project personnel

Joseph Crompton, MD PhD

Joseph Crompton, MD PhD

principal investigator

Dr. Crompton is a cancer surgeon at UCLA; his research is centered on de-escalating morbid and unnecessary operations for cancer patients.

Jessica Rett, PhD

Jessica Rett, PhD

principal investigator

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Dr. Rett is a linguist at UCLA whose research focuses on the meaning of words and sentences, and how meanings change from context to context.

Rajam Raghunathan, MD PhD

Rajam Raghunathan, MD PhD

principal investigator

Rajam Raghunathan is a general surgeon, current endocrine surgery research fellow at UCLA, and a former assistant professor in philosophy. Her research interests lie at the intersection of epistemiology, language, the philosophy of action, and surgery.

Elena Hughes

co-investigator

Nick Siena, MD

co-investigator

UCLA general surgery resident

Kenechukwu Ojukwu, MD MPP

co-investigator

UCLA Bone/Soft Tissue Fellow

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Michael Yeh, MD

co-investigator

Chief of Endocrine Surgery, Medical Director of the Endocrine Center integrated practice unit, and Medical Director of Optimal Care at UCLA Health

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James Wu, MD

co-investigator

Assistant Professor of Surgery, DGSOM and Endocrine Surgeon

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Christian Muxica

research assistant

UCLA graduate student in Linguistics

Allison Rulli

research assistant

UCLA undergraduate

Sandhya Seetharaman

research assistant

UCLA undergraduate

Grace Shoemaker

research assistant

UCLA undergraduate