Meet 2024 Award Recipient
Suvruta Srisayi Iruvanti
Suvruta grew up and attended high school in Dutchess County, New York. He attended college at the University of California at Berkeley, where he graduated with a Bachelor of Arts in Molecular and Cell Biology with Honors, as well as a Bachelor of Science in Business Administration with Honors from the Haas School of Business. He conducted research at the Broad Institute of Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Harvard University for two years before medical school at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai. He entered the MD program in 2020.
While at Icahn, Suvruta was actively involved with the medical school's student-run free clinic, the East Harlem Health Outreach Partnership (EHHOP). He served as Ambulatory Referrals Manager and Chronic Care Senior Clinician. Additionally, as Finance Chair, he managed EHHOP's $170,000 annual budget. As the Cardiology Chief Teaching Senior Clinician, he oversaw the clinic's panel of patients with cardiovascular disease and ran EHHOP's cardiology specialty clinic.
Additionally, Suvruta was the leader and appointed Council Board Medical Student Representative for the New York Chapter of the American College of Physicians (NYACP). He was a representative on the NYACP Medical Student Committee since 2021, where he also worked to promote health literacy by creating a COVID-19 vaccine advocacy video in multiple languages published on the organization's website.
Suvruta has contributed to evidence-based medicine through his engagement with research. He has published a first-author paper in the journal Cardiovascular Revascularization Medicine, and presented, in person, a first-author moderated poster at the Cardiovascular Research Foundation's Transcatheter Cardiovascular Therapeutics 2022 conference in Boston, Massachusetts. Additionally, he has been elected to the Gold Humanism Honor Society.
Suvruta would like to thank his family, friends, and the faculty at ISMMS for making his time at Mount Sinai such a rewarding experience. After graduating with his MD degree, Suvruta will pursue residency training in Internal Medicine at The Mount Sinai Hospital.