Our Team
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Setu Mehta, MD Candidate (JHU)
Catharine Harris, MD Candidate (American Medical Program at Tel Aviv, Class of 2025)
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Andrew Zale, MD, Johns Hopkins Hopital. As a medical student, Andrew worked on several research projects on machine learning for glucose prediction in hospitalized patients, which culminated in several publications. He is now an internal medicine resident in the Osler program at Johns Hopkins Hospital.
Sara Wallam, MD. Sara worked on a project related to discordance between A1C and estimated gucose levels in hospitalized patients, which culminated in a first-author publication. She is now an internal medicine resident at Columbia Vagelos College of Physicians and Surgeons.
Defne Alver, MHS, 2021-2023, MD Candidate, University of Michigan Medical School. Defne worked as a senior research program coordinator on our trial comparing the effectiveness of two diabetes prevention programs, and on a study to help patients with type 1 diabetes start and continuing using advanced diabetes technologies.
Benjamin Ringham, 2022-2023, worked as a research program coordinator on our trial comparing two types of diabetes prevention programs. Mr. Ringham is now an Account Specialist at LSI Medical.
Sara A. Khan, MD, 2020-2022, Endocrine Fellow. Dr. Khan worked on a research project exploring the association between dysglycemia in hospitalized patients and mortality risk assessed using the Charlson Comorbidity Index. She is currently a faculty member in endocrinology at the University of Maryland Medical Center.
Sarah Kanbour, MD, 2020-2022, Endocrine Fellow. Dr. Kanbour worked on research projects related to racial disparities in type 1 diabetes technology use as well outcomes in patients with pancreatic adenocarcinoma in relation to diabetes control. She also published several clinical case reports. Dr. Kanbour is a practicing endocrinologist at Aman Hospital in Qatar.
Mira Bajaj, 2020-2021, MD Candidate, Johns Hopkins School of Medicine. Mira worked on a research study exploring the association of insulin doses in steroid-treated hospitalized patients. Her work culminated in a first-author publication in Endocrine Practice.
William Morganlander, 2020-2021, MD PhD Candidate, Johns Hopkins School of Medicine. Will worked on a study exploring association of insulin doses in steroid-treated hospitalized patients, culminating a co-author publication in Endocrine Practice.
Clarissa Ren, 2020-2021, MD Candidate, Johns Hopkins School of Medicine. Clarissa worked on a research study exploring the validity of diagnostic coding for hospitalized patients with diabetes. Her research culminated in a first-author publication in Endocrine Practice.
Alexander Borovoy, 2018- 2019, BA Candidate, Johns Hopkins University. Mr. Borovy worked on a research project exploring the association between glycemic control and wound healing.
Shraddha Gopakumar, 2017-2019, BA Candidate, University of Maryland, College Park. Shraddha worked on a systematic review and meta-analysis of on association of glycemic control and wound outcomes in patients with diabetic foot ulcers.
Stephen Shields, MPH, 2020-2021, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. Stephen worked on a study looking at the association between dysglycemia and mortality risk in hospitalized patients diabetes. Mr. Shields is currently lead population health research analyst at American Medical Group Association (AMGA).
Moeen Aboabdo, MD, 2020- 2021, MPH candidate, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. Mr. Aboabdo worked on a qualitative research study on a hypoglycemia informatics alert, culminating in a co-author publication in JMIR Human Factors.
Aditya Ashok, MD, 2019-2020; Osler Internal Medicine Resident at Johns Hopkins Hospital. Dr. Ashok was the first-author of a publication evaluating the provider response to critical action value hypoglycemia in the ambulatory setting.
Ayman Alam, MS, 2018-2020; MD candidate at Oakland University William Beaumont School of Medicine, Michigan. Ayman worked on a study exploring the association between glycemic control and survival in patients with pancreatic adenocarcinoma.
Noora Alhajri, MD, MPH, 2018-2019. Currently Instructor of Epidemiology and Population Health at Khalifa University (KU) in Abu Dhabi, UAE. Dr. Alhajri worked on a study exploring glycemic control during wound and wound-free periods in patients with diabetic foot ulcers. She also contributed to a published systematic review and meta-analysis exploring the association of glycemic control and wound outcomes in patients with diabetic foot ulcers.
Zunaira Virk, MHS, 2018-2019, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. Ms. Virk worked on a study exploring the association between glycemic control and survival in patients with pancreatic adenocarcinoma.
