Office for Research’s Medical Student Research Training Team
Kate Lathrop, M.D.
Assistant Dean for Medical Student Research
Joe R. and Teresa Lozano Long School of Medicine
Dr. Lathrop is a UT Health Medical Breast Oncologist. Her research interest is in early therapeutics for breast cancer, particularly triple negative breast cancer. She is the current fellowship director for the Hematology and Medical Oncology Fellowship and an assistant program director with a focus on scholarly activity for the Internal Medicine residency program. She also serves as the program director for the San Antonio Breast Cancer Symposium.
Chris Valdez, PhD
Associate Director of Research Operations
Joe R. and Teresa Lozano Long School of Medicine
Dr. Valdez received his Ph.D. in Neuroscience from the University of Michigan and is a former Department of Defense principal investigator. As the Research Operations Manager, Dr. Valdez leverages his technical and administrative background to manage programs and services that support strategic research areas within the LSOM.
Jennifer Maldonado
Senior Program Coordinator
Joe R. and Teresa Lozano Long School of Medicine
Jennifer received her Bachelor’s degree from San Diego State University, and is a U.S. Navy Veteran who served during Operation Iraqi Freedom and Operation Enduring Freedom. As the Senior Program Coordinator, Jennifer assumes oversight of student, resident and fellow programming and department-wide events.
2026-2027 Medical Student Research Liaisons
Medical Student Research Liaison Alumni
2025-2026 Research Liaisons
Class of 2028
Tieker Duncan
Austin Flitton
Angela Ge
Freedom Green
Yousuf Hassen
Donese Henneke
Tausiful Hoque
Elaine Hwang
Andrew Jung
Carson Leavitt
Dara Love
Nicole Nguyen
Prem Patel
Yu Qin
Anchita Raybarman
Jacob Stallman
Aparna Tampi
Burak Torlak
Raymond Wang
Alexander Weinstein
2024-2025 Research Liaisons
Class of 2027
Sinchana Basoor
Daniel Bellingham
Rami Benchouia
David Fronk
Freedom Green (and Gus Gus)
Nicholas Jones
Adam Maestas
Matthew Myers
Alexander Nguyen
Nicholas Nguyen
Daanish Sheikh
Amirtha Shekar
Colin Smith
Sarah Traynor
Manar Zoghdan
2023-2024 Research Liaisons
Class of 2026
Tolga Delibasi
Nadia Sahli
Alexander Joyce
Kannan Freyaldenhoven
Shriya Veluri
Star Ni
Aswarya Pillai
Armand Berry
Mithila Kareti
2022-2023 Research Liaisons
Class of 2025
Andrew Ni
Ryan Bailey
Nasa Xu
Catherine Hand
Shannon Kee
Travis Kotzur
Jared Easterling
2021-2022 Research Liaisons
Class of 2024
Simren Lakhotia
Alex DeLeon