Schinthia Islam worked in the Butcher lab on gene delivery into aortic valve cells before graduating with an M.Eng. degree in 2011. Though Schinthia remembers finding herself at Cornell BME a bit unexpectedly, she is grateful for her time there and has fond memories of the corridors of Weill Hall. After graduating , she traveled the East Coast and then returned to her home state, Nevada, where she met Abdulhalim, her partner in crime and the love of her life. In 2012, they married, and a few days after, Schinthia joined HeartFlow, Inc., an innovative biomedical device company in California that provides a diagnostic tool for cardiovascular disease using CT heart data to produce a 3-D models of the coronary arteries. As a case analyst for the company, Schinthia produced the 3-D models. She took a short break from HeartFlow to live in Tennessee. Currently, Schinthia is back in California at HeartFlow training new analysts. In 2014, Schinthia and Abdulhalim welcomed a son, Al-Ameen, who is now a spunky and inquisitive one-and-a-half-year-old.
Undergraduate alum Alice Yan describers her career journey to working in legal and regulatory compliance at a healthcare start-up. Read more about From Future Doc to Healthcare Industry Disruptor: Alice Yan ‘19, ‘20
Erica Pratt's doctoral work in Dr. Brian Kirby's lab focused on investigating circulating tumor cells (CTCs) in the peripheral blood system of patients with solid tumors and how these cells can be used as a noninvasive tumor surrogate, and as prognostic biomarkers for survival in advanced disease. Read more about Erica D. Pratt, Ph.D. 2015
Now attending medical school at the University of Central Florida College of Medicine, Ashley aspires to be a surgeon. Currently, her research focuses on a novel surgical operation to reduce lymphedema after axial lymph node dissection. Read more about Ashley Pekmezian, B.S. 2019
