Meet The Team

Yamna is an immunology research scientist at Yale and a medical student with the goal of working in the United Nations. She founded DisDos in 2023. As the President, she organizes and hosts the conferences, manages the social media accounts and promotion, designed and manages the website, and oversees all other logistics of DisDos. 

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The hosting organizations of DisDos 2023 are the American Society for Microbiology and Student Organ Donation Advocates Student Chapters at Quinnipiac University.

Taha is a medical student and a former member of the Program Model Workstream in the Yale Y2Y New Haven Homeless Shelter. He is a pharmacy tech in West Virginia and founded DisDos in 2023 with Yamna with the goal of becoming a United Nations physician-scientist. He oversees logistics and management of DisDos.

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The hosting organizations of DisDos 2023 are the American Society for Microbiology and Student Organ Donation Advocates Student Chapters at Quinnipiac University.

Dr. Moin is an inspirational medical leader and general practitioner with skills in gynecology/obstetrics, emergency medicine, aviation medicine, and epidemiology with 27+ years of experience in medicine. She is a quadrilingual female role model for several individuals and families across the globe and utilized her experience and skills to promote a high-quality learning environment at the conference. By contributing to creating specific DisDos objectives and assisting in recruiting speakers, Dr. Moin provided incredible medical insight to ensure the presentation content and format of the agenda of DisDos were meaningful to the audience members. She also provided exceptional contribution towards designing the call for proposals, budget, promotional campaign, and others.

Dr. Reed organized and hosted the Biomedical Sciences Career Panel as well as greatly helped in inviting professors and students to DisDos. She also assisted in managing the logistics including speaker gifts, the structure of the agenda, communication with the attendees and speakers, the language of the abstract submission form, and others.

Vincent Contrucci provided funds and purchased several resources for DisDos, assisted in organizing the agenda, making reservations with Facilities, helping in confirming catering arrangements with Quinnipiac University Chartwells, providing insight on promoting DisDos, setting up meetings with the steering committee members, and others.

We thank the Student Government Association for providing funds for covering the DisDos 2023 conference expenses for catering and social event's movie.

We thank the Student Government Association for providing funds for covering the DisDos 2023 conference expenses for speaker gifts and Quinnipiac University merchandise for the attendees.

We thank the Quinnipiac University Facilities for providing resources including microphones to create a comfortable environment for the speakers and attendees of DisDos.

We thank Chartwells at Quinnipiac University for catering DisDos 2023 and providing a continental breakfast buffet.

We thank the IT department at Quinnipiac University for technical support at DisDos 2023.

Gianna is an Honors Biomedical Sciences third-year student at Quinnipiac University. She served as the Public Relations Coordinator of the hosting student chapters at Quinnipiac University from Fall 2021 -Spring 2023.

Maureen is a B.S. in Microbiology/Immunology from Quinnipiac University. She served as the Vice President of the hosting student chapters at Quinnipiac University from Fall 2021 - Spring 2023.

Maureen is a B.S. in the accelerated program Biology 3+1 from Quinnipiac University. He served as the Secretary of the hosting student chapters at Quinnipiac University from Fall 2021 - Spring 2023.

Amanda is a Graphic and Interactive Design major at Quinnipiac University with a minor in Psychology and Advertising & Integrated Communications. She designed the logo of DisDos. 

Oveen is a B.S. in Health Science Studies from Quinnipiac University with minors in Biology and Chemistry. Oveen helped with on-site moderation of DisDos 2023, setting up the event, and cleaning up at the end.

Lily is a Political Science second-year student at Quinnipiac University and is minoring in Public Diplomacy. She interviewed the speakers and attendees at DisDos 2023 to write an article in the Quinnipiac University's newspaper: QU Chronicle.

Dr. Lisa Cuchara captured professional photos at DisDos 2023 and brought her students to attend DisDos for extra credit.

• BREAphotosblog.com (Blog)

• BREAphotosgalleries.com (Personal)

Dr. Dwayne Boucaud, Ph.D. assisted in outlining the basic structure of the agenda, budget, theme, target audience, and other logistics. He advised based on his experience and expertise.