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2026–2027 Academic Year • Leadership Directory

Student Leadership & Department Heads

Women represent over 80% of the healthcare workforce but hold less than 20% of senior leadership and surgical chairs. Sisters in Scrubs is structured to reverse that disparity early, uniting high school women across New Jersey to author peer-reviewed clinical specialty guides, lead medical research discussions, and coordinate hospital outreach.

112 Students
Active in NJ
26 Student Leaders
& Department Heads
22 Clinical Tracks
& Specialties
"Let's not wait to become the future of medicine, because we are. So we should embrace it."

Samya Sondhi

Chief Medical Officer • Founder of Sisters in Scrubs
Head of Obstetrics & Gynecology
Obstetrics & Gynecology Guide

Founded Sisters in Scrubs to create a pre-med society and research community for high school women across New Jersey. Working toward competitive pre-medical programs can be intimidating, but students shouldn't navigate the journey in isolation.

Women's Health & Primary Care

Maternal, Infant & Longitudinal Care
Samya Sondhi

Curates prenatal to postpartum clinical frameworks, reproductive physiology, and preventative gynecologic care.

Maternal-Fetal Medicine
Hayden Elfand

Curates high-risk pregnancy overviews, perinatal diagnostic roadmaps, and maternal healthcare advocacy.

Miley Zamaku & Maahi Rathod

Directs primary care guides, preventative screening roadmaps, and community healthcare access initiatives across all generations.

Shruti Shah

Authors guides spanning infant development, pediatric wellness guidelines, and adolescent clinical care pathways.

Pediatric Emergency Care
Prisha Patel

Directs acute pediatric triage, rapid resuscitation protocols, and emergency room clinical workflows.

Anwitha Siddam Setty

Curates neonatal intensive care unit (NICU) overviews, prematurity management, and newborn health guides.

Pediatrics Collaborative Research Team

Specialty Sub-Committee

Directing collaborative research across pediatric subspecialties, with focused curricula spanning adolescent medicine, developmental milestones, and community child health.

Idhaya Gounder Nithya Komarraju Tisha Patel Veda Patel Varnika Pujari

Surgical & Procedural Specialties

Operative, Musculoskeletal & Perioperative Medicine
Sofia Telmo & Diya Jagadeesan

Authors operative overviews, laparoscopic surgical pathways, and acute trauma care fundamentals.

Emiliana Luis

Directs clinical resources on bone trauma, musculoskeletal reconstruction, and joint repair pathways.

Liyana Ansari

Leads educational resources on reconstructive surgery, microsurgical precision, wound healing biology, and surgical aesthetics.

Leila Santos, Jiya Singh & Saanvi Vaishak

Curates perioperative monitoring, pharmacology of general & regional anesthesia, airway management, and critical care physiology.

Internal & Diagnostic Medicine

Pathology, Diagnostics & Complex Systemic Disease
Nishika Thorat

Authors comprehensive frameworks on multi-system adult illness, hospitalist medicine, and organ pathology.

Zeal Shah & Leena Abdelghany

Curates cardiovascular health guides, cardiac imaging modalities, and electrophysiology research summaries.

Shreeya Patel

Leads guides on medical oncology, cancer therapies, clinical trials, and high school research opportunities.

Ishani Revankar & Anushri Jupalli

Leads research reviews on central nervous system pathology, neurodegenerative disease, and clinical neurology.

Chim Ozokpor & Jiya Singh

Directs clinical overviews on diagnostic imaging (X-ray, CT, MRI, ultrasound), radiation physics, and interventional radiology.

Chloe Delacruz

Directs educational overviews on cutaneous conditions, surgical pathology, and systemic skin manifestations.

Emergency, Behavioral & Allied Health

Acute Care, Mental Health & Clinical Sciences
Melissa R. Gallegos

Curates rapid triage principles, acute emergency department case studies, and critical stabilization guides.

Anusuya Mukherjee

Leads curricula on athletic injury rehabilitation, non-operative therapies, and performance biomechanics.

Nishka Trivedi & Aahana Anupam

Directs curricula on adolescent behavioral health, neuropsychiatry, and evidence-based mental wellness.

Emma Chernoff & Sofia Telmo

Authors guides on bedside patient advocacy, advanced practice nursing (NP/CRNA), clinical communication, and multidisciplinary care.

Anna Mariia Moren

Directs clinical pharmacology overviews, mechanisms of action, drug interactions, and hospital vs pharmaceutical practice.

Anwitha Siddam Setty & Jiya Singh

Curates oral pathology, preventative dentistry, maxillofacial surgery fundamentals, and community dental health outreach.

Lead a Specialty Research Track or Hospital Project

Sisters in Scrubs is actively expanding across New Jersey high schools for the 2026–2027 school year. Direct a clinical curriculum, write specialty guides, or organize pre-med events.