In the service of medicine and science,

Mario Capecchi, Ph.D.
Science Director, National Academy of Future Physicians and Medical Scientists
Winner, 2007 Nobel Prize in Medicine

Mario Capecchi, Ph.D.
Science Director, National Academy of Future Physicians and Medical Scientists
Winner, 2007 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
Winner, 2003 Wolf Prize in Medicine
Winner, 2001 Lasker Award for Basic Medical Research
Recipient, 2001 National Medal of Science
Dr. Capecchi, a biophysicist, is a Distinguished Professor of Human Genetics at the University of Utah School of Medicine. He is best known for his groundbreaking work in gene targeting in mouse embryo-derived stem cells. He was awarded the Nobel Prize in Medicine, along with Martin Evans and Oliver Smithies, for their work in finding ways to manipulate the mammalian genome by inserting new genes into cells. This research led to the breeding of “knock-out mice” and “knock-in mice,” animals with a single gene removed or inserted. His research interests include analysis of early mouse development, neural development in mammals, gene therapy, and production of murine models of human genetic diseases.

Wiley “Chip” Souba, M.D.
Surgical Oncologist
Dean, Dartmouth University Geisel School of Medicine, 2010-2014
Wiley “Chip” Souba, M.D., is a Harvard University-trained surgical oncologist, nationally recognized researcher, leadership expert, and former dean of the Dartmouth University Geisel School of Medicine. He is regularly ranked as one of The Best Doctors in America by his peers and has been recognized for his clinical expertise by Boston Magazine. He was funded by the National Institutes of Health for 20 years to study amino acid metabolism in catabolic diseases. He has published more than 500 peer-reviewed articles, abstracts, and book chapters, and has served as Editorial Chair of the American College of Surgeons and Co-editor of the Journal of Surgical Research. Today, he’s focused on training physicians to be more effective leaders in their practices.

M. Joycelyn Elders, M.D.
Surgeon General of the United States, 1993-1994
Dr. Elders was the first person in the state of Arkansas to become board certified in pediatric endocrinology, the fifteenth Surgeon General of the United States and the first African American, and only the second woman to head the U.S. Public Health Service. Long an outspoken advocate of public health, Dr. Elders was appointed Surgeon General by President Clinton in 1993. In 1996, she wrote her autobiography, Joycelyn Elders, M.D.: From Sharecropper’s Daughter to Surgeon General of the United States of America. Now retired from practice, she is a professor emeritus at the University of Arkansas School of Medicine and remains active in public health education.

George M. Church, Ph.D.
Harvard Medical School Professor of Genetics
Dr. Church is a founding member of the Wyss Institute and director of PersonalGenomes.org, the world’s only open-access information on human genomic, environmental, and trait data. His team invented CRISPR for human stem cell genome editing and other synthetic biology technologies and applications, including new ways to create organs for transplantation, gene therapies for aging reversal, and gene drives to eliminate Lyme disease and malaria. He has co-authored 450 papers, 105 patents, and one book, Regenesis.

Pardis Sabeti, M.D., Ph.D.
Associate Professor, Harvard School of Public Health Institute
Viral Infectious Disease Trailblazer
Dr. Sabeti is a computational geneticist who has created some of the most widely used algorithms to mine genomes for instances of human adaptation and created powerful molecular tools to clarify their biology. In 2014, she was named a TIME magazine “Person of the Year” as an Ebola fighter and in 2015 was one of TIME’s 100 Most Influential People. Dr. Sabeti completed her undergraduate degree at MIT, her graduate work at Oxford University as a Rhodes Scholar, and her medical degree at Harvard Medical School.

George M. Whitesides, Ph.D.
Recipient, 1998 National Medal of Science
Harvard University Professor of Chemistry
A giant in the field of chemistry and a prolific author of more than 950 scientific articles, Dr. Whitesides is best known for his work in the areas of NMR spectroscopy, organometallic chemistry, molecular self-assembly, soft lithography, microfabrication, microfluidics, and nanotechnology. He has received dozens of awards, including the Dreyfus Prize in the Chemical Sciences for his creation of new materials and the Priestley Medal, which is the highest honor bestowed by the American Chemical Society.

