Finding a Mentor

You must find a mentor before submitting your research proposal. Your mentor must be an NU faculty member.

View our Mentor Outreach Guide

How to Find a Mentor

• Search our Mentor Directory for faculty who have recently indicated they'd like to mentor students.
• Talk to your AOSC group leader about your interests and ask for recommendations
• Talk to fellow students! To see what students have published and with whom, check out this list of students who have most recently worked with mentors you may have identified.
• Look at the 2023 student posters as well as the 2024 student posters to get an idea of the type of research others have done and then contact the students/faculty to learn more
• Talk to Liza Rivnay (Associate director of Student Research) who can connect you to students and faculty.
• Contact a department liaison: These are faculty members who have expressed interest in connecting you to faculty in their department based on your research interests. This is a regularly updating list and our plan is to have every department (clinical and research) represented
  • Allergy (Peds or Adult): Anna Fishbein, MD
  • Bioethics and Medical Humanities: Megan Crowley-Matoka, PhD
  • Dermatology: Stephanie Rangel, PhD
  • Family Medicine: Katy Wright, PhD, MPH
  • Institute for Innovations in Developmental Sciences (DevSci): Jessica Horowitz, PhD
  • Global Health: Chad Achenbach, MD, MPH
  • Hematology-Oncology: Jonathan Moreira, MD
  • Infectious Disease: Chad Achenbach, MD, MPH
  • Neurology: Eyal Kimchi, MD, PhD
  • Obstetrics & Gynecology: Julia Geynesman-Tan, MD
  • Ophthalmology: Manjot Gill, MD
  • Otolaryngology: Claus-Peter Richter, MD, PhD
  • Pathology: Dan Brat, MD, PhD
  • Psychiatry: Mike Marcangelo, MD
  • Public Health and Equity / IPHAM: Mita Goel, MD, MPH
  • Radiology, Cardiovascular and Thoracic Imaging: Bradley Allen, MD
  • Transplant Surgery: Oriana Dentici