Honors and Awards

Medical Students

Suzanna Joseph, MS3 received support from Genentech for “Community involvement and engagement to increase representation and diversity in iMIND clinical research cohorts: a model for other ophthalmic clinical studies.”

Anita Kundu, MS3 received Duke Eye Center’s Research to Prevent Blindness (RPB) Small Grant Award for her proposal titled “Longitudinal Analysis of Multimodal Retinal and Choroidal Imaging in Parkinson’s Disease.” She won 2nd place at the 2022 NCSEPS poster competition for her work “Longitudinal Analysis of Retinal

Structural and Microvascular Parameters in Parkinson’s Disease Compared to Controls.”

Praruj Pant, MS4 received a Vitreoretinal Surgery Foundation Award.

Mason Seely, MS3 received the Jack McGovern Coats’ Disease Foundation Travel Award for the ARVO 2022 annual meeting and received VitreoRetinal Surgery Foundation Award.

Soha Noorani, MS4 and Duke Visiting Observer received a $30,000 Research to Prevent Blindness/ American Osteopathic

College of Ophthalmology and Otolaryngology– Head and Neck Surgery (RPB/AOCOO-HNS)

Foundation Medical Student Eye Research Fellowship. This grant supports Noorani taking a year off from medical school to pursue research project within the Duke Department of Ophthalmology.

Jay Rathinavelu, MS3 received a Vitreoretinal Surgery Foundation Award for his proposal titled “Repeatability, Reproducibility, and Characterization of Choroidal Vascularity Index (CVI) in Handheld versus Tabletop OCT images in adults and premature infants.”