The next generation of health care innovators
This 10-month fellowship teaches fellows how to harness technology, engineering, business, and cutting-edge science to define a new standard of medical care. This fellowship embeds teams in clinical settings to expose urgent, unmet health care needs, then design and test innovative solutions with guidance from mentors in the medtech, health care, and innovation sectors. Meet our past and present fellows. Please note that all biographies are written when the fellow joins the HealthTech Fellowship at the Harvard Medical School Center for Primary Care. Fellows' recent accomplishments may not be reflected in the biographies below.
- Meet the 2024-2025 fellows
- Meet the 2022-2023 fellows
- Meet the 2021-2022 fellows
- Meet the 2020-2021 fellows
2024-2025 Fellows
Ryan Brewster, MD
2024-25 HMS HealthTech Fellow
Ryan Brewster is a pediatrician, health services researcher, and clinical entrepreneur with interests in developing technologies to advance child health equity. Ryan is completing his pediatrics training at Boston Children’s Hospital/Harvard Medical School and Boston Medical Center/Boston University School of Medicine as part of the Leadership in Equity and Advocacy Track. He graduated summa cum laude from Middlebury College and earned his medical degree at Stanford University, where he was inducted into the Gold Humanism Honors Society. In medical school, he worked at the intersection of technology and health-related social needs through the Stanford Byers Center Byers Center for Biodesign Innovation Fellowship and Bay Area Schweitzer Fellowship. Ryan launched a telemedicine-based clinic for lead poisoning prevention in residency, along with founding a trainee-led clinical informatics incubator program. He also directs a national conference series focused on addressing structural racism called Health Equity Rounds. His ongoing innovation work seeks to operationalize acute hospital at home care for children. Outside of the United States, Ryan is passionate about expanding and building capacity for virtual models of pediatric care in low resource settings. He serves as a research and strategy consultant for multiple non-governmental organizations, including Global Strategies and Cloudphysician, and helped develop a novel low-cost bubble continuous positive airway pressure device. Ryan has an extensive academic record studying technology initiatives and pediatric health inequities, among other topics, that have led to over 50 peer-reviewed publications and conference presentations. Additionally, he is a professional graphic designer, illustrator, and creative director with Little King Creative specializing in public health advocacy and scientific communication.
Kyle Murphy, MD
2024-25 HMS HealthTech Fellow
Kyle Murphy, MD is a general surgery resident and cofounder of AVA Surgical Technologies, a startup focusing on vascular access devices. Originally from Casper, Wyoming, Kyle has had a lifelong passion for design and innovation, first through sculpture and architecture as an undergraduate student at Notre Dame, before changing course to pre-medical studies with a minor in poverty studies. Kyle proceeded to the University of Kentucky College of Medicine where he graduated with honors in addition to taking extracurricular courses in medical innovation. He is currently finishing his general surgery residency at the University of Kentucky. He enjoys surgery, especially operations with minimally invasive techniques. Kyle is committed to balancing life as a surgeon and as an inventor. He has found success in both during residency. During his first year, he began developing prototypes with clay and glue, prior to buying and learning to use a 3D printer to improve his proofs of concepts. Kyle currently focuses his passion for design and innovation on vascular access devices through AVA Surgical Technologies. AVA is working to bring several of his inventions to market. During his time with AVA, Kyle has gained experience in prototyping, intellectual property, and fundraising. He is excited to join Harvard Healthtech and continue expanding his knowledge and experience.
Lois Onyeajam, MPH
2024-25 HMS HealthTech Fellow
Lois Onyeajam’s primary aim through her work is to improve the lives of older adults through innovative healthcare delivery to maximize their quality of life, while achieving the triple aim of better health, better care, at a lower price. She has over a decade of industry experience in the healthcare ecosystem, including working in public health implementation, payer operations, startup business development, and payer new business implementation. These experiences have equipped her with a strong understanding of the impact that payment models can have on access to, and delivery of, healthcare. She has strong skills in managing the full project life cycle, stakeholder cultivation and engagement, and sales enablement. She pairs this with a strong business acumen that has helped her build a company that in the last couple of years has helped hundreds of seniors find, evaluate, and decide on senior living options in the Charlotte Metropolitan area. Lois holds a Bachelor of Science degree from the University of Michigan and a Master of Public Health from the University of South Carolina. Prior to becoming a HMS HealthTech Fellow, she served as a program manager within the SWAT team of Humana’s Corporate Medicaid Implementation Team, managing aspects of new market implementation that have large scale impacts across functional areas.
