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AMSA Global Health Scholars 2007 GLOBAL HEALTH SCHOLARSTharani Kandasamy
While Tharani has worked on many different initiatives aimed to improving the health of the poor, her research experiences have focused primarily on improving surgical care. Next year, she will begin work on a thesis looking at injury epidemiology in India. She is committed to finding solutions to improve trauma systems in the developing world and decrease premature morbidity and mortality from preventable injury. Jose Lozada
Jose graduated from the College of the Holy Cross in Worcester, Massachusetts and thereafter moved to Osaka, Japan where he lived and worked for a year. By the time he left Japan, he had decided to pursue a life-long dream of traveling around the globe. He traveled westward with a "round-the-world" ticket with his only goal being to be home in Caracas by Christmas. Fifteen countries on four continents later, he had a new perspective on the world and decided to pursue some epidemiological training. That epidemiological training soon developed into a PhD and last year, Jose added medical school to the list, confirming people's suspicions that he really is insane. Pathologies of Power Reflection Wael Noor El-Nachef
Wael graduated from UC Berkeley as a double major in Rhetoric and Public Health. There, he researched the link between occupational exposures to benzene and the risk of leukemia. In Guatemala, he completed a field survey regarding an intervention meant to reduce the indoor air pollution due to poorly ventilated wood burning stoves. As an intern for the Pan American Health Organization, Wael researched tuberculosis and HIV co-infection. More recently, Wael has become especially interested in Health and Human Rights and its intersections with global health. He is author of a study which surveyed the attitudes of deans of medical and public health schools regarding human rights education in their curricula. He is interested in examining the potentials and the limits of humanitarianism and human rights advocacy in the Middle East, particularly Palestine. Currently, Wael is a first year medical student at Feinberg School of Medicine, Northwestern University in Chicago, Illinois. Pathologies of Power Reflection Emily Sloan
Emily is a community outreach volunteer for Planned Parenthood of the Blue Ridge as well as a volunteer at the Charlottesville Free Clinic. She also DJ's a weekly rock show on a community radio station. In her spare time Emily loves to ride her bicycle, listen to live music, and live a low impact vegan lifestyle. She is passionate about global health, with a specific focus on HIV/AIDS, access to healthcare, and community involvement and empowerment in the healthcare process. She plans for a career aiming to decrease global health disparities and advance the understanding of infectious disease through clinical practice and translational research. Pathologies of Power Reflection Nathan Trayner
He became interested in issues affecting the African people as a missionary for the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in Southern France where he lived from 2000 to 2002. While there, Nathan met hundreds of African immigrants and listened to their stories first-hand. During the summer of 2003, Nathan volunteered in a rural village as an elementary school teacher in Northern Senegal. During this time, many of his pupils senselessly suffered from malnutrition, buruli ulcer, and malaria. These experiences drove Nathan towards a career in global health and social justice. Upon returning from Senegal, Nathan became president of the UNICEF at BYU campus group and was behind numerous campus-wide advocacy and fundraising events regarding HIV/AIDS, immunizations, access to education, disaster relief, and malnutrition. Other opportunities including representing BYU at the National Conference of the Student Campaign for Child Survival in Washington, D.C. and lobbying for the Global Fund and for debt relief for heavily-indebted poor countries. Nathan's current activities include being an M1 chair for the University of Michigan Chapter of the Universities Allied for Essential Medicines which aims to ensure that those in developing nations who need essential medicines have access to them. His future plans include pursuing a Masters Degree in Public Health and conducting research on the statistical measures of the Millennium Development Goals to see whether these goals are being equally achieved across all populations. Pathologies of Power Reflection David Edwards
