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Yousif Shwetar<\/span>, MS3<\/strong> (He\/Him) <\/p>\n Matthew Sutcliffe<\/span>, PhD4<\/strong>\u00a0(He\/Him\/His) <\/p>\n Cambray Smith, PhD4<\/strong> (She\/Her) <\/p>\n Emily Kounlavong, PhD3<\/strong>\u00a0(She\/Her) <\/p>\n Tiger Zhang, PhD2 <\/b>(He\/Him) <\/p>\n Kyle Pellegrino, PhD4 <\/b>(He\/Him) <\/p>\n Rachelle Ambroise, PhD3 <\/b>(She\/Her\/Hers) <\/p>\n Monica Lyons, PhD4 <\/b>(She\/Her) <\/p>\n Role: Flyer Design, Advertising, On-Site Session Help<\/span> <\/p>\n Nena Kotsalidis, MS2 <\/b>(She\/Her) <\/p>\n Hannah Phelps, MS2 <\/b>(She\/Her) <\/p>\n Sophie Wu, MS1 <\/b>(She\/Her\/Hers) <\/p>\n Kylie Joyce, MS1 <\/b>(She\/Her) <\/p>\n Lucas Yang, MS1 <\/b>(He\/Him\/His<\/span>) <\/p>\n Edgar Kong, MS1 <\/b>(He\/Him\/His<\/span>) <\/p>\n Please click here<\/a> to navigate to our student alumni page.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Student Speakers Yousif Shwetar, MS3 (He\/Him) Role: Student Speaker Research\/Clinical Interests: Ophthalmology, Electrophysiology, Imaging, Psychosocial Testing Hometown: Webster, NY Undergraduate: University of Pittsburgh – Biomedical Engineering Fun fact: Once rode my motorcycle 6,000 miles over ~3 weeks through highways, woods, and dirt trails with no itinerary. Matthew Sutcliffe, PhD4\u00a0(He\/Him\/His) Role: Student Speaker Research\/Clinical Interests: … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":112756,"featured_media":0,"parent":2260,"menu_order":8,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"class_list":["post-2751","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry","odd"],"acf":[],"_links_to":[],"_links_to_target":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/minimedschool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2751","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/minimedschool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/minimedschool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/minimedschool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/112756"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/minimedschool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2751"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/minimedschool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2751\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3181,"href":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/minimedschool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2751\/revisions\/3181"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/minimedschool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2260"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/minimedschool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2751"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\n<\/span>Role: Student Speaker
\nResearch\/Clinical Interests: Ophthalmology, Electrophysiology, Imaging, Psychosocial Testing
\nHometown: Webster, NY<\/span>
\nUndergraduate: University of Pittsburgh – Biomedical Engineering<\/span>
\nFun fact: Once rode my motorcycle 6,000 miles over ~3 weeks through highways, woods, and dirt trails with no itinerary.<\/span><\/p>\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/minimedschool\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1041\/2022\/11\/thumbnail_SutcliffeMatthew-fixed-300x300.jpg\")
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\n<\/span>Role: Student Speaker
\nResearch\/Clinical Interests: cancer bioinformatics, pediatrics heme\/onc<\/span>
\nHometown: Cumberland, RI<\/span>
\nUndergraduate: University of Virginia – Biomedical Engineering<\/span><\/p>\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/minimedschool\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1041\/2026\/01\/grad-pic-Cambray-Smith-214x300.jpg\")
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\n<\/span>Role: Student Speaker<\/span>
\nResearch\/Clinical Interests: adolescent health, sexual and reproductive health, online health information, patient-clinician communication<\/span>
\nHometown: Wyoming, OH<\/span>
\nUndergraduate: North Carolina State University – Nutrition Science<\/span>
\nFun Fact: I rollerbladed a half marathon when I lived in Minnesota.<\/span><\/p>\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/minimedschool\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1041\/2026\/01\/AC10A7A3-3847-4914-AB79-41704FCFD67D-2-Emily-Kounlavong-300x200.jpg\")
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\n<\/span>Role: Student Speaker<\/span>
\nResearch\/Clinical Interests: cancer biology<\/span>
\nHometown: Nashville, TN<\/span>
\nUndergraduate: University of Tennessee – Chemistry<\/span><\/p>\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/minimedschool\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1041\/2026\/01\/Tiger_headshot_professional-Tiger-Zhang-300x300.jpg\")
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\n<\/span>Role: Student Speaker<\/span>
\nResearch\/Clinical Interests: Protein Design, Internal Medicine<\/span>
\nHometown: McLean, Virginia<\/span>
\nUndergraduate: Yale – Chemistry<\/span>
\nFun Fact: likes ice cream<\/span><\/p>\nStudent Members<\/h1>\n
