Masashi Azuma is a second-year medical student at the Lewis Katz School of Medicine at Temple University. He is currently a student researcher at the Temple University Hospital Department of Cardiovascular Surgery. He is also researching molecular control of vascular remodeling and atherogenesis in response to arterial injury at the Center for Metabolic Disease Research. He serves as the president of the Babcock Surgical Interest Group at Temple University. His professional interests include cardiothoracic surgery and clinical research.