Executive Board

Mannat is a junior at the University of Connecticut, majoring in Molecular and Cellular Biology and minoring in Healthcare Management and Insurance Studies. She is a part of the honors college and the Special Program in Medicine (8-year BS/MD program). She has been a part of Medical Minds Matter since her freshman year, serving as a Chapters Taskforce volunteer and eventually the director of the Chapters Taskforce. In her free time, she loves running and spending time with friends and family.  

After graduating from UConn with majors in Pathobiology and Sociology, Keshav started his gap years as a Clinical Assistant at Integrated Gastroenterology Consultants, an outpatient gastroenterology clinic in the Greater Boston Area. Keshav’s time with Medical Minds Matter dates back to his junior year at UConn, where he advanced the Listening to Medical Minds podcast as Program Coordinator. By his senior year, he served as President of the UConn undergraduate chapter. Now as the Chapters Director, he hopes to help spread the conversation about mental health by establishing new chapters nationally and strengthening the current ones. In his free time, Keshav is an avid skier, traveler, and DJ.

Kimberly is an Allied Health Sciences major at UConn with a concentration in Public Health. Her interests include preventive mental health care, population-level mental health strategies, and the intersection between public health and behavioral health services. She currently is an intern at Hartford Hospital and am involved with UConn’s ADOPT-HEALTH District, collaborating on initiatives that promote health across communities. In my free time, she love baking as a way to unwind, caring for my dog and two birds, and catching new movies whenever she can.

Maya is a Physiology and Neurobiology senior at the University of Connecticut with a minor in Psychological Sciences. She is passionate about mental health advocacy in medicine, with experience in clinical research on physician burnout and microlearning through my work with the POCUS program at UConn Health. Outside of healthcare, she enjoy sharing Lebanese and fusion recipes through my cooking platform and am working toward launching a blog and cookbook.