewed journals. Dr. Mitchell teaches courses in healthcare finance and healthcare predictive analytics, and serves as faculty advisor to the UHCL Healthcare Financial Management Association student chapter. He also serves as Chair of the Member Development Committee at HFMA Texas Gulf Coast.
Judith Gutierrez
Judith Gutierrez, MD, is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow with Family and Community Medicine, Research Programs. Prior to joining us, Judith worked for PPCR Program at Harvard University. At Baylor College of Medicine, Judith hopes to contribute to research and development of ideas for disease prevention and primary care improvement especially for communities in need.
Julia Brandenberger
Julia Brandenberger is a pediatrician from Switzerland specialized in pediatric emergency medicine. She also did humanitarian work with Doctors without Borders. She has been doing research in the field of pediatric migrant health since 5 years, completing a master in international health at the University of Basel (Switzerland) and a PhD at the University of Bergen (Norway). She is currently working at the Emergency Department at SickKids and at the Leong Centre for Healthy Children in Toronto (Canada). Her main research focus includes the effects of COVID 19 on the health of pediatric migrants and language barriers for migrant families during health encounters.
Keon Madani
Keon Madani is a student pursuing a Bachelor of Health Sciences (Honours) Diploma at McMaster University. His defining passions involve striving for improved, more equitable health care and educational services for the community, especially in the context of marginalized populations. Growing up, Keon did what he could to nurture these passions, including volunteerism at Mackenzie Health Hospital and swim-instructing individuals with special needs at Oak Ridges Community Centre. He is currently involved in novel research about the nutrition, physical activity and mental well-being of immigrants and refugees in Ontario, as a co-lead on the Recruitment, Interview and Transcription committee.
Khorshid Amirkhosravi
Khorshid Amirkhosravi, MD, is currently a first year family medicine resident at UT Health San Antonio family and community medicine program. She received a bachelor’s in biology and biochemistry at Lamar University and the University of Houston. Dr. Amirkhosravi graduated as a medical doctor from St. George’s university. While applying for the residency program, she had an opportunity to work as a research coordinator working on the Moderna Covid-19 vaccine trial. She is fluent in Farsi and passionate to provide culturally sensitive care to the diverse refugees population within San Antonio.
Komal Nathani, MD
Komal Nathani, MD is a Pediatric Resident at UTMB Galveston. Her interests include community health, child advocacy, and public mental health. Her hope is to work within the intersection of health and human rights throughout her medical training and her career. She is the founder and current senior advisor of the Physician for Human Rights Chapter at UTMB. She is also a current member of the Texas Pediatric Society's committees on Community Health Advocacy and Child Abuse & Neglect. She is also on the Organizing Committee for UTMB's 5th Annual Conference on Migration and Health.
Kristina Keitel
Kristina Keitel, MD, is Head of the Pediatric Emergency Medicine at the University Hospital of Bern, Switzerland, and Honorary Lecturer at the Swiss Tropical and Public Health Institute. Dr. Keitel graduated with a MD and a Doctorate Degree in Medicine (MD Res) from the Charité Medical Faculty in Berlin, Germany. She completed her clinical training in Pediatrics, Pediatric Infectious Diseases, and Pediatric Emergency Medicine at the University Hospital in Geneva, Switzerland, at Boston Children’s Hospital/ Harvard Medical School, USA, and at the University Hospital of Bern, Switzerland. Dr. Keitel received training in Public Health (MPH) at Columbia University, New York, USA, followed by a PhD in Epidemiology at the Swiss Tropical and Public Health Institute in Basel, Switzerland. During her PhD she was based in Tanzania for two years. Dr. Keitel’s primary research interest lies in the outcome-based evaluation of diagnostic and treatment strategies for common pediatric infections. This includes the development and validation of electronic decision algorithms and pragmatic clinical trials.
Laura Porterfield, MD
Laura Porterfield, MD is a Clinical Associate Professor in UTMB’s Department of Family Medicine, Vice Chair of Clinical Operations, Medical Director of the Family Medicine Island East Clinic, and an associate investigator in the Sealy Institute for Vaccine Sciences. Dr. Porterfield has lived all over the world, from Latin America to parts of Asia, and her interests include international and immigrant health, behavioral and preventative medicine, and women's health.
Lauren Sheer
Lauren Sheer joined the University of Texas Medical Branch in 2007 focusing on correctional managed health care legislative issues. Lauren is now responsible for all legislative activities related to UTMB, including its educational enterprise, research and health care system. Lauren received her bachelor’s degree in Government from the University of Texas at Austin in 2007. While attaining her degree, she also worked for Representative Craig Eiland from 2004 to 2007 in his Capitol office. During her time with Representative Eiland, Lauren focused on the state budget, health care and educational issues. Lauren and her husband, Jim, have twin boys.
Leonard Wang
Leonard Wang is a first-year medical student at the University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston. He will graduate from the University of Houston with a degree in Biomedical Sciences and a minor in Medicine & Society in May 2022 through a 7-year accelerated BS/MD program. Leonard plans to pursue MPH and MBA dual degrees while in medical school. He serves as an editor-in-chief for Mosaic in Medicine, an online peer-reviewed publication for underrepresented voices in medicine. Leonard’s interests include narrative medicine, medical humanities, and public health.
Lindsey Pileika
Lindsey Pileika is a fourth year medical student at Alpert Medical School of Brown University applying into Family Medicine. At Brown, she is part of the Population Medicine-Primary Care Program, where she has led research, community organizing, and advocacy efforts to improve primary care for immigrant patients in Rhode Island. In addition, she is a member of the community care team at the Alliance To Mobilize Our Resistance (AMOR), a coalition fighting for immigration justice in southern New England. Prior to starting medical school, she worked in chronic disease monitoring and evaluation serving Latinx elderly communities in Miami, FL, and with Partners in Health in Chiapas, Mexico. Lindsey's primary goals for medical training are to create trusting relationships with patients, integrate care into community spaces, and to weave the practice of medicine with a vision of health justice.
