Ankitha Iyer Email & Phone Number

Winston-Salem, Nc, Us

Mentoring the Pipeline is an organization that provides direct mentorship by WFSOM medical students to undergraduate students at Wake Forest University in their path to medicine. As curriculum coordinator I hope to curate and communicate monthly topics that we encourage mentors to address at appropriate times over the course of the year. This will likely be accomplished with a monthly newsletter to mentors with suggested discussion topics based upon where the mentees are in their application process.

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Atrium Health Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center Department of Neurosurgery PI: Dr. Stacey Wolfe Project Title: Intra-Arterial Pembrolizumab Delivery in Refractory Head and Neck Squamous Cell Carcinoma

Atrium Health Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center Department of Public Health SciencesPI: Dr. Kristina Lewis Manuscript/Project Title: Association Between Sugary Drink Consumption and Lipid Levels in Children’s Electronic Health Records

Winston-Salem, North Carolina, United States

Atrium Health Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center Department of Radiation OncologyPI: Dr. Ryan HughesAmerican Society of Radiation Oncology (ASTRO) Annual Meeting 2021 Project Title: Short-course Palliative Radiotherapy Combined with Immunotherapy for Recurrent/Advanced/Metastatic Head and Neck CancerWake Forest School of Medicine Medical Student Summer Research Program Project Title: Validation of Swallowing-related Organs at Risk in Patients Treated with Radiotherapy for Oropharyngeal Squamous Cell Carcinoma

Application Editing - personal statement, work and activities section, secondary essays Application advice blog posts Mock InterviewingVITA Interview Prep Course design and execution

Through my time at the University of Pittsburgh I have engaged in a variety of activities, all of which have opened my eyes to the fact that senior citizens often live in a separated island of society. With our generation's advances in technology and adoption of a fast-paced lifestyle, senior citizens often find themselves alone and unable to assimilate. With this in mind, I worked with a team of like-minded students to build this non-profit organization whose mission is to connect this vulnerable population to high-school and college students around the Pittsburgh area through volunteer opportunities. Future initiatives include piloting a Virtual Reality program to improve the general mood of senior citizens and a Pre-School readers program to facilitate intergenerational engagement. Our mission is to be a centralized provider of services to senior nursing/living facilities by improving the lives of senior citizens in the Pittsburgh area through the use of inter-generational interaction and technological literacy.

Greater Pittsburgh Area

PI: Dr. Judy Chang, MD, MPHPrimary Focus of Study: Illicit substance use, patient-provider communication, and women's health during pregnancy. Extracted information from patient charts, focusing on initial, final, and Post-Partum visits, related to drug use, marijuana use, smoking, breast feeding, contraception, and social service use with the aim to characterize associations among various trends in behavior. Coded transcribed audio recordings using a qualitative analysis method to compare discussion methods used by providers to the guidelines provided by the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists. My current project is to identify the association between breast feeding intention and preferred method of contraception. This past summer through the Magee-Womens College Summer Internship I extracted pertinent information from 167 patient charts of pregnant patients who either have a history or do not have a history of substance use but are not currently using illicit substances during their pregnancy. Through this data I found an association between breastfeeding intention and preferred method of contraception. Furthering this study, I will be looking at the patient population who used marijuana, tobacco, or opioids during their pregnancy to characterize this trend and identify any discrepancies. Other projects include a study of the extent to which family history is dissected during prenatal visits and the approach to which contraceptive methods are offered to patients.

PI: Dr. Marc Coutanche, PhDPrimary Focus of Study: The Role of Sleep on Memory Consolidation - Orchestrated novel behavioral studies to explore the role of sleep on memory consolidation by manipulating sequence of sleep, attention, and types of memory - Assisted in piloting a meta-analysis study to compile the different methods used by other scientist investigating this relationship using comparative statistical analysis - Discussed and presented my research at bi-weekly lab meetings and among other faculty and peers in the University of Pittsburgh Department of Psychology annual research conference

Greater Pittsburgh Area

Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania

Professor: Dr. Erica McGreevy Course: Microbiology- Prepared weekly worksheets with checkpoint questions to encourage weekly studying and evaluate student comprehension of the material - Hosted weekly office hours to clarify student questions and add breadth and depth to existing student knowledge of complicated microbiology concepts - Assisted the professor during classroom workshops to instill active learning techniques and solidifying the concepts learned in previous biology classes and its application to Microbiology- Customized my teaching style to students who are not science majors by presenting the material in alternative formats such as narrative, flow charts, illustrations, and mnemonics to aid mastery of concepts

Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania

Professor: Dr. Lingfeng Liu, Austin Durham Course: Honors Organic Chemistry Laboratory - Course-Based Undergraduate Research Experience in Antibiotic Discovery- Assisted students in performing organic chemistry lab techniques such as Chemical Extraction, Column Chromatography, Thin Layer Chromatography, High-Performance Liquid Chromatography(HPLC), Nuclear Magnetic Resonance(NMR), and Infrared Spectroscopy (IR)- Evaluated student lab notebooks and instructed students with the most effective method to write, discuss, and present their research - Guided students in appropriate analysis of scientific inquiry by creating a plan of research and trouble-shooting progression following unsuccessful lab assays

University Of Pittsburgh, Department Of Chemistry

- The University of Pittsburgh Honors Organic Chemistry Laboratory in Antibiotic Discovery is a 4-month course during which I have the opportunity to practice authentic scientific research on antibiotic discovery while learning essential organic laboratory skills. - I am currently studying the antibiotic-producing bacteria, Enterobacter and attempting to isolate and characterize the antibiotic compound released by Enterobacter by utilizing organic chemistry separation experiments such as Liquid-Liquid Extraction, Thin-Layer Chromatography, Column Chromatography, and High-Performance Liquid Chromatography (HPLC) to isolate the antibiotic compound, and characterization experiments such as Liquid Chromatography-Mass Spectrometry (LC-MS), Nuclear Magnetic Resonance(NMR),and Infrared Radiation(IR) to identify the chemical properties and the organic structure of the antibiotic compound. - At the culmination of the course, I will be presenting my results through a Capstone Poster Presentation given in front of students and faculty at the University of Pittsburgh Department of Chemistry

Alpha Nu Chapter, University Of Pittsburgh

- Managed and coordinated tasks given to the Alpha Class Prospective Members to efficiently and successfully fulfill all requirements to become active members of the University of Pittsburgh Alpha Nu Chapter of Delta Epsilon Mu, Inc. - Organized and implemented fundraising, community service, social, and professional events to strengthen the relationship among prospective members and make an impact on the Pittsburgh community while assisting prospective members in acquiring key resources and skills to enrich their pre-health undergraduate experience -Engaged with a group of like-minded undergraduate pre-health professionals to develop professional skills, social networks, and knowledge of the various pre-health pathways

Professor: Zuzana SwigonovaCourse: Foundations of Biology 0160Assisted professor in lecture by answering student questions and facilitating better comprehension of class material. Instructed students during recitations while following professor's lesson plans to condense information and application to an experimental setting. Dedicated office hours outside of class time to assist students who struggled with the information and created worksheets and memory aides to expedite student comprehension. Created thoughtful test and review questions which often appeared on test review sheets after feedback at weekly meetings with the professor.

Professor: Lesley AshmoreCourse: Foundations of Biology 0150Assisted the professor during lectures by assisting the students during in class checkpoint quiz questions and answered questions related to comprehension. Further aided the professor during recitations by condensing information and delivering it in an innovative perspective to supplement professor teaching. Dedicated office hours outside of lecture to provide personalized tutoring to students in a small group setting aimed at answering outstanding questions, providing flow charts and diagrams to enforce understanding of the big picture, and promoting effective study strategies.

Worked with professors and researchers at the Waksman Institute of Rutgers University to identify protein sequences from Wolffia australiana and Lyndolitia punctata, species of duckweed. Worked with recombinant DNA technology through wet lab experiments such as Polymerase Chain Reaction, Restriction Digest and Gel Electrophoresis. Consequently, used bioinformatics to extract, process, and evaluate DNA sequences to identify and characterize protein structure and function.Waksman Student Scholars Club Treasurer 2014-2015

Doctor Of Medicine - Md

Activities and Societies: Neurosurgery Interest Group, General Surgery Interest Group, Mentoring the Pipeline, STOP Smoking Cessation.

Bachelor Of Science - Bs, Emergency Medicine (Pre-Med)

Activities and Societies: HOSA: Future Health Professionals, Global Brigades/Global Medical Brigades/Global Water Brigades, Jumpstart.