Dr. Mickey E. Abraham is a neurosurgery resident at UC San Diego with a focus on bioethics, innovation, and regenerative neurosurgery. Holding an MS in Philosophy from Columbia University, he has developed expertise in neuroethics and served as a resident member of the UCSD Bioethics Committee. His research spans gene therapy, stem cell interventions, and neuromodulation, with publications in Cell Stem Cell and bioethics literature. He has secured NIH and CIRM grants and co-investigated clinical trials in spinal cord injury and Parkinson’s disease. He is dedicated to integrating ethical principles into the development of novel neurosurgical therapies and advancing responsible medical innovation.

Joel Adu-Brimpong is an MD/MBA candidate at Stanford University and a Graduate Fellow at the Institute for Human-Centered Artificial Intelligence. With a background in healthcare delivery, digital health, and AI ethics, his research has been published in leading journals, including Nature and JAMA. He previously served as a Healthcare Administration Fellow at Cleveland Clinic and was a biomedical research scholar at the National Institutes of Health. Joel is passionate about integrating emerging technologies and ethical leadership to advance responsive, learning healthcare systems.

Mike Auten is a 2016 West Point graduate, a prior Fulbright grantee in Ukraine, and a former officer of the U.S. Marine Corps. He is currently a senior medical student at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai and is applying this year to general surgery residencies across the country. As a FASPE Medical fellow, Mike plans to focus on the applied ethics of humanitarian intervention in modern conflict and surgical ethics at the end of life.

Yanglu Chen graduated magna cum laude as a Chemistry major at Princeton University. Her passion for global health and education led her to intern at the Indian Institute of Cerebral Palsy in Kolkata, India, and she was awarded a Princeton in Asia fellowship to teach English in rural Japan. She graduated medical school at Columbia University as an inductee to the Alpha Omega Alpha Honor Society and Gold Humanism Honor Society. She is now a second-year resident in Psychiatry at Mount Sinai Hospital.

William J.W. Choi, MBE is a medical student at the Warren Alpert Medical School of Brown University, and a member of the Rhode Island Hospital ethics committee. William is passionate about studying diverse philosophical approaches to death and dying, and developing patient-centered decision-making models for individuals with neuropsychiatric conditions. William has published his work in journals such as the Journal of Medical Ethics, and has presented at various bioethics conferences. He is also the recipient of the 2022 Beecher Prize in Medical Ethics, the 2022 ASBH Student Paper Award, and the 2023 NIH Summer Fellowship at the Department of Bioethics.

Noorin Damji is a 3rd year psychiatry resident at Duke University. Her commitment to caring for disenfranchised patients reaches back a decade to her time in the harm reduction community at the Berkeley Free Clinic. She has since then worked with patients in crisis shelters, in their homes, on the streets, in hospitals, and in a county jail system. She strives to meet people where they’re at, both physically, and in understanding their values. She is a proud graduate of the University of Vermont, the University of California, Berkeley, and Moorpark College.

D. Brendan Johnson is a psychiatry resident at Brigham & Women’s Hospital and a graduate of Duke Divinity School’s Theology, Medicine, and Culture fellowship, with a background in social medicine, liberation theology, and community and global psychiatry. He cohosts the “Social Medicine On Air” podcast and is an associate member of the Las Casas Institute for Social Justice at Blackfriars Hall, University of Oxford.

Cecily McIntyre is a second year in the Yale Internal Medicine Primary Care residency program. She graduated from the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai. Before coming to medicine, she attended Yale as an undergraduate and studied English. She has long harbored a love of caring for older adults and plans to pursue a fellowship in Geriatrics after residency training. At FASPE, she looks forward to rich discussions about the everyday ethics of practicing medicine.

Julia Milden, MD, is a General Internal Medicine subspecialty resident at the University of Toronto in Toronto, Canada. She completed Internal Medicine residency, Medical School, and a Bachelor of Arts in Economics at Queen’s University in Kingston, Canada. Julia’s clinical interests include Addictions Medicine and Social Medicine. Academically, she is interested in advancing social accountability and structural competency in medical education, exploring how medical professionals can effectively advocate for both patients and health systems.

Ari Morgenstern attended Albert Einstein College of Medicine and remained in NYC for his psychiatry residency at Mount Sinai Morningside/West. Before residency started, Ari volunteered Mount Sinai’s Graduate Medical Corps, a newly formed miniresidency for medical students who graduated early due to the pandemic. Ari was the first Education Chief Resident at Mount Sinai Morningside/West. Ari has volunteered with the Mount Sinai Human Rights Program, where he provides psychological evaluations for refugees seeking asylum in NYC. Ari provides telepsychiatry supervision to a nurse in Liberia, where he also taught a three-week course in therapy and psychopharmacology in the capital of Monrovia.

Conor Rork is a third-year medical student at Columbia University’s Vagelos College of Physicians and Surgeons in the Columbia-Bassett program. He earned a Bachelor of Arts from Rice University, where he majored in Neuroscience and Classical Studies and minored in Medical Humanities. His professional interests include medical ethics and critical care, and he plans to apply to an internal medicine residency this fall.

Victoria Van Benschoten, MD is a current second-year internal medicine resident at the University of Chicago. She pursued her undergraduate studies in Chemistry at Carnegie Mellon University followed by medical school at Baylor College of Medicine. While in medical school, she completed a certificate in Medical Ethics with her capstone project delving into ethical quandaries of death by neurologic criteria. During residency, she has continued this interest in medical ethics and plans to complete fellowship in Pulmonary/Critical Care Medicine.

Leonard Wang is a US-UK Fulbright Scholar pursuing an MSc in Health and Social Policy in Glasgow, Scotland. Following his Fulbright year, he will pursue an MBA at the University of Cambridge as a Rotary Global Grant Scholar. In the US, Leonard is a rising fourth-year MD/MPH student at the University of Texas Medical Branch. He plans to pursue residency training in internal medicine.

Lily Wieland is a third year medical student at the University of Pennsylvania Perelman School of Medicine in Philadelphia, PA. She studied philosophy, biochemistry, and medical humanities at Rice University in Houston Texas, earning her BA in 2022. She has research interests in end-of-life care, meaning-making, and storytelling ethics and plans to go into internal medicine likely followed by a palliative care fellowship.