Scholar Profile

Summer Shabana

Medicine

Biography

Summer Shabana graduated from Rice University with a Bachelor of Science in Bioengineering with minors in engineering design and biochemistry & cell biology and a certificate for language and intercultural communication in Spanish. Throughout her time at Rice, Summer served in leadership for the Rice Muslim Student Association, the Rice chapter for the National Society for Black Engineers, and the bioengineering student advisory committee. She also served as an undergraduate volunteer for Rice Fun With Chemistry and in Baker College as a new student representative, peer academic advisor, diversity facilitator, and orientation week advisor.

Summer worked in engineering design teams for the Rice360 Institute of Global Health Technologies, constructing devices including an affordable, automatic neonatal gastric pump for infants in the Dominican Republic, a transcutaneous electrical nerve stimulation wearable device to treat plantar fasciitis in medical professionals in Costa Rica, and a pediatric pelvic model for the practice of pelvic examinations for pediatric survivors of sexual assault. Summer presented these devices at the Oshman Engineering Design Kitchen Engineering Design Showcase in 2022 and 2023, the Houston Global Collaborative, and the 68th Annual Conference of the American Society for Artificial Internal Organs. She received two Rice360 Institute of Global Health Technologies 2023 Impact Awards for her work as well as the 2021 Dr. Timothy George Scholarship, Questbridge 2019 National Match Scholarship, and Jack Kent Cooke 2019 College Scholarship during her time at Rice.

Summer worked as a Rice360 intern on the IRB approval process to publish the invention and testing of her team's pelvic model, and working as an emergency department medical scribe at Weill Cornell Medical Center. She is now a medical student at Duke University.

High school:  Stuyvesant High School

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