Leadership
Founders
- Aram Namavar - Senior Advisor and Founder
- Nasim Afsar-manesh, MD SFHM FACP - Chief Quality Officer, Department of Medicine
- Anna Dermenchyan, MSN, RN, CCRN-K - Director, Department of Medicine Quality, UCLA Health
Faculty Mentors
- Anna Dermenchyan, MSN, RN, CCRN-K, Department of Medicine Quality
- Russell B. Kerbel, MD, Department of Medicine
Executive Leadership Team, 2022 - 2023:
- Executive Director: Dhwani Krishnan
- Associate Director: Caitlin Chen
- Research and Shadowing Coordinators: Vivien Moritz and Michael Wong
- Director of Marketing: Sachi Sengupta
- Director of Finance: Sami Siddiqui
- Cohort Lead: Ashlen Bullock
Executive Leadership Team, 2021 - 2022:
- Executive Director: Abhinav Kareddy
- Associate Director: Dhwani Krishnan
- Research and Shadowing Coordinators: Kelly Huang and Vivien Moritz
- Director of Marketing: Caitlin Chen
- Director of Finance: Dylan Mai
- Cohort Lead: Sami Siddiqui
Executive Leadership Team, 2020 - 2021:
- Executive Director: Aishwarya Natarajan
- Associate Director: Abhinav Kareddy
- Research and Shadowing Coordinators: Dhwani Krishnan and Chidinma Ikonte
- Director of Marketing: Callista Wu
- Director of Finance: Aneri Patel
- Cohort Lead: Krish Ajmani
- Managing Editors: Therese Arevalo and Kevin Chen
Executive Leadership Team, 2019 - 2020:
- Executive Director: Samantha Lee
- Associate Director: Aishwarya Natarajan
- Research and Shadowing Coordinators: Eve Emmaouilidou and Brandon Goenawan
- Secretary: Chiamaka Nwadike
- Treasurer: Alejandro Rivas
- Cohort Coordinators: Aneri Patel and Abhinav Kareddy
Executive Leadership Team, 2018 - 2019:
- Executive Director: Christopher Huerta
- Associate Director: Samantha Lee
- Intern Coordinators: Ellie Benitez and Jackie Aramkul
- Project Coordinators: Israa Khan and Kalin Patel
Executive Leadership Team, 2017 - 2018:
- Faculty Mentor: Russell B. Kerbel, MD, Department of Medicine
- Executive Director: Sean Homorzian
- Associate Director: Christopher Huerta
- Project Manager, Prognostications: Lushin Huey
- Project Manager, Diabetes Pathway, Palliative Care Initiative: Eunice Jung
- Project Manager, Patient-Centered Viewpoints of Readmissions: Nathanial Dillard
- Project Managers, Decisional Conflict 2.0: Jae Kim and Sonia Iyengar
- Project Manager, Social Determinants Study: Christopher Soriano
- Palliative Care Initiative: Amirhossein Kaboodrangidaem and Emily Scrivens
Leadership Teams, 2017 - 2018:
- Journal Club Directors: Lushin Huey and Jasmine Zhao
- THINQ Tank Directors: Neil Parikh and Ellie Benitez
- Leadership Development Directors: Maria Garcia
- Social Media Directors: Jacquelyn Aramkul and Samantha Lee
- Fundraising Directors: Israa Khan
- Shadowing Directors: Satvir Saggi and Kalin Patel
- Social Chairs: Ishvin Hayer and Nicole Gamboa
- Admissions Directors: Ryan Farquhar and Trung Le
- Training Directors: Lushin Huey and Ian Hurst
- Social Justice Directors: Noelle Quintana and Andrea Ramirez
THINQ Medical Student Scholars, 2016 - 2017:
- Niraj Asthana
- Alexander Yuen
- KimNgan Nguyen
- Abhishek Venkataramana
- Michael Hui
- Joel Searls
- David Patron
- Anoruo Onyemaechi
- Tran Do
- Sean Dreyer
- Andrew Tucker