"I attended a summer research program at the Aortic Institute of Yale–New Haven Hospital at the Yale University School of Medicine in New Haven, Connecticut. While there, I worked on a research project entitled “How Many Patients with Silent Thoracic Aortic Aneurysm Can Be Detected by the ‘Guilt-by-Association’ Paradigm?” under the direct supervision of Professor John Elefteriades, Director of the Aortic Institute at Yale–New Haven, Section of Cardiac Surgery. While workin