Deborah Weidman, B.S. in Biomedical Engineering
2024-25 HMS HealthTech Fellow
Deborah Weidman works collaboratively to develop patient-focused solutions for unmet clinical needs. She is the co-founder of two Baltimore-based medical device start-ups, CraniUS and PneuTech. As CEO of PneuTech, Deborah built and led its team to design a device that improves safety and navigation of the current commercial biopsy system, in order to reduce the rate of lung collapse during lung biopsies. Prior to PneuTech, Deborah co-founded CraniUS with the mission to extend the lives of patients with brain cancer by developing the first implantable device to enable long-term medicine delivery directly across the blood-brain barrier. As CTO of CraniUS, she hired and led a diverse and interdisciplinary R&D team of mechanical, hardware, and software engineers, supported key milestones that enabled a $19.4M Series A raise, designed and executed four animal studies, and created the product vision for the company’s future first-in-human study. Prior to CraniUS and PneuTech, Deborah was a Johns Hopkins Presidential Management Fellow, where she developed an analytic method to guide the university Investment Office’s new investments in the healthcare sector. Deborah was a Bloomberg Scholar at Johns Hopkins University and graduated with a B.S. in Biomedical Engineering with honors. While at Johns Hopkins, Deborah helped start the Center for Neuroplastic Surgery Research, where she was the lab manager for two years. Outside of healthcare innovation, Deborah enjoys playing the flute, volunteering for the Johns Hopkins alumni committee, and traveling with her family and friends. She looks forward to creating safer, more effective, and more equitable healthcare innovations.
2022-2023 Fellows
Please note, each fellow's bio was written at the beginning of their fellowship and will not be updated with new information.
Jessica Abreu
2022-23 HealthTech Innovation Fellow
Jessica Abreu received her PhD in neural engineering at Case Western Reserve University, where she developed cutting-edge neurotechnologies to reverse paralysis due to spinal cord injuries. She earned her M.S. in Biomedical Engineering from Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ), one of the most competitive universities in Latin America, by creating computational models that guided surgical procedures to correct hand deformities caused by leprosy. She received her B.S. in Mechanical Engineering from UFRJ. She is a skilled communicator, and she has received awards for her compelling pitches and for her excellence in graduate teaching. Throughout her career, Jessica has developed software and medical products in three different countries: Brazil, Germany, and the US. Her international background has shaped her into an adaptable and creative engineer with a broad understanding of healthcare innovation. Most recently, Jessica served as a lecturer for the biomedical engineering postgraduate program at Hospital Israelita Albert Einstein, renowned as the premier hospital in her home country of Brazil, and considered one of the top medical institutions globally. Outside of her research, engineering, and teaching activities, Jessica is deeply involved in community service. She was the founding director of Núcleo de Programadores do Amanhã (NUPA), an initiative to teach programming to underprivileged students in Brazil. In her free time, she enjoys reading books, hiking with her husband, and playing the piano. Jessica is eager to leverage the skills that she gained as a Harvard HealthTech Fellow to develop innovative medical technologies and ventures that tackle the most urgent unmet needs in healthcare.
Bharadwaj Chada
2022-23 HealthTech Innovation Fellow
Bharadwaj received his MBBS degree from King’s College London in 2019, following which he completed the Academic Foundation Programme (AFP) in Leadership & Management in the East Midlands. Prior to commencing the HealthTech fellowship, he undertook the prestigious Faculty of Medical Leadership and Management (FMLM) National Medical Director’s Clinical Fellow scheme within the Transformation Directorate of NHS England, the government body responsible for shaping technology, data, and digital health policy. Whilst an undergraduate at King’s, Bharadwaj obtained a First-Class Honours BSc in Healthcare Management, which offered an introduction to health policy and economics, and strategy and organisational change in healthcare. As an AFP trainee, he undertook an internship at the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) within the Interventional Procedures Programme, appraising novel interventional techniques for implementation within NICE guidelines. Bharadwaj has a keen interest in healthtech and has provided commentary on a range of related topics, including the use of virtual consultations in primary care, and Electronic Health Record implementation. He is currently pursuing a Master of Studies in Healthcare Data and Informatics at the University of Cambridge, comprising modules such as data governance, healthcare systems improvement, and med-tech innovation and commercialisation. He had previously worked for a healthtech communications agency, working closely with a range of innovative and forward-thinking healthtech start-ups. Bharadwaj is keen to leverage the fellowship, together with his earlier experiences, to better understand the factors that determine successful introduction of a healthcare technology to market. In his spare time, Bharadwaj enjoys creative writing and narrative medicine, and has published his reflections as a junior doctor in the British Medical Journal blogs. He is also an avid cricket enthusiast, and enjoys exercising and keeping fit.
