People

Kyra began her time with CTRA in June 2023 as a Postgraduate Research Associate and worked closely with Dr. Moledina recruiting patients for the Yale Kidney Biobank, the COPE-AKI Study and the Cancer Immuno-Therapy Study. Kyra left Yale in June 2025 to begin medical school at Washington State University in Spokane, WA and is planning to go into emergency medicine and critical care. She is originally from Seattle, WA.

Cathleen worked in CTRA as a Postgraduate Research Associate from June 2024 to May 2025. She provided support in patient recruitment for both the Yale Kidney Biobank and the KPMP Study. She is attending medical school at Duke University and is originally from Las Vegas, NV.

Emma joined CTRA in June of 2024 and worked with Dr. Dennis Moledina as a Postgraduate Research Associate recruiting patients for the Yale Kidney Biobank and the COPE-AKI study. She begins medical school in the fall at NYIT.

From June 2024 to June 2025, Sana worked at CTRA as a Postgraduate Research Associate. She worked closely with pediatric nephrologist, Dr. Jason Greenberg, to coordinate the CHICKADEE study to gain insight into blood pressure and kidney health in children who have undergone congenital heart surgery. She is from Fairfield, CT and will begin medical school in the fall at the University of Rochester.

Vraj was a Postgraduate Research Associate at CTRA from June 2023 to June 2025. He worked primarily on building data-driven webtools and provided excellent assistance to Dr. Perry Wilson on a standardized data set project. Vraj has a keen interest in data analysis and visualization and plans to work in Industry with a position related to data analytics.

Zubin began working as a postgraduate associate in CTRA in July of 2023. He left the program in April 2024 to begin medical school at Columbia University. During the year he was at Yale, Zubin worked closely with Dr. Perry Wilson and was instrumental in coordinating the WHOOP study, sending out wearable devices to detect atrial fibrillation and collecting data from study participants. Zubin is from Cheshire, CT.

Amrita joined CTRA in June of 2023 as a Postgraduate Research Assistant and left in May 2024 to begin medical school at NYIT College of Osteopathic Medicine. During her time with CTRA, Amrita worked closely with Dr. Dennis Moledina in the Kidney Biobank, developing a strong knowledge of study protocols and was very effective at patient recruitment. Amrita is from Westchester, NY.

Sanchit Kumar, MBBS, MD, started with CTRA in October 2021 and worked closely with Dr. Perry Wilson to direct the WHOOP trial. The WHOOP study compares a commercial-available fitness monitor (the WHOOP strap) to a standard medical device (the biotel patch) in terms of ability to detect abnormal heart rhythms. He left Yale in May of 2023 to begin his residency at the University of Pennsylvania in Internal Medicine.

MaryKate Staunton joined CTRA in July of 2022 as a Postgraduate Associate and left our program in June of 2023 to begin medical school at the University of Connecticut. MaryKate is from Clinton, CT.

Jason Weinstein joined CTRA in August of 2021 as a Postgraduate Associate and left CTRA in June of 2023 to begin medical school at Yale University. Jason is from Texas.

Kanika Garg joined CTRA in June of July 2022 as a Postgraduate Associate and left CTRA in June of 2023 to begin medical school at Philadelphia College of Osteopathic Medicine. Kanika is from Paramus, NJ.

Kuan joined CTRA in 2021 as a Postgraduate Associate under Pediatric Nephrology. He worked closely with Dr. Jason Greenberg on a study to predict AKI in hospitalized children. In 2022 Kuan started Medical School at Dartmouth University.

Hannah worked as a Postgraduate Associate in CTRA from 2021 to 2022, assisting Dr. Perry Wilson and Dr. Dennis Moledina with recruitment and retaining study participants in the Yale Kidney BioBank Study.

Hannah is now working with Saad Omer, Director, Yale Institute of Global Health.

Tanima Arora was with CTRA for three years as a post-doctoral associate and made valuable contributions to several projects, including the Kidney Precision Medicine Project. She left Yale in 2021 to begin her residency at the University of Texas, San Antonio.

Frida Calderon, BA Frida worked as a postgraduate assistant at CTRA from July, 2020 to September, 2021. She worked closely with Dr. Moledina on the Kidney BioBank project where she was instrumental in screening, recruiting and obtaining consents for study participants. She is currently a research coordinator at Stanford University.

Michael Simonov served as the Director of Informatics at the Clinical and Translational Research Accelerator (CTRA) within the Department of Medicine working on a variety of interventional data science projects. He also served as a Medical Information Officer for research for the Yale New Haven Health System. He is currently adjunct at Yale and working in private industry.

Christina has worked with the CTRA program, initially as a Postgraduate Associate under Dr. Chirag Parikh in 2017 and then as a Postdoctoral Fellow collaborating with Dr. Jason Greenberg in identifying prognostic biomarkers of kidney function decline in children with congenital heart disease. In 2022, Christina began her residency in Psychiatry at the University of Virginia.

Ibrahim Sandokji was with CTRA for two years as a Fellow in Pediatric Nephrology. He worked closely with Dr. Jason Greenberg and has returned to Saudi Arabia to practice medicine at Talibah University College of Medicine.