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Nicole “Nikki” Perez, BA, is an MD candidate at Harvard Medical School with a passion for neurosurgical oncology and global neurosurgery. She graduated from Williams College with a B.A. with Honors in Dance and Biology in 2018, where she received the Hubbard Hutchinson Award in Dance, awarded to one student per year, and served as the Cycling Team captain for 3 years. Following graduation, she worked as a researcher studying the neural basis of vision at The Rockefeller University before joining the founding team of a medical device startup in NYC where she worked for 2.5 years, leading single- and multi-site clinical studies across the US, Europe, and Israel and achieving CE and FDA clearances for a novel medical device.

At Harvard, Nikki has held multiple leadership positions, including Co-Founder and Head of Operations for the Clinical Neurosurgery Research Group at MGH, Vice President of the Cushing Neurosurgical Society, US Regional Chair of Research for the Mission:Brain organization, and Co-Organizer for the 2025 Boston Declaration. Through these roles, she has collaborated with students, faculty, and industry partners to investigate growth patterns of neurosurgical diseases such as hemangioblastomas and glioblastomas, implement institution-wide surgical waste reduction and quality improvement measures, and integrate novel technologies into clinical practice. She has also sought to increase access to surgical education and neurosurgical career paths, co-organizing several annual global hackathon events focused on global neurosurgical collaboration and innovation, leading surgical educational workshops for medical students and local underserved high school students within the broader Boston community, and serving as a Peer Tutor for Quincy House at Harvard College.

Nikki looks forward to pursuing a residency in neurosurgery, during which she would be eager to utilize her ever-growing understanding of clinical neurosurgical disease, anatomy, and complex surgical management to work towards technical mastery and the development of affordable, sustainable, and humanistic innovations that improve patient care both within and beyond the operating room.

 

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