Angela Feldhaus
2022-23 HealthTech Innovation Fellow
Angela Feldhaus is an applied math PhD student at Harvard University. Angela studied transmembrane protein interactions at Johns Hopkins University and was also a Clarendon Fellow at the University of Oxford. She has been internationally recognized for her writing as a St. Gallen Symposium winner and published author. Angela has conducted research at both Sandia and Los Alamos National Labs where her research spanned bioengineering, mathematics, applied physics, and materials science. She has experience in designing, building, and prototyping devices as well as theoretical modeling and data analysis for both academic research and start-ups. As an undergraduate at the University of New Mexico she founded and sold a small digital health platform that lowered out-of-pocket costs for home healthcare for the elderly. Angela is passionate about making healthcare more efficient through technology and interdisciplinary innovation. Outside her professional life she enjoys traveling, carpentry, and research aimed at increasing longevity in humans. She is excited about the opportunity to work at the interface of innovation and research afforded by the Harvard HealthTech Fellowship and plans to use the opportunity to enter the start-up ecosystem full time.
Roger Flint
2022-23 HealthTech Innovation Fellow
Dr Roger Flint MB ChB is a physician and clinical entrepreneur, driven to use health technology and innovation to overcome health’s most pressing challenges; specifically safely managing pain during the global opioid crisis. He studied Marine and Environmental Biology at St Andrews University, Scotland. Whilst at St Andrews he competed in boxing and rugby, becoming the Scottish Universities Super-heavyweight boxing champion and represented his University Rugby First XV. Thereafter, he read a Masters of Science degree in Public Health Research at the University of Edinburgh, supervised by Prof Sir Aziz Sheikh. His published thesis explored the sensitivity and specificity of creating novel search terms to identify previously unknown patients with seasonal allergic rhinitis in a General Practice database. This sparked his interest in the power of data to improve health. Following his Masters degree he read Medicine at Dundee University, Captaining the boxing club, and commissioning into the British Army Reserve at The Royal Military Academy, Sandhurst. Two weeks after graduating and starting his medical internship, Dr Flint had a challenging and distressing experience prescribing opioids for a patient in pain at the end of their life. This experience drove him to create SPOT, The Safer Prescription of Opioids Tool. SPOT is a novel digital health software as a medical device platform, distributed as software as a service. SPOT significantly improves the confidence of opioid prescribing and adherence to guidelines. SPOT is in commercial use supporting a population of over 110,000 prescribers and patients, and part of the Scottish Government’s COVID-19 palliative care toolkit. SPOT is able to predict whether an opioid prescription is likely to cause harm. Dr Flint has been featured on the BBC in TV, radio, news and print articles. He has published in academic journals and contributed to the Enhanced Palliative Care Handbook. Outside of work, Dr Flint enjoys forestry, fishing and spending time with friends. He has hung up his gloves and retired as an undefeated amateur boxer.
Stephanie Musinsky
2022-23 HealthTech Innovation Fellow
Stephanie Musinsky is an electrical engineer with an enduring interest in healthcare technology. She received an undergraduate degree in both Biomedical Engineering and Electrical and Computer Engineering from Duke University. Her core technical expertise revolves around PCB design and includes FPGA development and firmware. She has worked in industry, academia, and even at the intersection between. Stephanie has proven to impact every organization that she has worked in such as by creating an FPGA developers’ group at work to increase lab-wide collaboration and by being the first undergraduate to contribute to the core code of Dr. Randles’ lab at Duke. She has worked on complex electro-optical systems and various medical devices at all stages- from ideation to commercialization. Stephanie has experience with V&V and electrical safety testing necessary for FDA clearance. She has always been interested in entrepreneurship and spent time during the height of the pandemic volunteering on the hardware technology and various other aspects of work for RespiraWorks, a volunteer-composed nonprofit striving towards open-source medical devices. Stephanie has proven technical competence with medical devices and has sought out greater responsibilities and successfully grown into leadership roles. Outside of work, she enjoys long-distance running, various other outdoor activities including hiking and scuba diving, and reading about various topics.
