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Shreetoma Datta, MBBS

Shreetoma joined the MERGE Lab in September 2025 as a postdoctoral research fellow, contributing to research on how religion and culture shape reproductive healthcare decisions in different communities. She earned her MBBS in India in 2023 and has worked as a clinical physician and a medical...

Ig Nobel 24/7 Speech: Smartphone Use on the Toilet vs. Hemorrhoids

Dr. Trisha Pasricha and her laboratory at the Gut-Brain Institute were recently honored by giving a 24/7 speech at the 2025 Ig Nobel Prize Ceremony for research findings examining smartphone use and its potential risk for hemorrhoids. The Ig Nobel Prize is known for its comical yet meaningful...

Megan Sinik, MD

I was born and raised in Wichita, Kansas and then eventually ventured south to Tulsa, Oklahoma for college at the University of Tulsa. There I majored in Exercise Sport Science, with a minor in Spanish. Additionally, I joined a Global Scholars Program to take courses in urban development and...

Research

Research interests I am interested in defining population characteristics amenable to new therapies with use of natural history, clinical phenotyping, and biomarkers relevant to essential tremor (ET), Parkinson's disease (PD) and related disorders. Clinical epidemiology of motor aging disorders...