Zoha Fatima Syed
Harvard Medical School
Zoha Syed is a third-year medical student at Harvard Medical School. She earned her B.A. with Honors in Psychology, with a concentration in Neuroscience, from Stanford University, where she conducted research in the Ricci and Nicolson Labs investigating the genetic basis of hearing loss using zebrafish models. During her time at Stanford, she also learned American Sign Language and spent a summer working in Lahore, Pakistan with Deaf Reach, the country's largest nonprofit organization serving the Deaf community, where she developed policy recommendations for the Pakistani government on cochlear implantation. That experience culminated in a book-length narrative documenting the lives of 18 Deaf individuals in Pakistan, chronicling their experiences navigating life as Deaf people in the country. At Harvard, Zoha is currently involved in research under Dr. Scharukh Jalisi, focusing on surgical outcomes in head and neck cancers, with particular interest in T4b sinonasal cancer and esthesioneuroblastoma.