ASCI / Young Physician-Scientist Awards, 2022
The Young Physician-Scientist Awards (YPSA) recognize physician-scientists who are early in their first faculty appointment and have made notable achievements in their research.
About the awardee
Gunisha Kaur, MD, MA, is an Assistant Professor of anesthesiology who specializes in human rights research. Dr. Kaur serves as the Founding Director of the Human Rights Impact Lab, a Medical Director of the Weill Cornell Center for Human Rights, and a Stephen M. Kellen Term Member at the Council on Foreign Relations. She has used her extensive training and research in neuroscience as an analytical framework to pioneer the study of human rights through scientific methodology. A foremost leader in scientific investigations into migrant health, her research has been funded by the National Institutes of Health, the Foundation for Anesthesia Education and Research, and Cornell University. She earned her BS from Cornell University in 2006, MD from Weill Cornell Medical College in 2010, and her MA in medical anthropology from Harvard University in 2015.