 Jaimo Ahn, MD, PhD
Chair
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Dr. Jaimo Ahn, MD, PhD is an Assistant Professor of Orthopaedic Surgery at the Perleman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania. He completed a fellowship in Orthopaedic Traumatology at the Hospital for Special Surgery, Weill Cornell Medical College (2008-2009). He did his internship and residency in orthopaedic surgery at the University of Pennsylvania (2003-2008) where he also received his MD-PhD in Cell & Molecular Biology (1995-2003). Dr. Ahn received his undergraduate degree in Biological Sciences from Stanford University. In addition to studying the education and development of physician-scientists, he co-manages a laboratory with a focus on molecular modulation of bone formation and healing and a clinical research program with a focus on prospective evaluation of orthopaedic trauma outcomes. He is active in medical education, serving as co-director of the Penn orthopaedic clerkship and as a member of the USMLE Step II question development committee, and enjoys reviewing for journals as varied as JAMA and the Journal of Bone and Joint Surgery. Outside of academics, he especially enjoys food, wine, travel and exercise with his wife. Dr. Ahn became a member of the APSA Board of Directors in April of 2007.
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 Ivayla Geneva
President
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Ms. Ivayla (Eve) Geneva is the current President of APSA. She is an MD-PhD candidate at SUNY Upstate Medical University, having previously graduated Magna Cum Laude from Whitman College with a BS in Biophysics, Biochemistry, and Molecular Biology. During her undergraduate education, Ms. Geneva earned both the Abshire Research Award and the Perry Research Grant, while garnering awards for outstanding performance in physical chemistry and an international student scholarship. Within APSA, Ms. Geneva has served as Treasurer, where she oversaw organizational funding and financial policy, and as Institutional Representative for her medical school. On the local level, she is currently holding the positions of Student Ambassador to the President at SUNY Upstate Medical University and President of the Upstate Ophthalmology Club. Ms. Geneva has also served as a member of Upstate's Strategic Plan Implementation Committee for Research.
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 Dania Daye
President-Elect
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Ms. Dania Daye is a fifth-year MD/PhD student and an HHMI-NIBIB Interfaces scholar at the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine. She graduated magna cum laude, Phi Beta Kappa and Tau Beta Pi from Rice University with a degree in bioengineering in 2007. Ms. Daye is currently pursuing a bioengineering PhD with a focus on understanding the metabolo-genetic profile of breast cancer recurrence. She is a Howard Hughes Medical Institute Gilliam fellow and a Paul and Daisy Soros fellow. Ms. Daye currently serves as the President-elect of APSA, and as a co-chair of the policy committee. Previously, she served as vice-chair of the policy Committee and as an Institutional representative for the American Physician Scientists Association (APSA).
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 Hans Arora
Director
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Dr. Hans Arora is a 7th year MD PhD Candidate in the Medical Scientist Training Program (MSTP) at Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine in the Department of Radiation Oncology, currently in his M3 clinical year. He received his B.S. in Chemical Engineering with Honors from Pennsylvania State University in 2005. Dr. Arora’s doctoral research involves the use of titanium dioxide nanoparticles for improved delivery of cancer chemotherapy drugs in drug-resistant ovarian cancer. His work has been supported by the Carcinogenesis Training Grant, the American Medical Association Foundation, the Center for Cancer Nanotechnology Excellence, and the Northwestern University Clinical and Translational Sciences Institute (NUCATS). His continuing research interests involve the intersection of nanotechnology and radiation therapy.
Dr. Arora is an active participant in organized medicine at the local, state, and national levels. He continues to serve in numerous leadership roles such as a Delegate to the American Medical Association House of Delegates, Chair of the Medical Student Section of the American Medical Association (2009-2010) and as a board member of the Illinois State Medical Society (2008-2009) and Chicago Medical Society (2008-2009). Additionally, he has served on a number of committees at the Feinberg School of Medicine involving the evaluation and reform of the medical curriculum, including the Curriculum Committee, the Curriculum Renewal Subcommittee on Teamwork & Leadership, and the Search Committee for the new Northwestern University Dean of the Feinberg School of Medicine/Vice President for Medical Affairs. He joined the APSA Board of Directors in 2009 and previously served as Member At-Large (MD-PhD) on the Executive Council (2010-2011).
