Piper Stacey is a second-year medical student at the University of Massachusetts Chan School of Medicine, with a background in computer science and biology from Dartmouth College, where she graduated with High Honors. Piper is a student in the inaugural cohort of the LEAD@Lahey pathway at UMass Chan, a leadership-focused track dedicated to preparing physicians to address current and emerging challenges in healthcare. Her research sits at the intersection of surgery, ethics, and data science, spanning abdominal aortic aneurysm screening disparities, carotid revascularization outcomes, living donor liver transplantation, and the ethical implementation of AI and imminent death donation in clinical practice. Piper is the co-founder of the UMass Bioethics in Medicine elective and the Lahey Surgery Interest Group. Outside of medicine, she is a triathlete, an avid reader, and outdoor enthusiast.

Eva Gillis-Buck is a general surgery resident and PhD candidate at the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF). Dr. Gillis-Buck has a BA from Harvard University with double major in Developmental Biology and Gender Studies, an MPhil in History and Philosophy of Science from Cambridge University, and MD from UCSF. While a medical student she spent two additional years as a Howard Hughes Medical Institute Research Fellow in the laboratory of pediatric surgeon Dr. Tippi MacKenzie, investigating maternal-fetal immunology in a mouse model. After 3 years of general surgery residency, she now is a PhD candidate in the laboratory of transplant surgeon Dr. Jay Gardner, investigating immune tolerance in multiple contexts. Her research interests include maternal-fetal immunology, transplant immunology, and uterus transplantation.