Nitya Rajeshuni
2022-23 Leerink Innovation Fellow
Nitya Rajeshuni is a physician, epidemiologist, educator, and writer passionate about leveraging technology and innovation to promote global health equity. She trained in pediatrics at the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, University of Pennsylvania with specializations in global health and informatics. She completed her undergraduate and medical studies at Stanford University, where she also obtained a Master’s in Epidemiology and Clinical Research. Nitya’s interest in health technology stemmed from a passion for digital education. As an undergraduate, she created digital curricula for underserved schools and clinics. As an NIH intern, she collaborated with international partners using distance-learning to train healthcare providers in low- and middle-income countries. As a Global Health Education Fellow with Stanford’s Digital Medical International Collaborative, she led a multidisciplinary team developing a digital anatomy curriculum for medical schools in India and Rwanda. She most recently led a study in the Dominican Republic evaluating implementation of a digital application to record community health campaign data at the point-of-care. Nitya has a strong track record across clinical, health services, and global health research with numerous presentations and publications in top journals like Cancer and JAMA Ophthalmology. She is an innovative leader with versatile experience including directing education nonprofit Splash. Nitya is also passionate about the medical humanities and creative arts. She has directed an arts collaborative on special needs, contributed as a journalist for ABC News, and writes for Synapsis and Two Peds in a Pod. Nitya has earned several awards including induction into Phi Beta Kappa, Stanford Cap and Gown Society for Women Leaders, Gold Humanism Honor Society, and the Nightingale Fellowship. Outside of work, she is an avid performing artist and starred in the viral music video Dear Future Doctor, sang on the album Circle of Friends, and is currently writing a children’s book.
Bridget Slomka
2022-23 HealthTech Innovation Fellow
Bridget Slomka received her Master's degree in Biomedical Engineering at the University of Arizona working to transform cancer care with advanced imaging probes for detecting gastrointestinal tumors. In addition to years of diverse academic research and clinical experience, she also carries industry experience in R&D Engineering at Wallaby Medical, Inc., where she helped commercialize neurovascular implants and value segment medical devices for global healthtech markets. Equally an artist and an engineer, Bridget’s expertise in product sketching, CAD modeling, and rendering helped her earn the Voltaire Elegant Design Award for her patent-pending CycleSafe device, now moving forward to licensing with major US cycling companies. Building on her experience in the University of Arizona’s pilot Health Sciences Design program, as well as time spent teaching students how to translate basic research findings into successful medical products, she hopes to use the Harvard HealthTech Fellowship to begin building unforgettable products and innovative ventures of her own. When she’s not in the laboratory, you can find her tending to her garden, feeding her chickens, or painting landscapes from her last hike.
Ana Trapero Martin
2022-23 HealthTech Innovation Fellow
Ana Trapero is a biomedical and mechanical engineer who works in the intersection of healthcare and technology. She was most recently a Senior Product Design Engineer at the Trauma and Extremities Division at Stryker. In this position, she is actively involved in the research and development of surgical instruments. With an innovative and efficient approach to problem-solving, Ana thrives in the interface of arts and science to build creative, cutting-edge, and impactful solutions. Previously, Ana was the Director of Engineering at a stealth startup that develops wearable health monitoring devices and where she has authored over 10 patents in quick succession. During that time, she made key product and technical design decisions and helped pitch the product to potential partners across the US and Europe while also supporting the testing and strategy development. In addition to her work in the industry, Ana has been part of academic research at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology where she worked closely with top-tier hospitals like the Massachusetts General Hospital and Beth Israel in the development of medical devices. The projects were focused on improving health and wellness by delivering engineering solutions such as designing pneumatic actuators of soft robotics for minimally invasive procedures, developing drug delivery systems at the point of care, and controlling medical swarm robotics. She received first-class honours during her Masters in Biomedical Engineering from Imperial College London and was awarded a year-long scholarship at Boston University during her undergraduate in Mechanical Engineering from the Higher Technical School of Engineering of Comillas Pontifical University (ICAI). Besides her professional interests, Ana can be found in a concert, art exhibit, or hiking in the mountains.
