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Auriel August
Affiliate, Dean's Office Operations - Dean Other
Bio Auriel August MD is a general surgery resident at Stanford Hospital passionate about problem solving. She received her undergraduate degree in biomedical engineering from Duke University concentrating in biomechanics and biomaterials. While at Duke she spent 5 years improving deep brain stimulation for treatment of Parkinson's disease and essential tremor. She went on to earn her medical degree from Dartmouth Medical School where she was selected to the medical education scholar tract. While in residency she received training in medical device development as a Stanford-Byers Center Biodesign Innovation Fellow during which time Dr. August co-founded The Aquarius Lab, a medical device incubator. Dr. August plans to build a career using technology and design to close gaps in healthcare delivery worldwide.
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kovi bessoff
Affiliate, Dean's Office Operations - Dean Other
Bio My clinical interests include trauma/critical care and acute care surgery. I am interested in how the application of innovative solutions (both device and informatics based) can improve patient care and outcomes in developed as well as developing world settings.
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Jeff Choi
Masters Student in Biomedical Informatics, admitted Autumn 2020
Bio General Surgery Resident (2017-) in professional development time. MSc student in Epidemiology & Clinical Research (2019-2020), and Biomedical Informatics (2020-). Co-President of SWAT (Surgeons Writing About Trauma); helping students get excited about clinical research is my passion.
My interest is encouraging cross-disciplinary collaborations to tackle challenging research questions in trauma surgery. To better lives of injured patients and their families, our research teams explore evidence synthesis (meta analysis), computer vision applications, decision analysis/cost-effectiveness analysis, epidemiological/clinical outcomes research, and prognostication tool development. If you are interested in collaborating, please reach out. -
jared Forrester
Affiliate, Dean's Office Operations - Dean Other
Bio Working to combine my passion for effective surgical care in resource-constrained settings, affordable healthcare innovation, and team-centered systems improvement through a career in general surgery. Completed a two-year fellowship with Lifebox in Ethiopia, working to develop a scalable program to decrease infections after surgery.
