Aspiring ENT
Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai
New York City, NY, United States
Shahed Mohamed is driven to bridge surgical innovation with real-world community impact, especially for patients too often overlooked. As a teenager, she was elected a Deputy Member of the UK Youth Parliament, championing better mental health support and affordable transport for young people and marginalized communities.
Wanting to connect her advocacy to frontline medical care, she chose to pursue medical school in Africa, where she served on the executive board of a charity that partnered with the WHO to deliver emergency care to flood-affected regions, and volunteering in a subsidized ENT hospital that provided low cost care to underserved patientst would never have been able to afford it otherwise. There, she saw firsthand how ENT can restore hearing, breathing, and speech — a transformative power she hopes to expand globally.
She is currently a visiting research scholar in Rhinology at Mount Sinai and Columbia University, at a nobel prize affiliated lab. Her research focuses on chemosensory science — studying how olfaction, cognition, and systemic diseases connect — and on surgical ergonomics to protect surgeons’ well-being. Beyond the lab, she collaborates with the NY State Children’s Environmental Health Center to design community programs and educational tools that dismantle environmental barriers for underserved families — carrying her advocacy from the bench to real-world impact.
By combining rigorous research with practical solutions, Shahed aims to train as an academic otolaryngologist who advances health equity through both the operating room and community partnerships/advocacy. She will apply to Otolaryngology–Head and Neck Surgery Residency this fall.
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