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Jasmine Ramezanzadeh

In 2023, driven by my passion for psychology and mental health, I eagerly joined SBMT, starting as an intern and swiftly grew to be a Program Coordinator. Now as Director of Administration, I leverage my diverse background in Customer Operations, UX Design and Research, Administration, and event coordination to ensure the success of our projects and programs, fostering positive experiences for interns and fellows. As the Director of Administration, my responsibilities extend to ensuring the smooth functioning of SBMT’s daily operations, maintaining efficiency and communication, and providing strategic support to drive the mission forward. With that comes program coordinating where I am heavily involved in planning and executing our events, and conferences, overseeing the Fellowship and Internship Program, and the organization of our annual conference and gala. The plan is to succeed. I credit my work ethic to my parents, who immigrated here in their 20s from Iran as students with very little. With high hopes, they returned to Tehran with my brother and me to begin their lives but later decided to come back to California and start from zero again. I watched them build a life of joy, one step at a time, with determination and hard work. I aspire to achieve the same to make them proud.

Nasser Kashou

Dr. Nasser Kashou has provided strategic planning and leadership across multiple institutions by establishing and leading several research groups, centers and labs. Dr. Nasser Kashou has mentored, supervised and led hundreds throughout his career. “Great leadership requires a high level of emotional intelligence and not the use of intimidation and manipulation. Selflessness allows you to accept other peoples ideas and most importantly keep your mind open to clearly see the long term vision that is of benefit to the whole, rather than one or two individuals.” His career has included basic, clinical & translational research, vision science, image processing, neuroimaging, neuroengineering, computation, medical imaging and medical devices. Dr. Nasser Kashou highly encourages being a jack of all trades, “we have an amazing mind with 100 billion neurons and about a quadrillion (10 to the 15th power) connections. Let us use them and not be stuck in the mindset that we have to only specialize in one field. That’s narrow mindedness and stagnates true scholarship, a racism of the sciences”. Dr. Nasser Kashou’s education and skills are cross discipline (engineering, medicine, social sciences, etc…); in the biomedical realm this spans physics, math, hardware, software, anatomy, physiological and clinical aspects of research and development. “Optimism is one of the best medicines.” Dr. Nasser Kashou feeds off of challenges and life’s difficult moments. They are reminders that he should not be mediocre and always reach for the stars. It is also a great way to offset negativity with more positivity. This mindset along with other natural and holistic therapies can revolutionize each individual’s potential which in turn will impact society. Aside from work, Dr. Nasser Kashou loves staying in shape and the outdoors. These are means to some of the therapies which he practices and promotes. “Our energy can be contagious so rather than an epidemic, let us spread good energy.” Finally, Dr. Nasser Kashou loves public speaking and giving presentations. “Communicating our ideas verbally and eloquently are critical to success.”