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 David Braun
Director
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Mr. David Braun is the former President of APSA. He is currently an MD/PhD candidate and the first Sanfurd Bluestein, MD Scholar at the Mount Sinai School of Medicine and a student at the Courant Insitute of New York University. He graduated Magna Cum Laude from Princeton University with an A.B. in Molecular Biology, and Certificates in Engineering Biology and Computer Science. In addition to his work with APSA, Mr. Braun has served as Co-President of the Mount Sinai Chapter of Physicians for Human Rights, and as the Chief Clinic Manager of the East Harlem Health Outreach Partnership, a student-run clinic that provides free comprehensive medical care to the uninsured. In 2008, Mr, Braun was award the Excellence in Medicine Leadership Award by the American Medical Association Foundation, and the Outstanding Leadership Award by the Mount Sinai School of Medicine. Within APSA, Mr. Braun has served as President, as Chair of the Membership Committee, and as the Institutional Representative for Mount Sinai. In 2007, Mr. Braun initiated and organized the APSA New York Physician Scientists Symposium, which has since become an annual event in the Northeast that draws hundreds of trainees from dozens of institutions each year. His central goal is to help ensure that the enormous promise of translational medicine will be effectively delivered to the community and society at large.
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 Shwayta Kukreti, MD, PhD
Director
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Dr. Shwayta Kukreti, MD, PhD is resident who will be training in Radiology at UCLA. Currently she is pursuing her preliminary medicine year at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. In 2011 she completed the Medical Scholars MD/PhD Program at the University of Illinois-Urbana, Champaign. She received her PhD in Biophysics and Computational Biology in 2007 working at the Laboratory for Fluorescence Dynamics in collaboration with the Beckman Laser Institute and Medical Clinic at the University of California-Irvine. Dr. Kukreti's research focus is in biomedical devices, which has led to a patent. More specifically, using lasers she is interested in developing methods for breast imaging and analysis using optical spectroscopy. Dr. Kukreti graduated Bronze Tablet, Summa Cum Laude, with Bachelors of Sciences degrees in Honors Biology and Biochemistry from the University of Illinois-Urbana, Champaign in 2003. She serves a mentor for undergraduate students interested in math, science and engineering. Dr. Kukreti joined APSA as Vice President from 2007-2008. Currently she serves on the Nominations Committee of the APSA Board of Directors.
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 Moshe Levi
Director
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Moshe Levi obtained his degrees in Chemical Engineeringfrom Northwestern University (BS) and Stanford University (MS) and his medical degree from Albert Einstein College of Medicine. He completed his internship and residency training in internal medicine at Cornell Medical College and his fellowship training at the University of Colorado. He was in the faculty in the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center from 1984-2002 and since 2002 at the University of Colorado where he is currently Professor of Medicine & Physiology and Biophysics & Bioengineering. He is a practicing Nephrologist and he also leads an active research lab investigating 1) the regulation of renal and intestinal phosphate transport, 2) obesity, diabetes and aging related kidney disease, and 3) atherosclerosis and vascular calcification.
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 Stephen Magill
Director
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Stephen Magill is an MD-PhD candidate at Oregon Health and Science University. After spending his childhood in Indianapolis, IN, he went to the University of Pittsburgh where he received his undergraduate degree in neuroscience. He completed his PhD in Richard Goodman’s laboratory in the Vollum Institute, where he studied the role of microRNA-132 in newborn neurons in the adult hippocampus. In addition to his basic research, he has been involved in several clinical research projects through the Department of Neurological Surgery. Currently, he is leading a randomized, double-blinded placebo-controlled study to prevent wound infections following implantation of functional neurosurgical devices. Outside of the lab he enjoys spending time with his wife, working in the yard, snowboarding, guiding whitewater rafting trips, or going for rides on his motorcycle through the beautiful Oregon countryside. Dr. Magill served as an APSA Institutional Representative (2006-2007), on the APSA Finance Committee (2006-2007), and as Chair of the APSA Public Relations Committee (2007-2008). Dr. Magill joined the APSA Board of Directors in July 2009.