Lizette A Lugo
Lizette A Lugo, MD, was born in Laredo, Texas. She obtained a BA from Baylor University in 2016 and received her doctorate of medicine from Texas Tech HSC El Paso in 2021. She is currently a Family Medicine Resident at UT Health San Antonio. Dr. Lugo has special interests in women’s health and promoting diversity in medicine.
Madeleine Jordan
Madeleine Jordan, MSW is a first-year medical student at the University of Texas Medical Branch. She graduated from the University of Texas at Austin with a Bachelor of Science in Social Work, after which she completed her Master of Social Work in Advance Clinical Practice at Columbia University. Her interests include health disparities, end-of-life care ethics, health literacy, migrant health and the intersection of medicine and law. Currently serving as co-president of Physicians for Human Rights at UTMB, she hopes to bring more awareness and opportunity for impact to her peers on the role of healthcare providers in protecting and advocating for human rights.
Mafaz Gehani
Mafaz Gehani is at the University of Toronto doing a double major in Psychological and Heath Sciences. As a Libyan Canadian, she shares a strong interest in finding solutions to health inequities for marginalized communities through research and community empowerment. She is a research assistant for CAN HEAL McMaster, a culturally sensitive research project, studying health inequities unique to immigrants and Muslims in Ontario. She has also implemented culturally-sensitive research in several programs that she leads in empowering Muslim youth in Ontario, and in her founded organization SafeSpace, an accessible healthcare center in Orillia.
Mahima Ginjupalli
Mahima Ginjupalli is a 3rd year MD/MPH student at UTHSCSA. During her time in graduate school she has served as a student co-leader at the San Antonio Refugee Clinic, establishing a chronic illness management program there, and is currently a member of the local chapter of Physicians for Human Rights in the process of beginning an asylum clinic at her school. She is hoping to go into psychiatry and work at the intersection of immigration and health. For fun she likes to paint, bike, and try out new recipes from Tiktok.
Mahira Morshed
Mahira Morshed is a 3rd year Health Sciences student specializing in Child Health at McMaster University. She is passionate about understanding the health and social barriers faced by minorities. Her current education and research involvement are focused on the accessibility of services by children from minority populations, immigrants, and Muslims. Currently, she is a Recruitment, Interview and Transcription Committee (RITC) co-lead for the CAN HEAL community research project that investigates food security, mental wellbeing, and resilience within immigrants in Ontario. With her projects, she strives to include more individuals in key decision-making to promote equitable services for marginalized populations all over Ontario.
Mahnoor Liaqat
Mahnoor Liaqat is a second-year medical student at the Long School of Medicine at UTHSCSA. She graduated from the University of Houston with a Bachelor of Science in Human Nutrition and Foods and minors in Biology and Business Administration. She was born and raised in Pakistan where she experienced lack of access to health care firsthand which motivated her to work towards providing health care to the underserved and underprivileged. During her time in Houston, she served as a volunteer leader for a non-profit clinic that provided medical services to the uninsured immigrant and refugee populations. She currently serves as a medical student leader for the Healthy Choices Team, a program aimed towards improving and empowering the community through education and engagement.
Maren Monsen, MD
Maren Monsen, MD, is a physician, filmmaker, and clinical ethicist who uses film to share patient stories and shine light on challenging issues in public health and medicine. She founded the Program in Bioethics and Film at the Stanford University Center for Biomedical Ethics which she ran for 21 years, and has produced multiple internationally acclaimed documentary films. She Co-Directed the Emmy-nominated documentary, The Revolutionary Optimists, following kids in Kolkata India making grassroots change for global health. Previous films include Rare, Worlds Apart, Hold Your Breath, the Vanishing Line and Where the Highway Ends. Her films have been broadcast and released theatrically nationally and internationally, and screened at Sundance, Cannes, the Skoll World Forum in Oxford, and several TEDx events run by Melinda Gates
Matthew Dacso, MD
Matthew Dacso, MD received his B.A. in Music from McGill University, his M.D. from UTMB, and his M.Sc. in Development Studies from the University of London School of Oriental and African Studies. He is currently a primary care clinician-educator and an associate professor in the department of Internal Medicine at UTMB. He serves as Director of Academic Partnerships in the UTMB Center for Global and Community Health and directs its 4-year global health track. In this role, Dr. Dacso provides mentorship and supervision to a variety of learners participating in international health electives while working with host partners to advance collaborative programs that benefit their sites. His current areas of work include research capacity strengthening, global health leadership training, and interprofessional global and community health education/practice. He holds faculty appointments in the Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences in the departments of Microbiology and Immunology as well as Population Health Sciences.
Mayra E. Perez
Mayra E. Perez is the Assistant Director of the Office of International Affairs at UTMB. She received her BA in Sociology from the University of North Texas at Denton. She has extensive experience in immigration law and is passionate about advocating for migrants. During her time at UTMB, she has helped to bring some of the world’s best and brightest scholars and physicians to our institution. She has seen the legal challenges that our international employees face through their immigration process and has helped them overcome obstacles ranging from bureaucratic delays to travel bans. She has also supported them in the non-legal challenges that accompany adjusting to life and work in a new country and culture. Prior to working in international education, she was a Department of Justice Accredited Representative at South Texas Pro Bono Asylum Representation Project (ProBAR), a non-profit organization in Harlingen, Texas. She has represented and assisted many asylum seekers and immigrants in detention before immigration judges, ICE officers, and USCIS.
Muna Muhammad Odeh, PhD
