Shyam Murali is a 4th year student at Texas A&M University (TAMU) College of Medicine, extremely interested in all things Emergency Medicine and Critical Care. He has a particular interest in resuscitation medicine and optimizing care for patients who can be brought back from the dead.
Shyam was the Chair of the Medical Student Committee for the TAMU Health Science Center Disaster Day. Disaster Day is an annual interprofessional simulation exercise that trains students from multiple disciplines (medicine, nursing, pharmacy, public health, and veterinary) to work together in a disaster situation. The 2017 Disaster Day simulated the aftermath of a hurricane that forced hundreds of people to come to an emergency medical center in the nearby area. In addition to coordinating the medical student participation in the event, he wrote and edited multiple patient cases and provided feedback to medical, nursing, and pharmacy students during the debrief on their performance in the simulation. After the event, he was approached by students from other schools who were interested in starting Disaster Days of their own. He is working with them to establish these events across the state. He is also currently working with the St. Joseph Regional Medical Center (College Station) Labor & Delivery Department as they start up their new simulation program for nurses.
This past year, he was Chair of the Board of Directors for the Texas Two Step CPR project, a mass CPR training event that took place across the entire state of Texas. By rallying together over 700 medical student volunteers, he and the rest of his team were able to organize a program that trained over 6,500 citizens in the art of bystander compression-only CPR. This year, they are working towards making this a national program in over 20 cities across the country.
Outside of medical school, he enjoys playing the saxophone, among many other instruments, balling out with his buddies on the basketball court, backpacking, and golfing (though he is absolutely terrible). He is learning something new everyday and documents his progress on his Twitter feed (@smuramed); look for the #TodayILearned posts, one for each day of the year.