Emilia Thurber, MD, 2017-2019, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine. Currently internal medicine resident at Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston, MA. Dr. Thurber worked on a systematic review and meta-analysis exploring the association of glycemic control and wound outcomes in diabetic foot ulcers, published in J Diabetes Complications.
Penelope Parker, MHS, 2018-2019, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. Ms. Parker’s work on provider response to critical action value hypoglycemia culminated in a co-author publication in J Gen Intern Med.
Estelle Everett, MD, MHS, 2016-2019, Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Johns Hopkins University; currently Instructor of Medicine, University of California, Los Angeles. Dr. Estelle Everett completed a two-year research fellowship in our lab. Her research was focused predominantly on high-risk patients with type 1 diabetes (e.g. recurrent admissions for diabetic ketoacidosis). Her research culminated in five first-author and two co-author publications.
Betiel F. Voss, MD, MPH, 2016-2018, Endocrinologist, Aurora Health Care, Milwaukee, WI. Dr. Betty Fesseha Voss completed a two-year research fellowship in our lab. Her research was focused on exploring the association between glycemic control and wound healing in a prospective cohort of patients with diabetic foot ulcers. Her research culminated in a first-author publication in Diabetes Care.
Saira Khan, MD, 2015-2016, Endocrinologist, Associate Fellowship Program Director, Endocrinology; Allegheny Health Network, PA. Dr. Saira Khan’s research project in our lab was focused on glycemic outcomes occurring at the transition of care from home to hospital in insulin-treated patients. Her research culminated in a first-author publication in Diabetes Research and Clinical Practice.
Kyrstin Lane, MD, 2016-2018, Endocrinology Fellow, University of California, Los Angeles. Dr. Lane’s main research project in the lab was a systematic review and meta-analysis of glycemic control and wound healing in diabetic foot ulcers published in J Diabetes Complications.
Anyanate Gwendolyne Jack, MD, 2016-2017, Bayview Medicine Resident. Dr. Jack worked on a project in our Diabetic Foot and Wound Clinic looking at the association between glycemic control and other clinical factors on wound outcomes. Her research contributions lead to a co-author publication in Diabetes Care. Dr. Jack is currently a faculty member in endocrinology at Weill Cornell Medical College.
Sayed M. Hosseini, MD, 2014-2015 Geriatric and Gerontology Fellow, University of Maryland School of Medicine. Dr. Hosseini worked on data management and analysis in our prospective observational study of diabetic foot wound patients. His research contributions resulted in a co-author publication in Diabetes Care.
Han Na Kim, MD, 2016-2017, Clinical Associate, Endocrinology, Diabetes & Metabolism, Johns Hopkins University. Dr. Kim’s primary research project in the lab was focused on the transition of care from hospital to home of diabetic patients. Specifically, she was interested in evaluating whether changes in blood glucose medications are made during hospitalization when appropriate, and whether such changes are linked to better outcomes in patients. Her work culminated in a co-author publication in J Clin Transl Endocrinol. In addition, Dr. Kim contributed to two book chapters in diabetes.
Dalilah Reyes de Jesus, 2017 NIDDK Summer Visiting Medical Student, MD Candidate, San Juan Bautista School of Medicine, Puerto Rico. Ms. Reyes de Jesus worked on a project focused on transition of diabetic patients from hospital to home. Her work consisted of manual data collection from the EMR, data validation, data cleaning, and primary data analysis. Her work culminated in co-author publication in J Clin Transl Endocrinol.
Shuvodra Routh, 2016 Summer Visiting Medical Student, MD Candidate, University of Maryland School of Medicine. Ms. Routh worked on primary data analysis for a development of a prediction model in hospitalized patients. Her work culminated in a co-author publication in the BMJ Diabetes Open Research & Care.
Ashley Yoo, BS, 2016-2017, Research Assistant, Johns Hopkins University; currently MD Candidate, University of Maryland School of Medicine. While an undergraduate student at Johns Hopkins, Ms. Yoo worked as a research volunteer on a pilot study of a mobile health intervention for diabetes prevention. Her work on the study culminated in a co-author publication in the Journal of Medical Internet Research.
Rhett Snyder, MD PhD Candidate, JHU SOM, 2021-2022, Completed research study on U-500 insulin in hospitalizsed patients which culminated in co-author publication in Endocrine Practice.
Sara Wallam, MD Candidate, JHU SOM, 2021-2022, Completed research study on discordance between A1C and estimated glucose in hospitalized patients, which culminated in first author publication in Clinical Diabetes