Muna Muhammad Odeh, PhD is an Associate Professor at the Department of Public Health, University of Brasília, Brazil. She holds a BSc in Biology from the American University-Washington DC; Diploma in Medical Anthropology, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, London; Postgraduate Diploma in Applied Social Research - University of Manchester, England and an MA in Economic and Social Studies with a focus on the Sociology of Health, University of Manchester, England. She holds a PhD in Education with focus on Health from the Federal University of São Carlos-SP and a Post-doctorate from the University of São Paulo- São Carlos, SP. Muna is a Specialist in Teaching in Health and a Fellow of the Foundation for the Advancement of International Medical Education and Research. She has training in Leadership in Mental Health, obtained from Sangath in Goa, India. She is Leader of the Research Group Men's Health in Brazil and International Contexts. Muna´s teaching and research focus on the following areas: Socio-economic and Political Determinants of Health, Gender and Race/Ethnic in Health and Migration and Refugee Studies. Muna is also a member of the Brazil Circle of People's Health Movement.
Munawar Iqbal
Munawar Iqbal, is a long term volunteer at the Center for Refugee Services (CRS), San Antonio. As a CareLink program manager with CRS he helps in enrolling a huge number of Afghan Refugees for various healthcare needs including healthcare services through Medicare, Medicaid, and Carelink program. He is always passionate to serve a diverse community and has participated in several local Health fairs. Additionally, for more than 15 years, he is an active volunteer at the Muslim Children Eduction and Civic Center (MCECC), local mosque in San Antonio, Texas.
Myriam Gmünder
Myriam Gmünder is a doctoral student at the pediatric emergency department of the University Hospital of Bern, Switzerland and works as a resident for a family doctor. She is interested in pediatric migrant health. As part of her master’s thesis, she published “reasons for admission in asylum-seeking and non-asylum-seeking patients in a pediatric tertiary care center” in the Journal of Swiss Medical Weekly. Her current research focuses on language barriers for migrant families during medical emergency consultation at the institution mentioned above. Myriam will start as a resident at the pediatric surgery of the University Children’s Hospital in Basel, Switzerland this summer.
Nadia Hakim, MA, MS
Nadia Hakim, MA, MS is a recreational and professional storyteller whose work has taken her to a cooperative economic project in the olive fields of Palestine to Middle Eastern policy think tanks in D.C. to ethical fashion in Guatemala. However, after Hurricane Harvey hit Houston, she saw plenty of work to do at home, so she began her career in local government with the technology and innovation unit for Harris County Public Health, and, last September, she accepted a leadership role at the newly created Harris County Elections Administrator’s Office. With each assignment, her goal is to create written and visual communication that provides vulnerable populations and key stakeholders with the transparent and easy-to-digest messaging they need to make informed decisions.
Natalya Ponomareva
Natalya Ponomareva is a second-year medical student at the Long School of Medicine at UTHSCSA with a Bachelor of Arts in Molecular Biology from Pomona College. She holds a community involvement position in Long’s Family Medicine Interest Group and considers patient education and community engagement an indispensable part of medicine. She is currently assisting with a project at the San Antonio Refugee Health Clinic that aims to bring consistent care to refugees with chronic illnesses, particularly diabetes and hypertension. She hopes to continue her engagement in community service and bring much-needed medical care to vulnerable communities.
Naya Nadeem
Naya Nadeem is an undergraduate student at McMaster University in the Bachelor of Health Sciences program. She has a passion for healthcare as a field and an interest in social issues which she pursues in her extracurricular activities. Naya is one of the co-leads of the Science Visualization and Design Committee for CAN HEAL and enjoys contributing to the research being done about marginalized populations. She hopes to continue with research in the future and learn more about meaningful topics, as well as make underrepresented voices heard about crucial issues in healthcare.
Noemi Gessler
Noemi Gessler, MD, is a consultant at the paediatric emergency department at the University Hospital, Berne, Switzerland. She has worked on various HIV projects in Botswana and Lesotho, as well as on the empowerment and upskilling of local primary care providers in rural Cameroon. There, she also completed her MD thesis on the impact of patient- provider communication on the adherence to therapy for non-communicable diseases. Noemi Gessler is currently in charge of migrant health issues at her department, which she also represents at the Swiss Hospitals for Equity Network.
Olivia Gagnon
Olivia Gagnon is a 4th-year student completing her HBSc in Carleton University’s Neuroscience and Mental Health program. Her honour’s thesis focuses on anatomical sex differences in the relative expression of the Growth Hormone Secretagogue Receptor (GHSR) in the hypothalamus. She dreams of becoming a physician and serving her community while investigating the underpinnings of neurological and neurodegenerative disease. Apart from such biological concentrations, she is a profoundly passionate social justice advocate. It has been her greatest privilege to act as a Recruitment, Interview, and Transcription Committee (RITC) co-lead on the National CAN HEAL project, which advocates for culturally relevant health and social services for marginalized populations, including Canadian immigrants and refugees. She seeks to live in a world with equitable health care for all people.
Omar Abdelaziz
Omar Abdelaziz is a fourth-year medical student at UTMB with an interest in the implications policy has on health. Public health concerns are multi-faceted and impact different populations disproportionately. A desire to address this discrepancy combined with Omar’s love of language and culture guide his journey with migrant health.
Philip J. Decker
Phillip J. Decker, PhD, is a Professor in the Business School at the University of Houston, Clear Lake, Texas Medical Center. Dr. Decker received his Ph.D. in Industrial/Organizational Psychology from The Ohio State University. He has consulted in numerous Fortune 100 companies and hospitals. He has published over 90 articles and written 14 books in management, human resources management, and leadership.
Pierre Yousef Alsheikh
Pierre Yousef Alsheikh is a PhD Candidate in law in the National University of Cordoba, Argentina. His research is connected to international refugee law and its compatibility to Argentinian national law. It also addresses the evolution of refugee law in different countries depending on the economic, cultural, and political situation. He is also receiving his Master’s degree in Contemporary Diplomacy and International Law this July from the same university. He was born in Syria and received his law degree from the University of Damascus. His passion about refugees and migration grew by his experience during the war in Syria. When the war started he commenced volunteer work and developed a passion in the field of advocacy.
