WaveMakers in Medicine
Abigail Chaffin, MD & Taylor Wearda, MD

Abigail Chaffin, MD & Taylor Wearda, MD

Abigail Chaffin, MD, Professor of Surgery in the Division of Plastic Surgery, and Taylor Wearda, MD, recently won a Best Paper Award from the prestigious publication resource Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery. Drs. Chaffin and Wearda were among the authors honored...
Robert F. Garry, Jr., PhD

Robert F. Garry, Jr., PhD

Robert “Bob” Garry, Jr., Ph.D., a world-renowned professor of microbiology and immunology at Tulane University School of Medicine, has been awarded the Global VIrus Network Robert C. Gallo Award for Scientific Excellence and Leadership. The annual award...
Myrline Rose Belzince, MD

Myrline Rose Belzince, MD

Myrline Rose Belzince, MD, Adult, Child, and Adolescent Forensic Psychiatrist and Assistant Professor of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at Tulane University School of Medicine, has been awarded the 2023 American Academy of Psychiatry and the Law (AAPL) Charles...
Smruti Mahapatra, MSE

Smruti Mahapatra, MSE

Smruti Mahapatra, MSE, a second-year medical student at Tulane University School of Medicine, has been awarded a Carolyn L. Kuckein Student Research Fellowship from the Alpha Omega Alpha Honor Medical Society. The fellowship provides financial support to Mahapatra for...
Brittany Hinkle, M.Ed.

Brittany Hinkle, M.Ed.

Brittany Hinkle, M.Ed., a Child Psychology Intern in Infant Mental Health, won a psychology graduate student poster award at the Louisiana Psychological Association annual convention. Hinkle and her co-presenter, Shareefah Al’Uqdah, Ph.D., of Howard University, used a...
Oluwagbotemi Igbaroola, MS, and Hailey Phillips, BS

Oluwagbotemi Igbaroola, MS, and Hailey Phillips, BS

Tulane University School of Medicine students Oluwagbotemi Igbaroola, MS, and Hailey Phillips, BS, have been selected as Henley Scholars in this year’s cohort for the Evelyn E. Henley Anesthesia Society (EEHAS). The students will present a case report at the...