Medical Student
University of Illinois at Chicago
University of Illinois College of Medicine
Chicago, Illinois, United States
Syeda Akila Ally is a 4th-year medical student at the University of Illinois College of Medicine in Chicago. Growing up in Bangladesh, Akila’s interest in health equity developed as a high schooler in Dhaka implementing service projects at her school. She received her undergraduate degree in Biological Sciences from the University of Chicago and worked in a public health agency before medical school. During college, Akila explored her interest in equity in the field of hematology-oncology through mentoring adolescents with sickle cell disease and conducting community-based participatory research on breast cancer screening disparities among immigrant women. During medical school, she completed a longitudinal global medicine scholarly concentration and pursued an NIH-funded research training fellowship at the Sickle Cell Center at UIC. During this fellowship, she explored socioeconomic distress and nutrition in adults with sickle cell anemia and investigated the effect of nutrition on cardiometabolic outcomes in these patients. Akila plans to begin her internal medicine residency training this summer, and hopes to train in hematology-oncology in the future. Her academic interests include med ed, community
investigating factors that contribute to global health inequity, particularly for marginalized and immigrant patients, and implementing interventions to combat that.
During medical school at UICOM, Akila was selected for the Global Medicine (GMED) scholarly development track and the Craig Research Fellowship. Through GMED, she has committed time to learn about social, environmental, political, and economic issues that contribute to world health disparities.
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Socioeconomic Factors & Dietary Patterns in Adults with Sickle Cell Disease
Sunday, June 9, 2024
4:15 PM – 4:30 PM ET