Anusha Jayaram, MD

Anusha Jayaram attend New York University for a BA in Anthropology, while also competing on the tae kwon do team, studying abroad in London and Peru, and being a resident assistant. After college she worked as a research assistant in the Department of Surgery at Mount Sinai, where she found her initial love of surgeyr. She went on to attend Tufts University School of Medicine for a combined MD/MBA with the Brandeis Heller School for Social Policy and Management, where she served on the admission committee, graduated with research honors, and developed her passion for improving access to surgical care. She served as the National Chair for the Global Surgery Student Alliance from 2019-2021, where she led efforts to improve and expand global surgery education and resources and advocated on a national level for funding for surgical care. She also completed a research year as a Paul Farmer Global Surgery Research Associate at the Harvard Program in Global Surgery and Social Change working on projects related to access to urgent and emergent blood needs, antiracism in global surgery, and developing global, virtual workshops for national surgical planning. She is currently completing an NIH Fogarty International Fellowship in Nepal working with the Division of Burn Surgery at Kirtipur Hospital. At ACS she is the Secretary for the RAS Global Surgery Committee and the RAS-Liaison to the ACS HOPE Advocacy Committee. Anusha has been recognized for her efforts in global surgery and education as a Boston Congress of Public Health’s 40 Under 40 in Public Health, receiving the Consortium of Universities for Global Health Dr. Wasserheit Young Leader award, the Association for Surgical Education’s Promising Medical Student Surgery Education Research Award, and BIDMCs Surgery Resident as Teacher Award.