Akash N. Shroff

Doctor of Osteopathic Medicine (D.O.) · Old Westbury, NY

B.S., Business Management · Stony Brook, NY

• Academic Excellence Award — Undergraduate Recognition, 2020
• Presidential, Academic Program, and Salutatorian Scholarships, 2016–2020
• Dean’s List, every semester, 2016–2020

• Milly Kibrick Youth Service Award, for service and leadership, 2015

Research Assistant · Mentor: Joerg R. Leheste, PhD, MSc

Osteopathic manipulative treatment (OMT) for mental health conditions, a health-policy and public-health effort. Ran a thematic analysis across OMT, stress, anxiety, PTSD and depression literature, and evaluated nonpartisan policy options for improving mental health in the US.

Lab Coordinator · Mentor: Jessica Schleider, PhD

Coordinated lab operations across a portfolio of trials testing brief, scalable interventions for adolescent depression and anxiety.

• Network science for adolescent depression (Phases 1–2), 2020–2022. Three-arm randomized trial with two-year follow-up using personalized symptom networks from experience-sampling data. Built the participant tracker, 13 Qualtrics surveys, R-generated feedback reports, and an R Shiny dashboard for participation monitoring; trained and supervised 30+ research assistants.
• Single-session interventions during COVID-19, 2020–2022. Nationwide three-arm RCT. Registered the study on ClinicalTrials.gov, supported OSF pre-registration, automated study administration, and managed participant payments and grant reconciliation.
• Service Access for Families Everywhere, 2019–2022. Web-based interventions for youth and parents in pediatric primary care (Klingenstein Third Generation Foundation). Screened 4,000+ Pediatric Symptom Checklists for eligibility and wrote the project task manual.
• Secondary analyses, 2019–2021. COVID-19 and adolescents’ loss of basic needs; child health problems and parental accommodation of anxiety; parents’ treatment histories and expectations. Pre-registered and analyzed in R and SPSS.
• Parent and teen intervention programs, 2018–2022. Empowering Anxious Parents (Psi Chi), Project Y.E.S., and Building Evidence and Supports for Teens via Technology (Limbix, Inc.): wrote IRB applications, ran 150+ phone screens, and designed recruitment that reached 350+ families.

Project Leader

Led a study of how leaders respond to subordinate criticism in a simulated accounting setting; wrote administrator scripts and IRB proposals and onboarded 10+ research assistants.

Vaccine Clinic Logistics

Coordinated three community vaccine clinics serving 500+ people, led a five-person volunteer team through registration and consent, and assisted clinicians with post-vaccine monitoring, state reporting and billing.

Undergraduate Geriatric Intern

Performed cognitive (Mini-Cog, MMSE), depression (PHQ-2/9), vision, hearing, mobility (Timed Up and Go) and Vulnerable Elder screenings for 80+ patients.

Patient Intake Team · Check-In Coordinator (2017–2019)

Patient intake, BMI measurement and registration before physician matching; built the attendee check-in database.

Patient Support

Volunteer Mentor, OMM Mock Practical

Coached first-year students on cervical, thoracic and rib soft tissue, MET, counterstrain and HVLA techniques, with feedback on hand placement and force.

PAL Mentor, University Scholars · Teaching Assistant, Organic Chemistry Lab, Project Management, and Business Research

Teaching Assistant, Summer Scholars Program

Taught climate and migration science to high-school students, mentored research presentations, and supported a robotics team.

Leads a youth team running programs for the spiritual, social, mental and physical well-being of members aged 4–30.

Led program execution for a three-weekend celebration of 50 years of BAPS in North America, directing a volunteer team across AV, lighting, content and cultural programming for ten sessions.

Supervised a sub-team of volunteers on construction of the largest Hindu temple in the Western Hemisphere.

Co-led 80+ volunteers across three celebrations reaching 4,500+ attendees.

Spoke to 150 attendees on the mental health effects of COVID-19 and its warning signs.

Built regional youth programming and ran summer camps for 1,200+ youth with a team of 50.