User:Jacobawkal/sandbox

Jacob A. Awkal (born January 5, 1999, in Charlotte, North Carolina) is a PharmD/MD candidate at Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center. He is also the President of Institute for Healthcare Improvement Open School: Dallas, and holds a joint research appointment at Stanford Institute for Human-Centered Artificial Intelligence (HAI) and Cornell NanoScale Facility (CNF) working directly with the CNF Research Experiences for Undergraduates program coordinator to drive undergraduate research experiences.

Education
Awkal received the B.S. degree with latin honors from Erik Jonsson School of Engineering & Computer Science, at the University of Texas at Dallas (UTD) in 2021. He is also an alumni from Texas A&M University BioFORCE Academy, recieving his training from the National Center for Therapeutic Manufacturing.

Career
Jacob became certified with the Texas State Board of Pharmacy in 2017. License #264275. And also has a Sterile Fluids & Intravenous Fluids Certification #0156-9999-15-087-B01-T.

As of June 2020, Awkal has 900,000 views on Quora and serves as a Quora and Medium partner.

Companies
In 2017 Awkal was named the CEO Emeritus of YourMedPro, Inc., a company that was the first of it's kind to integrate artificial intelligence into a clinical data management system to discover patterns in patient data and drive diagnosis. Partnering with IBM, Awkal led YourMedPro, Inc. to secure pre-seed funding and develop a cloud server that can protect patient privacy under the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act. Jacob spear-headed many of the company's startup projects and ultimately surrendered his position after Google became a competitor of YourMedPro, Inc.

In 2020, Awkal Co-Founded and served as the Chief Operating Officer (COO) of Tri Sci Professions Holding Company, Inc.. There, Jacob led a COVID-19 alleviation response and launched a virtual internship platform for student's that were denuded of their internship opportunities due to the Coronavirus disease 2019 pandemic. Awkal led the Information Technology team and supported 7 Computer Science and Software Engineering internships in the summer of 2020.

Awards and Honors
Awkal was the recipient of a Erik Jonsson School of Engineering & Computer Science Undergraduate Research Scholar Award in both 2019 and 2020, a Quantitative and Physical Sciences Fellow in 2019, and has been named a Quantitative and Physical Sciences Research Fellow at the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center.

He was induced into the honorable Tau Beta Pi for contributions to "Tissue Engineering", and has been elected as one of the 5 executive members of 2020.