Ajay Kailas BS

Ajay Kailas is a third year medical student at the University of Central Florida College of Medicine. He graduated cum laude with a degree in Development Sociology from Cornell University as a Dwight D. Anderson Scholar in 2013. During his time there, he studied Native American attitudes and beliefs towards the HPV vaccination for three years, working with the Hopi Tribe in Arizona. Mr. Kailas has actively published multiple articles and abstracts on ethnic skin. He has published on Native American healthcare issues, alopecia areata in African Americans, and skin cancer in people of color. Mr. Kailas is also Student Chair of the Committee of Diversity and Inclusion and a Board Member of the Student National Medical Association at the University of Central Florida College of Medicine.