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Global Surgery Track Residents

2026 Global track group

Current Residents

Onur Sahin, M.D., Ph.D.

Onur Sahin, M.D., Ph.D.

Medical School: McGovern Medical School at UTHealth Houston

Interests:

  • Nanomedicine
  • Bioinformatics
  • Translational Research
  • Space Medicine
Dinushi Kulasekere, M.D., MBA

Dinushi Kulasekere, M.D., MBA

Medical School: Northwestern University the Feinberg School of Medicine

Interests: 

  • Understanding the economic implications of global surgery interventions
  • Socioeconomic barriers to surgical access in a global setting
  • Designing and improving acute surgical care delivery in low-resource settings with a focus on South Asia
Henry Olano Soler, M.D., M.P.H.

Henry Olano Soler, M.D., MPH

Medical School: University of Miami Leonard M Miller School of Medicine 

Interests:  

  • AI applications that can bring equity to global health
  • Tropical diseases requiring cardiothoracic surgery
  • Congenital diseases requiring surgery
  • Global surgery policy  
Alexandra Buda, M.D.

Alexandra Buda, M.D.

Medical School: University of Rochester

Interests:

  • Geospatial mapping
  • Understanding barriers to access surgical care
  • Surgical education and training
Lubna Khan, M.D.

Lubna Khan, M.D.

Medical School:  Oregon Health & Science University

Interests:

  • Designing health care delivery systems for post-conflict war zones and post-disaster areas
  • Modeling existing trauma systems
  • Biomedical device innovation
Yao Yang, M.D.

Yao Yang, M.D., MPH

Medical School: University of Miami Leonard M. Miller School of Medicine

Interests:

  • Building human infrastructure for surgical care
  • International collaboration in surgical education
  • Models of surgical care delivery in low-resource areas
David Holmes, M.D.

David Holmes, M.D.

Medical School: University of Illinois School of Medicine

Interests:

  • Pediatric Surgical Oncology
  • Global surgical financing

Past Residents

 Sukriti Bansal, M.D.

Sukriti Bansal, M.D.

Medical School: The University of Texas Southwestern

Interests:

  • Adaptation of high-resource surgical care for mobile practice
  • Optimization of surgical education and development of collaborative academic partnerships
  • Economic, geographical, and social barriers to surgical access, with a focus on South Asia
Youmna Sherif, M.D.

Youmna A. Sherif, M.D.

Medical School: Virginia Commonwealth University

Interests:

  • Adoption of resource intensive surgeries in resource-limited environments
  • Hepatitis C endemic in Egypt
  • Health disparities, access to medical care, and structural violence
Megan Vu, M.D.

Megan T. Vu, M.D.

Medical School: University of Central Florida College of Medicine

Interests:

  • Military surgery and trauma in austere environments
  • Global pediatric surgery
  • Surgical education and training for global, rural, and military settings
Rachel W. Davis, M.D.

Rachel W. Davis, M.D.

Medical School: Baylor College of Medicine

Interests:

  • Global surgical education and curriculum development for high-resource training programs
  • National surgical infrastructure and policy design
  • Public/private collaborations
  • Low-cost surgical technology and innovation
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