Elena Gupta Email & Phone Number

Ithaca, New York Area

• Founded organization that focuses on harnessing education as a tool for gender equality in Tompkins County and abroad.
• Procured over $1,000 in grants and created the annual International Women's Day Conference at Cornell.
• Raised thousands of dollars in scholarships to help local high school women interested in entering underrepresented fields such as STEM or business in college.
• Initiated a mentorship program to guide local high school students through the college application process.
• Collaborated with key community organizations such as the Ithaca Women's Opportunity Center to inform service work and access vulnerable populations in need.
• Organized college panels, college application workshops, free SAT practice tests in conjunction with the Princeton Review, and more.

• Co-designed an iPhone and desktop application to use purpose as a source for youth engagement in NYS classrooms and 4-H programs.
• Worked with NYS 4-H practitioners to evaluate the positive youth development outcomes of a public speaking program.
• One of six undergraduates to pursue a class in professional methods in translational research for two years.
• Oral research presentation at the Bronfenbrenner Center for Translational Research as an invited speaker.
• Received a stipend for all four semesters.

• Conducted literature reviews on school funding litigation and charter school implementation across the United States.
• Compiled election and census data into spreadsheets and tables for further analysis.
• Developed basic proficiency in STATA statistical software to use data from the National Social Survey as part of a project on attitudes toward socioeconomic integration in schools across the United States.

• Conducted systematic review and meta-analysis of literature on using the psychological benefits of self-weighing to facilitate weight gain prevention. Second author on paper in progress.
• Headed study on using the scale as a tool to combat food priming through environmental cues. First author on paper in progress.
• Selected presentations: National Integrative Research Conference (McGill University), National Collegiate Research Conference (Harvard University), Cornell Undergraduate Research Board TED Talks (CURBx), Obesity Week.
• Selected for STEM fellowship in Canada, and published abstract in STEM Fellowship Journal as an invited contributor.

Rochester, New York

• Over 200 hours of shadowing and diagnostic simulations in GI pathology, breast pathology, general surgery, forensic pathology, and autopsy services.
• Attended Gross Conference case reviews with physicians and residents to examine ambiguous autopsy cases.
• Scribed and acted as a non-medical assistant during an autopsy.
• Created and published a video in a series of tutorials used in the second year histology curriculum for University of Rochester medical students.
• Conducted research on Lynch Syndrome through the Surgical Pathology Department. Co-author on paper (in progress), recent abstract submission to United States and Canadian Academy of Pathology Conference.

Bachelor Of Science (B.S.), Human Biology, Health, And Society With Minors In Inequality Studies And Human Development

Doctor Of Medicine - Md