Alia Badawi is a 3rd year medical student at GW SMHS whose research and leadership activities focus on integrative medicine, climate health, and preventative medicine. She has greatly enjoyed working with Dr.’s Frame and Corr to investigate the potential confounding relationship between Vitamin D status and physical activity on health outcome measures. Alia is excited by the increasing interest in integrative medicine and hopes that more rigorous research on related topics will expand its presence in clinical medicine.
Jacob Hands is a medical student at the GW School of Medicine and Health Sciences. Jacob's research interests include lipid metabolism, glucose, cancer, nutrition and evolutionary biology. His twitter handle is @jacobmhands.
Will Hudson is a marketing manager for Johns Hopkins Medicine in the National Capital Region where he implements campaigns to educate physicians and the public on updates in oncology. He completed his masters of global health at Georgetown University, during which he designed and conducted a baseline qualitative study on perceptions of prostate cancer in the Volta Region of Ghana.
Nikhil Kalita is a recent B.S. graduate in Public Health, pursuing an MPH in Epidemiology, and interested in attending medical school. He has experience in qualitative, wet-lab, and literature review research. He is passionate about addressing health disparities that unfairly and disproportionately affect patients in clinical settings.
Michaela Karam is a rising MS2 at GW SMHS. She grew up in the DMV area and completed her undergraduate degree in Psychology and Human Biology/Global Health at the University of Toronto. She has always been very interested in integrative medicine, especially the role of nutrition and exercise, and the ways in which we can improve our health through lifestyle modification. Karam is excited to be helping out with Dr. Frame’s study exploring the connection between the gut microbiome, mild cognitive impairment, and Alzheimer’s disease. In her free time, she likes to travel, cook and share recipes, and manage her fundraising organization that aims to help get people moving.
Lara Zakaria is a student in the MPH program at GW and is also on faculty in the GW Integrative Medicine Programs. Outside of her work at GW, Zakaria runs a private practice in integrative and functional medicine.