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 Juanita L. Merchant, MD, PhD
Director
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Juanita L. Merchant, MD, PhD, is a H. Marvin Pollard Professor of Gastrointestinal Sciences in the Departments of Internal Medicine (Gastroenterology) and Molecular and Integrative Physiology. She received her BS from Stanford University and MD, Ph.D. from Yale University. Her PhD degree is in Cell Biology. She completed internship and residency at MGH, Boston and a her postdoctoral fellowship in Gastroenterology at MGH. She completed a Clinical Fellowship in GI at UCLA before being recruited to the University of Michigan. She serves on a number of boards and is an associate director of the UM MSTP. Dr. Merchant’s research focuses on the molecular mechanisms underlying normal and cancerous epithelial cell growth in the luminal gastrointestinal tract. Her recent studies use transgenic animal and cell culture models to dissect the pathways through which bacterial colonization in the stomach leads to chronic inflammation, metaplasia then cancer. Ongoing projects in her laboratory include the role of sonic hedgehog in chronic gastritis and acid secretion; the role of the nuclear protein menin in the genesis of gastrinomas and the role of the transcription factor ZBP-89 in enterochromaffin cell biology, function and colon cancer.
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 M. Kerry O'Banion, MD, PhD
Director
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Dr. M. Kerry O'Banion, MD, PhD is Professor and Associate Chair in the Department of Neurobiology and Anatomy at the University of Rochester School of Medicine & Dentistry. He received his MD-PhD from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Medical Scholars Program in 1987 and now leads a laboratory focused on understanding the role of neuroinflammation in acute and degenerative brain disease. Dr. O'Banion directs the Medical Scientist Training Program at the University of Rochester and served as Chair of the MD-PhD Section of the Association of American Medical Colleges’ Graduate Research, Education, and Training (GREAT) Group in 2009-2010. Dr. O'Banion has been a member of the APSA Board of Directors since March of 2006 and was an advisor to APSA as early as January of 2004 during APSA’s initial inception. Dr. O'Banion serves on the Nominations Committee of the APSA Board of Directors and is principal investigator of an R13 grant from the National Cancer Institute that supports APSA’s National Meeting.
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 Rebecca Sadun, MD, PhD
Director
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Dr. Rebecca Sadun, PhD, is an MD-PhD student at the Keck School of Medicine at the University of Southern California. She completed her undergraduate studies in Biology at Brown University (2002). In addition to her academic achievements, Ms. Sadun has been most active in the American Medical Student Association (AMSA) having served as the Director of Student Programming (2008-2009), Chair of the AMSA Medical Education Action Committee, and National Director of the AMSA Medical Education Leadership Institute. She continued her interests in medical education through her involvement with LCME accreditation at the local and national levels. Due to her interests and experience, she was appointed as a Student Member of the National Board of Medical Examiners (NBME) on behalf of AMSA. She served as Chair of the APSA Policy Committee (2008-2009). Ms. Sadun joins the APSA Board of Directors in July of 2009.
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 Eric Schauberger, PhD
Director
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Dr. Eric Schauberger is a DO-PhD candidate in his MS4 year in the Michigan State University Physician Scientist Training Program. He received his PhD in Genetics from Michigan State in 2011. His dissertation title was "The identification of ATPAF1 as a novel asthma susceptibility gene and the characterization of functional regulatory variants". He received his BS in Genetics from Iowa State University in 2003. He was awarded the Senior Leadership award by Iowa State. He has been actively involved at his college and APSA leadership including serving as Chair of the Policy committee and member of the Executive Council in 2009-10. He is currently completing his clerkships at MetroHealth Hospital in Grand Rapids, MI and will graduate in May 2012. Eric and his wife, who is a small animal veterinarian, have two rescued greyhounds and two cats. He joined the APSA Board of Directors in July of 2011.
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 Michael Zasloff, MD, PhD
Director
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Dr. Michael Zasloff, MD, PhD, a leader in innate immunity, is a Professor of Surgery and Pediatrics at Georgetown University School of Medicine. Dr. Zasloff received his MD, PhD degrees from the New York University Medical Scientist Training Program. He completed his residency training in pediatrics at the Boston Children's Hospital and his post-doctoral training at the NIH in molecular genetics. In 1981, Dr. Zasloff was named Chief of the Human Genetics Branch of the National Institutes of Child Health and Human Development. In 1989, he became the Charles E.H. Upham Professor of Pediatrics and Genetics at the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine and Chief of the Division of Human Genetics of the Children's Hospital of Philadelphia. He founded Magainin Pharmaceuticals, Inc. in 1988 and served as its Executive Vice President and President of the Magainin Research Institute in 1992. Dr. Zasloff became Vice Chairman of its Board of Directors during 1996-2000. He went on to serve as Dean of Research and Translational Science at the Georgetown University Medical Center, and primarily responsible for the overall management of Georgetown's biomedical research and its translation from the laboratory to patient care. Dr. Zasloff joins the APSA Board of Directors in July of 2009.
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