Cody Messick is a fourth-year medical student at the Mayo Clinic Alix School of Medicine in Phoenix, Arizona, with a strong interest in Otolaryngology–Head and Neck Surgery and global surgical education. His work focuses on improving access to life-saving airway procedures through medical device innovation, simulation-based training, and surgical capacity research in low-resource settings. He has led projects developing airway foreign body removal simulators and bronchoscopy technologies for use in LMICs and is actively involved in global surgery partnerships. Originally from Shanghai, China, he received his undergraduate degree in Mechanical Engineering from Brigham Young University in Utah, USA.

Tarika Srinivasan is a second-year resident in Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota. She completed her MD and a Master of Medical Sciences in Global Health Delivery at Harvard Medical School. Prior to that, she graduated summa cum laude from The University of Texas at Austin with dual degrees in Philosophy and Biochemistry Honors.

Her research applies implementation science to expanding access to hearing and otolaryngologic care in rural, remote, and low-resource settings. As a predoctoral fellow with the Center for Hearing Health Equity at the University of Arkansas, she contributed to the Appalachian STAR and North STAR hybrid effectiveness–implementation trials of school-based hearing screening with specialty telehealth follow-up in rural Kentucky and Alaska Native communities, and her master’s thesis examined the delivery of these programs. Her research was supported by a grant from the American Otological Society. Her honors thesis at Harvard Medical School focused on equipment disparities in global otolaryngologic care, with a pilot equipment appraisal conducted in Uganda. As Executive Research Lead of the Global OHNS Initiative, she led multinational studies of the otolaryngology workforce, essential equipment, and global barriers to care, with work published in JAMA Otolaryngology–Head and Neck Surgery and Laryngoscope Investigative Otolaryngology. While at Harvard Medical School, she received the Hollis L. Albright Award for Excellence in Surgery.

Her current work focuses on rural–urban heterogeneity in implementation outcomes, qualitative methodology in pragmatic trials, global surgical collaborations, and ethical dilemmas in otolaryngology.

Dr. Taseer Din is a pediatric airway surgeon at Sidra Medicine, Qatar’s tertiary children’s hospital, and Assistant Professor of Clinical Otolaryngology at Weill Cornell Medicine–Qatar. His work centres on acute airway surgery, complex airway reconstruction, and the development of sustainable systems of care for children who require highly specialised ENT treatment.

Trained internationally, including pediatric airway training at Stanford University, USA, he brings a holistic perspective to clinical practice. At Sidra Medicine, he has helped introduce several first-in-Qatar procedures, including pediatric laryngotracheal reconstruction, and is advancing the country’s complex airway and tracheostomy programmes.

He teaches residents, medical students, and regional colleagues through workshops across the GCC and East Africa, and through open educational platforms. His academic work sits at the intersection of pediatric airway surgery, surgical education, and global health equity. He has authored more than 30 publications in leading international journals.

A Mandela Rhodes Scholar, Dr. Din is committed to one principle: specialised pediatric airway care should be accessible to every child who needs it. Through simulation-based training, regional workshops, and collaborative research, he works to transfer skills, raise awareness, and strengthen local capacity.

Dr. Tori Cress is a chief otolaryngology resident at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota. In August 2027, she will begin independent comprehensie otolaryngology practice in Minnesota with the goal to build a strong emphasis on endocrine surgery, laryngology, and facial plastic surgery.