Dillan Villavisanis

Dillan is a fourth year MD Candidate at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai and Research Fellow at the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia in the Division of Plastic & Reconstructive Surgery. His current research includes translational innovation, applications of machine learning to clinical datasets, and global surgery.

Dillan graduated from Johns Hopkins with a BA in Medicine, Science, & the Humanities and Anthropology as a Hodson Scholar. During undergraduate he pursued a year studying Biochemistry at Oxford and a semester in Sydney at the Garvan Institute. Previous research at Johns Hopkins Medicine on neuronal synaptic plasticity and sensory impairment was supported by the James West Fellowship, Robert Young Grant, and Provost Undergraduate Research Award. He has authored over forty peer-reviewed publications and 100 abstracts.