Throughout each quarter, we collect various accomplishments—from awards and appearances to publications and presentations and more—from Pritzker students to highlight and promote their outstanding work to the rest of the community.
Submit your own achievements for our next quarterly round up of student accomplishments through this page.
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Summer 2025 Student Accomplishments:
M2s Andrew Adamek, Robert Luca, Nicko Seculov, Shohan Shetty, and Beryl Zhou received student research grants from the Illinois Society for the Prevention of Blindness.
Aleah Booker, M3, presented her research “Implementing a Health Equity Classification System into Obstetric and Gynecologic Morbidity and Mortality Conferences" at the National Medical Association Annual Convention and Scientific Assembly in July. The project began in the Pritzker Summer Research Program, and she was mentored by Chelsea Dorsey, MD, and Jana Richards, MD.
Alexis Cacioppo, M4, was selected to receive a Point Foundation Access Scholarship based on factors including academic commitment, community engagement and impact, financial need, and demonstrated potential for leadership in the LGBTQ+ community.
Mahalia Dalmage, M4, was awarded a $40,000 grant from the University of Chicago Women’s Board for her project Brain Tumor Drug Repurposing.
Jai Daniels, M2, presented a poster on her research “Implicit Sex and Gender Bias in Frontotemporal Dementia” at the Alzheimer's Association International Conference in Toronto. She was mentored on the project by Kaitlin Seibert, MD.
Satvik Jain, M1, will present his research “Geospatial Mapping Reveals Racially Patterned Cardiometabolic Risk in Chicago Pharmacy Deserts” as an oral presentation at the American Heart Association Scientific Sessions conference in November. He was mentored on the project by Seleeke Flingai, PhD, MPA, and Corey Tabit, MD.
Daniel Johnson, M4, had a first-author paper titled “Insurance coverage and employment after Medicaid expansion with work requirements: quasi-experimental difference-in-differences study” accepted for publication in The BMJ, based on his research as a Sarnoff Fellow at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center.
Priscilla Molina, M3, published a paper titled “Expanding Health Coverage Access Through State-Based Marketplaces: A Path Forward for Undocumented Immigrants” in the Journal of General Internal Medicine. Read the full paper here.
Lauren Kang, M3, will present a poster on her research “Insurance-Related Interruptions and Risk of Discontinuation of Long-Acting Injectable CAB/RPV in a South Side Chicago HIV Clinic” at IDWeek 2025 in Atlanta in October. The project originated in the Scholarship & Discovery program, and she was mentored by Anu Hazra, MD.
Dayna Pham, M2, received the 2025 Emerging Leader Award from the Health & Medicine Policy Research Group. The award recognizes visionary leaders and community advocates with less than 15 years of experience who exemplify the group’s mission to build power and momentum for social justice and health equity in Illinois.
Nihar Rama, M4, received a medical student travel grant to attend the 2025 American Academy of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery Annual Meeting in Indianapolis.
Sahil Sethi, M3, presented a paper titled “ProtoECGNet: Case-Based Interpretable Deep Learning for Multi-Label ECG Classification” at the Machine Learning for Healthcare 2025 conference at the Mayo Clinic in Minnesota in August. The paper was published in Proceedings of Machine Learning Research and can be read here. Sahil also had two abstracts accepted for presentation at the American Shoulder and Elbow Surgeons (ASES) Annual Meeting in San Diego, CA in October, one as a podium presentation and one as an e-poster. This work, on AI-Assisted MRI Interpretation, was also selected as a semifinalist in the 2025 American Medical Association Research Challenge. He was mentored on the projects by Nicholas Maassen, MD, and Lewis Shi, MD, and the projects were a result of his work in the Pritzker Summer Research and Scholarship and Discovery programs. Lastly, Sahil had a first-author paper selected for publication and podium presentation at the 2026 Pacific Symposium on Biocomputing in Hawaii.
Lahari Vuppaladhadiam, M4, published an op-ed in the Chicago Tribune titled “What wildfires do to our bodies when the smoke settles.” Read the op-ed here (or via UChicago Libraries).
Michael Wakeman, M2, published an op-ed on KevinMD titled “The future of clinical care: AI’s role in easing physician workload.” Read the op-ed here.
Claire Wild, M4, published a paper titled “High-Fat Diet Driven Post-Operative Colon Cancer Recurrence is Dependent upon Genetic Susceptibility to Deoxycholic Acid” in Cancer Letters. She was mentored on the project by Benjamin Shogan, MD. Read the full paper here.