Samir Sarda, MPH, DO (Candidate)
Medical Student
Philadelphia College of Osteopathic Medicine (PCOM) Georgia
Samir Sarda is a fourth-year medical student at the Philadelphia College of Osteopathic Medicine (PCOM) Georgia who currently co-leads the AISH program. Prior to medical school, he received his Bachelor of Science in Neurobiology from Georgetown University, completed a Master of Public Health in Health Policy and Management from Emory University's Rollins School of Public Health, and worked as a healthcare management consultant at PwC. In addition to patient care, his career interests are in improving how care is delivered at both a systems- and population-level to better address the social determinants of health of patients and their communities.

Presenting at the Nexus Summit:

Winner of the 2020 Nexus Summit Interprofessional Student Achievement Award   Background: Atlanta Interprofessional Student Hotspotting (AISH) is a student-run volunteer organization that partners with Grady Health System (Grady) to enable multidisciplinary student teams to engage in non-clinical care for high-need, high-cost (HNHC) patients. HNHC patients have had greater than or equal to 5 emergency department visits or greater than or equal to 2 inpatient admissions at Grady in the previous 12 months due to greater than or equal to 2 decompensated chronic conditions. Nationally,…