Diana Lee, Co-President

Born in South Korea, Diana immigrated to the States at age 10. Since then, she grew up in Dallas, Texas and graduated from Johns Hopkins University in 2017. Before matriculating at Geisel School of Medicine, she took a gap year to work at the National Institutes of Health.

Fun fact: Diana can fall asleep on the plane before takeoff. One time, she woke up when it landed at the destination.

Cindy Li, Co-President

Cindy grew up in China and immigrated to the States for college at age 18. She went to UCLA and graduated with a B.S. in psychobiology and a minor in Gerontology. After graduation, she took two gaps years and worked for a non-profit organization to promote mental health awareness among the Asian Pacific Islander community. She matriculated at Geisel School of Medicine in 2018.

Fun fact: Cindy enjoys cross stitching for fun.

Xiangyu Zhao, Secretary

Xiangyu grew up in China and transferred to the University of Michigan in 2015 to finish his undergraduate study in chemical engineering. He graduated from UMich in 2018 and joined the Geisel Class of 2022 family a few months later. He enjoys traveling to different places (warmer ones in winter PLS!) and learning about local cultures.

Harun Sugito, Treasurer

Born and raised in Jakarta, Indonesia, Harun came to the US in 2012 to study bioengineering at MIT. After graduating in 2016, he worked as a researcher at Whitehead Institute and Boston Children’s Hospital before finding his way to Geisel School of Medicine.

Fun fact: Harun loves animals and would be a veterinarian if he hadn’t come to medical school!

Edel Auh, Co-Recruitment Chair

Edel is a current Geisel student from Orange County, CA. She graduated in 2018 from Dartmouth College majoring in Comparative Literature with a focus on Japanese translation and minoring in Japanese and Global Health in Anthropology. After graduating, she moved to the other end of campus to begin medical school at Geisel.

Fun fact: The first time Edel saw snow was during her first year at Dartmouth – a record-setting winter!

Arati Gangadharan, Co-Recruitment Chair

Arati is a first-year medical student at the Geisel School of Medicine who hails from Northville, Michigan. She graduated from Dartmouth College in 2018 with honors in neuroscience and a minor concentration in public policy. Much of her undergraduate education was devoted to the interdisciplinary examination of healthcare, public policy, and communal initiatives designed to address social determinants of health. At Geisel, Arati is a co-director of Urban Health Scholars, a continuation of established interests, and is contributing to research on traumatic brain injury. She is also a Schweitzer Fellow, working with a fellow classmate to create a stroke awareness program that targets at-risk communities in the Upper Valley. Arati, who is of South Asian descent, is passionate about exploring ways to both strengthen the connections that exist between Asian physicians and provide Asian medical students with the resources they need to thrive.

Kevin Kang, Webmaster

Kevin is from Erie, Pennsylvania. His undergraduate college was Dartmouth College, where he majored in Biomedical Engineering (graduated Salutatorian, with High Honors). Extracurricularly, he was the Editor-in-Chief of the Dartmouth Undergraduate Journal of Science, a researcher at the Norris Cotton Cancer Center, a leader in Dartmouth’s Nathan Smith Society Pre-Health Group, the Director of ISEC—Dartmouth’s International Science Essay Competition for High School students—and a tutor in Math, Physics, Chemistry, Biology, and Engineering for Dartmouth’s Tutor Clearinghouse. He also tutors for the MCAT, SAT, and SAT Subject Tests through Veritas Prep (a private tutoring company). In his free time, he enjoys watching and playing basketball and soccer. His prior training and experience in healthcare involves working as a volunteer in the UPMC Hamot Hospital, acting as a listener/scribe/escort for patients via the Patient Support Corps at the DHMC, and volunteering as a research assistant in the UPMC Hamot Cardiac Catheterization lab. Moreover, through the organization MEDLIFE, as an undergraduate, he visited Ecuador where he worked alongside certified local physicians, nurses, dentists, and pharmacists in underserved populations. Selected as a 2017 Goldwater Scholar, he is am aiming to be a physician-scientist.