Current Scholars & Fellows

TAREK DAWAMNE

MD/MEng Candidate, Class of 2025
Texas A&M School of Engineering Medicine
BS, Chemical Engineering, Texas A&M University '20
Career Specialty Goals: Cost reduction and increased access to local and global medical care
Research Project: Defining Current Understanding of Numerous Medical Challenges Using Epidemiology and Utilizing Machine Learning and Big Data Analysis to Assist in Overcoming Current Obstacles.

ELIAS PERLI

MD/MS Candidate, Class of 2025
Texas A&M University School of Medicine
BS, Biology, University of St. Thomas ‘18
Minor, Philosophy
Career Specialty Goals: Emergency Medicine
Research Project: Exploring the Mechanisms by Which Intracerebral Hemorrhage and
Neurodegeneration Cause Oxidative Injuries by Incorporating an In-vivo Model Using Novel Therapies
Employing Hemorrhage-specific Nanoparticles

STEVEN M. ELZEIN, MD

ANDREW GEORGE, MD

Orthopedic Surgery Resident, PGY-4, Houston Methodist Hospital
MD, Northwestern Feinberg School of Medicine, '20
BA, Psychology, Northwestern University ‘16
Career Specialty Goals: Orthopedic Surgery Sports Medicine
Research Project: The Effect of Treprostinil on Patellar Tendon Repair in a Rabbit Model

HALA HASSANAIN, MD

Internal Medicine Resident, PGY-2, Houston Methodist Hospital, 2022-Present
MBBS, Alfaisal University, Saudi Arabia, '19
Career Specialty Goals: Academic Hematology/Oncology and Translational Research
Research Project: A Phase 1 Window of Opportunity (WOO) Trial of Mito-HNK Formulation in Patients with Newly Diagnosed Lung Cancer

SIBI RAJENDRAN, MD

Neurosurgery Resident, PGY-5, Houston Methodist Hospital
MD, University of Kentucky College of Medicine ‘19
BS, Biology, University of Kentucky ‘15
Career Specialty Goals: Academic Functional Neurosurgery; Focus: modern deep brain stimulation and epilepsy techniques
Research Projects: Local Field Potentials (LFP) as a Basis for Deep Brain Stimulation (DBS) Optimization

ZHIHAO ZHU, MD

Internal Medicine Resident, PGY-4, Chief Resident, Houston Methodist Hospital
MD, UTMB Galveston, '20
BS, Electrical and Computer Engineering, Duke University, ‘16
Career Specialty Goals: Academic Cardiology; Possible focus: adult congenital heart disease
Research Project: Towards Autonomous Central Vascular Access