Francoise A. Marvel, M.D.
Cardiology Fellow, Johns Hopkins University
Co-Founder, Corrie Health
As a cardiology fellow at Johns Hopkins University, Francoise Marvel, M.D., collaborated with Apple on an app, Corrie Health, designed to empower heart attack patients in their recovery. Corrie Health works with the Apple Watch and is the first cardiology app in CareKit, Apple’s new framework for medical applications. Corrie Health helps patients manage medications, schedule follow-up appointments, and contact healthcare providers. It also shows heart rate and steps walked each day, which are tracked by an Apple Watch, while blood pressure is monitored through another Bluetooth-enabled sensor. The American Heart Association presented Dr. Marvel and her team with a $25,000 Urban Health Accelerator grant. Dr. Marvel aims to expand our understanding of the roles of health technology, machine learning, and big data through ongoing testing and scaling of the Corrie Health platform for cardiovascular disease prevention.

Sir Richard Roberts, Ph.D.
Winner, 1993 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
Dr. Roberts was educated in chemistry at the University of Sheffield, and in molecular biology at Harvard University. He worked for 20 years at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, where his group discovered RNA splicing, for which he was awarded the Nobel Prize in 1993. He has had a long-standing interest in bioinformatics and has been applied to his research on restriction enzymes and DNA methylases. He now dedicates his research to GMO crops and food sources and demonstrating the effect they have on humanity.

Paul B. Rothman, M.D.
Dean of the Medical Faculty, Johns Hopkins School of Medicine
CEO, Johns Hopkins Medicine
As Dean of Johns Hopkins School of Medicine and CEO of Johns Hopkins Medicine, Dr. Rothman, oversees both the Johns Hopkins Health System and the School of Medicine. As a rheumatologist and molecular immunologist, Dr. Rothman’s research focuses on immune system molecules known as cytokines. Specifically, he has investigated the role these molecules play in the normal development of blood cells, as well as the abnormal development of these blood cells that lead to leukemia.

Ara Suppiah, M.D.
Functional Sports Medicine Expert
Medical Analyst, NBC Sports Golf Channel
Ara Suppiah, M.D., uses a functional approach to sports medicine that enhances maximum efficiency for athletes to perform at a consistently high level without breaking down. In March 2014, Dr. Suppiah was appointed as the first Medical Analyst on NBC Sports’ Golf Channel. Dr. Suppiah has been a physician on the European Tour, the PGA Tour, and multiple Ryder Cup Teams. Currently, he remains a highly sought-after sports physician on the PGA Tour, the LPGA Tour, and the USTA Tour. Dr. Suppiah practices as an ER physician in Florida, is the Chief Wellness Officer of Florida Emergency Physicians, is an Assistant Professor of Medicine at the University of Central Florida Medical College, and is the personal physician to some of the world’s top professional golfers.

Bohdan Pomahac, M.D.
Harvard Medical School Professor
Director, Plastic Surgery Transplantation Program, Brigham and Women’s Hospital
Dr. Pomahac established the Plastic Surgery Transplantation Program at Brigham and Women’s Hospital, the nation’s leading center for face transplantation. In 2009, Dr. Pomahac performed the second partial face transplant in the country. After the successful transplantation, he was awarded a $3.4 million contract from the Department of Defense to perform and investigate the outcomes of face transplantation. In 2011, he led the surgical team that performed the first full-face transplant in the country.

Stephen Ray Mitchell, M.D., MBA
Dean for Medical Education, Georgetown University, 2000-2020
Dr. Mitchell is dean of one of America’s most prestigious medical schools, Georgetown University where he is responsible for the medical school administration, curriculum, and student affairs. He opened and continues to be Director of the Georgetown University Hospital Childhood Arthritis Center. He has been honored numerous times for his teaching excellence, including multiple “Golden Apples” for medical student education and the Kaiser Permanente Award from the faculty for Outstanding Clinical Teacher in the Medical Center.

Jaime Hope, M.D.
Emergency Medicine Physician, Beaumont Hospital
Assistant Professor of Emergency Medicine, Oakland University William Beaumont School of Medicine
In the Emergency Department of one of the nation’s busiest Level 1 trauma tertiary care centers, Jaime Hope, M.D., often sees patients on the worst days of their lives. Always passionate about preventive medicine, she inspires others to improve their habits and avoid needing to come to the emergency department. Dr. Hope is an Assistant Professor at the Oakland University William Beaumont School of Medicine and teaches Behavior Change and Motivational Interviewing courses to future physicians. She speaks regularly on a broad variety of medical and health-related topics, the most popular of which have been Healthy Habits, Confidence and Overcoming Imposter Syndrome, and Resilience.