2021-2022 Fellows
Please note, each fellow's bio was written at the beginning of their fellowship and will not be updated with new information.
Nicky Agahari
2021-22 HealthTech Innovation Fellow
Nicky Agahari was most recently Head of Innovation (Asia Pacific) and Business Development Manager (Australia & New Zealand) for global medical technology company Boston Scientific. Nicky’s interests and passion for healthcare began during his services as a combat medic in the Royal Australian Army; learning the skills to dispense live sustaining procedures to care for patients and the importance of working in teams to accomplish common goals. Professionally Nicky has spent the past 13 years holding multiple commercialization and strategic roles with the world’s leading med tech and pharmaceuticals companies including; Johnson & Johnson, Eli Lilly and Medtronic. Through the breadth of his roles Nicky has developed expertise into multiple disease specialties including; mental health, urology, gastro-enterology, neuromodulation and structural heart. Through these experiences Nicky has garnered a nuanced insight into how to scale innovation, bring products to market and accelerate patient ‘access’ to medical solutions; ‘access’ that is affordable, timely and of high quality. With in-country experiences in Australia, South East Asia, United States and Greater China; Nicky understands the intricate complexities of decision making in healthcare systems. He believes although there are barriers to each nation state’s healthcare system there are also ‘best practices’ from each that can be translated transnationally to improve delivery of care to patients globally. Away from his corporate career Nicky continues to pursue his interests in med-tech dedicating his personal time to developing a novel, wearable and minimally invasive neuromodulation device that minimizes patient symptoms of urinary and fecal incontinence.
Nancy Anoruo, MD
2021-22 Leerink Innovation Fellow
Nancy Anoruo is a physician and public health scientist with an interest in health technology innovation as a means of overcoming pervasive challenges in health care— namely improving care access to mitigate inequity. She studied microbiology and biomechanical engineering at the University of Florida, then obtained graduate degrees in medicine and public health at the George Washington University. Her clinical training was in internal medicine at the University of Massachusetts. She completed a research fellowship at the National Institutes of Health where her notable work included development of a renal cell carcinoma blood screening test to facilitate early detection and reduce diagnostic racial inequities. While at NIH, she helped develop several grassroots community health projects and initiatives to reduce health disparities in minority, underserved, and marginalized populations. She was most recently faculty at Harvard Medical School, an attending physician at Brigham & Women’s Hospital, and a journalist / medical contributor for ABC News. Her favorite things to do outside of work are spending time with her dog, traveling with her husband, and woodworking / completing home renovation projects as an aspiring builder and carpenter. She has also played the violin since age 8 and enjoys arranging and writing non-classical music.
Ricky Cordova
2021-22 Leerink Innovation Fellow
Ricky Cordova is a professional biomedical engineer and was most recently a researcher at the University of Arizona Tissue Optics Lab, where he developed multimodal endoscopes for the early detection of gynecologic cancers and other pathology affecting women’s health. Ricky is an outgoing leader, an award-winning writer, and a true multipotentialite with nearly a decade of eclectic research experience in synthetic biology, laboratory automation, medical devices, and more. He serves on the advisory board of the Keep Engaging Youth in Science (KEYS) Research Internship Program and is the cofounder of SonoArmor, an early-stage startup aimed at ruggedizing mobile ultrasound technology for use in the clinic and on the battlefield. He studied bioengineering as an undergraduate at Stanford University, and there became a practiced intersectional innovator through training at the Stanford Byers Center for Biodesign. Outside of work and school, Ricky has volunteered with Planned Parenthood and community free clinics as a certified Spanish medical interpreter, trained as an emergency medical technician, performed for huge crowds as a touring jazz drummer and DJ, and worked to discover a new species of tardigrade. Now he looks to build a successful career as an entrepreneur, physician, and scientist with participation in the Harvard HealthTech Fellowship and future MD-PhD training.
