VictorEkutaMD(He/Him)

Summary

• Victor Ekuta is a Penn Alzheimer's Disease Research Center Clark Scholar, Black Men’s Brain Health Scholar, and MIT linQ Catalyst Healthcare Innovation Fellow. He is also an Instructor for the MIT Office of Engineering Outreach Programs, where he combines his passion for advancing brain health equity with his love of mentorship and diversifying STEM.
  
  Previously, Victor investigated Alzheimer's Disease as a 2017 Doris Duke Clinical Research Fellow at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center/Harvard Medical School, researched transcranial magnetic stimulation as a 2018 Penn Memory Center Minority Scholar in Aging Research, and joined more than 100 global experts to contribute to a report on the future of healthcare and medicine, Trust or Consequences 2040: Will innovations in health and medicine deliver? as a 2019 Trust Colab Participant.
  
  Victor earned his B.A. in Biology and Philosophy-Neuroscience-Psychology (PNP) with a full scholarship from Washington University in St. Louis in 2011. There, he cultivated a passion for education outreach as a mentor for St. Paul Saturdays, a non-profit manhood, leadership, and development organization dedicated specifically to empowering young African American males. Following graduation, Victor conducted neuroimaging research as a Post-baccalaureate Research Fellow at the National Institutes of Health before beginning medical school.
  
  For his work, Victor has received numerous accolades and awards, including Gap Summit 2022 "Leader of Tomorrow," AMSA 2022 Racial Justice in Medicine Award, 2021 AAIC Neuroscience Next ‘One to Watch’ Award, 2021 30th Anniversary Rainwater Tau Leadership Fellows Award, 2020 American Academy of Neurology Future in Neurological Research Scholarship, 2019 Alzheimer’s Disease Drug Discovery Foundation Young Investigator, 2011 Gates Cambridge Scholarship Finalist, among many others.
  
  In the future, Victor plans to specialize in academic neurology as a physician-scientist-advocate.