Michael Rosbash, Ph.D.
Winner, 2017 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
The research of Michael Rosbash, Ph.D., focuses on the metabolism and processing of mRNA, the molecular link between DNA and protein, and ultimately led to his receiving the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 2017. After arriving at Brandeis University in 1974, Dr. Rosbash began to investigate the genetic influences on circadian rhythms of the internal biological clock within species, particularly fruit flies, that helps them adapt their biological rhythm to the different phases of day and night. In 1984, he and his colleagues identified a gene that encodes a protein that accumulates during the night but is degraded during the day. They also identified additional proteins that form part of a self-regulating biological clockwork in the fruit fly’s cells. The same principles have been shown to apply to other animals and plants.

Gitanjali Rao
Winner, 2017 Discovery 3M Young Scientist Challenge
When 7th-grader Gitanjali heard about the Flint water crisis, she was inspired to help and dove right into research. She designed a compact device to detect lead in drinking water using a mobile app. In 2017, she was named “America’s top young scientist” and was awarded the $250,000 top prize from Discovery at the 3M Young Scientist Challenge. Earlier this year, she was named in the Forbes 2019 “30 Under 30” list of breakthrough scientists.

Krithik Ramesh
Winner, 2019 Gordon E. Moore Award, International Science and Engineering Fair
Named an “Innovator to Watch” by Smithsonian Magazine
At 17 years old, Krithik Ramesh developed a real-time navigation system for spinal reconstruction surgery to guide surgeons using augmented reality and machine learning. Currently, he is working on developing a fetal cardiac diagnostics platform to better diagnose congenital heart disease in utero. He also enjoys applying his love for engineering in philanthropic ways: He started a nonprofit organization called the Empowering Rural India Foundation that provides sustainable energy solutions to impoverished schools.

Sajeev Kohli
Grand Prize, Global Healthcare at the 2018 International BioGENEius Challenge
Sajeev Kohli is a freshman at Harvard University from Waterloo, Ontario. He has been involved with university laboratory research since he was 13 years old and has won regional, national, and international awards for his work focusing on the implementation of a new nanoparticle-based drug carrier development pipeline for cancer treatment. He was invited to Parliament Hill in Ottawa by the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council to showcase his research in person to the Prime Minister of Canada, Justin Trudeau, and the Minister of Science, Kirsty Duncan.

Erin Smith
2019 Forbes 30 Under 30
Winner, 2018 Intel International Science and Engineering Fair
Erin Smith learned early on to channel her endless curiosity into research. Her past projects have ranged from developing a clean oil-sand extraction method to investigating neuronal remodeling at the Weizmann Institute to determining visual attention strategies via eye-tracking at Harvard Medical School. Most recently, she developed FacePrint, a tool to detect and monitor Parkinson’s disease using video technology and early-stage facial expression indicators. Ms. Smith is currently a freshman at Stanford University and was a Thiel Fellow before starting college. Her goal in life is to build the future of neurological and mental healthcare.

Utkarsh Tandon
2017 Young Innovators to Watch Award, Consumer Electronics Show
Winner, 2016 International BioGENEius Challenge
Utkarsh Tandon is an aspiring computational biologist and machine learning researcher at Stanford University. After volunteering at a local Parkinson’s institute during the summer following 9th grade, Mr. Tandon founded OneRing, a medical device company that has created an intelligent monitoring ring to better track Parkinson’s motor symptoms. Throughout high school, he spent countless hours learning and applying state-of-the-art algorithms to model some of the most complex diseases. His work on identifying blood pressure signatures in retinal images of early-onset diabetic retinopathy patients won him the 2016 International BioGENEius Challenge.

Olivia Hallisay
Grand Prize Winner, 2015 Google Science Fair
Olivia Hallisey recognized the critical need for early diagnosis for Ebola, in order to slow and stop the spread of the virus. Olivia was able to develop the “Ebola Assay Card,” an inexpensive, rapid diagnostic test that indicates results through a color change, eliminating language barriers and increasing ease of use. She also developed a similar test for early diagnosis of Lyme disease, and she is continuing research on this assay as a broad disease diagnostic with applicability for other ELISA assay-based diseases.

The Congress of Future Medical Leaders Award of Excellence
The Congress of Future Medical Leaders Award of Excellence will be issued after the Delegate takes an open book pass/fail exam to demonstrate their attendance at the Congress.

