Amani Carson, BA

Medical Student
David Geffen School of Medicine at the University of California Los Angeles

Amani Carson, BA is a third-year medical student at the David Geffen School of Medicine (DGSOM) at UCLA in the Charles Drew/UCLA Medical Education Program. She is interested in improving access to neurosurgical care and clinical outcomes for neuro-oncology, neurotrauma, and spine surgery patients. Amani's current research focuses on reducing barriers to neurosurgical-oncological care in underserved communities (with Dr. Kunal Patel, MD), understanding modifiers of clinical outcomes for neurotrauma and spine patients (with Dr. Theresa Williamson, MD), and developing simulation tools to improve patient-surgeon communication with the UCLA DGSOM Simulation Center. Amani was born and raised in Boston, MA and attended Duke University, before moving to Los Angeles with her family and two dogs.

Disclosure(s): No financial relationships to disclose

Presentation(s):

• Discerning the Social Support Factors That Protect Against Psychological Complications in Traumatic Brain Injury Patients: A Cohort Study

  Saturday, April 26, 2025
  4:48 PM – 4:50 PM EDT