Awarded in 2023
Home Department: Chemical Engineering
Faculty Advisors: Xiaojing Gao (Chemical Engineering) and Ngan Huang (Cardiothoracic Surgery)

Dr. Carla Pugh is Professor of Surgery at Stanford University School of Medicine. She is also the Director of the Technology Enabled Clinical Improvement (T.E.C.I.) Center. Her clinical area of expertise is Acute Care Surgery. Dr. Pugh obtained her undergraduate degree at U.C. Berkeley in Neurobiology and her medical degree at Howard University School of Medicine. Upon completion of her surgical training at Howard University Hospital, she went to Stanford University and obtained a PhD in Education. She is the first surgeon in the United States to obtain a PhD in Education.

Home Department: Bioengineering
Mentor: Philip Beachy (Urology and Developmental Biology)