Raabub Mohamed Lamin Mehdi, MD
Raabub Mohamed Lamin Mehdim, MD is from Western Sahara and resides and works in Spain. Raabub is a Medical Doctor and Specialist in Intern Medicine. She is President of Dr. Beituha Association which was founded by former women Saharawi students in Cuba to support the Western Saharawi in general and Saharawi women in particular. The Association carries out health projects in the Saharawi refugee camps in the south of Algeria and recent projects implemented include: "Health prevention training for Saharawi women in health prevention training for Saharawi women", which covered Health Awareness days and attention to the centers for people with special needs among the Saharawi refugee population. Raabub has participated in the World Social Forum 2020 addressing the mental suffering among refugees and the importance of solidarity with Western Sahara's right for self-determination.
Rachel David
Rachel David is a second-year MD/MPH student with a Bachelor of Science and Arts in Biology and a minor in Health Communication from the University of Texas at Austin. During her time in Austin, she volunteered with Hope Clinic, which serves refugees and the uninsured and she worked with this population in completing her thesis on Refugees' Perceptions to Health and Healthcare. She has a passion for health equity, serving the underserved, and global health and is in the Physicians for Human Rights organization at UTMB and the Global Health Track.
Rafay Baig
Rafay Baig is a sophomore student attending Louis D. Brandeis High School. Last year he volunteered at the VA Summer Youth Program for 2021. He plans to return and volunteer there again as he has a passion for providing care and support for hospitals and veterans. In his free time, he competes on the school debate team and participates in tournaments with a variety of different topics. This is his second year being on the debate team and competing. He is fifteen and earned his driver’s permit and already learning how to drive, which will allow him to volunteer and help even more.
Roberta Goldman
Roberta Goldman, PhD, is a medical anthropologist who researches broadly using multiple-method qualitative and qualitative/quantitative mixed-methods designs for health care studies. She has over 30 years of experience with multidisciplinary research teams implementing studies at the intersection of primary care and public health, and that investigate community and contextual influences on health and illness behaviors, access to health care, and physician-patient communication across the lifespan, and that evaluate community-based health care innovations. She is a Clinical Professor of Family Medicine at the Alpert Medical School of Brown University where she directs scholarly development for family medicine residents, and mentors medical students for their qualitative masters’ thesis research. She is Director of Community Participatory Research at the Brown University Center for Primary Care and Prevention. She is also an Adjunct Professor of Social and Behavioral Sciences at the Harvard Chan School of Public Health, where she serves on doctoral dissertation committees and teaches a graduate course on qualitative methods.
Rodrigo Juarez Jr., Esq.
Rodrigo Juarez Jr., Esq. is a Managing Attorney at the Refugee Services of Texas (Austin). He is originally from the Rio Grande Valley and a graduate of Lewis & Clark Law School in Portland, Oregon, I am currently the Managing Attorney at Refugee Service of Texas' Austin Legal Services Program. Previously I worked with Immigration Counseling Service in Portland, Oregon providing a wide range of immigration assistance to clients primarily from Mexico and Latin America and also with the American Bar Association's South Texas Pro Bono Asylum Project (ProBAR) assisting individuals in ICE custody at immigration detention centers. In my current role, our primary client base consists of refugees, asylees, Cuban entrants, and Special Immigrant Visa holders (Afghan or Iraqi nationals who assisted the U.S. mission in their countries). Most recently our organization has been assisting Afghan parolees who were evacuated through Operation Allied Rescue after the U.S. withdrew from Afghanistan.
Roman Vega, MD, MHA, PhD
Roman Vega, MD, MHA, PhD is a physician who graduated from the National University of Colombia, doctorate in Administration and Health Policies from The Hull University in England, Master's Degree in Health Administration and Social Security at the Pontificia Universidad Javeriana (PUJ), Colombia, a retired tenured professor from the PUJ at the Institute of Public Health and the Doctorate in Social and Human Sciences. 2000, Master's Degree in Health Administration and Social Security at the Pontificia Universidad Javeriana (PUJ), Colombia, retired tenured professor from the PUJ at the Institute of Public Health and the Doctorate in Social and Human Sciences. He has been principal investigator in several research projects on health policy, social policy, primary health care, democracy, state, and development. He was director of the Research Group on Health Management and Policies of the PUJ, member of the Ibero-American Observatory of Health Policies, of the Latin American Association of Social Medicine (ALAMES), a current member of the Coordination of the Pact for Health and Life in Colombia, and Global Coordinator of the People's Health Movement (PHM).
Sabeen Abdullah
Sabeen Abdullah, MBBS, is volunteering at the CRS and El Bari CHC. Dr. Abdullah graduated as a medical doctor from Punjab Medical College Faisalabad, Pakistan. She is fluent in Urdu, Hindi, and Punjabi and passionate about community service, and plan to pursue a career in public health.
Salma Yazji
Salma Yazji is a third year medical student at the Long School of Medicine in San Antonio. Born and raised to Syrian immigrants in the Rio Grande Valley, Salma grew up working with immigrants and refugees on both the Texan-Mexican and Syrian-Jordanian borders. As a first year medical student, she served as a student leader of the student-run Refugee Health Clinic in San Antonio’s medical center. Her heart is set on working with children suffering from trauma worldwide as a child and adolescent psychiatrist.
Sameed Aijaz
Sameed Aijaz is a senior at NISD Health Careers High School in San Antonio, Texas. He is currently preparing to enter college in Fall of 2022, with an interest in majoring in Biology. He volunteered at Audie L. Murphy Veterans Affairs Hospital during his freshman and sophomore years and volunteers at the El Bari Community Health Center which serves mostly immigrants and refugees. He is an active member of NHS and HOSA. Additionally, he is working towards his certification as a Medical Assistant in order to better prepare him for the pre-med path ahead.