M. Martin Jensen
2021-22 HealthTech Innovation Fellow
M. Martin Jensen is a biomedical engineer working at the interface of technology and medicine. He received departmental and university honors for his B.S. in Chemistry at the University of Utah. During his undergrad, he worked at Catheter Connections Inc. and was responsible for developing an FDA-cleared IV-line disinfecting system using the Dualcap® technology that was 6 times faster than competing products at the time and is still twice as fast as competing technologies. During his doctoral work at the University of Utah, he received a National Science Foundation (NSF) Graduate Research Fellowship and a NSF INTERN award to pursue industry experience. His research focused on developing and translating innovative technologies including gels to protect soft tissues from radiation damage, embolics to treat cerebral aneurysms, markers to guide surgical resection of tumors, and delivery systems to improve the selectivity of herbicides. Most recently, he was a post-doctoral research fellow with Harvard Medical School mentored by Jeff Karp and Siam Oottamasathien where he developed a prize-winning body fluid management technology for the United States Airforce AFWERX Sky High Relief Challenge. In his free time, he enjoys playing with his daughters, fishing, and listening to audiobooks.
2020-2021 Fellows
Please note, each fellow's bio was written at the beginning of their fellowship and will not be updated with new information.
Yen-Po (Harvey) Chin, MD
2020-21 HealthTech Innovation Fellow
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Yen-Po (Harvey) is a physician-scientist by training with technology commercialization experience. Harvey is the co-founder of two medical companies- AESOP Technology and DermAI Co. AESOP Technology has developed a machine learning-based prescription error prevention system and has been backed by Berkeley Skydeck (UC Berkeley). DermAI Co. is an AI-50-campaign-selected company that creates smartphone-compatible AI applications for skin screening and personalized skincare advice. Harvey is also a former physician and a mentor of MIT Hacking Medicine as well as the Harvard Lehmann Program on creativity and entrepreneurship. Harvey is on the Forbes 30 under 30 list (Healthcare & Science, 2020), and holds patents related to a medical AI application and a blockchain-based trading platform. He was a postdoctoral research fellow at Brigham and Women’s Hospital/Harvard Medical School, working on machine learning and natural language processing projects. Harvey received his doctor of medicine degree from National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University, Taiwan, and his postdoctoral masters’ of biomedical informatics degree from Harvard Medical School. Outside of work, he enjoys watching NBA games (a die-hard Boston Celtics fan) and spending time with friends and family.
Manuel (Manny) Fanarjian, MD
2020-21 HealthTech Innovation Fellow
Manny is an engineer and physician with an interest in the evolving role of healthcare technology in the delivery of medicine. Prior to starting the HealthTech Fellowship, he completed residency training in Internal Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania. He studied biomedical engineering as an undergraduate at Duke, focusing on bioinstrumentation and medical device design. After graduating he worked for St. Jude Medical (now Abbott) for three years in their cardiac rhythm management division before going back to medical school at UNC in Chapel Hill. Throughout his clinical training he has done part-time or contract work with a number of healthcare technology companies, including AliveCor, ElektraLabs, and Sketchy Medical. Outside of work he enjoys photography, rugby, basketball, and just about anything written by Aaron Sorkin.
Sim Kahlon
2020-21 HealthTech Innovation Fellow
Sim Kahlon is a seasoned Healthcare Product Manager based in the Boston area. He has years of progressive and successful leadership experiences in the fields of healthcare analytics, technology, consulting, product development and delivery. Sim is well-versed in carrying strategic business needs while implementing large analytical projects, forging business relationships, and advancing mission and vision of organizations. He is an invigorating leader bringing vision, initiative, innovation and interpersonal skills to make things happen. Sim is passionate about healthcare innovation and has worked in the healthcare analytics space for the larger part of the last decade. His most recent forays in this space include working for a startup with focus on value-based Healthcare and for a large New England based health plan. Sim has a computer engineering degree and an MBA from Northeastern University. He is an avid reader, an audible marathoner, and likes to play Tennis.
Bahar Rahsepar
2020-21 HealthTech Innovation Fellow
Bahar is a PhD candidate in Biomedical Engineering at Boston University. She received her B.S. in the same field from Georgia Institute of Technology in 2014. In her undergraduate research, she developed a real-time seizure detection algorithm for real-time optogenetics used for electrophysiological investigation of effects of Deep Brain Stimulation (DBS) in mice models of epilepsy. Her dissertation project focuses on identifying effective stimulation strategies for modulation of stressful memories in rodent models with implications in anxiety disorders. Bahar is passionate about biotechnology innovation and constantly seeks opportunities for translation of basic science research to products improving patient lives. She is particularly attracted to novel efforts towards mental health and developing quantitative approaches for diagnosis and treatment of neurological disorders. On her own time she enjoys long distance running, practicing yoga, and baking. Spending time with friends and family and traveling is her favorite pastime.
