Peri-Operative Neurocognitive Research Team Laboratory Alumni

Clinical Research Staff Alumni

Ashley Hall, BS
Clinical Research Staff

Alanna (Katie) Atkins, BS, MSN
Clinical Research Staff

Donna Crabtree, PhD
Research Project Leader
Duke Office of Clinical Research

Ayesha Syed, BS
Clinical Research Specialist

Josiane Kerbage
Clinical Research Specialist


Medical Student Alumni

Chloe Noboha
4th year medical student

Jake Thomas
3rd year medical student

Daniel Villalobos
3rd year medical student

Megan Wong
3rd year medical student

Stacey Chung, Pharm D
5th year medical student

John Park
3rd year medical student

Alex Roesler
3rd year medical student

Rosa Yang
3rd year medical student

Sandra Au
Medical student working with Dr. Heather Whitson & our group for research year, 2020-2021.

Vanessa Cheong, MD
2019-2020 Duke-NUS medical student research year, currently a medical officer with the Singapore Ministry of Health.

Thomas Bunning, MD
2018-2019 Duke medical student research year, currently Duke Anesthesiology Intern/Resident, class of 2024.

Deborah Oyeyemi, MD
2018-2019 Duke medical student research year, currently Internal Medicine Intern/Resident, Yale University Medical Center, class of 2023.

Keith VanDusen, MD
Research year 2019-2020, currently Duke Anesthesiology Intern/Resident, class of 2024.

Alexander “Zander” Tu
FAER MSARF summer 2016, currently anesthesiology resident at Wayne State University School of Medicine, class of 2023.

Shahrukh Bengali
FAER MSARF summer 2016, currently at anesthesiology resident at University of Texas Southwestern, class of 2023.

Anver Khan
Medical student research rotation 2014. He completed anesthesiology residency at Johns Hopkins in 2020, and is now completing a Pain fellowship there, class of 2021.

Anna Marie Ray
FAER MSARF summer 2017, currently an anesthesiology resident at the Brigham & Women’s Hospital in Boston, class of 2022.

Katherine “Katie” Ni
FAER MSARF summer 2015. She completed medical school at NYU in 2018, and she is currently completing an Internal Medicine residency at Mt Sinai, class of 2021.


Graduate Student Alumni

Victor Cai, BS
Duke Class of 2020

Shayan Smani
Duke Class of 2021

Charlie Giattino, PhD
Worked jointly with our group and Dr. Marty Woldorff’s lab at Duke; time period, current position


Undergraduate Alumni

Harel Anolick
Duke Class of 2022

Pallavi Avasarala
Duke Class of 2022

Soren Christenson
Duke Class of 2022

Peter Potash, BS, MS
Undergraduate and graduate researcher, 2019-2020, Duke Trinity College and Duke School of Divinity; currently a student at the Vanderbilt University School of Medicine, Class of 2024.

Jake Thomas, BS
Undergraduate researcher, 2015-2019, Duke Trinity College; currently a student at the Duke University School of Medicine, Class of 2023.

Richard Huang, BS
Undergraduate researcher, 2016-2020; currently a student at the University of Virginia School of Medicine, Class of 2024.

Jacob Gardner, BA
Duke Trinity College undergraduate researcher, 2015-2018; currently a student at the Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine, Class of 2024.

Victor Cai, BS
Duke Trinity College undergraduate researcher, 2018-2021


Local Collaborators Alumni

Duke Genomic Analysis and Bioinformatics Shared Resource
David Corcoran, PhD (Director), Jennifer Modliszeski, PhD (Biostatistician II)