Biography:

Sandi Assaf is a second-year medical student at Sam Houston State University College of Medicine. She studied anthropology at the University of California, Los Angeles and graduated with her B.S. in 2022. She then took a gap year working as a Clinical Research Assistant at Cedars-Sinai Smidt Heart Institute. During that time, she published and presented research in the fields of anthropology and psychiatry. Her current research interests include dermatology and nutrition.