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\n<\/span>Role: Session Boss, Co-Director<\/span>
\nResearch\/Clinical Interests: Neurodegenerative Disease, Neuroinflammation, Ophthalmology<\/span>
\nHometown: New York, NY<\/span>
\nUndergraduate: Cornell – Neurobiology and Behavior<\/span>
\nFun Fact: Cat dad of 3!<\/span><\/p>\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/minimedschool\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1041\/2026\/01\/UNCHeadshot_AmbroiseRachelle-Rachelle-200x300.jpg\")
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\n<\/span>Role: Co-Director<\/span>
\nResearch\/Clinical Interests: Cardiac Reprogramming & Regenerative Medicine, Bioinformatics, Protein Design (Qian Lab)<\/span>
\nHometown: Connecticut<\/span>
\nUndergraduate: Harvard College – Chemical & Physical Biology<\/span>
\nFun Fact: I have a background dabbling in orchestral percussion.<\/span><\/p>\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/minimedschool\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1041\/2026\/01\/MonicaLyons_cropped-Monica-Lyons-300x285.jpeg\")
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\n<\/span>Role: Website Coordinator, On-Site Session Help<\/span>
\nResearch\/Clinical Interests: Understanding how brain networks develop in health and disease (Cohen Lab)<\/span>
\nHometown: Concord, MA<\/span>
\nUndergraduate: Tufts University – Cognitive & Brain Sciences, Biology<\/span>
\nFun Fact: I’m a certified rescue scuba diver!<\/span><\/p>\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/minimedschool\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1041\/2026\/01\/2025-Headshot-Bevin-Neill-196x300.jpg\")
\nResearch\/Clinical Interests: Identifying and characterizing antibodies to prevent and treat enterovirus infections<\/span>
\nHometown: Cary, NC<\/span>
\nUndergraduate: NC State – Biomedical Engineering<\/span>
\nFun Fact: I play Gaelic football! <\/span><\/p>\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/minimedschool\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1041\/2026\/01\/Nena-Nena-Kotsalidis-200x300.jpg\")
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\n<\/span>Role: Flyer Design, On-Site Session Help<\/span>
\nResearch\/Clinical Interests: Cancer biology<\/span>
\nHometown: Boston, MA<\/span>
\nUndergraduate: Wellesley College – Biochemistry<\/span>
\nFun Fact: I like cooking and baking<\/span><\/p>\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/minimedschool\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1041\/2026\/01\/PhelpsHannah-4-Hannah-Phelps-200x300.jpg\")
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\n<\/span>Role: Session Boss, Flyer Design, Website Coordinator, On-Site Session Help<\/span>
\nResearch\/Clinical Interests: Neurodegeneration, substance use disorders<\/span>
\nHometown: Boca Raton, FL<\/span>
\nUndergraduate: Biology – Florida Atlantic University<\/span>
\nFun Fact: I swam in the Great Barrier Reef last summer!<\/span><\/p>\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/minimedschool\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1041\/2026\/01\/Headshot-Sophie-Wu-219x300.jpeg\")
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\n<\/span>Role: Session Boss, On-Site Session Help<\/span>
\nResearch\/Clinical Interests: Oncology, Radiation Oncology, Brain Cancer, Cancer Therapeutics, DNA Damage Response<\/span>
\nHometown: Seattle, WA<\/span>
\nUndergraduate: Duke University – Biomedical Engineering & Computer Science<\/span>
\nFun Fact: The first time I’ve ever been to the ER was in Germany after I fell down two flights of stairs.<\/span><\/p>\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/minimedschool\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1041\/2026\/01\/headshot-Kylie-Joyce-200x300.jpg\")
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\n<\/span>Role: Advertising<\/span>
\nResearch\/Clinical Interests: Alzheimer’s disease\u00a0<\/span>
\nHometown: Greensboro, NC<\/span>
\nUndergraduate: UNC – Neuroscience<\/span>
\nFun Fact: I personally have a perfect record and shut out record against Duke women’s club soccer :).<\/span><\/p>\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/minimedschool\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1041\/2026\/01\/LHY_Headshot-Lucas-Yang-239x300.jpg\")
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\n<\/span>Role: On-Site Session Help<\/span>
\nResearch\/Clinical Interests: Immunotherapeutics, Genetics, Cancer Biology<\/span>
\nHometown: Dublin, OH<\/span>
\nUndergraduate: Yale – Molecular Biophysics and Biochemistry<\/span>
\nFun Fact: One of my top priorities whenever I move is to start a fish tank!<\/span><\/p>\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/minimedschool\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1041\/2026\/01\/KongEdgar.png\")
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\n<\/span>Role: Advertising, Website, On-Site Session Help
\nResearch\/Clinical Interests: Virology, Infectious Diseases<\/span>
\nHometown: Germantown, Maryland<\/span>
\nUndergraduate: UNC – Biomedical Engineering<\/span>
\nFun Fact: I used to live down the street from where parts of the Blair Witch Project was filmed.<\/span><\/p>\n