Aria Jafari

Aria was a fourth-year medical student at Stanford. During his first two years, Aria completed a research fellowship on cognitive decline in healthy elderly people, and presented his research at the American Academy of Neurology special Cognitive Neurology Discussion Session. He is a graduate of UC San Diego, where he earned a BS in Physiology and Neuroscience. For his honors thesis, Aria developed a novel paradigm to obtain neural recordings from the LGN of an awake behaving rat.