ABOUT SUJAY

Sujay Shankar earned his M.D. & M.Eng. from Texas A&M Engineering Medicine and Houston Methodist Hospital. He was a Thoracic Scholar at Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) - Harvard Medical School and has interviewed with FOX to share his contributions to thoracic medicine. Sujay completed an integrated cardiothoracic acting internship at the Cleveland Clinic. He is a STS Looking to the Future scholar and American Thoracic Society (ATS) student scholar.

Sujay has a B.S. in biomedical engineering with a focus on biomaterials and regenerative medicine from the UT Cockrell School of Engineering. He was a clinical research associate at Medpace, where he helped manage clinical trials across multiple therapeutic areas. Sujay has corporate experience in medical device design, development, and strategy at Becton Dickinson (C.R. Bard) and ConvaTec Group plc. He was a visiting student at Cambridge University and was nominated for the premier Goldwater Scholarship which recognizes academic excellence and outstanding research.

His first-author original research articles have been published in the Annals of Palliative Medicine and the Annals of Thoracic Surgery Short Reports. Sujay is a member of the American Medical Association (AMA) and was a student member of the American Society of Anesthesiologists (ASA). He is interested in opportunities at the intersection of bioengineering, business, and medicine.

Sujay’s clinical interests are in thoracic anesthesiology, cardiothoracic disease, interventional pulmonology, and heart-lung transplantation.