Executive Team

  • Founder & Executive Director

    Kirti Muthaiah

  • Director of Program Development

    Amogh Rao

  • Director of Logistics & Management

    Vanessa Hsieh

  • Director of Marketing

    Sarah Cao

  • Director of Outreach

    Arian Mehrotra

  • Director of Finance & Strategy

    Diya Patel

Our Mentors

  • Gray Peery

    B.S. UNC Chapel Hill, Class of 2020 & NC State Masters of Physiology, Class of 2021

  • Idil Baran

    B.S. in Psychology at UNC Chapel Hill with Minors in Neuroscience and Philosophy, Class of 2024

  • Matthew Larocchia

    B.S. in Integrative Neuroscience at Binghamton University, Postbaccalaureate Research Coordinator at UNC Chapel Hill

  • Kaathya Kashyap

    B.S. in Neuroscience at UNC Chapel Hill, 1st-year Medical Student at Brown University

  • Emily Hathcock

    B.S. Pre-Medicine, Wofford College & Masters of Public Health Student at the UNC Gillings School of Global Public Health

Our Guest Speakers

  • Dr. Samir Parikh, MD

    A Physician and Clinical Professor of Internal Medicine at Ohio State University’s Wexner Medical Center. Dr. Parikh was awarded “Best Doctor in America” in 2017 and named to Castle Connolly's Regional Top Doctors list.

  • Dr. Martin Casey, MD, MPH

    An Assistant Professor in the Department of Emergency Medicine at UNC Chapel Hill School of Medicine. He is also a clinician-researcher interested in leveraging the setting in which emergency medical care is provided to identify inappropriate medications and deprescribing interventions in older adults.

  • Dr. Alvan- Emeka Ukachukwu, MD, MScGH

    An Assistant Professor in the Department of Neurosurgery at Duke University. A renowned neurosurgeon and public health physician. His research focuses on eliminating disparities in healthcare access and neurosurgical capacity building.