Samer Jabbour, MD, MPH
Samer Jabbour, MD, MPH pursues a dual path in medicine as a cardiologist and in public health as a professor in the Faculty of Health Sciences (FHS), American University of Beirut (AUB) in Lebanon. He is a specialist on chronic diseases and served, on leave from AUB, as Director, Department of Noncommunicable Diseases & Mental Health at WHO EMRO (Egypt) between 2013 and 2015. His work covers several areas. In relation to war/conflict and health, he is Co-Chair of The Lancet-AUB Commission on Syria and the Founding Chair of the Global Alliance on War, Conflict, & Health. He is also a Commissioner in the IAS-Lancet Commission on Health and Human Rights and as a member of the Advisory Council for Physicians for Human Rights. He completed a medical degree at Aleppo University Faculty of Medicine (Syria) and a Master of Public Health (MPH) degree at Harvard School of Public Health (USA). He trained in internal medicine at Evanston Hospital/McGaw Medical Center, Northwestern University, and in cardiology at Lown Cardiovascular Center/Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Harvard Medical School.
Sarah Elshahat
Sarah Elshahat is a public health professional, obtained her MPH degree from Queen's University Belfast, UK. Sarah is currently a PhD candidate and researcher at McMaster University, Canada. Sarah's research interests center around immigrants and refugees’ health and well-being and the components of culturally competent health care. She leads a national community-engaged project named CAN HEAL. Sarah's project aims to improve the health and well-being of immigrants in Canada by advocating for culturally sensitive health and social care services and developing evidence-based, culturally appropriate interventions and programs to address health and social inequities. Sarah's research is done in collaboration with numerous stakeholders and organizations across North America.
Sean O'Leary
Sean O’Leary is a first-year medical student at The University of Texas Medical Branch passionate about addressing issues of health inequality and access. Sean graduated in Spring 2021 from the University of Texas at Austin with a B.S.A. in Neuroscience, a B.A. in Russian, East European, and Eurasian studies, a Russian Minor, Business Minor, and Pre-Health Professions Certificate. Sean has worked in activism leadership organizing for healthcare reform and housing equality through multiple political campaigns and ballot initiatives. Sean also has international experience working to increase engagement with diverse global cultures, as well as working to broaden healthcare resource equity. Currently, Sean is in the leadership of multiple student organizations including Co-President of Physicians for Human rights, an organization at the essential intersection of medicine, science, and law that works to cultivate and channel student activism into lasting impacts.
Sehwa Nick Kang
Sehwa Nick Kang is a second-year medical student at the Long School of Medicine with a Bachelor of Science in Neuroscience from Johns Hopkins University. As a first-generation immigrant from South Korea himself, Nick has been very passionate about serving the immigrant/refugee population throughout his academic career. After working with Lifetree Ministries for Bhutan refugees in Houston, and translating for immigrant patients at Samsung Medical Center in Seoul, he is currently working with the San Antonio Refugee Health Clinic to act as a liaison for patients as they manage their hypertension and diabetes conditions.
Serena Luke
Serena Luke is a 1st year medical student at the Long School of Medicine with a Bachelor of Science in Healthcare Studies and a minor in Biology from the University of Texas at Dallas. For a few years, Serena volunteered as an ESL tutor for refugees and recent immigrants to Houston, which sparked her interest in caring for the refugee community. Serena is excited to further expand her passion for community and refugee health throughout medical school.
Sherry Ing
Sherry Ing promotes and engages in global citizenship and community-based research implementation to increase access to culturally relevant health literacy and create a better future for marginalized populations. Sherry has a background and experience in various capacities within healthcare, higher education, and community engagement to transform systems and processes to create inclusivity, diversity, accessible, and equitable health care solutions, and services for marginalized populations. Prior to joining the CAN HEAL Project as the Physical Activity Education Book Committee Co-lead, she has achieved a Diploma in Fitness and Health Promotion, and an Advanced Diploma in Massage Therapy from Centennial College.
Silvia Patricia Solís, PhD
Silvia Patricia Solís, PhD is a lecturer in Gender and Women’s Studies and Environmental Studies in the School of Interdisciplinary Programs and Community Engagement. She is the Art Editor of Frontiers: A Journal of Women’s Studies published by The University of Nebraska Press. Solís was born in Heroica Matamoros, Tamaulipas, where she lived as a child. Her family later moved to Brownsville, Texas. She earned her Ph.D. in Social Foundations with a focus in Anthropology of Education from the University of Utah in 2020. Her research expands on land and place-based epistemologies, pedagogies, and methodologies by tracing saberes curativos, curative knowings and practices people hold in relation to taking care and curing within family and community. It centers intergenerational learning, remembering, and everyday practices in the home and gardens of Indigenous, Black, and Afro-descendant peoples in the Mesoamerican diaspora living along the U.S. Mexico border. U.S. Women of color, Indigenous Feminists, Decolonial Feminist theory are at the center of her theoretical foundations.
Sina Buser
Sina Buser is a resident in child and adolescent psychiatric services in St. Gallen, Switzerland. Furthermore, she is a doctoral student at the pediatric emergency department of the university hospital of Bern, Switzerland. Her research interests lie within most vulnerable populations, specifically in migrant health. She published her master's thesis "Asylum-Seeking Children with Medical Complexity and Rare Diseases in a Tertiary Hospital in Switzerland" in the Journal of Immigrant and Minority Health. As part of her doctoral thesis, she conducted a study with the goal to guide the above mentioned institution toward more equitable health care for foreign-language families.
Sopiko Japaridze
Sopiko Japaridze is the co-founder of Solidarity Network Workers Center, a member-driven labor rights group in Georgia. She has been a labor and community organizer in the United States and Georgia, and has supported organizing drives among workers in the health and social sectors. She occasionally writes for the portal Jacobin and is a member of the Essential Autonomous Struggles Transnational (EAST) platform.
Tara Toloui
