Kamran Ali is a medical student at Rush Medical College with an undergraduate degree In Bioengineering from the University of Washington. He spent a few years after undergrad working at a medical imaging startup, working on post-processing of MRI and CT scans to help physicians assess parameters like cardiac contractility or iron deposition. Throughout his education he has remained particularly interested in using engineering methods to better understand and treat cardiovascular diseases. Now he hopes to use that same mindset to contribute meaningfully to the field of vascular surgery. When not studying Kamran enjoys biking, hiking, and playing the guitar.

Maria Paz is a second year medical student at University of Chicago Pritzker School of Medicine. She received her undergraduate degree from Northeastern where she studied Health Science and Public health. Her past work experiences includes robotics and engineering in a biophysics lab focused on imaging and optics. Now, she is interested in pursuing a career in vascular surgery once she finishes medical school. She currently works on computer models focused on seal zone stability post-EVAR and TEVAR.

Dina Khabaz is a senior high school student at Sage Hill School in Newport Coast, California with interests in medical biology. She first discovered a love for research in her freshman year and has researched at the University of California, Berkeley and the University of California, Irvine. Volunteering is another passion of hers, where she helps out at a local hospital in California. Dina also enjoys reading and working on her service project where she sets up reading clubs for children. Otherwise, Dina enjoys sailing, playing with her cat, Emilia, and cycling.

Nabeel Rasheed is a medical student in a six-year BA/MD program at the University of Missouri – Kansas City. In high school, he worked at Northwestern’s Neuroimaging and Applied Computational Anatomy Laboratory, where he studied adolescent cardiovascular risk by mapping structural brain biomarkers. In 2018, he was invited to present his work at the International Student Science fair in Busan, South Korea and was also nominated a Siemen’s Research Semi-Finalist. He further spent three-years in high school researching entrochemical technologies and helped design the world’s first thermally rechargeable water distiller. In college, he worked on an NIH-funded project investigating the protective effects of bone hormones on H9C2 cardiac cell death and hypertrophy. He currently is studying fragile aortas with SurgBioMech and how their underlying geometric nature causes type B dissections to convert into type A dissections. He hopes to use his engineering, medical, and research background to advance clinical efforts in vascular surgery. In his free time, he enjoys spending time outdoors by traveling, running, hiking and playing basketball.