
Medical Student
TouroCOM
Biography
Omeed Hashemi-Nejad is a second-year medical student at the TouroCOM-Harlem. He holds a B.S. in Biochemistry from the University of California, Santa Barbara, and an M.S.L. from Northwestern Pritzker School of Law. As an undergraduate, he worked in Dr. Julie Simpson's lab, proofreading neuronal maps from electron microscopy data for a fly connectome study of motor control. At Touro, he serves as President of SOMA and tutors for MedAchieve. He is excited to contribute to clinical research alongside his coursework.
Research interests
Spondyloarthritis, sports medicine, joint replacements