Tara Toloui, MD, is currently a second year Family Medicine Resident at UT Health San Antonio Family and Community Medicine Program. She received her medical degree from the University of Santo Domingo in the Dominican Republic. She grew up in 4 different countries in 3 different continents and is fluent in Persian, Dari, Spanish, and English. Her passions include providing care to immigrants and refugees. She is involved with the medical student team in the Diabetes and Hypertension self-management program at San Antonio Refugee Health Clinic.
Tue Felix Nguyen
Tue Felix Nguyen is a second-year medical student at the Long School of Medicine at UTHSCSA with a Bachelor of Science in Biomedical Sciences from Texas A&M University. He served as the Travis Park Dermatology Clinic Coordinator, which provides free dermatologic care to underserved communities of San Antonio, TX. He currently serves as a medical student leader for the Healthy Choices Team initiative aimed towards improving community health by creating lesson plans and activities to heighten community engagement. He believes that patient education is paramount in preventative medicine and thus continues to strive towards improving access to medical care for marginalized communities.
Ursula Feuz
Ursula Feuz is a clinical nurse specialist working in the pediatric emergency department at the University Hospital in Bern/Switzerland. She has been working in pediatrics for almost 15 years including several humanitarian missions in different contexts. She is currently finishing her Master’s in Nursing Science with specialization in research and an interest in implementation science. She is engaged to improve migrant-friendly health care, especially by promoting the use of professional interpreters.
Vicki Gass
Vicki Gass has been working on Central American social and economic justice issues since 1984 and has lived in both El Salvador and Honduras. From 1999-2001, she led regional advocacy efforts in Central America following Hurricane Mitch for Washington Office on Latin America (WOLA) and Oxfam America. Her work helped to ensure the participation of local civil society organizations in meetings of international donors and in the design of post-Hurricane Mitch reconstruction strategies. At WOLA, Gass directed the rights and development program, which focused on the relationship between human rights, economic development and US policy. She followed foreign aid and trade policy, with a special emphasis on poverty reduction, labor rights, and the rural sector in Latin America. In addition, she analyzed how trade liberalization impacts the agricultural and rural sectors in Latin America, as well as whether trade agreements strengthen labor rights practices and reduce poverty. Publications on this theme include “Trade is Not a Development Strategy.” Her later work at WOLA included analyzing how under-development contributes to out migration and exploring poverty reduction strategies such as conditional cash transfers. Her work on Honduras, included testifying before Congress on the constitutional crisis and disruption to democratic order after the 2009 coup d’état, and highlighted how fundamental structural issues and institutional weaknesses contribute to the instability and out-migration. At Oxfam America, Gass was the senior policy advisor to Central America, advocating for policy issues of concern to the region in Washington, DC such as fiscal reform and tax justice, gender equity, migration and sustainable agroecology. She is currently working as an Independent Consultant on Central America for nongovernmental organizations in the US and Central America.
Victor Sierpina
Victor S. Sierpina, MD, is board certified by the American Board of Family Medicine since 1983 and a founding diplomat of the American Board of Integrative and Holistic Medicine in 2000. He is a founding member of UTMB’s Academy of Master Teachers, a University of Texas Distinguished Teaching Professor, and member of the University of Texas Academy Of Health Science Educators. He recently was awarded the Osler Clinical Excellence Teaching Award at UTMB for the second time and inducted as a faculty member into Alpha Omega Alpha, the medical honorary society. In 2018, he was awarded the UT System’s highest teaching award, the Regent’s Outstanding Teaching Award. He has been repeatedly listed as a Texas Super Doc and in the Best Doctors in America. He also received the Bravewell Service Award in 2019 from the Academic Consortium for Integrative Medicine and Health. He currently is the Director of UTMB’s Department of Family Medicine Medical Student Education Program and Clerkship Director. In these roles, he oversees 5 UTMB faculty members, 3 staff, and over 100 community faculty preceptors. He also serves as advisor to several UTMB student groups: the American Medical Student Association, Students in Lifestyle and Integrative Medicine. He is a faculty member for the Academy of Integrative Holistic Medicine online fellowship and Director of UTMB’s fellowship in Integrative and Behavioral Medicine.
Viridiana Saenz
Viridiana Saenz is from Juarez City Mexico and immigrated to the United States at the age of 18. After the major adaptation and financial limitations associated with immigrating, she completed a Biology degree from The University of Texas at El Paso. She did a year of full-time volunteer service with AmeriCorps in Columbus, Ohio, and returned to Texas to attend UTMB for medical school. She has been heavily involved with No One Dies Alone, the Physician Healer track, and the Gold Humanism Honor Society as a community service chair. She is going to be practicing as a resident physician for the Family and Preventive Medicine Department at the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences in Little Rock. Viridiana aspires to become a geriatrician with special interests in palliative care, integrative medicine, and sports medicine. She seeks to be the physician who anyone can feel comfortable seeing regardless of their background, culture, political views, gender, immigration status, or socioeconomic status. She is committed to expanding her insight and learning to put aside implicit bias throughout her career. A fun fact about Viridiana is that she is an avid runner and Latin dancer.
Vivianne Aponte Rivera, MD
Aponte Rivera, MD, received her medical degree and completed her general psychiatry training in her native Puerto Rico, at the University Of Puerto Rico School Of Medicine. She then completed a child and adolescent psychiatry fellowship at Emory University where she remained as faculty. There she developed and ran a Spanish-speaking clinic for the recruitment of Latino patients for an NIH-funded depression research study. She also established a clinic to provide services for Spanish-speaking youth, many of them undocumented, and supervised psychiatry residents caring for refugee populations. She is currently an assistant professor at Tulane University School of Medicine, where she sees patients through telemedicine in the rural areas of South Central Louisiana, and continues to expand her work with Latino youth and their families in the area. Dr. Aponte Rivera has presented in various local and national forums. She has also published her work in peer-reviewed journals.
