Scholar Profile

Summer Shabana

Medicine

Biography

Summer Shabana is a rising second-year medical student at Duke University School of Medicine. In her first year, Summer volunteered in Duke Mobile Medicine and Holton Clinic to provide free healthcare to unhoused and low-income Durham natives, and served as a mentor to Durham high school students participating in research and STEM exploration through Duke HPREP. Summer is also involved in the Duke chapters of the Student National Medical Association, First-Generation Low-Income in Medicine group, Duke Medical Students for Health Equity, and co-founded the American Muslim Medical Student Association chapter. She played viola for the Duke Student Faculty Show band and served as a member of the Davison Council DEI Committee.
Summer is the current Orthopedic Surgery Social Media Liasion of the Future Leaders of Surgery Symposium for Underrepresented Students. This upcoming year, she will serve as the Co-President of the Duke American Muslim Medical Student Association, Education Resource Chair of Duke SNMA, and Undergraduate Co-Chair of FGLIMed. She is exploring and contributing to research in orthopaedic surgery, general surgery, and neurosurgery in the context of cancer care, healthcare disparities, and innovative implants. Summer received the Jack Kent Cooke Graduate Scholarship and the Dudley A Rauch Need Scholarship to fund her medical education.

Summer graduated from Rice University with a Bachelor of Science in Bioengineering with minors in engineering design and biochemistry & cell biology and a certificate for language and intercultural communication in Spanish. Throughout her time at Rice, Summer served in leadership for the Rice Muslim Student Association, the Rice chapter for the National Society for Black Engineers, and the bioengineering student advisory committee. She also served as an undergraduate volunteer for Rice Fun With Chemistry and in Baker College as a new student representative, peer academic advisor, diversity facilitator, and orientation week advisor.

Summer worked in engineering design teams for the Rice360 Institute of Global Health Technologies, constructing devices including an affordable, automatic neonatal gastric pump for infants in the Dominican Republic, a transcutaneous electrical nerve stimulation wearable device to treat plantar fasciitis in medical professionals in Costa Rica, and a pediatric pelvic model for the practice of pelvic examinations for pediatric survivors of sexual assault. She received two Rice360 Institute of Global Health Technologies 2023 Impact Awards for her work as well as the 2021 Dr. Timothy George Scholarship, Questbridge 2019 National Match Scholarship, and Jack Kent Cooke 2019 College Scholarship during her time at Rice.

High school:  Stuyvesant High School

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