David was in the first group of medical students selected for the Fogarty-Ellison International Clinical Research Fellowship and worked in Durban, South Africa. There he was involved in the development of a large clinical trial for patients co-infected with HIV and TB and helped to manage an urban clinic that provided free antiretroviral medications. He has also interned in Geneva at UNAIDS as a Global Health Policy Fellow and has participated in medical relief work in Haiti, Venezuela, and Thailand. He has published his research in several journals and has presented his work at international scientific meetings. He has been recognized as a New Investigator in Global Health by the Global Health Council and has received the National Leadership Award and the Physician of Tomorrow Scholarship from the AMA Foundation. In addition to global health, David is committed to community service and disaster relief. He has received an Albert Schweitzer Fellowship for his projects at a homeless shelter clinic and has been a member of the National Disaster Medical Service for almost ten years. In his spare time he enjoys riding and restoring old motorcycles. 2006 GLOBAL HEALTH SCHOLARS
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Tharani joins the Global Health Scholars Program from the University of Toronto where she is a surgical resident. She obtained her medical degree from the University of Toronto in 2005 and also holds a BSc from Queen's University in Kingston. While in university, Tharani has chaired and led international health initiatives on behalf of Operation Smile and Helping Hands. Her experiences include work on development projects in rural Nepal, post-Tsunami Sri Lanka and trauma surgery in Cape Town, South Africa. Her recent work has focused on health and human rights. She is an executive of the Human Rights Watch Young Advocates Committee and a founding co-chair of Residents for Human Rights.
Jose Lozada is currently an MD/PhD student at Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine focusing his PhD in infectious disease epidemiology. He was born and raised in Caracas, Venezuela in a family that straddled two worlds. His dad met his mom, a granddaughter of Polish immigrants, while training in Cleveland and they subsequently moved back to Venezuela which is where and when we kids came along. They spoke two languages, merged two cultures, and somehow always felt that they belonged no matter the place. Having this duality meant that both geographically and socially, he has always had the perspective of both an insider and an outsider.
Wael Noor El-Nachef is a first-generation Syrian American who spent much of his childhood in Grand Blanc, Michigan. He completed his freshman year at the University of Michigan and transferred to the University of California- Berkeley the following year. His brother and parents currently reside in Southern California.
Emily originally hails from Kansas and is in her third year of the MD/PhD program at the University of Virginia. She has transitioned from the second year of medical school into the laboratory, where she researches HIV and the functional differences between Rev proteins of viral subtypes. In 2001, Emily studied at the Institute for Central American Development Studies, where she worked with the cloud forest community of Alto de Jaular to find a balance between the community's traditional methods of income and the necessity of ecosystem preservation to encourage the area's growing ecotourism industry. She received a Bachelor's degree in biology from Rice University in Houston, Texas in 2002, where she was also involved in the Women's Resource Center and was a radio disc jockey. Upon graduation, she worked at Baylor College of Medicine, investigating the molecular genetics of Schimke immuno-osseous dysplasia, a rare and fatal inherited disease.
Nathan Trayner is a first-year medical student at the University of Michigan. Originally from West Jordan, Utah, he graduated from Brigham Young University (BYU) in 2006 with a degree in Exercise Science and a minor in African Studies. He is married to the wonderful Megan Trayner.
David's first experience in international health was in Calcutta volunteering in Mother Teresa's clinics and hospices while he was an undergraduate at the University of New Mexico. Now attending Duke University School of Medicine, he has also completed the MPH program in Epidemiology at UNC Chapel Hill where he earned graduate certificates in International Development and in Global Health. His MPH research took him to the Democratic Republic of Congo where he studied the interaction of tuberculosis and HIV. He has continued in this research area with support from the Doris Duke Clinical Research Foundation, the American Society of Tropical Medicine & Hygiene, AOA Medical Honor Society, and the AMA Seed Grant program.
Daniel P. Eiras, M.P.H. Mount Sinai School of Medicine
Daniel Sullivan - Harvard University
Saira Alimohamed - Brown University School of Medicine
Kemunto Mokaya - Yale University School of Medicine
Amy Fiedler - George Washington University School of Medicine