Vyas Sarabu
Vyas Sarabu, B.B.A. is a second year medical student at UT Health San Antonio, Long School of Medicine. His current research includes work with Afghan refugee populations in South Texas. He is also currently working under Dr. Luz Garcini for Projecto Voces, a research lab which focuses on community health outreach and research surrounding the Latino population. His past efforts and interests include health policy, migrant health, and cardiometabolic health.
Wei-Chen (Miso) Lee, PhD
Wei-Chen (Miso) Lee, PhD is a health disparities analyst at the Department of Internal Medicine, an adjunct assistant professor at the Department of Pediatric, and an affiliated faculty of Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences at UTMB. She has received her bachelor's and master's degrees in Public Health from National Taiwan University and her PhD in Health Services Research (HSR) from Texas A&M Health Science Center. She employs the triad framework (access, cost, and quality) to address current and emerging topics in the field of HSR. In particular, her research focuses on health disparities that disproportionately affect rural, aging, racial minorities, and people with disabilities. With her outstanding research experiences, she was honored to be selected as one of the 2018 National Rural Health Fellows and one of the grant reviewers for grants issued by the Texas State Office of Rural Health.
In addition to her academic affiliations, Miso is a State-Certified Community Health Worker (CHW), Community Health Worker Instructor (CHWI), and Long-Term Care Ombudsman. She has been one of the organizers of the UTMB's Conference on Migration and Health since 2018. She also has served in several statewide and national committees including the Governing Council of TPHA, the Advisory Committee of AcademyHealth Disparities IG, the Ad Hoc Advisory Committee on Collaborative for Health Equity: Action, Research and Generating Evidence of AAMC, the Committee on Health Equity and Social Justice of APHA, and the UTMB Representative of Health Disparities, Education, Awareness, Research & Training Consortium. At her leisure, she likes reading, listening to music, and playing with her cat Reef.
Xiao (Lilac) Li
Xiao (Lilac) Li, MHA/MBA, MS, is a PhD student at the University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston School of Public health. She received her Master of Healthcare Administration and Business Administration from University of Houston - Clear Lake. Her research interest is healthcare disparities, healthcare economics, and healthcare finance. She serves as a graduate research assistant of the project for the CDC Opioid Dara to Action Project.
Yara Samman
Yara Samman is a first-year medical student at UTMB with a Bachelor of Science in Biology at Trinity University and a Masters in Medical Sciences from UNTHSC. Growing up in Syria during the civil war and witnessing the violence there has shaped her prospective on the medical field and her passion for it. Upon moving to the United states in 2013, she understood the cultural shock that refugees face, their limited resources and its subsequent effect on their quality of health. As a medical student, she hopes to serve her community and help alleviate the healthcare disparity of the disenfranchised, refugees, and vulnerable population around her.
Yaseen Thahir
Yaseen Thahir is a junior at Northside’s School of Innovation, Technology, and Entrepreneurship. He is involved in his school’s Husky Mentorship Program. In that program, he goes to Elementary schools in low-income areas and helps kids with learning as well as serve as a role model to help guide them on how to behave and become better person. In his free time, he volunteers at El Bari Clinic in hopes of providing free and available healthcare treatment for those who are not able to pay for insurance. He hopes to learn more about his community through volunteering, as well wanting to pursue a career in Entrepreneurship and Business so that he can start his own charity/non-profit organization to help improve his community in the future.
Yumnah Jafri
Yumnah Jafri is a second-year Honours Biology (Sub-Discovery) student at McMaster University. Her research interests are strongly tied to the neuropsychology of health, along with increasing resilience of minorities through both a biological & sociological lens. She is co-lead on the Physical Activity Education Book Committee (PEBC) as part of the CAN HEAL Project, which aims to mobilize wellness resources to immigrants & refugees. She has also participated in interviews of immigrant participants to gain an understanding of how the wellbeing of minorities is impacted by moving to Canada, as part of the Recruitment, Interview & Transcription Committee (RITC).
Yunsha Ehtesham
Yunsha Ehtesham is a second-year medical student at UT Health Science Center San Antonio. She graduated from the University of Texas at Austin with a Bachelor of Science and Arts in Biochemistry and a minor in Arabic. After graduating college, she continued her passion for refugee health by working with and eventually becoming a medical student leader at the San Antonio Refugee Health Clinic. She is also currently co-leading Healthy Choices Team which aims to promote community-led health and wellbeing in a culturally driven manner.
Zach Harbin
Zach Harbin is a third year medical student at the Long School of Medicine. He is passionate about global health and has spent time serving on healthcare teams in Ghana, Uganda, and Syria. During his first and second years of medical school he served as a medical student leader at the San Antonio Refugee Health Clinic. He is interested in pursuing a career in ophthalmology or anesthesiology.
Zainab Essaji
Zainab Essaji, MD, studied medicine in Kenya East Africa. Worked in the ER/ICU for 5 years in Kenya, both in rural and urban settings. Came to US 3 years ago. Awaiting a spot for residency training in the US. Currently involved in the center of refugee services San Antonio as a volunteer. Also volunteers at El Bari health center and a member of the healthy choices team. Interested in global health.
Zainub Baig
Zainub Baig is a 17-year-old 11th grader currently attending Louis D. Brandeis in San Antonio, Texas. She is pursuing a STEM and Arts and Humanities endorsement in her high school career. She takes great interest in environmental issues such as climate change and participates in Ocean Bowl, a school club that explores marine science and oceanography. She has captained her team during the National Ocean Sciences Bowl trivia tournament held at Texas A&M University Galveston. She is also a lifelong artist, pianist, and avid reader, and raises her rabbit in her free time. She aspires to eventually work as a marine biologist and actively contribute to protecting nature.

