The Tulane MD/MPH and MD/PhD in public health students have been recognized for their accomplishments in COVID-19 frontline work, receiving accolades for their academic and community achievements through graduation awards, being selected for honors at scientific meetings for their publications and research, and receiving fellowships and scholarships to support their research activities. Our MD/MPH students continue to display impressive initiative and leadership!
Class of 2021 Graduates Student Spotlights
Congratulations to our 2021 MD/PhD graduates in Epidemiology, Drs. Alex Razavi (pictured left) and Austin Jones (pictured right)! After helping to care for patients in New Orleans on his core medical school rotations, Alex became interested in atherosclerotic cardiovascular disease (ASCVD) prevention which inspired him to extend his medical and public health training focused on age-guided molecular and imaging-based risk assessment of ASCVD. Currently, Alex has published over 15 first-author manuscripts. Alex received a 2021 Tulane 34 Award for his leadership, service and academic excellence. Alex will be pursuing internal medicine at Emory starting this July and has career aspirations of becoming a preventive cardiologist. Austin’s doctoral research involved screening and linkage to care for infectious diseases and expanding health services for Hepatitis C and chlamydia in New Orleans. Austin received the 2021 USPHS Excellence in Public Health Award. He is an aspiring emergency physician and will be beginning his residency at Denver Health Medical Center this summer. In his future career, he aims to deliver healthcare in low-resource settings and integrate public health interventions with emergency services.
2021-2022 CCTS SCHOLARS
Congratulations to Courtney Brock, Katie Hebert, and Maryl Wright for being selected as 2021-2022 Tulane CCTS TL1 Scholars! Tulane partners with the University of Alabama at Birmingham in the Clinical and Translational Science (CCTS) TL1 training program; a NIH-funded fellowship program that prepares investigators to pursue careers in health services and clinical research to address disparities and/or diseases disproportionally represented in the Deep South. All three of this year’s scholars are conducting research focused on the development of diagnostics and treatment options for patients with triple negative breast cancer (TNBC). TNBC is an aggressive subtype of breast cancer with fewer treatment options and a high prevalence in black women.
2021 MD/MPH RESEARCH SCHOLARSHIPS
- Peter Miller (MD/MPH 2021 Graduate) completed the Morgadanes scholarship for his project, “The Impact of COVID-19 on acute cardiac care.”
- Meredith Freeman (MD/MPH Class of 2022) received the Hayward Genetics Scholarship for a year-long mentored-research program in medical genetics.
- Carrie Crook (MD/MPH Class of 2022) received the Community Foundation of South Alabama’s Eichold scholarship for her accomplishments in medicine and public health.
- Sarah Wang (MD/MPH Class of 2022) received the Morgadanes scholarship for her project, “COVID-19 infection and myocarditis/ cardiomyopathy.”
- Lauren Nguyen (MD/MPH Class of 2023) received the Morgadanes scholarship for her project, “CV risk and atherosclerosis markers among currently and formerly incarcerated Louisianans.”
- Theresa Bui (MD/MPH Class of 2023) received the Lively scholarship for her project, “Severity of disease, psychological wellbeing, fatigue, and patient levels of stress in psoriatic arthritis.”
2021-22 Student Group Executive Committee
Please visit the student group executive committee page to meet the current students.
