Publications & Presentations:

Textbook Chapter:

Cambridge University Press. The Story of Stroke: Key Individuals & The Evolution of Ideas. Chapter 24/61: Stroke Genetics. (2022).

Conference Presentations:

146th Annual Meeting of the American Neurological Association. National Conference Poster. October 8, 2021.

American Physician Scientists Association (APSA) at Penn Medicine. National Conference Poster. January 17, 2021.

Talk at the Northern Virginia Bahá'í Center. Religion and Technology: The Dialectic of Self and Society. October 18, 2020.

TEDx Talk at the Flint Hill School with 5,000+ views. The Harmony of Science and Religion: A Bahá’í Perspective. May 21, 2018.

Publications:

The Lancet Global Health. Cybersecurity in the age of digital pandemics: protecting patient data in low-income and middle-income countries. April 17, 2024.

BMJ. Women and girls in Gaza face increasingly dire physical and mental health challenges. March 12, 2024.

ecancer. Digital Roots: Harnessing Digital Platforms in Advancing Traditional and Complementary Medicine for Cancer Care in Sub-Saharan Africa. March 4, 2024.

Yale Climate Connections. Does recycling actually help the climate? Here are four myths to avoid in a wasteland of misinformation. February 14, 2024.

The Lancet. Addressing the mental health crisis among children in Gaza. February 9, 2024.

The New York Times. Don’t Resist Paxlovid as Covid Rises Again. January 16, 2024.

The Hill. Penn, Harvard resignations show ‘safe spaces’ can backfire. Here’s how we can move to ‘brave spaces.’ January 3, 2024.

Mayo Clinic Proceedings: Digital Health. Equity in Scientific Publishing: Can Artificial Intelligence Transform the Peer Review Process? November 14, 2023.

Teen Vogue. Grad School Exams Should be Pass/Fail, Including the MCAT, GRE, and GMAT. September 6, 2023.

The Lancet. Evaluating novel methods of enhancing the impact of financial incentives on household nutrition in developing nations. September 1, 2023.

The BMJ. Academic hierarchies are an uphill struggle for black women. August 2, 2023.

Nature, npj Digital Medicine. Harnessing big data for health equity through a comprehensive public database and data collection framework. May 20, 2023.

Council on Foreign Relations, Think Global Health. Rwanda’s Health-Care Success Holds Lessons for Others: Three takeaways for other low-income countries. May 17, 2023.

Smithsonian Magazine. Four Big Questions About the New Covid-19 Boosters, Answered. April 27, 2023.

Journal of Public Health Management and Practice. China Needs Evidence-Based Covid Vaccines, and Its Government Now Has a Political Opening to Provide Them. March 24, 2023.

The New York Times. The ‘Wild West’ of Ketamine Treatment. March 5, 2023.

The Washington Post. Use People-First Language. February 3, 2023.

The Lancet. Recruitmentology and the politics of consent in clinical research. January 28, 2023.

The Washington Post. Med schools should de-emphasize standardized admissions tests. December 8, 2022.

History News Network. Monkeypox Has Been Around for Decades; This Outbreak is a Product of Neglect. November 13, 2022.

METRO. I ran for my life from what I thought was an active shooter – it taught me a painful lesson about the US. October 20, 2022.

The Globalist. In Iran, state-sanctioned persecution of Baha'is escalates. Silence is a warrant. September 11, 2022.

The Journal of Allergy and Clinical Immunology: In Practice (JACI: In Practice). Do rural health disparities affect prevalence data in pediatric eosinophilic esophagitis? April 28, 2022.

Journal of Stroke and Cerebrovascular Diseases. Abnormalities of the Vertebrobasilar Arterial System Leading to Sleep Disorders. February 18, 2022.

Annals of Neurology (Vol. 90, Supplement 27). October 19, 2021.

International Archives of Public Health and Community Medicine. The Effects of the Internet on Celebrification and Mental Health: From Britney Spears to the Vatican. October 9, 2021.

International Archives of Public Health and Community Medicine. The Ethics of Physician-Assisted Suicides (PAS). October 6, 2021.

Dartmouth Undergraduate Journal of Science (pp. 341-351). Organoids-On-a-Chip: Celebrating Decades of Work. May 17, 2021.

Journal of Stroke and Cerebrovascular Diseases. Non-Dolichoectatic Vertebral Artery Compression of the Medulla: A Comprehensive Literature Review. April 1, 2021.

Dartmouth Undergraduate Journal of Science (pp. 156-161). Research on COVID-19 and COVID-19 Impacts on Research. January 2, 2021.

The Rough Draft. Goodbye Iran. April 27, 2020.

FHS View. On Senior Year Stress. September 30, 2019.

FHS View. Cybersecurity Club Encourages Students to Pursue STEM Careers. March 8, 2019.

Amazon (book), Kindle Direct Publishing. The New Truth: An Anthology of Introspective Poetry. January 21, 2019.

FHS View. New Dress Code Makes Its Debut. October 4, 2018.

Medical pieces commented on or featured at:

The Washington Post (President of the Association of American Medical Colleges responding to Opinion with a Letter to the Editor)

The Washington Post (Princeton Review Foundation Executive Director responding to Opinion with a Letter to the Editor)

The Daily Mail (1.9m+ readership with 1,000+ comments on the piece)

The Kaiser Health Network (KHN) National Policy Briefing

Penn Today: In The News (covering the latest events at UPenn)

Microsoft Network (MSN, https://lnkd.in/e9BKe3ku)

WST Post (https://lnkd.in/eTMKpsZ9)

News Times UK (https://lnkd.in/eVpfYDvD)

The Carl Nelson Show (https://lnkd.in/eQkNuiUF)

Flipboard (https://lnkd.in/euuNDaTP)

The Post Millennial (https://lnkd.in/e-pxYskd)

The New York Daily Paper (https://lnkd.in/eY-V6ZPw)

ABD Post (https://lnkd.in/e848YMJJ)

Lipstick Alley (https://lnkd.in/eawQ8pPz)

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Tech Blog (https://lnkd.in/eazvmPYw)

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Acknowledgments:

Cellular and Molecular Gastroenterology and Hepatology. CD73+ Epithelial Progenitor Cells That Contribute to Homeostasis and Renewal Are Depleted in Eosinophilic Esophagitis. January 30, 2022.

PLOS ONE. Baseline human gut microbiota profile in healthy people and standard reporting template. September 11, 2019.

Accepted Publications:

Journal of Clinical Psychopharmacology. First-authored literature review.