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Abigail Davis

Aden Tadese

Akihiro Seita, MD, MPH

Albert Duodu

Alfonso Mercado, PhD

Alyssa Gardner

Amena Qavi

Amy Hagopian, PhD

Ana Vračar

Andrea Francis

Anne Jachmann

Anne S. Chao

Armando J. Flores

Aya Mohamed

Ayman Youssef

Ben G. Raimer, MD, MA, FAAP

BethAnne Moskov

Cameron Borens

Carlos Van der Laat, MD

Carolina Gutierrez

Carolina Sanchez

Catherine Donery Cooksley, BS, MPH, DrPH, CPH

Charles Mouton, MD, MS, MBA

Colton Blinka

Cristina Cepeda

Daniel Orta

Dawn McCarty, PhD, LMSW

Dhillon Advano

Edwin Teye Sosi

Elizabeth 'Chiqui' Sanchez Kennedy, JD

Emily Liu

Emmanuel Quarshie

Etny Candelario

Eugenio Villar Montesinos, MD, MPH

Fareen Momin

Fatma Marouf, JD., MPH

Fehima Dawy

Flavia Fernandes

Fozia Ali

Gordon Shen

Haneen Alkhawaldeh

Hani Serag, MD, MPH

Imhotep Paul Alagidede

Jabeen Fayyaz

Jae Man Park

Jamie Noelle Piel

Janice Wilson

Jasmine Chaij

Jeannine Casselman

Jordan Mitchell

Judith Gutierrez

Julia Brandenberger

Keon Madani

Khorshid Amirkhosravi

Komal Nathani, MD

Kristina Keitel

Laura Porterfield, MD

Lauren Sheer

Leonard Wang

Lindsey Pileika

Lizette A Lugo

Madeleine Jordan

Mafaz Gehani

Mahima Ginjupalli

Mahira Morshed

Mahnoor Liaqat

Maren Monsen, MD

Matthew Dacso, MD

Mayra E. Perez

Muna Muhammad Odeh, PhD

Munawar Iqbal

Myriam Gmünder

Nadia Hakim, MA, MS

Natalya Ponomareva

Naya Nadeem

Noemi Gessler

Olivia Gagnon