Thank you, SAEMF Donors, from Michael Makutonin

Mr. Makutonin is a fourth-year medical student at the George Washington University School of Medicine and Health Sciences. He has been involved in dataset and data science research throughout his medical school career, starting multi-institution collaborations by drawing on skills he learned as a software engineer and a data science bootcamp instructor. Mr. Makutonin's nascent research career has earned him recognition in the field, including research awards and plenaries at national conferences. Mr. Makutonin is passionate about the potential of data science research to inform and solve impactful problems and continues to mentor others in the field as a vice chair in the EMRA research committee and a principal investigator at the George Washington University Healing Clinic, among other roles.