After graduating from Brown in May 2024 with a BS in neuroscience, Sasha wasted no time before beginning her stint with OrACORe that summer. Since then, Sasha has been invaluable in the advancement of many projects including AF-Obesity, INFORM, KArAT, MeTeOR, OAPol and TOPS, and has enjoyed getting to know her coworkers, faculty mentors, and study participants. Since moving to…

We would not have OrACORe without Dr. Katz. And we would not have Dr. Katz without Jeff – the young college graduate who took a leap of faith into the field of medicine. In hindsight, we can claim with certainty that Jeff made the right decision, but this was not always so obvious. In fact, Jeff describes his initial choice…

Post-Doctoral fellow Rey Zafarnejad was born in Iran and came to the United States at the age of 22 to pursue higher degrees in Industrial Engineering after graduating from the University of Tehran. She began her PhD at Purdue University in 2019, but followed her mentor to Pennsylvania State University in 2020, resulting in an MS in Industrial Engineering from…