The Youth Journal Club Project
Anya Reddy
Director for Cell and Molecular Biology
Anya Reddy is a junior at Blue Valley North in Kansas. She enjoys genetic research and learning about molecular biology.
Seher Saini
Director for Health and Medicine
Seher Saini is a junior at Hickory High School in Chesapeake, VA. She's passionate about biology and aspires to pursue healthcare as a career.
Sloka Ganne
Director for Neuroscience
Sloka Ganne is a senior from Blue Valley West High School, Kansas, who is interested in neuroscience.
Vaishnav Nair
Director for Research Methodology
Vaishnav Nair is a sophomore at the Pembroke Hill School in Kansas City, MO. He is interested in human anatomy.
JoAnna
Fancher
JoAnna Fancher is a sophomore at Hickory High School in Virginia who has an interest in biochemistry.
Team members
Any high school student is welcome to be a participant in our Journal Club. Please use "Contact us" page to send us your information and you will be invited to join our Discord channel. Zoom links for meetings will be posted on GroupMe. Please review our Participation Guidelines here.
If you would like to present and join a specific team (Cell and Molecular Biology, Neuroscience, Health and Medicine or Research Methodology), please use "Contact us" page and send us your information. We recommend completion of an introductory High School Biology course. Experience in Biology related extracurriculars is preferred (examples include Research related activities, science competitions, experience in a lab etc.). Our Presentation guidelines can be reviewed here.
Mentors
Dr. Ashish K. Khanna
Advisor
Dr. Ashish Khanna is professor of anesthesiology and vice-chair of research with the department of anesthesiology, division of critical care medicine at the Wake Forest University School of Medicine in Winston-Salem, NC.
His research interests include prediction of post-operative respiratory and cardiac events on the regular nursing floor using wearable monitoring, use of large datasets for perioperative outcomes research, RAAS dysfunction in critically ill patients and use of novel vasopressors in shock states in the ICU. Dr. Khanna has more than 200 peer reviewed papers, two dozen book chapters, editorials, invited non-peer reviewed articles, and has been invited to talk about this work at prestigious national and international forums. He serves on the leadership of the Society of Critical Care Medicine as a past chair of the Discovery research network and member of the SCCM council. He chairs the ASA committee on critical care medicine, and is on the board of directors for the Society of Critical Care Anesthesiologists (SOCCA) and the American Society for Enhanced Recovery and Perioperative Medicine (ASER-PM). He has been awarded funding by FAER, NIH/NCATS KL2, NIH/NHLBI, Wake Forest intramural CTSI and several industry and foundation grants.