In a COVID-19 world, high-achieving students have lost so many opportunities to distinguish themselves and showcase their talents. The Congress of Future Medical Leaders Award of Excellence is used by Delegates in college, scholarship, and internship applications.

College Credit
Delegates are eligible to earn one college credit, after demonstrating their attendance at the Congress of Future Medical Leaders, at an additional cost and upon completion of additional coursework. Complete information will be provided upon enrollment.

College credit will demonstrate to universities and other institutions that you have already completed college-level academic work.

Nomination
Students are nominated to become Delegates by their teachers, counselors, and principals based on their dedication to entering the medical field as physicians or medical scientists (biomedical, technological, engineering, and mathematical); their leadership potential; and their academic excellence.

Qualified students may also be identified through other means such as academic events, recommendations, youth organizations, honor societies, medical institutions, medical societies, program Alumni, and in-classroom surveys.

Proof of GPA
The Congress is an academic honors program. Students must have a minimum 3.5 GPA (or equivalent), either current or cumulative, to attend. Unless the student was selected by a teacher, the student must provide the Academy with documentation of their GPA.

If the student attends without having provided GPA documentation, the student will still be allowed to participate in the Congress, but they will not receive the Congress of Future Medical Leaders Award of Excellence until documentation is provided.

Financial Assistance
A limited number of scholarships based on financial need are available. Interested families should email the Office of Admissions at Scholarship@FutureDocs.com for further information and an application.

News Release
Students will be able to create their own news release using an easy-to-follow program the Academy has developed. Included are instructions on how to distribute this release to local newspapers and television stations so students can gain maximum recognition of their accomplishments.

Letters of Participation
The Academy will, upon request, supply letters certifying the student’s participation and matriculation in the Congress of Future Medical Leaders. These letters can be sent to colleges and universities as well as organizations offering grants and scholarships.

Congress of Future Medical Leaders Dates and Tuition
Delegates may attend the Congress of Future Medical Leaders from any location in the world that has a good internet connection using a laptop, tablet or smartphone. The Congress is an interactive honors program with frequent live video interaction and bonding between Delegates. Delegates will converse and complete numerous exercises in small groups and build friendships with future colleagues and collaborators.

Nominated students may attend any of the following three scheduled dates to earn their Congress of Future Medical Leaders Award of Excellence:

• March 20 and 21, 2021
• June 26 and 27, 2021
• October 9 and 10, 2021

Tuition is 3 payments of $325. Payments will be automatically charged on the credit card supplied every 30 days until the full tuition is paid. Tuition includes instruction, speakers, education personnel, the Congress of Future Medical Leaders Award of Excellence, and all activities at the Congress.

Also, as an additional educational benefit, Delegates may attend two, or all three, of the Congresses at no additional cost.

Will Attending the Congress Help a Student Gain Admission to a Competitive College and Medical School?
The education, motivation, and recognition at the Congress can inspire students to take the personal actions necessary to become much stronger candidates for competitive college and medical school admissions.

Attendance at the Congress can also enhance a student’s academic profile by adding to their showcase of extracurricular experience and achievement needed when applying to colleges and universities, especially during a time when COVID-19 has made fewer academic enrichment activities available.

Parent and Family Attendance
Parents and families are encouraged to attend the Congress at no additional charge. This allows for rich and meaningful “dinner table” conversations between parents and Delegates, as Delegates are motivated and inspired to see a bigger and bigger future for themselves during the Congress. Over 80% of parents and Delegates say they feel closer to one another as a result of attending the Congress.

Students with Special Needs
The Academy encourages the participation of students with special needs, including students with disabilities. Students, parents, guardians, legal representatives, and educators are encouraged to contact the Academy directly for more information and to discuss any specific needs.

About the National Academy of Future Physicians and Medical Scientists
The Congress of Future Medical Leaders is sponsored by the National Academy of Future Physicians and Medical Scientists.

The National Academy of Future Physicians and Medical Scientists was chartered as a nonpartisan, taxpaying institution working outside government in a public-private partnership to identify, encourage, and mentor students who wish to devote their lives to the service of humanity as physicians or medical scientists.

The Academy accepts no public money. Extensive free services are self-funded through proceeds from events and conferences.

Questions?
If you have questions, please call the Office of Admissions directly at (617) 307-7425 or email Admissions@FutureDocs.com.