Medical Student
UC San Diego School of Medicine
Irvine, California, United States
Shivani N. Mehta is a 2nd year medical student at UC San Diego School of Medicine (UCSD SOM). She completed her BA in Public Health at Johns Hopkins University in 2018. In 2019, she embarked to Chennai, India as a Fulbright Research Scholar at the National Institute for Tuberculosis (TB) Research. At that time, she had written several globally based publications in TB social networks and maternal TB health in India. Upon entering medical school, Shivani's research passions expanded to surgical oncology quality improvement, tele-robotic surgery, and aerospace medicine with the ultimate goal of being on the fronteir of healthcare innovation in microgravity and future space travel. In addition to her research, Shivani has a passion for medical education and created the aerospace medicine course elective for medical students at UCSD SOM in 2021 and authored a book to make biological and clinical research techniques more accessible to undergraduate pre-medical students.
Disclosure information not submitted.
Saturday, March 12, 2022
7:41 AM – 7:49 AM CST
Saturday, March 12, 2022
7:49 AM – 7:51 AM CST